Mouselemming

Mine was raised from the egg of a non wild turtle by someone else who found themselves unable to care for it and asked me to give it a home.

We use the 12 at both ends because there it is sitting at the top of the clock

I think it's cheating to call it metric if it's not decimal. Even some of the oldest analog clocks had 24-hour faces, they were just a bitch to read in a watch-size. You still have to do stupid math to figure out duration past the 12 or 24, and even with the 60 minutes/1 hour. Nothing metric or superior about it.

You start counting the hours to the next noon at midnight, duh. That's why it's ante-meridian, and the beginning of a new day. If you want to go around calling it 00:30, most people would understand, even in America.

"case in point" although "case and point " is arguably an eggcorn

12:30 pm is half-past noon.

12:30 am is half past midnight, or as you would say 00:30

The m is "meridian" which is noon (sun straight up)

The a is ante/before and the p is post/after

In olden days it was easier to look up and set your clock at noon than midnight.

After Vance FAILED to achieve an agreement. And Trump FAILED to unblock the Strait, so he's screaming "You can't block it, I'm gonna block it!" as he stamps his tiny feet.

Delicious colors on those cats.

Or at least in a utility van

Streams and rivers?

Or irresistibly attractive to that particular agent.

Our experience with children being raised in a group setting by professionals is too full of rampant abuse for this to become an acceptable reality. Even those programs that haven't propagated systematic physical and sexual abuse soon fell into dangerous neglect through lack of funding or corruption and embezzlement.