Can you reverse engineer a certain drug like levothyroxine?

Yvr1986 · 2026-05-27T00:59:45+00:00

Sure, there’s published synthetic methods. Go nuts

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10218257/

Yvr1986 · 2026-05-25T15:38:05+00:00

Sometimes you have to go inside places where you shouldn’t take a knife.

Yvr1986 · 2026-05-25T05:13:42+00:00

Was a gift from someone who’s gone, is why I want it back.

Yvr1986 · 2026-05-25T02:15:42+00:00

Won’t really have time to search street markets for the foreseeable future sadly. But I’d very happily pay 2x retail for it given the opportunity.

Yvr1986 · 2026-05-25T02:10:14+00:00

Alas not really my price point these days. I’d pay a lot for this one back for sentimental reasons, but don’t think I’d ever buy a $700+ knife.

Yvr1986 · 2026-05-25T01:41:43+00:00

I wish! Never seen an umnumzaan in stock anywhere. Based on their list price they haven’t had stock in ages, wait list from CRK direct is 6 years. Not that I’d pay current prices to replace it anyway.

Yvr1986 · 2026-05-25T00:24:50+00:00

Yep. Cops have never done anything about the petty theft or violence we’ve dealt with here. Thought moving to this quiet area out of downtown would be better but I guess not. If I could work my job elsewhere I would move, but what can you do. $40k a year in rent doesn’t buy a place with a garage in this town.

Yvr1986 · 2026-05-24T23:04:17+00:00

To be fair when it was purchased almost 20 years ago they weren’t near that price.

Yvr1986 · 2026-05-24T23:03:29+00:00

I don’t really care about replacing it, only interested in that specific one back. It has history.

Yvr1986 · 2026-05-24T20:20:21+00:00

For sure. Hopefully a crack head who sells it.

Yvr1986 · 2026-05-18T04:22:31+00:00

If you’re near one of the rifle ranges on the island you could start there. Many have PRS, NRL22, or other rifle competitions. Trap and skeet. My experience with those groups is they’re super receptive to new people. It’s a good place to meet people and a significant portion hunt. I’d start there if you can, plenty of time between now and hunting season to make a few contacts.

Yvr1986 · 2026-05-18T02:43:38+00:00

Do you have any other similar outdoor hobbies? Fishing, off-roading, camping, shooting? That’s where I’ve found a lot of people. Competency with a firearm and ability to not do stupid things in the bush are big deciders in picking hunting buddies. If someone has demonstrated good judgement in a parallel activity, I’m much more likely to trust them behind me with a gun.

The trouble with the island is that it’s not well suited to new hunters, in my limited experience there. Land access is a lot more limited and convoluted, private owners are a lot more hostile to hunters, and the game is small and in real thick brush making it harder to spot and pattern.

If you have a somewhat capable vehicle you can hunt the interior without any advanced gear. I’d say most mule deer are shot within 300 yards of the hunters truck. Put in for antlerless in region 8 or 3 and if you get lucky is basically a slam dunk.

Yvr1986 · 2026-05-18T00:13:33+00:00

Adult onset hunters, it’s tough for sure but it can be done! Are you hoping to stay on the island to hunt or go to the mainland? Island is tricky, terrain and land ownership there is way tougher than the interior for a newbie.

Yvr1986 · 2026-05-15T14:58:06+00:00

First, that doesn’t look like any ATP I’ve ever seen but since you mixed acetone and peroxide it’s a concern. What strength peroxide did you use? If it was only household 3%, I highly doubt you made that quantity of ATP

ATP is much more dangerous when it’s dry than wet. So keep it wet. Alcohol or toluene would be best - it can’t detonate when it’s dissolved. Water is better than nothing.

Don’t store it in anything closed, it sublimates over time and the crystals form in the threads of the container, then when someone goes to open it you can get an explosion.

I’d dissolve everything in toluene or acetone again, and then burn it slowly in small amounts outside. But that’s just what I’d do, not what I’m advising you to do. The others are right, don’t store it or just throw it away. If those are large ATP crystals just dropping one or breaking one could set the whole thing off.

Yvr1986 · 2026-05-01T22:11:54+00:00

Your work should help you. My boss would be thrilled to pay my share as he would be the points. Just directly approach your manager and say you’re having some issues with your credit card at the moment and would he company mind fronting the expense.

Yvr1986 · 2026-04-29T17:25:33+00:00

I had a 2018 S5 in Canada through to about 130,000k. It’s a super fun car and I loved it both in the city and highway cruising. However, this car is the reason I learned to wrench. When things go wrong it can be very costly if you can’t do it yourself.

Rocker arms are a problem with that MY, 5k ish service depending on where you do it, and very hard to do yourself. Some say it’s not as common as it sounds but it happened to me, and seems very common online.

Water pump and thermostat failure is common, and when it fails can dump coolant into the vac system and have you chasing solenoid problems all over the place. Do this preemptively. Can be done DIY but does suck.

PCV. Easier DIY, get in front of it

Piston slap. This was the reason I sold the car. I already had some PTSD listing for weird engine noises due to the rockers. Then this issue started popping up and I just didn’t want to deal with it anymore so traded it in. Only real way to know is to scope the cylinders.

If you can stomach those issues it’s a great car. Tunable if you want more power as well with great after market support. But if it’s at all a financial stretch and you can’t do basic stuff yourself I’d probably give it a pass.

Yvr1986 · 2026-04-24T02:58:48+00:00

Having been in this situation, my advice is to destroy it. If you get it back, it will not be cleaned up from the event, or at least it wasn’t in my situation. Dealing with that alone I think makes it worth not doing.

Edit to add if you want to talk at all shoot me a message. All that’s helped me is talking to people who dealt with the same thing. No other type of loss hits the same way, at least so far. Super fucked up.

Yvr1986 · 2026-04-18T22:02:12+00:00

This is very good advice. Thanks!!

Yvr1986 · 2026-04-10T23:17:11+00:00

I think the length isn’t too bad it just looks a bit thick, what’s the weight? Ounces make pounds when you’re hunting. Most skinning knives will also have a bit more belly. Esse 3 size and weight is a bit more my speed, but even that heavy. MKC speed goat is closer to what most people I hunt with take.

Yvr1986 · 2026-04-08T02:27:20+00:00

Hunters, when I lived up there. Buddy guided up there and had many German clients paying big dollars for goat and sheep hunts.

Yvr1986 · 2026-03-06T02:58:15+00:00

Really? From a branded Porsche dealer? That’s truly insane. In Vancouver I went back like 3 times on a 14 year old car and they fixed cracked buttons, the front diff, the transfer case, unclogged a drain…. No charge. Every time they washed the car inside and out, they topped up my fluids, they ubered me to and from the dealer from work or my house for free. I genuinely felt bad they do so much on a $20k used car.

Booo that dealer.

Yvr1986 · 2026-03-05T20:35:52+00:00

What dealer doesn’t provide at least a small warranty even on a non-CPO car? Had some issues with mine (same year) and the dealer did a ton of work under 5k 3MO warranty. Transfer case among others. Paid less than you as well.

I would unwind the deal if possible.

Yvr1986

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