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I buy research peptides for a small lab bench, not a store. Usual order is Semax and Selank in a few vials, sometimes a repeat the same month. I usually order that bulk because the batches come with paperwork and the box is just vials. I still want a second source in case a lot is late.

Do you split small peptide orders across two suppliers, or is that more trouble than it is worth? And what do you check on a COA before you accept the shipment? I am not looking for a retail brand. Just a steady wholesale line.

>!been rereading the series and a few books in now i keep getting sidetracked thinking about the physical toll all this travel would actually take on these characters. like perrin and the two rivers crew walking to caemlyn, rand and mat on the road, egwene and nynaeve heading to tar valon. none of them are trained for this. they're farmers and village kids putting in weeks of serious mileage on rough terrain with inconsistent food and gear that doesn't fit right!<

>!i do gait and musculoskeletal work for a living so this is probably why it keeps jumping out at me, but the books don't really dwell on it the way i keep expecting them to. mat gets sick, obviously. thom has his bad hip and you genuinely feel that. but the others just kind of push through and jordan moves past it pretty fast!<

>!the road from the two rivers to caemlyn in particular would be brutal even for experienced hikers, and these characters are not that. the world building is so detailed in other areas that the physical reality of the travel stands out to me as glossed over. not in a bad way necessarily, just interesting that it's where the seams show.!<

>!curious if anyone else notices stuff like this on rereads or if this is just a very specific reading problem i have!<

it’s easy to compare generations by horsepower, features, screens, suspension, and interior design.

but i’m more interested in the things you only notice after actually living with one.

stuff like visibility, controls, storage, access to basic maintenance, road feel, maneuverability, how easy it is to work on, or even little things like how useful the rear cargo area is

if you’ve owned multiple generations, what’s one thing the newer truck genuinely improved, and one thing you wish Toyota had left alone?

Planning a detached garage on a rural property in southwest Idaho and trying to figure out how much of the permit process is actually worth engaging with versus how much is just countyspecific bureaucracy that varies depending on where you are. The county websites are no help. Some look like they haven't been updated since 2009, and the information conflicts depending on which page you land on.

The build itself isn't complicated. Single story, wood frame, no living space. But I keep hearing different things about whether something that size triggers a full inspection process or whether rural parcels have more flexibility. Someone told me the threshold changes once you're past a certain acreage. No idea if that's accurate or just something people repeat because it sounds plausible.

I do most of my own work, so the construction side isn't the concern. It's the front end: figuring out what actually triggers a permit requirement here versus what you can skip, and whether pulling a permit on something straightforward creates more friction down the line when you go to sell or refinance.

If anyone has gone through this recently in Ada, Canyon, Owyhee, or Gem county, actual experience with the process would be useful.

I’ve gone through two floor jacks in maybe 8 years and I’m getting tired of buying another one every few years.

Neither one failed dramatically or anything. First started slowly bleeding down under load and the current one has gotten harder to lift and doesn’t feel nearly as smooth as it did new. I’ve kept them indoors, haven’t abused them, and mostly use them for basic maintenance on my own vehicles.

I do enough DIY car work that I’m fine spending real money on the next one. What I don’t want is paying $300-400 for basically the same disposable jack with nicer paint on it.

For those of you who have had the same floor jack for 10, 15, 20+ years, what are you using? And more importantly, can you actually get seals and other parts for it when something eventually wears out?

I’d rather buy something I can rebuild once in a while and keep for the rest of my wrenching years.

could be about a generation, trim, engine, tires, interior, mods, or anything else. maybe there’s something everyone seems to love that you just don’t get

not trying to start a war here. just wondering what 4Runner opinion gets you the most pushback from other owners, or what you think people are giving way too much credit to

doing research on a higher mileage 4runner, somewhere in the 150k to 180k range, and the timing chain question keeps coming up in forums but nobody agrees on anything concrete. the 1GRFE is supposed to be basically bulletproof and i mostly believe that, but there's a difference between an engine that rarely has problems and one that never does. at 170k miles i'd like to know where the line actually is.

