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inigyoutoday at 12:36 PM3 repliesview on HN

One of America's biggest exports is culture - but primarily in English. I bet the UK knows it.


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PessimalDecimaltoday at 12:41 PM

Yeah, France should try to export its culture sometime!

pydrytoday at 12:50 PM

The only reason I know it is because I keep seeing spam for it on reddit.

Not every aspect of american culture makes it overseas and much less does now than used to 20-30 years ago.

I think peptides (and medicating yourself out of a hole in general) are a pretty uniquely american thing.

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holbradtoday at 12:47 PM

As someone from the UK, Techy, nerdy people can know, but normies don't.

Also, I'd add that gym bros definitely have heard of them, especially if they are familiar with steroids.

The GLP-1 drugs are probably the main cause of this. We have this amazing class of compounds that work really well, But are priced pretty high, at least considering lower UK wages.

So there is a big incentive to look at getting these much cheaper from China. You hear about this happening, and then you see the fact that these companies have big catalogues full of other peptides that are a crypto payment and a click away.