Practical Paranoia?

[Romulusguy]

Whatever my politics are, or whatever I personally believe about current world events, I make an effort to keep my emotional responses separate from my practical ones.

Looking at it only through a practical lens: my worry is that if escalation at the Strait of Hormuz keeps building, alongside other geopolitical instability, international shipping could become much harder and much more costly in a very short time. Add to that the probable steep increase in manufacturing and materials costs, and the numbers stop looking comfortable. So I've begun stockpiling (5+ years worth) the peptides I use and value most, for long-term storage in the freezer. I don't see this as hoarding out of shortage fear. I see it as long-term political contingency planning.

Is anyone else coming at this from a similar practical paranoia?

 

[RubbaDubba1]

I keep going back and forth, though I'm mostly siding with your point of view. Tirz has been part of my routine for 5yrs, and Reta for 2 yrs, while my experience with the rest is minimal. Still, the Kitchen Sink Protocol is only a few clicks away, and it's really got me thinking!

 

[randompersonrandom]

(Chuckles, referencing "a decade on Tirz, 3 years and counting on Reta, 3 years on Klow, 3 years and counting on Epitalon")

 

[Calm Logic]

People can always find plenty of justifications or rationalizations for stockpiling. Still, among those I know, it is only the GLPs that trigger this kind of extreme hoarding behavior.

My largest stash is tirz, and reta comes in 2nd place.

 

[Airborne Daddy]

Romulusguy said:

Whatever my politics are, or whatever I personally believe about current world events, I make an effort to keep my emotional responses separate from my practical ones.

Looking at it only through a practical lens: my worry is that if escalation at the Strait of Hormuz keeps building, alongside other geopolitical instability, international shipping could become much harder and much more costly in a very short time. Add to that the probable steep increase in manufacturing and materials costs, and the numbers stop looking comfortable. So I've begun stockpiling (5+ years worth) the peptides I use and value most, for long-term storage in the freezer. I don't see this as hoarding out of shortage fear. I see it as long-term political contingency planning.

Is anyone else coming at this from a similar practical paranoia?

My bigger concern is the planet being done in 4 or 5 years... it figures the whole thing would kick off in the Middle East. The one upside, I suppose, is that weight, blood sugar, cholesterol, liver issues and heart disease stop being problems.... once WWIII gets going I figure glp1s will cost next to nothing, except there's a very good chance that package never shows up lol....

 

[Calm Logic]

Airborne Daddy said:

Romulusguy said:

Whatever my politics are, or whatever I personally believe about current world events, I make an effort to keep my emotional responses separate from my practical ones.

Looking at it only through a practical lens: my worry is that if escalation at the Strait of Hormuz keeps building, alongside other geopolitical instability, international shipping could become much harder and much more costly in a very short time. Add to that the probable steep increase in manufacturing and materials costs, and the numbers stop looking comfortable. So I've begun stockpiling (5+ years worth) the peptides I use and value most, for long-term storage in the freezer. I don't see this as hoarding out of shortage fear. I see it as long-term political contingency planning.

Is anyone else coming at this from a similar practical paranoia?

My bigger concern is the planet being done in 4 or 5 years... it figures the whole thing would kick off in the Middle East. The one upside, I suppose, is that weight, blood sugar, cholesterol, liver issues and heart disease stop being problems.... once WWIII gets going I figure glp1s will cost next to nothing, except there's a very good chance that package never shows up lol....

When it comes down to it, just dose like there's no tomorrow.

 

[woundcarping]

Peptides keep well for a long time, whereas the shelf life of syringes, bac water, and alcohol wipes is much shorter.

As far as peptides go, I turn 40 next month... Assuming it's still around, I'll have to sort out Social Security before I buy any more peptides for managing my appetite/weight.

 

[Romulusguy]

woundcarping said:

Peptides keep well for a long time, whereas the shelf life of syringes, bac water, and alcohol wipes is much shorter.

As far as peptides go, I turn 40 next month... Assuming it's still around, I'll have to sort out Social Security before I buy any more peptides for managing my appetite/weight.

Suspicion.....growing....HAVE...TO...PURCHASE....EVEN MORE!!!!!!!!

 

[sfkid]

The genuinely devastating danger out there is AI. AI is going to wipe out huge numbers of jobs. After 30 years in this industry, I have witnessed every kind of change, yet nothing compares to what is happening now.

At my workplace last year, engineers produced every bit of the code. This year, not one engineer writes even a single line. AI does 100% of it. Features that used to take months now ship in days. We currently have 100+ engineers, but it won't be long before the CEO figures out that 10 people could handle everything.

Computer science degrees costing 200K plus are no longer a ticket to a job for new grads, because AI has swallowed that role.

Anyone laid off because of AI will struggle to land another job, since nearly every company has either begun or is far along in rolling out AI across its organization.

Skilled trades (electricians, plumbers, builders...) will hold out longer, but when a massive share of the global population has no job, there won't be work for them either...

