Our points were the same? The meme states that phytoestrogens “don’t effect the body because you aren’t a plant”, which is absolutely false.
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Phytoestrogens absolutely bind to estrogen receptors and do affect the body. While not as potent, it still mimics estrogen.
The comparison here is like saying psilocin doesn’t bind to serotonin receptors because it isn’t serotonin.
Since any other reference probably wouldn’t work here, have one from one of those holistic medicine places: https://denverholisticmedicine.com/blog/2018/5/17/phytoestrogens-friend-or-foe
You shouldn’t need to spread misinformation to promote a hobby.
remotelove@lemmy.cato
Technology@lemmy.world•Meta Employees Are Scrambling to Use Up Benefits Ahead of Layoffs | WIREDEnglish
10·3 days agoMay 19, 2026 3:00 PM _Meta Employees Are Scrambling to Use Up Benefits Ahead of Ahead of Meta’s latest round of mass layoffs tomorrow, some employees are deserting offices, abandoning their work, and loading up on perks they might soon lose, several people at the company tell WIRED.
Two employees describe a widespread rush to use up an annual $2,000 flexible benefit, which can cover a variety of expenses including health and wellness activities. A separate triennial credit of $200 toward the purchase of audio gear has led to a scramble to purchase Apple AirPods and other headphones. Another source says Meta offices have been largely empty this week, as people prioritize polishing their résumés and gather offsite to commiserate with friends for what may be their final time as colleagues. Employees are variously “paralyzed,” “coasting,” and “panicked,” sources say.
Meta plans to lay off about 10 percent of its nearly 80,000 employees on Wednesday, with notices going out to affected workers’ personal and corporate email addresses at 4 am Singapore, London, or San Francisco time depending on their location, according to a company-wide memo sent on Monday. The cuts are coming at a time when the social media giant behind Instagram, WhatsApp, and Facebook is enjoying record-high profits.
But CEO Mark Zuckerberg insists that the company must free up cash to invest in AI data centers, and that Meta can perform just as well with fewer employees because of AI technologies that augment human labor.
Are you a current or former Meta employee who wants to talk about what’s happening? We’d like to hear from you. Using a nonwork phone or computer, contact the reporter securely on Signal at peard33.24 and ChaoticGoode.12. Meta didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment for this story. The company has undergone three previous large rounds of layoffs since 2022, including as part of Meta’s one-time “year of efficiency” drive in 2023. But even though the latest round is smaller than a couple of those, it is drawing widespread scrutiny because it comes at a time of societal anxiety about AI’s impact on jobs.
Inside Meta, the imminent cuts are among several concerns that have sunk morale to unprecedented depths, according to 16 current and former employees who recently spoke to WIRED. Employees also have been frustrated by being “drafted” onto a new AI team without any choice and the rollout of surveillance software that tracks US workers’ laptop use to train AI models.
Meta also plans to internally restructure as it conducts sweeping layoffs, transferring 7,000 remaining staff to “AI initiatives” and converting more managers into individual contributors. That would bring the total number of those affected—either laid off or placed in a new role—to 20 percent of the current workforce, Reuters reported on Monday. WIRED independently confirmed this reporting. Some parts of the company have been told they won’t be affected at all.
But in recent days, employees who are bracing for changes have shared checklists internally about benefits to take advantage of, and are saving documents such as performance reviews and pay stubs, according to one worker. Some teams are meeting up at bars and restaurants near Meta offices in New York and Menlo Park on Tuesday and Wednesday to eat and drink away their sorrows, several employees said. Management has encouraged employees not to come into offices on Wednesday.
Update, May 19, 11:40 PM EDT: WIRED corrected the time zones when layoff notices will be emailed. _
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Fuck AI@lemmy.world•Google announces it will prioritize AI-generated answers in search results over human-written website articles
11·3 days agoSearXNG is a local option and is fairly easy to get a container running for it.
It’s not the cleanest, but it will let you search about anything that is searchable if you allow it. (It’ll aggregate results from ~244 different search engines so beware. It’s a “metasearch” engine.)
It can be a bit slow at times (especially if all the things are turned on), and is a bit like Google in its infancy. However, there aren’t ads or promoted results. It’s fairly raw, if you are into that kinda thing.
Getting the API working with Python can be a pain at times due to its bot control mechanisms and strict header checks. (I believe they default these features ON if someone accidentally makes their instance public or something like that.)
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Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Break the conditioning, maximize your horsepower.
3·5 days agoA minor one and a component of Vitamin B12.
remotelove@lemmy.cato
Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Break the conditioning, maximize your horsepower.
1·5 days agoHave a normal, balanced diet if you aren’t extremely active. So yeah, just eat a banana. :)
I run a lot and a sweat a lot, so my electrolyte loss is fairly high. (You can see the buildup of salts on my gear after it dries and before I wash it.) Electrolyte supplements are great for athletes that can’t practically make up the losses with regular food intake.
