Well given the cargo is stated to be 40,000 pounds of beer, I’m strongly assuming a tandem tractor towing a 53 foot tandem axle reefer trailer. Such an “18-wheeler” is common enough to be a stereotype on American roads and such a configuration would carry a payload of almost exactly 40,000 pounds.

Have come across Steve’n’Seagulls, they do bluegrass covers of metal songs…something in my memory is saying they’re actually Scandiwegian or something? Denmarkois?

They remind me of Hayseed Dixie. A bluegrass cover band. I’ll give you two guesses who they cover.

The one I link in my head with The Longest Johns is Colm McGuinness. He’s even done a video with the Longest Johns, he sang lead in a recording of Star of the County Down. He gets up to get a beer during the instrumental break, it’s hilarious.

Like most folks I discovered The Longest Johns during that bizarre sea shanty craze during the pandemic, but I got really into them. I bought like 5 of their albums.

What, was the wacky southern sheriff distracted by a hot shot in a souped up Trans Am or something?

There is a volume limit, there’s a maximum height, width and length for a semi trailer. A typical intermodal container is 8 feet wide, 8 foot 6 inches high and 20 or 40 feet long, which is why in some areas they’re called Twenty-foot Equivalent Units or TEUs.

Cargo comes in TEUs rolling up and rolling down

A twenty foot box, boys, filled with booze, to go rolling down the river HEY!

40,000 pounds is 20 tons, a typical truckload.

I dry and chip them. Three plants can keep me in red pepper flake for a year.

I grow cayenne peppers to save money. One plant yields so many peppers that it’s legitimately profitable.

I do save money growing mint over buying it at the store, because mint is eternal. I’ve been making juleps and jelly out of the same mint plant for about 6 years now. But mostly I keep mint around because I like it.

Tomatoes? It’s not really about the money, it’s that grocery store tomatoes are designed for durability rather than flavor.

Orion’s Belt is made up of three, or ten, stars, depending on how you count them.

We look up at Orion with the naked eye and see his belt as three “stars”: Alnitak, Alnilam, and Mintaka. Alnitak, the left hand one, is a triple star system, Mintaka on the right, is a six-star system. Only the middle one, Alnilam, is a single star.

Out of all of them, only one, Mintaka B, is smaller than our Sun.

For similar reasons they insist on 3 is “tree” and 5 is “fife.”

It is kind of offputting how it’s phrased as “We make fun of men for being lonely, right? I mean, look at them. PFFFHAHAHAHAHA! But it might be an actual problem because it effects women too.”

Isn’t JetSki a trademark? Like either Kawasaki or Yamaha’s brand name for them? Kind of like Polaris and Seadoo (and their snowmobile Skidoo, which my Alaskan college roommate insisted was pronounced “skiDOO” with a short i and not “SKEE do”

I have very suddenly started hearing a strange quirk of grammar that needs to die in a fire. I’m going to write it on an index card and burn the index card.

I swear I haven’t heard this before the 2020s: “My kitchen needs cleaned.” Not “My kitchen needs to be cleaned”, not “my kitchen needs cleaning.”

Explain to someone ESL that “My kitchen needs cleaned” has two verbs in it, one is present tense, one is past tense, combined they imply a future action. AAAH!

The difference is, you could chew on Don’t Dead Open Inside and figure out what they were trying to say.

The one video game movie that springs to my mind that is like the video game is Mortal Kombat. Right around then in the early 90’s, the movie industry didn’t even try to understand the games they were movieing, but they did. Compare that to, say, Super Mario Bros.

To be fair, so do those cats.

It’s kinda clear how the curriculum was designed, after all according to this class Japan was only discovered in 1939. Russia pops in an out of existence, Korea and Vietnam are fictional and Africa is where Egypt is.

If you were to ask my teachers, American history goes revolutionary war, then nothing happens for awhile, then the civil war, then nothing happens for awhile, then WW1 had to happen so that we could have ourselves a WORLD WAR TWO! The four years that make up 9/10ths of American history. And then the Japanese signed the surrender on the deck of the USS Missouri and then stuff I-the boomer history teacher-personally remember so it legally can’t be history.

Back in the good old days when homosexuality was a felony, the cure for autism was an ice pick lobotomy, and certain people would be killed for being caught in nice neighborhoods? Proper society.

I will uno reverse umm achkshually you. Heat is not synonymous with infrared light. Objects with heat will emit energy into their environment as EM radiation. That heat can also be conducted away through contact with another object.

All objects with heat do give off a wide spectrum of EM radiation, with the uppermost frequency being proportional to the object’s temperature. A very cold object might only give off radio waves. Room temperature objects, like you, glow in the infrared. Above 500C or so, objects start glowing visibly red, then orange and yellow. A phenomenon we call incandescence.

Objects that absorb light can and often do increase in heat, PV panels turn some of the energy that strikes them as light into electrical energy rather than thermal energy.