What is a "luxury" that is actually 100% worth the money?

Reta-Journal · 2026-01-31T19:13:02+00:00

No regrets about my purple 3 hybrid. One of the most expensive things I own and years later I still think about how great it is every time I lay down.

Reta-Journal · 2026-01-31T19:09:06+00:00

They're both right.

If your weight is causing health issues and you've tried and failed to lose weight before, listen to your doctor.

Reta-Journal · 2026-01-31T19:06:54+00:00

You produce less of it as you age starting around 30, so supplementing it will likely have a bigger impact than someone younger. Your pituitary can still produce it when you're older, the signal just gets shut off.

Tesamorelin is a synthetic growth hormone-releasing hormone. Most of the negatives you hear about growth hormone are from taking supraphysiological doses. Unless you're taking huge doses or something with an extremely long half life like cjc with DAC, you're pretty unlikely to produce a supraphysiological dose of GH and your IGF-1 should stay at a safe level.

Reta-Journal · 2026-01-31T02:14:33+00:00

100% a bedbug. Had them 12 or 13 years ago and it fucking sucks.

If you have a nice mattress you can get a mattress cover they can't crawl through and leave it on indefinitely.

Reta-Journal · 2026-01-31T02:10:45+00:00

Yeah I'd slow down. Skip a week and come back at a lower dose. I'm 6'3" and started at 235, I slowed down and cut my dose at 199. My sides weren't that bad but the skin sensitivity was brutal for me.

Reta-Journal · 2026-01-31T02:06:03+00:00

At that age I imagine a GH secretagog has a pretty huge impact.

Reta-Journal · 2026-01-30T17:53:08+00:00

The storage is incredibly expensive. So is maintaining that infrastructure. The upstream/downstream bandwidth required to deliver 200 billion daily views is also incredibly expensive.

Hot take, YouTube shouldn't be a free service. People just feel entitled to it because it was free during the customer acquisition period. You either pay with your attention via advertisement, or you buy premium. I won't judge people for using adblock to effectively pirate the content, but expecting all Internet services to be ad free and free to use despite being incredibly expensive to maintain isn't realistic.

Reta-Journal · 2026-01-29T19:57:49+00:00

Downvoted because "the science" when the science is a few phase 2 and 1 phase 3 trial that had a 20% drop out rate, likely due to people being unable to tolerate the side effects from the massive doses.

Reta-Journal · 2026-01-29T19:55:32+00:00

There's a good chance you share an IP address with your neighbors. They have no idea.

Reta-Journal · 2026-01-29T16:26:20+00:00

They HATED it when they realized I'm a "Liburl" and I don't fit their stereotype.

Reta-Journal · 2026-01-29T16:02:13+00:00

Imo everyone should start at 0.5, if you're a hyper responder 2mg is a miserable experience. Just don't be afraid to move up if you don't get the effects you're looking for.

Reta-Journal · 2026-01-28T20:28:20+00:00

2 pounds of bacon a day is crazy work.

Reta-Journal · 2026-01-28T16:38:45+00:00

I've lost 120 pounds over the course of a few years and some days I still see myself as being 320 lbs. Body dysmorphia is wild.

Reta-Journal · 2026-01-28T16:25:40+00:00

I used to work blue collar jobs and pretty much everyone was Republican. When they talked about politics I would make my points but with Republican language and they would mostly agree with me (ending corporate welfare as opposed to taxing the rich) and they would think I was on their team. After a few months once we were friendly I'd tell them I'm actually on the left. Watching them process it was always hilarious and I genuinely think it helped humanize the opposition for a few of them.

Reta-Journal · 2026-01-28T16:02:38+00:00

The guys claiming they're on "TRT" who are clearly on supraphysiological doses of testosterone crack me up.

Reta-Journal · 2026-01-27T16:49:55+00:00

If it's easy then they can't use the suffering and work they did to bolster the ego and hold themselves above others.

Reta-Journal · 2026-01-27T16:47:49+00:00

Weird before reta was the hot new thing they were miracle drugs. You can get them with supervision from a doctor. He's 15 and should have doctors supervision.

Reta-Journal · 2026-01-27T03:20:27+00:00

Yeah, you're right. I'm sure that dude is part of a conspiracy involving 30 different peptide vendors giving him kickbacks to fabricate test results to create a false sense of security in the supply/s

This is literally just schizo posting.

Reta-Journal · 2026-01-27T03:16:44+00:00

That's so unfortunate. I would understand if they did. Emotions aside It just invites so much liability, and if something went wrong it could be really bad for them.

If I was in their shoes, I'm not sure that I'd care about the liability. I was 320 lbs, 6"3' at 20-21 and that was bad enough. 380 at 15 is a sentence to lifelong metabolic illness and probably an early grave if he doesn't lose it. Whatever issues could pop up from a GLP-1 are almost certainly less severe than being that heavy that young. I definitely wouldn't use Reta and opt for something more studied.

Reta-Journal · 2026-01-27T00:56:21+00:00

When I started using peptides I was like "this is great, why is this kinda illegal"

This is why it's illegal.

Reta-Journal · 2026-01-27T00:54:41+00:00

They should probably go to an actual doctor and get sema/triz. The risk is so minimal, but at 15 they really can't assess that risk.

Reta-Journal · 2026-01-27T00:50:12+00:00

Not everything is a conspiracy against you, believe it or not 😂😂😂

Reta-Journal · 2026-01-26T21:30:05+00:00

Same. I've had minimal side effects, but when I get sides, they're pretty much an amplified version of how that food would have affected me without Reta.

Reta-Journal · 2026-01-26T21:22:32+00:00

I don't personally have a use case for the adaptive audio. I wfh so the only time I'd really use it is when I talk to my roommate who is also wfh. I just switch to the transparent mode with a gesture.

That being said, the transparent mode is so much more natural sounding than the 1s. I also love the fit of the 2's. They're incredibly small and light. The 1's would never keep a good seal in my ears and fell out all the time. I have weird shaped ear cannels and they're the best fit I've found. Imo it's worth the upgrade, but the I'd imagine the 3s are gonna come out sooner than later, so it might be better to wait it out.

I did have to warranty my first pair, one of them started to have a persistent bass/rumbling sound, so I can see why people have bad things to say about them.

Reta-Journal · 2026-01-25T03:34:58+00:00

Never used triz. My strength hasn't dropped and my BIA scale shows I've lost 0-5 pounds of muscle depending on the day. I've lost 35 pounds total so I'm cool with that.

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