It’s a nondescript off-white powder, in the raw. Mine was packaged into capsules by the pharmacy, but I did pop one open to inspect because I had exactly the same curiosity lol.
I don’t have personal experience on this front, but I imagine for injected administration, which is the more common route, it would be made into solution or suspension and kept in a refrigerated multiuse vial, e.g.: 
I had chronic heartburn issues for a few years, preceding and during the COVID era.
My doctor asked me about the heartburn during an annual visit, told me she’d had success treating people with a 30-day oral regimen of BPC, and asked if I would be interested in trying it as an unproven-but-promising approach. I had no idea it was being used in that way at the time, but understood the risks and decided it was worth trying.
The compound itself came prepared in capsules from a local compounding pharmacy and cost ~$200 for the full supply.
I took it daily, and while I still had heartburn for the first few weeks, it felt like I could shrug off the damage better and had less esophageal discomfort. Around the three week mark, there was a notable remission of reflux, and after the full course, I’ve been able to live and eat normally without any GERD-related symptoms. I don’t know how much of the QoL improvement can be chalked up to direct action of the peptide, versus the peptide acting as a salve to wean off the PPI I was taking — but if nothing else, it made that transition far more bearable than it otherwise would have been.
I did not notice any systemic effects on healing and recovery during the 30 days, nor any sort of unpleasant side effect.
You’re talking past the person you’re responding to, and ignoring the words they wrote in order to do so.
They’re asserting that an organized conspiracy of CEOs didn’t plan this out preemptively, but in no way/shape/form arguing that this wasn’t a product of negligence.
The reason peptides are largely a grey-market phenomenon is because they’re not easy to patent or otherwise monopolize through IP laws. Unlike your ordinary run-of-the mill medication, peptides are chemically simple, and often mimic or occur as endogenously-produced compounds in living animals.
They’re promising research targets from a medical POV, but the pharma industry has been systematically ignoring them for decades due to difficulties around profiting from them, as demonstrated by the current rush of GLP-1 analogs. Any firm that invests in the clinical trials to prove safety + efficacy of a given compound won’t be able to stop competitors from ripping off their work.
And to be fair, this incentive misalignment is a global issue rather than a US/Canada problem.
Adding onto this, they’ve been big in bodybuilding circles for about two decades, but have been gained popularity in recent years due to Joe Rogan types and the MAHA crowd boosting them.
The safety profile is marginally better than other grey-market compounds due to them being protein “fragments”, but there are overall major risks around contamination, QC, and secondary effects, generally speaking.
The big names are the GHRPs (growth hormone releasing peptides), used as anabolics, and the healing accelerators BCP-157 and TB-500.
I was legally prescribed BCP-157 by my doctor (PO as a GERD treatment) around 2022, and can speak to it pretty well if anyone has questions.
Yeah but they did nothing to change the standard rates of gold flowing into and out of the game. A “fresh start” might help as a brief one-off, but it’s not fixing the root of the problem in the slightest.
The history is a bit confusing because the frontend scandal you’re referring to was for a frontend called “tesseract”, but piefed has also long had a questionable blacklist of phrases applied to screenshots and stuff using the Tesseract OCR toolkit. Piefed has been much more open about it than the frontend dev was, but it’s the same idea:
https://join.piefed.social/2026/08/04/anti-fascist-piefed-features/
I’m going off wikipedia for that, which seems to suggest the usual formula is ket + mdma + street “coke” — but with that “coke” being the usual adulterated mix of 5-10% real cocaine heavily cut down by levamisole, caffeine, meth, lidocaine, and inert filler. (Street mdma and ket are often cut with some of those too but hard to say how much they’re contributing.)
Lol different strokes I suppose; I can get behind the individual pieces (meth aside), but the thought of ketamine + stimulants sounds like mixing shrooms + red wine & xanax.
One part to turn the brain off, and a second part to fill that empty head back up with chaotic bad ideas best not acted on.
You’ll definitely get fucked up if that’s the goal, but they produce two very different vibes that pull in opposite directions.
Tusi is a new one to me. That combo sounds absolutely fucking miserable.
My extremely back-of-envelope estimate would be that it’s 100,000x slower to run inference on an IoT botnet compared to a data center GPU.
100x penalty for cpu inference, 10x penalty for cpu quality, 10x penalty for crappy ram + disk, 10x sync penalty because you have to split up layers across nodes.
And this is ignoring the standard showstopper issues you get with high-bandwidth distributed networking applications with spottily connected nodes.
If you wanna talk about runaway AI risk, then the real threat to humanity is a frontier model with unauthorized data center TPU access, not IoT. The call is coming from inside the house, and they even spell this out at the beginning before pivoting to the fearmongering.
The text-to-speech feature:
Adding another +1 from personal experience.
I’ve happily used the same wired, over-ear Sennheisers as my daily drivers for 15 years, but tried switching over to Sennheiser’s wireless noise-canceling line a few years ago. Horrible mistake: the sound quality was acceptable but the firmware, the fit, and the ANC were atrocious.
Couldn’t believe the two products were made by the same company.
Fair enough!
But I can tell you as a cybersecurity expert that you’d have a hard time finding a way to get any sort of remote execution from user-generated content on any major site, much less an exploitable browser sandbox escape.
Okay, wanna give me a link to a PoC example you set up?
I’ll reimage my laptop to an old Ubuntu ISO of your choice, and visit your link. Happy to be proven wrong.
Debian + unattended upgrades + modern package managers for non-system-installed software covers your bases very well.
Debian packages are downstream enough from their sources that the packaging delay keeps you safe (and means the updates have had human eyes on them before they hit you). Unattended upgrades means you don’t have to worry about running the upgrades yourself.
Pip, npm, and the other big package managers now also support dependency cooldowns on their recent releases, but uv and pnpm pioneered that and cover you for older release environments.
You’d still be fine if you’re not exposing public services or visiting actively-malicious websites.
There’s never been an instance of widespread malware built with a dedicated ability to persist on a Linux host through Wine.
It wouldn’t be hard at all for a hacker to manually wire up linux-specific malware on a computer once they had a RAT running in Wine, but there’s no credible risk of windows malware automatically installing “linux viruses” at present.
Literally all the modern recompilations are AI-driven.
There are various levels of involvement of human actors in the loop, but if you don’t want to use any AI project, just ignore them all.