That’s why I started running at age 45. Unless I get injured and can’t run any more, I am kinda hoping that my heart will just explode one day on the track, and that’ll be it. (I have already surpassed my one mile running pace from my 20’s and have no plans to slow down.)

The injury bit would really suck, as spending the rest of my days not able to walk would be really bad. Even more so as I am using running as a way to delay the process of arterial stenosis that has already started at my kidneys. (I suspect my life would get really suck, really quick, if I can’t actively manage that. It’s already put me in the ICU once, just about one year ago.)

I got a small glimpse into how my body is breaking down already and decided focus on the things I could actually do to slow that down.

Still, even with the risks, I am able at least point my physical health and well-being in a much better direction that should pay off (hopefully) in my last 40 years. (Quitting booze a few years ago probably ensured that I would still have a family around that gives a shit about me, so there is that as well.)

I can’t predict the future and eventually my body will still give out regardless. Doing what I can now to ensure a smooth path out is just about the only thing I can do.

Uno has rules?

So a Lemmy shitpost is just a reddit cross-post? The actual OP didn’t give any context to the images. Even if this isn’t a bot post, it might as well be one.

https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/1u8qzwv/bathroom_doors_i_painted_in_a_bar/

Not yet.

I think there is a much higher probability of oil prices being manipulated in the short-term.

Compliance audits are usually handled by a third party and I am only familiar with SOC2, SOX, PCI and ISO27001. GDPR is a beast, from what understand. I do suspect it’s also ran by a third party during an audit period.

Most of the above compliance programs require network architecture reviews and checks to ensure that their policies actually match how their internal processes and software actually works. This typically includes compliance enforcement mechanisms, such as what we were discussing.

More often than not, GDPR data deletion requests work for just about anyone. Companies don’t really have the time to validate what country you are currently in so these kinds of processes are usually just generic. (It’s a compliance requirement and usually only gets the bare-minimum effort and funding to develop correctly.) Since any company asset is in-scope for compliance regardless of the country, companies that reside in the EEA must also purge any data for servers that may be outside of the country.

It never hurts to attempt a data deletion under the context of GDPR, regardless of your country, is my point.

But just to clarify “it depends on the country”: Of course it does, but the country where the company is based out of, not where their servers are located. (Of course there are one-offs or weird situations. That kind of “data protection” is expensive and reserved for bulk data that companies really need to hide or keep out of scope of compliance.)

Peak shitpost. Well played.

That’s basically a tunafish sandwich without the sandwich. Add a bit of lemon juice and it’ll knock down the fishy taste. Add a bit more lemon juice for a bit more citrus excitement.

I accidentally added too much mayo to my tunafish the other day and fixed it with a bit of Panko, of all things. The extra crunch was super neat and was better than celery that some people add. (Panko, for those who don’t know, is a Japanese breadcrumb that is super close in texture to rice crispies. I thought it would help absorb the extra mayo, and it kinda did, but also kinda didn’t.)

May 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. _

A minor one and a component of Vitamin B12.

Have 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.

Sodium chloride is not the only electrolyte the body needs. It’s fairly important to keep a healthy balance: https://medlineplus.gov/fluidandelectrolytebalance.html

Horses, generally, really like apples.

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.

You are not a 40 year old traveling nurse? I find it hard to believe that a nurse wouldn’t know this.

The only emojis I usually see now are exclusively in slop posts.

sometimes lemmy communities are just dead - no content, no nothing. at least lets have content.

Lemmy communities that start and stay dead are generally because there isn’t broad interest in that community and it’s about the math, unfortunately.

Reddit has about 765,000,000 active monthly users so even if 0.001% of those users have an interest in a niche topic (7,650), and only 25% of those users participate (1,912), you can still have a fairly active community. (You really only need about 5-6 active users posting content to drive broader participation. It just “feels” more organic and people tend to prefer that.)

I don’t know current Lemmy stats, but there are roughly between 100k and 200k monthly active users, discounting lurkers. If a topic only has 0.001% interest, that is a total of one user that cares at all, assuming I didn’t fuck up my decimal places too badly.

Add multiple instances that host identical but independent communities, the small user base may become even more fragmented. This is problematic since Lemmy users have the ability to completely block instances or admins can completely defederate instances as well. (I don’t disagree with blocking/defederation, but it does hurt communities, unfortunately.)

So for now, at least, Lemmy is likely better served by users contributing to larger communities. Content variety does get limited a hair, but it prevents a new user from getting let down by what effectively are ghost communities.

If you don’t see things this way, that is totally cool. I 100% support any contribution to Lemmy that attempts to expand the user base regardless if I agree or not.

Her wallet probably feels fine though.

This has been attempted multiple times over the last few years and has had many forms. It never quite works as the posts still end up being very bot-like as it’s never managed correctly.

The worst iteration was someone who went so far as to create mirror accounts for the commenters and also copied over the comments as well. That was absolutely horrible and actually pissed a lot of people off when they realized they were replying to “ghost” accounts.

I honestly already want to block all posts that this plugin might create. They always just turn out being noisy and irrelevant. Posts aren’t “published work” and kinda need to happen organically. Also, one of the reasons many of us like Lemmy is because of the lower traffic and (generally) better quality posts.

Magnets, maybe.