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25% Owner of @TrustPointe. Chemist, Engineer, Business Owner, Corporate Veep. Interests include Finance, Science, Entrepreneurship. Views are my own.

Grand Rapids, MI
Joined August 2022
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Sick. Meanwhile, those of us in the country on well water: 1. Fuel up the 10kw generator 2. Live life as normal
90 DAYS WITHOUT POWER, RANKED You are not leaving. The roof is fine. The grid is just gone. No power, no water pressure, no store deliveries, for 90 days. In each category we will go from most important to least important. The categories are ranked too. The roof is covered, so water comes first, then food, then everything that keeps those two usable. 90 days is what you should be prepared for. Most official lists say 3 to 14 days. Those are minimums, not plans. WATER Without it you have days. One gallon per person per day. 90 days is 90 gallons per person. A family of 4 needs 360. Water filter (a gravity filter is the best buy) Food grade barrels or water bricks Unscented bleach to treat stored water Your water heater tank holds 40 to 50 gallons. Know how to drain it. Rain collection (check local rules) FOOD Rice and beans are the backbone. If you cannot afford freeze dried meals, load up on rice and beans. Rice has about 1,650 calories per pound. Dry beans about 1,570. 2,000 calories a day for 90 days is about 110 pounds per person, or four 5 gallon buckets. Cooking oil, salt, sugar, spices Peanut butter Canned meat and vegetables Powdered milk Multivitamins Freeze dried meals if you can afford them Eat the fridge first, then the freezer, then the pantry. COOKING AND FUEL Food you cannot cook is just weight. Camp stove plus fuel for 90 days Extra propane or butane Lighters and matches One pot with a lid Never run a stove or heater indoors without ventilation. HEAT Cold is the quiet killer. Wood stove or a safe indoor rated heater Fuel for it Wool blankets and sleeping bags rated below your coldest night Pick one room, close it off, and live in it Carbon monoxide detector with batteries. Not optional. SANITATION This is what ends up killing people in long outages. 5 gallon bucket with a toilet seat lid Heavy trash bags Kitty litter or sawdust Bleach Soap and hand sanitizer Toilet paper, a lot of it MEDICAL Prescriptions. Ask your doctor about a longer supply. First aid kit Pain and stomach relief Any glasses or contacts, plus a spare pair A printed first aid manual LIGHT AND POWER Headlamps and lanterns Batteries, rotated Solar panel with a power bank A generator is a bonus, not a plan. Fuel goes bad and it is loud. INFORMATION, CASH AND NEIGHBORS Cards stop working when the power does. Battery or crank radio Cash in small bills, silver and gold if you have it Paper copies of IDs and contacts Know your neighbors. Trade skills, not just supplies. MORALE Books, cards, games, something for the kids. Boring beats hungry. Bored beats panicked. THE FIRST 72 HOURS Fill the bathtub and every container you own before the water stops. Fridge and freezer stay shut. A full freezer holds about 48 hours. Charge everything while you still can. Cook and eat what will spoil first. Obviously we could add security and it is important but depending on where you are, what your aloud to have/own I'm not going into great detail on that. What I can say is have a plan, talk it over with your family, everyone has a job. Don't be afraid to talk to your neighbors you know as well to make sure they are doing their part if you plan on working together. Feel free to add anything I may have missed. Anything you may think would be of added value for others to read and share. Book mark this, come back to it, create a check list. To be clear, I am not a survivalist. This is not survival advice. This is only my setup that I am following with my family. If nothing else maybe just a reminder. ISO Ledger 🛡
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Why do I know this? I see it in the lab space; people have realized the risk is not that high, more labs are entering the space, and prices are coming down. Make this set of peptides fully legal, and Eurofins and a thousand other labs who don’t want the regulatory risk that exists today will enter the space, and testing will be fully commoditized.
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Replying to @Namlik1031
1. Take stronger steps toward legalization, allowing businesses to make investments in a stabilized regulatory environment. A memo from HHS ain’t gonna do it. 2. More legal businesses offering a legal product substantially reduces the black market premium, allowing prices to come down through competition. 3. People in the black market will recognize that it’s worth dropping $40 on a vial of BPC-157 from a legitimate regulated source beats rolling the dice on an $8 vial that contains acinetobacter. People in this space aren’t entirely aware of the risk they are taking. I’ve long said if I was an evil businessman, I’d add opiates to my peptide formulation so users ‘feel better’ with my product. Nothing in the space prevents this today.
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Insurance is not going to cover any of this, so I wouldn’t expect much We’ll see though
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If you’re a compounding pharmacy and need an FDA-registered lab with USP-validated methods for these compounds, send me a DM 👍🏻
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Replying to @rorynotsorry
They are absolutely terrible And they probably spent $1m on marketing consultants to land here
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I don’t know if I’d go this far on a moral hazard scale. Coke and heroine ruin peoples’ lives with no upside. Gaining access to pharmaceuticals that would otherwise be inaccessible (cost, doctor bias, drug approval regulations) isn’t on the same level.
Oh and all the grifters call it Grey market as some cope to lure people into feeling more comfortable. Youre peptide dealer is equal to your coke and heroine dealer
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You are not wrong. When Ashlee and I first started TrustPointe, we specifically talked about it as “harm reduction” in the peptide space. Which is coincidentally the same language used for illicit drug testing - e.g. free fentanyl testing of cocaine for drug addicts.
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Replying to @MuffMuffington
It’s a prescription only product that requires state licensing to purchase and distribute
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Also: ask your lab for their method validation. Accuracy, Precision, Linearity, Range, Specificity If they know what that is and can provide it (and it looks legit and not AI), you’re in good hands
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Replying to @songsnotes9
I own a lab 😂
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Hey look it’s me!
Last week I sat down with @JoshInProgress from @TrustPointe on @pepfessions. The biggest takeaway: buyers should get to see how labs work and which methods they follow, not just the final number on a COA.
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Should be the goal; 90-110% of label claim. If a manufacturer had great process capability, they should be able to do something like target 103% label claim and have 99.7% of vials fill between 101-105% label claim.
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Replying to @songsnotes9
What the hell does “Mass Spectrum: Detected” even mean?
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Replying to @UndergroundBio
Nah. @PeptidePartners has the right read on this. Most “zero peps” are actually other peptides due to mixed up vials. And this just incentivizes the actual zero-pep fraudsters to sprinkle in some rando peptide.
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Replying to @MarmotRespecter
My wife has a Grand Wagoneer. 50% of the sensors don’t work and the passenger side running board stays down. My MIL’s Cherokee needed a head gasket at 35k miles. Jeep is an Absolute shit show.
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Anyone else wondering what type of shenanigans Howard the Duck is up to rn?
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Replying to @nayibbukele
The 6% are the families and friends of all the gang members he put in CECOT
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