what i keep running into is people either saying don't worry about it at all or treating it like a ticking clock, with zero explanation for either position. the stretched chain symptoms are pretty well documented but the actual failure window seems to vary wildly depending on who you ask and whether they changed oil on schedule.

oil change history is the part that matters most from what i can tell. a chain that's been running on clean oil at 170k is probably fine. one that had neglected intervals for any stretch of that is a completely different conversation.

i do my own work so pulling the cover to inspect isn't off the table, it's just not a small job. curious if anyone has actually been through this on a high mileage 4runner and what they found, whether the chain looked fine or whether there were signs they caught before it turned into a real problem.

Starting to plan out some longer routes and trying to figure out if people base out of Idaho for multiday overlanding trips into neighboring states, or if most folks just stay instate given how much there is here. Which honestly makes sense. There's no shortage of terrain.

My situation: stock 4Runner, I work weekends sometimes depending on patient load, so I usually have to build trips around 3 to 4 day windows rather than full week runs. Idaho has a lot, but I keep wondering if Oregon's eastern high desert or the Nevada backcountry is worth the drive time to get into it versus just staying in the Owyhees or pushing toward the Salmon River country.

The PT schedule is actually the bigger constraint than the vehicle at this point. Not complaining, just means I have to be more deliberate about where I'm pointing the truck.

this is a weird one but it connects for me in a practical way. spend my work week doing manual patient care, a lot of bending and lifting, so by friday my lower back is already running a deficit before i even get in the truck. been noticing a real difference in how i feel after a six hour highway drive versus a three hour trail run and i cant fully explain why the trail days leave me less wrecked. the constant small adjustments you make off road must be doing something different than the static compression from highway cruising. seat position, lumbar support, how much you brace through rough sections, all of it seems to matter more than i expected.

curious if anyone has made actual changes to their setup with this in mind, not just comfort for comfort sake but functional stuff. aftermarket seat, different lumbar support, pad under the thighs, anything. i swapped my seat position slightly lower and tilted the wheel up and it made a noticeable difference on longer drives.

the factory seats on the 5th gen are fine for grocery runs but they're not really doing you any favors past hour three. wondering how many people have actually addressed this versus just accepting it as part of owning the thing.

took me about four months of spreadsheets and youtube deep dives before i landed on a 5th gen. work has me on my feet all day so weekends are either trail time or a long drive somewhere with no cell service, and i needed something that wasn't going to strand me or bleed me dry on repairs after 150k miles.

looked hard at the bronco, the gx, even the one people bring up at every family dinner like it's some kind of secret. what kept pulling me back was the longterm reliability data and how much of the maintenance i could actually do myself on weekends. the bronco was tempting, but the early production issues were enough to make me walk.

ended up with a 2021 trd offroad and have been greasing the zerks, doing my own oil, all the basic stuff. it's not complicated once you get into it

curious what the decision process looked like for other people here. was there one specific thing that closed it for you, or did you just know? also wondering how many people were crossshopping a completely different vehicle class and still ended up here

Title: Good trail access in Idaho that's also drivable without a lifted rig?

Body: Been doing a lot of hiking around the Boise foothills and some spots near the Sawtooths but I keep running into the same problem. Either the trailhead is paved and crowded, or the road to get there genuinely requires something with real clearance. I drive a stock 4Runner so I'm not completely limited, but I'm also not trying to destroy my undercarriage on a shelf road just to reach a trailhead.

Looking for that middle ground. Trails with maybe a few miles of maintained gravel or light dirt to get in, nothing requiring a lift or lockers, but also not the kind of place where you're parking next to 40 other cars on a Saturday morning. Somewhere you actually feel like you earned the location a little without the vehicle taking a beating getting there.

Mostly interested in central or southern Idaho but open to other regions if the spot is worth it. I do road trips pretty regularly so distance isn't really a factor. More interested in the quality of the approach and what you're getting into once you park.

Anyone have spots they keep coming back to that fit that description?