I suspect DekSomBoon is talking about sensible countries
No, americanised halloween, go away.
It's Saint Martin time.
Way too bright high beams on new cars.
Nice username :)
Wonderful pun
It's so alien to me, that you enjoy these services haha. To me they'd feel invasive and overbearing.
I was not talking about the yard at all. I was talking about 440. Which is a number not wholly divisible by 12.
Be true. It isn't a duodecimal system. Sometimes it needs 12 to get to the next highest unit, sometimes 3 or 8 or 16 or 14 or 5280.
Being entirely duodecimal would be kinda cool in fact. But it's not applicable and shouldn't be used as an argument pro US customary system.
What's a sixth of an ounce? A sixth of a pint? Of a gallon? Of a pound per square inch? Of an inch?
Ok, and what's the significance of 440?
440 ÷ 12 = 110 ÷ 3 = 36⅔
Is that really a dozenal (sic. duodecimal) system? Or more like a copecimal system?
That would still be a decimal system just written in a hexadecimal way.
I think it's good. The flood of cheap manufactured items was too great for customs to handle. They couldn't check every little package and so children's toys with poisonous traces and all kinds of stuff bad for your health made it thru.
A brittle rock made of glitter. It breaks in this linear fashion and can be pound into sand by a mortar and pestle.
Anyone got any clues?
Edit: Thanks for all the answers. I found it in Romania and after searching for forums of minerals from Romania, I got a few other clues.
It isn't conclusive to me yet, but the possibilities are:
Of these, Mica and Sylvanit fit the best (imo).
US-defaultism on Lemmy. It's gotten so bad, many users absolutely don't seem to realise that they're writing to an international audience.