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These are war crimes. This isn’t what the 🇺🇸 stands for. What in the hell has happened to our country? The Founding Fathers are rolling over in their graves right now.

@ShawnMo44112264 @HormuzLetter 🤣

@HormuzLetter I hope this is true. This is how you end the situation.

BREAKING: Iran's largest petrochemical hub in Mahshahr, Khuzestan Province, Iran's main oil region, has been hit by US airstrikes.

@Nostre_damus Honestly, who do you think?🤣

Axios reports that 20 ships have passed the Strait using the US route Iran said 0 have successfully transited and a few were blasted while attempting to I wonder who is telling the truth

@cbialozynski @_9th_Life_ Yep, but nobody here wants to hear that🤣

@_9th_Life_ Not only is it saturated, nine of these guys are old enough to remember what happened in the prohormone market in the late 90s. This bubble will burst in the same dramatic fashion.

I have a lot of dudes hitting me up about starting peptide companies… Mostly personal friends, gym bro types who just got into peptides this year. My advice is unilaterally the same: don’t do it. The market is way too saturated, and most guys getting in for the money are going to skip the crucial steps that actually make a peptide business work. Like I get it lol. You’re excited. You saw results on reta. But running a proper business is way harder than people imagine. With a Claude license it’s easy to vibe code a storefront, find a Chinese plug, and dropship peptides. But running a legit operation with compliance, quality control, testing? Not so much. What I’d actually do instead: Don’t focus on selling peptides. Focus on building something innovative AROUND the industry. We need more of this. Think to yourself “how can I make this industry better?” COA verification layer and authentication, like what Res Labs is doing. There are so many unexplored angles in this space that I can’t even list them all. And it doesn’t have to be tech forward. If you’re a jacked dude with a personal training background, become a GLP-1 coach. Not managing protocols, but building diet and training programs so people don’t waste away all their muscle while they’re on it. That market is massive and wide open. Don’t treat this industry like a get rich quick scheme. There is so much money to be made adjacent to the peptide industry that people are overlooking because they’re tunnel visioned on selling vials.

@Krysia830073 Ouch

This is exactly why there are no “trusted” or “vetted” vendors in the grey market. For all intents and purposes, this supplier was trusted and vetted. They had an established trading history, fulfilled multiple successful orders, built confidence over many months, and had earned enough trust for increasingly large purchases. Yet despite that history, the relationship still ended with failed products, disappearing communication and an alleged loss of $78,000. In the grey market, trust isn’t a permanent status. It’s simply a record of past behaviour, and past behaviour offers no guarantee of what happens next. TLDR He says a long-standing overseas peptide supplier sent multiple products that failed third-party testing, then delayed replacements, offered excuses, reduced communication and eventually blocked him. He estimates the total loss at about $78,000, leaving his business short of stock and forcing him to find new suppliers.

@blankpeptides @Cat___Jesus Who told you this? APA? True Ruo companies like GLPBio and Genscript do not gate-keep on the front end. Vetting should occur on the back end. Crush Research has a very good checkoff on this.

@Cat___Jesus the gate unfortunately has to exist for compliance requirements.

99.9% of “peptide companies” buy their product from the same whatsapp chats as you, their advantage is just saving you the cost of a $400 test and shipping time. what happens when big pharma lobbies the government and customs starts seizing every shipment containing vials? only us-domestic product will prevail. buy american. buy blank.

@blankpeptides This makes more sense now that I learned today that "in China raws are legal but once it becomes a vialed peptide then that's seen as a medicine and so for human use, since producing vialed peptides is illegal in China," @Krysia830073

@Krysia830073 Wow, that is pretty much the root of the quality problem, Chinese resellers running scared creates incentives for shortcuts.

@NDMFlyHigh Yes the raws are legal but once it becomes a vialed peptide then that's seen as a medicine and so for human use

Another dispute over supposedly stolen COAs sent me further down the peptide rabbit hole. What I found was a sourcing system so tangled that the vendor selling the kit may have no idea who actually manufactured it. Factory names may not be legal company names, several businesses can appear to share the same COAs, and one laboratory test can sometimes produce reports carrying different customer names. So when a bunk product appears, naming the final vendor may tell us who sold it, but not who made it or where the problem entered the chain. This article looks at how that system may work and why tracing a peptide back to its true source is often far harder than it appears. Full article here

Can we just... skip the false sadness? Lindsey Graham was a scumbag. There, I said it.

I have a hard time listening to people whine about freedom of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz whilst the United States is causing a humanitarian crisis in Cuba because... of a lack of freedom of navigation

@squatsons Russia is always a day late and a ruble short.

Ukrainian ships in port around Odessa have been targeted by Geran-4 drones. With the ongoing attacks in sea of Azov it appears that shipping will now be targeted by Russia.

Q: Why should any police department have the power to use Flock cameras to build a location history of innocent people without a warrant, oversight, or suspicion? Isn't that what the 4th amendment protects?

Lindsey Graham has been leveled.

@tonymission Sure. Let’s tell the world 🤣

We're reaching new levels. Just had a Chinese vendor offer to send $22k of product and I don't pay a penny until it's tested and exceeds my standards. Also offering to pay 50% of the testing fees and give me $100 for every day after Friday if shipping is delayed. Sent me 30 American (Freedom) COAs from June 26th. To say I'm impressed by his confidence, trust and overall sales approach is an understatement. I hope he doesn't do this with everyone because eventually he'll get screwed, but I don't see how I could have said no. 😅

@KrisRChase @tonymission Only test you pay for yourself matter, everything else can be manipulated.

@tonymission The part worth naming for people reading this: the test that matters isn't just purity by HPLC. Sterility and endotoxin are separate assays and most vendors never order them. Ask which tests the batch actually got, not whether it "has a COA."

Congratulations to every peace-loving person on the planet — The world is a little brighter today. Happy holidays to all who celebrate!

The simple math: why even small construction companies buy materials directly from Chinese factories. Should you? open.substack.com/pub/kdwalmsley…

An Amercian member of congress is threatened by foreign terrorists carrying American rifles, backed by a foreign military paid for by American taxpayers, and the US ambassador to that country says not a word in defense of his own countryman, and instead uses his social media accounts to promote his own vapid cable news appearances, which amount to propaganda for that same foreign country. It’s too much, too insulting and humiliating to America. This is how revolutions start. For the sake our nation, Mike Huckabee should be removed from his post immediately.

Grey vendors as long as they stay in their lane have zero liability to a consumer who injects the 'drug' into their body. A clinician is held to a professional standard and is not protected by RUO use disclaimer if they are selling and prescribing RUO 'drugs'. They can be sued by the consumer for fraud and mistrepresentation.

@Krysia830073 RUO and PUO are the same. It’s just a way to hide the fact that it’s RUO to make everyone feel more comfortable. There is zero difference legally.

RUO vs PUO: What’s the Difference? In this exclusive in-person interview, Jeff Cohen explains clinician responsibilities, peptide sourcing and why PUO is growing.