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I spent a good 12 years admining and moderatoring forums back in the vBulletin era, including some with several thousand daily users. I think mods and admins shouldn't expect anything different in how they are challenged on false assertions, etc. If you're running (or moderating) the place for...

I'm sure you can ask ChatGPT to do some Tracy roleplaying

Tracy's skin seems thick enough that I doubt he gives a fuck.

Despite the media frenzy of the 90s suggesting otherwise, GHB is almost exclusively used as a recreational drug. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%93-Hydroxybutyric_acid#Usage_as_a_date-rape_drug

That's advanced vocabulary for someone young enough to still replace S's with Z's

I'm going to need you to remove the weeb avatar, you're giving the rest of us a bad name.

I don't work with customs, but I have done work with computer vision and scanning technologies at near the cutting edge. From my perspective, the technology is not there to make it cost effective to worry about that sort of thing, and there are too many things for any random individual doing...

Increasing their testosterone dosage to put them in the supraphysiological range, but not by a huge margin. Or adding a low dosage of an additional AAS. Some TRT clinics even prescribe var/deca/winny .

Pretty much this. I go through them faster than 60-90 days, but I'm also currently injecting reta, ss-31, mots-c, tb-500, and bpc-157

It isn't necessary. Until you get a vial contaminated with something that a filter would have caught and end up injecting it into yourself. It's probably more important for immune-compromised people but you are potentially injecting yourself with bacteria or mold when not filtering.

Yep. Or misinterpret them. It's not necessarily a bad first pass, but you need to make it cite it's sources and verify that they agree with what it is claiming to say.

GLP-1s don't break the laws of thermodynamics. If you eat at or below your energy expenditure levels, you will maintain or lose weight. No one is going to "eat basically nothing" and gain weight back, but people are horrendous at understanding how much food they actually consume. You might want...

No. It just means that there was enough force exerted on the vial to cause the puck to split.

CBP is moving to put in a lot of new fancy machines to scan stuff and in theory get better at catching incoming drugs, etc. They're probably more focused on opioids, but my understanding is there's no real cost to them loading up the signature scanning with the signatures of pretty much...

There is significantly less risk in moderate usage of AAS than extremely high levels, to be sure. But there is increased risk even at trt+ levels. You want to minimize it watching your bloods, bp, etc., for sure. But it's still more than if you weren't doing it. I've got no issue with people...

It's a little strange I don't know if it's "standard", but it's certainly quite common. Plenty of people filter their peptides, and there would be no point in putting them back in the original vial which contains any potential contaminants that you removed by filtering Filtering your peptides...

It's well known that some people tolerate steroids better than others. IFBB pros exist and most of them don't fall over dead. I'm legitimately glad for you that you respond well and that it has minimal impacts on your blood pressure. That isn't the case for everyone, even those that are at...

Something being decriminalized means very little for the safety profile of use. It's perfect legal to eat and drink nothing but hamburgers and soda, but it's still awful for you. Alcohol is legal in most of the world, heavy use of it is still awful for you. Abusing a drug, again, in the...

I'm sure zpped and I will do our best to revert this progress the next time we go off on a tangent in some random thread.

This is unrelated to that.

When talking about "abuse" in a medical context this basically means outside of prescription/medical supervision and beyond the therapeutic doses the medications were developed for.

Whomever told you that AAS do not act on neurotransmitters is incorrect: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0924977X12001095 There's also a wide variety of other potential causes - AAS use impacts your brain in a lot of ways...

People like being self-important and part of an "in crowd" that knows things, and showing off that they know things. Doubtlessly, I'm no exception to this either.

I don't think I'm better than AAS users, but AAS are psychoactive substances, some potently so. I'm quite likely to be an AAS user if I can get all of my bloodwork, blood pressure, etc. under control as I get down to my goal weight and bf%, but I recognize that I will likely have to make...

QSC Meso thread is entertaining. People going on about exit scams, people posting cryptic messages about the "real" reason QSC is going through whatever this is and how you had to have been a member for a long time to know, people fearmongering about US customs becoming an impenetrable shield...

