Joshua McVey @Joshuamcvey@qoto.org

'A Japanese government review in 2010 found that 82% of the people aged over 100 in Japan turned out to be dead. The secret to living to 110 was, don’t register your death.

According to the Greek minister that hands out the pensions, over 9,000 people over the age of 100 are dead and collecting a pension at the same time. In Italy, some 30,000 “living” pension recipients were found to be dead in 1997.'

https://theconversation.com/the-data-on-extreme-human-ageing-is-rotten-from-the-inside-out-ig-nobel-winner-saul-justin-newman-239023

New article, just on how I use Polly for Retries in my site (and why all .NET Devs need to know and use Polly!)
https://www.mostlylucid.net/blog/usingpollyforretries
#polly #aspnetcore

Local woman looses faith in the chronological sequence of events. She can’t believe what happens next.

Okay, because there are so many of them that are amazing - I decided to do a second Thursday Five List that is ONLY Demi Lovato collabs.

Each of the following are featuring Demi Lovato, so I'll just list the main artist.

All Time Low and Blackbear - Monsters https://song.link/us/i/1542954689

Clean Bandit - Solo https://song.link/us/i/1436738925

Fall Out Boy - Irresistible https://song.link/us/i/1444620437

Grupo Firme - https://song.link/i/1759256188

Marshmello - Okay Not To Be Okay https://song.link/us/i/1530058559

Host: @neurothing

#Music #ThursdayFiveList #DemiLovato #TheCollab #GrupoFirme #Marshmello #FallOutBoy #CleanBandit #AllTimeLow #Blackbear

A few big changes since last time - Yuqi and Sofi Tukker breaking into the Top 10 most listened to songs. Throw Some Ass is amazing and Yuqi's album "Yuq1," is nothing but bangers. Love that album too.

Still rising since the last time I did this is Babymetal and Electric Callboy's "Ratatata," which I definitely listen to a lot. Newly added Badvillain's "Badvillain" is also rising up fast with Everglow's "Colourz" getting close to the Top 20.

A few notes:
Most listened to artist of 2024 so far: Fall Out Boy.
Most Listened to Album of 2024: Itzy's Born to Be.

Which makes sense, especially when you look at my most listened to tracks.

This is always interesting...to me, to check.

#Music #KPop #FallOutBoy #Itzy #TPain

MapRoulette: the micro-tasking tool for OpenStreetMap

Link: https://maproulette.org/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41384456

This may be an unpopular opinion but the DNC doesn't need any more of your money. Consider prioritizing your donations on groups laser-focused on voter registration and get-out-the-vote drives in key battleground districts and states.
Maybe some commenters here have specific suggestions worth considering (but please vet them first to make sure they work for you!).

"Rather than building a family and contributing to the God-gifted structure of a home with many children, more and more young males are declining to fulfill their natural roles and instead seek purpose through careers and other personal ambitions."

READ: https://charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/are-childless-males-hurting-america

Being truly comfortable in your own masculinity looks like this 👇

📝 I set off to find the best way to make video with transparency work on the web.

Over 10 bug reports later, it turns out it's better to handle the transparency manually with WebGL. Here's how:

https://jakearchibald.com/2024/video-with-transparency/