Tech isn't the only sector in AI's path. Lawyers, Accountants, even doctors - practically every industry you could name is about to take a beating.

 

[randompersonrandom]

Tech-based employees yearn for the mines.

 

[deleted.user.16]

sfkid said:

The genuinely devastating danger out there is AI. AI is going to wipe out huge numbers of jobs. After 30 years in this industry, I have witnessed every kind of change, yet nothing compares to what is happening now.

At my workplace last year, engineers produced every bit of the code. This year, not one engineer writes even a single line. AI does 100% of it. Features that used to take months now ship in days. We currently have 100+ engineers, but it won't be long before the CEO figures out that 10 people could handle everything.

Computer science degrees costing 200K plus are no longer a ticket to a job for new grads, because AI has swallowed that role.

Anyone laid off because of AI will struggle to land another job, since nearly every company has either begun or is far along in rolling out AI across its organization.

Skilled trades (electricians, plumbers, builders...) will hold out longer, but when a massive share of the global population has no job, there won't be work for them either...

Tech isn't the only sector in AI's path. Lawyers, Accountants, even doctors - practically every industry you could name is about to take a beating.

This strikes me as getting ahead of things by a wide margin. So far, I haven't seen AI pull off anything beyond sticking a couple of buttons onto a webpage — and it can't even pull that off without tacking on 1,000 pointless lines while wiping out half the features that already worked. Maybe it holds up for a while with badly constructed apps such as Duolingo (at least for a time, since tech debt multiplies with each added feature). Some people suspect many companies are pointing to AI as the rationale for layoffs, when the real cause is years of over-hiring throughout COVID.

Doctors, lawyers, and accountants aren't getting swapped out for AI any time soon. All it manages is producing Reddit-tier responses that are total garbage 40% of the time. This whole AI frenzy brings back memories of 2015, when self-driving cars were supposedly about to take over everything. Eleven years on, we're roughly 1% nearer to that self-driving world than we were back in 2015. Truck drivers and Amazon delivery roles are still around.

I don't know enough about geopolitics or logistics to weigh in on the Iran war. Still, I'd be shocked if anything managed to throw US-China trade off course at this stage. Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, and the rest didn't hand over h.u.ndreds of m.i.llions to, well, you know, without expecting something back. And China has strong reasons of its own to keep its GDP from falling 30% should exports get disrupted.

 

[byefatlicia]

Bella is going through this thread...

 

[staffn1]

Customs clearance for these peptides is what keeps me up at night. Smuggling them in via couriers with concealed compartments is something I'd rather avoid entirely.

 

[skeptick]

Airborne Daddy said:

Romulusguy said:

Whatever my politics are, or whatever I personally believe about current world events, I make an effort to keep my emotional responses separate from my practical ones.

Looking at it only through a practical lens: my worry is that if escalation at the Strait of Hormuz keeps building, alongside other geopolitical instability, international shipping could become much harder and much more costly in a very short time. Add to that the probable steep increase in manufacturing and materials costs, and the numbers stop looking comfortable. So I've begun stockpiling (5+ years worth) the peptides I use and value most, for long-term storage in the freezer. I don't see this as hoarding out of shortage fear. I see it as long-term political contingency planning.

Is anyone else coming at this from a similar practical paranoia?

My bigger concern is the planet being done in 4 or 5 years... it figures the whole thing would kick off in the Middle East. The one upside, I suppose, is that weight, blood sugar, cholesterol, liver issues and heart disease stop being problems.... once WWIII gets going I figure glp1s will cost next to nothing, except there's a very good chance that package never shows up lol....

WWW3 kicks off the fat people will survive long after the skinny folk starve

 

[skeptick]

staffn1 said:


I'm far more worried about how these peptides get thru customs. I really don't want to have to pay peptide mules to get them across the border in a

staffn1 said:

Customs clearance for these peptides is what keeps me up at night. Smuggling them in via couriers with concealed compartments is something I'd rather avoid entirely.

EWWWW, but on 2nd thought I boosted cocaine for a lot of years and never gave much of a thought to how the junk got to me...

Click to expand...

 

[BNLFL]

woundcarping said:

Peptides keep well for a long time, whereas the shelf life of syringes, bac water, and alcohol wipes is much shorter.

As far as peptides go, I turn 40 next month... Assuming it's still around, I'll have to sort out Social Security before I buy any more peptides for managing my appetite/weight.

I've already reached that point, and it's simple. For me, at least, it was.

 

[Airborne Daddy]

Romulusguy said:

woundcarping said:

Peptides keep well for a long time, whereas the shelf life of syringes, bac water, and alcohol wipes is much shorter.

As far as peptides go, I turn 40 next month... Assuming it's still around, I'll have to sort out Social Security before I buy any more peptides for managing my appetite/weight.

Suspicion.....growing....HAVE...TO...PURCHASE....EVEN MORE!!!!!!!!

