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2026-01-24 UTC, day: 24

Quote of the day: Your keys, your coins. Not your keys, not your coins.
--Andreas M. Antonopoulos

What's my IP address? Your IP address is: 18.97.14.89 18-97-14-89.crawl.commoncrawl.org.

2026-01-16 17:46:32 +0000 UTC

What's Happening

A black and blue is internal bleeding

A black and blue mark (bruise) is a form of visible internal bleeding, as it's caused by blood leaking from damaged blood vessels into the tissue under the skin, but it's typically minor.

He was agitated, so he killed her

We've all been agitated at our job. Either by a coworker, a customer, a boss... But what do we do? We take a coffee break, take a walk around the parking lot, take a walk around the block, talk to a manager... We don't shoot the person that agitated us three times in the face.

Renee Nicole Good

Most people are saying Jonathan Ross opened fire out of sheer frustration as Renee’s car pulled away. Since he was on foot and unable to give chase, he fired into the vehicle, fatally striking Renee Nicole Good in the head. Many professional law enforcement officers are saying Jonathan failed to deescalate the situation and should have just taken down the license plate of the vehicle and allow it to drive away.

Renee Nicole Good

MedicareForAll

Data For Progress poll finds 65% of voters support a MedicareForAll Single Payer system. That includes 78% of Democrats, 71% of independents, and 49% of Republicans. https://www.dataforprogress.org/blog/2025/11/medicare-for-all-is-popular-even-when-put-up-against-attacks

Poll results showing broad support for MedicareForAll
  • Single payer MedicareForAll saves more than 68000 lives per year.
  • One preventable death every ten minutes.
  • Drastically reduces private property taxes.
  • Lowers the cost of auto insurance.
  • Creates jobs. Healthcare should not be tied to employment.
  • Provides the choice of any doctor or hospital
  • Covers the whole body including vision and dental

Improving the prognosis of health care in the USA

Although health care expenditure per capita is higher in the USA than in any other country, more than 37 million Americans do not have health insurance, and 41 million more have inadequate access to care. Efforts are ongoing to repeal the Affordable Care Act which would exacerbate health-care inequities. By contrast, a universal system, such as that proposed in the Medicare for All Act, has the potential to transform the availability and efficiency of American health-care services. Taking into account both the costs of coverage expansion and the savings that would be achieved through the Medicare for All Act, we calculate that a single-payer, universal health-care system is likely to lead to a 13% savings in national health-care expenditure, equivalent to more than US$450 billion annually (based on the value of the US$ in 2017). The entire system could be funded with less financial outlay than is incurred by employers and households paying for health-care premiums combined with existing government allocations. This shift to single-payer health care would provide the greatest relief to lower-income households. Furthermore, we estimate that ensuring health-care access for all Americans would save more than 68 000 lives and 1·73 million life-years every year compared with the status quo. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(19)33019-3/abstract

Health Insurance Coverage in Texas

Texas has the highest uninsured health coverage rate in the US, with over 16% (around 5 million people) lacking health insurance, significantly higher than the national average, due to factors like not expanding Medicaid and economic barriers. This means about one in five Texans are uninsured impacting access to care and leading to worse health outcomes.

Trump Supports Universal Healthcare

No Nukes

Newly declassified British documents expose how radioactive clouds from nuclear tests in Australia took days—not hours—to clear, contaminating vast areas in the lead-up to the 1956 Melbourne Olympics. While UK veterans finally force transparency, thousands of Australian government records on these toxic tests remain mysteriously locked away, unread for four decades. https://www.internationalaffairs.org.au/australianoutlook/uk-government-begins-to-release-australias-nuclear-tests-documents-after-75-years/

Declassified document

Epstein

Rep. Thomas Massie: Epstein had close ties to our own intelligence agency and Israel's intelligence agencies. That’s why they’re trying to stop this. https://bsky.app/profile/dropsitenews.com/post/3m5ynuqncpk2u

H1-B

I have nothing against these H1-B visa holders and have become very good friends with many of them. My issue if with the US policy governing the H1-B visa program and how it is abused by both large and small tech. companies

H1-B visa program is a corrupt program. Personally I've seen in tech Indian managers only hiring India H1-B visa holders, Chinese managers only hiring Chinese H1-B visa holders, Pakistan managers only hiring Pakistani H1-B visa holders, Russian managers only hiring Russian H1-B visa holders when equivalent Americans were available in all of these cases.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (MTG) is planning to introduce a bill to eliminate the H-1B, which has been "riddled with fraud and abuse." Greene's bill offers one "exemption" for 10,000 visas to be issued per year for medical professionals like doctors and nurses. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzj9HDiEoWY

RESIST FASCISM
2026-01-09 18:50:42 +0000 UTC

Italian One Shell Apple Pie

Ingredients

  • 1 egg
  • 3/4 cup sugar
  • 1 tablespoon flour
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
  • 1/2 cup milk (1/3)
  • 4 cups sliced apples
  • 1 teaspoon allspice and cinnamon
  • 1/2 cup nuts - chopped fine
  • Unbaked pie shell
  • 1/2 pint heavy cream

Ingredients For Double Pie

  • 2 eggs
  • 1 1/2 cup sugar
  • 2 tablespoon flour
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 2/3 cup milk (1/3)
  • 8 cups sliced apples
  • 2 teaspoon allspice and cinnamon
  • 1 cup nuts - chopped fine
  • Unbaked pie shell
  • 1 pint heavy cream

Procedure

  1. Make shell first - use unbaked. Pie Crust or Easy Pie Crust
  2. Beat egg
  3. Add 2 tablespoons sugar, flour, salt and mix well
  4. Scald the milk and add to the beaten egg then set aside
  5. Prepare apples, peal and slice
  6. Arrange apples in shell
  7. Sprinkle remaining sugar and spices
  8. Pour custard (egg and milk)mixture over the apples
  9. Top with chopped nuts
  10. Bake at 450 degrees Fahrenheit for about 40 minutes
  11. After pie is cool refrigerate
  12. After pie is cold whip a 1/2 pint heavy cream to cover the pie with whipped cream
Handwritten Italian One Shell Apple Pie recipe.  The text is included in this blog post.
2026-01-04 18:12:38 +0000 UTC

Ken Thompson tells how he developed the Go language at Google

Ken Thompson

Kenneth Lane Thompson, winner of the Association for Computing Machinery's A.M. Turing Award, discusses development of the Go programming language at Google in the early 2000s, its relationship the company’s cloud computing platform, and its eventual success as an open source project thanks to its robust standard libraries. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTrAISNdf70

Reddit migrates from Python to Go

Reddit successfully migrated its largest data model—the Comments model—from a problematic legacy Python service to a new Golang microservice to improve reliability and performance. This involved a complex and safe migration strategy for write endpoints, which used sister data stores for isolated dual writes and tap comparison to ensure data integrity without disrupting production, ultimately halving the p99 latency for the three migrated write endpoints. https://old.reddit.com/r/RedditEng/comments/1mbqto6/modernizing_reddits_comment_backend_infrastructure/

Go is currently the best back-end language

In the past I've used Perl, C, C++, Java, Python, PHP, JavaScript, and C# for back-end web stuff and right now for me Go is the best choice.

In the 90s especially in 1998 when PHP3 came out PHP became my back-end language of choice.

Yes I also recently looked at Rust, nah for now.

The Go html/template package is great for generating dynamic HTML content.