But… To say that Gatorade and other electrolyte drinks are overused by people who aren’t active is an understatement. Many people simply do not need the extra boost of sugar and salts and it’s just going to get pissed out anyway.
The reason I am a bit vocal about this is that 1. People should actually eat a decent diet just to get these basic salts and 2. Electrolyte supplements are awesome, extremely basic but extremely overused. They are extremely important, but not in the way marketing departments say they are.
remotelove@lemmy.cato
Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Break the conditioning, maximize your horsepower.
1·5 days agoSodium chloride is not the only electrolyte the body needs. It’s fairly important to keep a healthy balance: https://medlineplus.gov/fluidandelectrolytebalance.html
remotelove@lemmy.cato
Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Break the conditioning, maximize your horsepower.
23·5 days agoHorses, generally, really like apples.
remotelove@lemmy.cato
Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Break the conditioning, maximize your horsepower.
892·6 days ago


Electrolytes are electrolytes. Your horse gets a fuck ton more salt and no sugar, but it’s basically all the same shit at similar ratios. The electrolyte compounds all need to be bioavailable so there shouldn’t be major differences there. The biggest difference is likely purity and contamination tolerances. (Contamination would be things like insects, small rocks or sand, etc: Things that would still be non-toxic, but generally reduced for human consumption.)
Edit: Still don’t drink the stuff. The ingredients are scaled for an ~1100lb animal so it should be a no-brainer to get the Gatorade instead.
remotelove@lemmy.cato
Fuck AI@lemmy.world•Your Salary Stopped Growing. This Is What They're Not Telling You.
2·10 days agoThe opening comments are overshadowed by the Solow Productivity Paradox: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Productivity_paradox
remotelove@lemmy.cato
Ukraine@sopuli.xyz•Ukraine searches 100 illegal vape shops in clampdown on shadow economy
81·11 days agoI don’t think you know how nicotine/tobacco products are used for money laundering. Just Google it.
You seem hell bent on trying to prove these are pointless raids. Maybe they are, but your arguments are just bad.
remotelove@lemmy.cato
Ukraine@sopuli.xyz•Ukraine searches 100 illegal vape shops in clampdown on shadow economy
13·11 days agoThe core of this is anti money laundering and that, in many cases, is not victimless. You also point out that they have limited resources, but try to roll into an argument about how trying to preserve those resources is pointless?
Also, law enforcement isn’t exactly a “massive resource” spend when the cost of that should already be baked into yearly country expenses. The only real expenditure is time for investigation. If this really is tied into luxury construction money laundering, we could he talking about hundreds of millions of dollars saved or recovered by only paying the salaries of a few law enforcement officers that will need to work anyway.
remotelove@lemmy.cato
Ukraine@sopuli.xyz•Ukraine searches 100 illegal vape shops in clampdown on shadow economy
10·11 days agoAgain, I think you missed a few words in the article. It’s an article about black market nicotine and the issues most countries have with controlling substances that are regulated.
Careful online though! With your interpretation of this news article, it seems you might easily be swayed by heavily biased or misleading information sources. Here is a good explainer of how to spot such things: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/topics/en/article/20250227STO27081/spotting-disinformation-six-tactics-used-to-fool-us
remotelove@lemmy.cato
Ukraine@sopuli.xyz•Ukraine searches 100 illegal vape shops in clampdown on shadow economy
10·11 days agoNo, they aren’t. OP even copied the summary for you.
remotelove@lemmy.cato
Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•There is the face of a cat in this picture. Can you find it?
4·13 days agoMagnets, maybe.
remotelove@lemmy.cato
Programming@programming.dev•Learning Lua on Android Lession 0: Installation and Configuration
5·13 days agoWhat exact is the goal here? You kinda just rolled right into install instructions without context…
remotelove@lemmy.cato
Intéressant@jlai.lu•SSH honeypot for 54daya saw 28 human operatorsFrançais
2·27 days agoThat poor bastard would’ve hated me. The first thing I do is saturate the logs and test any shitty monitoring that might be in place.
Honeypots are fragile places, usually. That is why I gave up using simulators and just drop a vanilla image with some lightly masked monitor script or something. Drop your rootkit and botnet keys and GTFO. Fuck key logging. It’s interesting, for sure. Some kind of basic post mortem FIM is usually good enough.
remotelove@lemmy.cato
Leopards Ate My Face@lemmy.world•The new anthem of this communityEnglish
321·1 month agoGross. A Facebook link. This is one of the few times I would have considered another layer of jpg a good thing.



Same name, two different types of nuts. (Actually, there are several profiles for t-nuts used with extruded aluminum that I am aware of.)