Whenever seizure numbers climb, or a headline drops about authorities targeting fake glp1s, I end up needing to shell out roughly another 200 for yet another R30 kit. It wears me out.....

 

[woundcarping]

BNLFL said:

woundcarping said:

Peptides keep well for a long time, whereas the shelf life of syringes, bac water, and alcohol wipes is much shorter.

As far as peptides go, I turn 40 next month... Assuming it's still around, I'll have to sort out Social Security before I buy any more peptides for managing my appetite/weight.

I've already reached that point, and it's simple. For me, at least, it was.

The funny part? I've still got a couple decades plus a bit to go before Social Security kicks in for me

 

[Airborne Daddy]

sfkid said:

The genuinely devastating danger out there is AI. AI is going to wipe out huge numbers of jobs. After 30 years in this industry, I have witnessed every kind of change, yet nothing compares to what is happening now.

At my workplace last year, engineers produced every bit of the code. This year, not one engineer writes even a single line. AI does 100% of it. Features that used to take months now ship in days. We currently have 100+ engineers, but it won't be long before the CEO figures out that 10 people could handle everything.

Computer science degrees costing 200K plus are no longer a ticket to a job for new grads, because AI has swallowed that role.

Anyone laid off because of AI will struggle to land another job, since nearly every company has either begun or is far along in rolling out AI across its organization.

Skilled trades (electricians, plumbers, builders...) will hold out longer, but when a massive share of the global population has no job, there won't be work for them either...

Tech isn't the only sector in AI's path. Lawyers, Accountants, even doctors - practically every industry you could name is about to take a beating.

My employer offloaded 3 facilities to a massive frozen food storage corporation. According to what they told us 6 months back, everyone would stay on. Come May 1st, the entire workforce gets cut loose, apart from a tiny crew handpicked for the revamped 80% automated million sf warehouse.... theyre already planning a completely automated warehouse within 2 years, which will establish the precedent... gone will be forklift drivers, yard jockeys, order selectors, truck drivers, shippers/receivers, payroll, HR, etc.....right now there are self driving, fully autonomous trucks operating across the southwest and west, capable of handling traffic, blizzards and mountain passes. No driver and engineer riding along anymore. Within 6 years, humans in transportation and logistics will be gone except for a tiny fraction.

I hate ai.... John Connor was supposed to put a stop to this shit 30 some years ago but he failed and Skynet is real.... hopefully the universal monthly stipend for us jobless humans beats social security....

 

[Airborne Daddy]

deleted.user.16 said:

sfkid said:

The genuinely devastating danger out there is AI. AI is going to wipe out huge numbers of jobs. After 30 years in this industry, I have witnessed every kind of change, yet nothing compares to what is happening now.

At my workplace last year, engineers produced every bit of the code. This year, not one engineer writes even a single line. AI does 100% of it. Features that used to take months now ship in days. We currently have 100+ engineers, but it won't be long before the CEO figures out that 10 people could handle everything.

Computer science degrees costing 200K plus are no longer a ticket to a job for new grads, because AI has swallowed that role.

Anyone laid off because of AI will struggle to land another job, since nearly every company has either begun or is far along in rolling out AI across its organization.

Skilled trades (electricians, plumbers, builders...) will hold out longer, but when a massive share of the global population has no job, there won't be work for them either...

Tech isn't the only sector in AI's path. Lawyers, Accountants, even doctors - practically every industry you could name is about to take a beating.

This strikes me as getting ahead of things by a wide margin. So far, I haven't seen AI pull off anything beyond sticking a couple of buttons onto a webpage — and it can't even pull that off without tacking on 1,000 pointless lines while wiping out half the features that already worked. Maybe it holds up for a while with badly constructed apps such as Duolingo (at least for a time, since tech debt multiplies with each added feature). Some people suspect many companies are pointing to AI as the rationale for layoffs, when the real cause is years of over-hiring throughout COVID.

Doctors, lawyers, and accountants aren't getting swapped out for AI any time soon. All it manages is producing Reddit-tier responses that are total garbage 40% of the time. This whole AI frenzy brings back memories of 2015, when self-driving cars were supposedly about to take over everything. Eleven years on, we're roughly 1% nearer to that self-driving world than we were back in 2015. Truck drivers and Amazon delivery roles are still around.

I don't know enough about geopolitics or logistics to weigh in on the Iran war. Still, I'd be shocked if anything managed to throw US-China trade off course at this stage. Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, and the rest didn't hand over h.u.ndreds of m.i.llions to, well, you know, without expecting something back. And China has strong reasons of its own to keep its GDP from falling 30% should exports get disrupted.

Robotic systems powered by AI are already performing cancer operations, and driverless semi trucks are operating in the slow lanes under a Sony account. There is no person in the cab at all now. Sure, it's limited to certain fixed routes at this point.... within 6 or 10 years, 90% of us will have no job.