That's not what I'm talking about, though. It isn't about whether or not long-term adherence to lifestyle intervention is effective in the broader population - we certainly know it isn't - but most studies do track adherence to lifestyle interventions, otherwise you can't be sure if you're...

Interesting. I'm curious how adherence for the lifestyle intervention people is? Lifting doesn't seem to impact the number on the scale too much (Hopefully in part because I'm adding some muscle mass...), but the weeks when I'm better about diet, cardio, or both, I definitely see more progress...

You made a strong statement about how the way a good portion of the users of retatrutide are doing it wrong without providing any evidence. I'm not sure how you think that's not making an argument. If this was a private conversation, I'd shrug, wonder why someone believed that, and ignore it...

Yep! Edit: 3ml, rather.

I am making a claim that we have no specific reason to believe that twice a week is less effective than once a week. For someone who is passing judgment on people's adherence to scientific principles, you should probably remember that the null hypothesis is a foundational part to science. At...

I recon multiple vials for most of my use as pens. Recon 2 vials, draw into syringe, filter into cartridge. I'll be set up to do a few pens at once and use one pen needle to purge the air. Plenty fast for me.

I'm not the one making strong claims about the efficacy of weekly dosing vs. more frequent. But we can look at what we know in other medications and extrapolate from there. We tend to find more frequent dosing performs as well as longer dosing, and sometimes better...

So what you're saying is you can't link anything? And anecdotal opinions aren't worth much. In god we trust, all other must provide data.

I've not seen anything like that in any of the papers on the reta trials that I have read. Can you link them?

So... if you dose once a week and the ketogenic effects are only there at the start, then you don't get them for the rest of the week? By that logic you should be dosing more frequently at levels that keep it high enough to cause the ketogenic impact. But the idea that ketogenic effects are a...

Plenty of people get great results dosing twice a week on reta. For me the heart rate side effects are too high to do weekly, too.

I've never heard of it not stopping. I put on about 8lb on ipa/tesa boosting my IGF-1 up to the 350s, finished up that cycle last Friday, and I've already lost 4lb of it.

Water retention is a common side effect for anyone using enough to go above replacement level. That dosage will depend on you, your current HGH/IGF-1 levels, and how you respond to exogenous GH. From anecdotal reports I've seen, replacement level for most people seems to be about 1-2IU/day

Were you experiencing any actual issues from the water retention or just worried about the weight on the scale? Some people do experience some actual issues with water retention, such as carpal tunnel, etc. But if you're not, I personally would avoid the diuretic. Adds a bunch of other...

Prices on most everything out of China is significantly lower than the prices for the same item sourced domestically. But HGH is a controlled substance. You're playing with fire importing it in a way you aren't with the non-controlled peptides.

The glucagon receptor activity results in an increase to base metabolism. But plenty of people experience appetite suppression with reta, just less of it than with some other glp1s.

I personally would hold TB-500 (and BPC-157) for when you have an actual injury. Both are known to promote angiogenesis, which is good when you have an injury, but bad if you happen to have a tumor growing somewhere. There's also some correlations in studies with TB-500 and cancer metastasizing...

I wish mine hadn't. I became a weeb more than 30 years ago, before I knew what a was a terminal illness is was.

Because you decided to be pedantic about my use of cartoons to mean western animation when someone said they didn't know the difference between anime and manga. "I don't know why we're talking about something" doesn't work well when you're the person that spawned the thread of conversation...

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anime and manga are mutually exclusive terms comics and cartoons are hierarchically inclusive terms

The colloquial use of cartoons heavily implies animation and should be even more readily apparent in context. When someone talks about enjoying their saturday morning cartoons, they're not pulling out the newspaper and reading the funnies.

Manga is to comics as anime is to cartoons

Everyone that got 0 peptides got a whole batch of 0 peptides. There have been no reports of one vial containing a peptide and another vial containing none. On the other hand, there are tens of thousands of people reporting feeling like any given dose did nothing even when on name brand. And we...

There's a whole host of things in the range between "safer than DNP" and "I still wouldn't touch it with a 10 foot pole." Any sort of uncoupler that hasn't gone through EXTENSIVE lab trials is in that range.