Today I Learned

The song was originally written and performed by Dolly Parton in 1974. She wrote it for her mentor and partner Porter Wagoner after leaving their band.

The battle of Blair mountain was an uprising of 10k+ coal miners for better working conditions in 1921. The result was the national guard coming in to kill a bunch of Americans.

(Side note: they wore red bandanas around their neck. Although the term redneck was used prior to this battle, some claim the red bandana as an alternate history for the word. redneck origin/definition )

Fecal bag description begins at minute 2:00.

He also plays the Swamp Thing in the same 2 minute episode, because why not.

Besides we can still use that same land for crops with agrivoltaics

A Stolperstein (pronounced [ˈʃtɔlpɐˌʃtaɪn]; plural Stolpersteine; in English "stumbling block") is a ten-centimetre (four-inch) concrete cube bearing a brass plate inscribed with the name and life dates of victims of Nazi extermination or persecution. The Stolpersteine project, initiated by the German artist Gunter Demnig in 1992, aims to commemorate persons at the last place that they chose freely to reside, work or study (with exceptions possible on a case-by-case basis) before they fell victim to Nazi terror, forced euthanasia, eugenics, deportation to a concentration or extermination camp, or escaped persecution by emigration or suicide.[1] As of June 2023, 100,000[2] Stolpersteine have been laid, making the Stolpersteine project the world's largest decentralized memorial.

At around 1:00 a.m. on February 21, nine men wearing stockings and white gloves appeared in front of a janitor (38 years old at the time) who was on his night shift and threatened, "We will not steal or set fire. If you do nothing, we will not cause any harm." After that, they tied him to a chair with adhesive tape and plastic straps, locked him in the bathroom, and disappeared somewhere. Three hours later, when the janitor sensed that there was no sign of presence, he escaped from the bathroom on his own and came out to find that there were 447 desks and 9 chairs in the center of the playground, measuring 20 meters wide and 30 meters long.

The desks were arranged in the shape of the number 9 and the chairs arranged in the shape of a period next to the desks. Japanese news and the public spent days speculating what it meant. Theories from the occult to a protest of the Japanese government were seriously discussed on national TV.

In the end, the people involved were caught (all senior students of the school, the leader with a history of causing trouble) and the leader of the group admitted that he simply liked the number nine.

https://en.namu.wiki/w/%EC%84%B8%ED%83%80%EA%B0%80%EC%95%BC%20'9'%EC%9E%90%20%EC%82%AC%EA%B1%B4

In 2021, Hara partnered with Xiaomi, designing a new logo for the company, which was unveiled on 31 March 2021. Hara and his company converted the previous square logo into a combination of a square and a circle. He earned $300,000 from the project.

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Reconsidering my life choices right now...

In the US “sleet” is the term for a winter precipitation that occurs when snow falls through a layer of warm air and melts into water droplets, then re-freezes into ice pellets as it passes through colder air closer to the ground. In many other areas that were part of the British empire that precipitation is called “ice pellets” and “sleet” instead refers to a mix of snow and rain. In the US that’s called a “wintry mix.”

This is apparently a case of a genericized trademark

I thought aspirin was the general name for the painkilling medicine, like acetaminophen of ibuprofen

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/us/politics/trump-poll-second-term.html

To summarize, Disney began work on a sequel to Tron: Legacy immediately. Legacy was meant to kick off a larger universe of movies and TV. As time went on, other expected hits flopped, and Disney acquired Star Wars and made it their new darling, the Tron sequel got shelved.

Jared Leto, who was going to have a minor role in Tron: Ascension, pushed to have a new movie made anyway, making his character the star. The result is that what was more of less going to be the third act of Ascension was fleshed out into a whole movie minus Sam Flynn, Quora, and Tron.

Imagine if Return of the Jedi was never made. Instead, the third act of the movie, the attack on the second Death Star, was turned into a whole movie but the continuation of the plots involving Han Solo, Darth Vader, and Luke Skywalker were completely cut out. Then Wedge Antilles was made the star of the movie and he personally confronted Chancellor Palpatine and saved the galaxy. That's pretty much what has happened to the Tron franchise. :(

Disclaimer: Not talking about Ctrl + Scroll.

I tried the Mouse Pinch-To-Zoom extension, which is buggy on some sites. And I even bought a physical touchpad for pinch zoom. Today I just leaned that it's natively supported as an experiment feature by FireFox

There are specific actions defined to set what happens if you rotate the mouse wheel and hold down modifier keys like Alt or Ctrl or Shift. You can disable this action by setting the related mousewheel pref to 0 (zero) on the about:config page.

mousewheel.with_alt.action = 0 

0: Nothing happens
1: Scrolling contents
2: Go back or go forward, in your history
3: Zoom in or out (reflowing zoom)
4: Treat vertical wheel as horizontal scroll
5: Zoom in or out (pinch zoom)

I changed the value to 5, and it works perfectly.