I read a lot but have never really enjoyed non fiction books. Want to start getting something more out of reading than just for pleasure. Anyone have any good recommendations for philosophy, memoirs, or history books? Want to broaden my mind a little bit. Thanks!

Hi new member here just wanted to introduce myself and tell you all a little about me. I’m in my 20s, live in the US, I work in the medical field. I’m pretty boring kind of a homebody, but I enjoy hiking, kayaking , and playing video games with my friends. Some of my interests are reading fantasy books, and learning about spirituality, and occultism. I also like to learn about basic biology and pharmacology, a medications mechanisms and interactions. I find it very interesting and enjoy researching as in depth as I can about a drug before taking it, it’s kind of satisfying to be on something and knowing a little bit about how its affecting you. I hope everyone is doing well and I’m excited to join your little community! 

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HEADS UP on those high-protein shakes.

If you’re chugging those 30g to 50g protein shakes, be careful. 

That much protein at once is a massive hit to your kidneys and causes "osmotic shifts" (basically a total fluid imbalance in your body) that can mess you up fast.

If you’re going to drink that sludge, don't do it all at once. Divide it up—maybe 1/4 shake mixed with water or low-fat milk.

People are actually ending up with "malnutrition ketoacidosis" from this. 

It looks like the "starvation" issues you see with Ozempic. Your blood sugar won’t spike, so you and your doctor might totally miss the diagnosis while your internal acid balance is falling apart.

By the time you feel the symptoms—severe dehydration, your kidneys "clamping down," and your digestion stopping—you’re already in a bad state that can lead to organ failure.

Keep it simple:
Limit the supplements: Watch the extra salts, potassium, and vitamins.

Divide your doses: Don't slam 50g at once.

Eat real food: Stick to a healthy, low-fat diet.The Goal: 100g of protein total per day, spread out, is plenty for a normal active person.

Don't wait until you're in the ER to realize more isn't always better.

1,249 guests wow. no one posting really. any ideas?

Just doing a bit of browsing ..
Ran across this site ... 

>https://buygenerics.com

I've never used these folks, so I have no firsthand experience with them ..

Somethings are kinda high, some are not ...
I did run it through scam dectector and they got a good score ...








I found this last year and was giving it time to fold up, it didn't..

Just throwing this out there

Ice

The past few weeks there several outages world wide ..
It's happened before and it will again ...


Two notable outages


On February 20, Cloudflare experienced a service disruption affecting customers using its
Bring Your Own IP (BYOIP) service. The outage, first observed around 1:00 PM EST,
stemmed from a bug introduced during an automated internal maintenance task that
caused Cloudflare to unintentionally withdraw customer IP address advertisements from
the Internet, resulting in connection timeouts and failures for end users attempting to
reach affected services. After identifying the root cause, Cloudflare halted the task and
began restoring service. The disruption lasted approximately 1 hour 40 minutes, with
routing stability returning around 2:40 PM EST as IP advertisements were restored globally.

On February 17, Cogent Communications, a multinational transit provider based in the U.S.,
experienced an outage that impacted multiple downstream providers and customers across
various regions, including the U.S., India, the U.K., the Philippines, and Luxembourg.
The outage, lasting a total of one hour and 5 minutes over a period of one hour and 20 minutes,
was first observed around 3:20 AM EST and appeared to be centered on Cogent nodes located
in Denver, CO. Around ten minutes after appearing to clear, the nodes located in Denver, CO,
began exhibiting outage conditions again, this time the number of nodes located in Denver, CO,
exhibiting outage conditions appeared to drop. This decrease appeared to coincide with a decrease
in the number of impacted downstream partners and regions.
The outage was cleared around 4:40 AM EST.

Other places were not so lucky with this short timespan ..

Hianime began 19 minutes ago
9anime began 23 minutes ago

Recent Outages and Problems

PolyBuzz2 hours ago
Internet Archive2 hours ago
TF24 hours ago
Dead by Daylight4 hours ago
Steam4 hours ago
Tumblr5 hours ago
JanitorAI5 hours ago
Destiny 26 hours ago

and many others



>https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-outage-february-20-2026/



>https://www.thousandeyes.com/blog/internet-report-2026-biggest-outage-risks



I say this to just be aware of this kind of disruption,
it could (and does ) happen at any time  ...


>https://downdetector.com

Ice

did anyone get an contact from above said blacklisted vendor saying they are back, i know at one point they were like ttm and ppe and utc and then had logistics issues, just wondering

... Somebody had to create one. 


  So yeah, I just made my 100th post and just wanted to thank everyone here who has helped me and to let ya'll know how grateful I am that I have ya.