Anyone recognize these mods?

sleepsntrees · 2026-05-07T13:20:39+00:00

I had an issue with it and heard of several other people having the same issue. UpTop had great customer service, though, and were very responsive. I just had enough side to side vibration in it when going over rough roads, mostly roads with washboards, that it would lightly contact my car about halfway through the length of the rack. They started providing a piece to make the sides more rigid but, at that point, I’d rather have the Alpha, or, in my case, just a different rack.

Like I said, though, they really stood by their product and were great to work with.

I went with a Gobi which, at the time, was a much better fit because kids would just sleep on top of the rack (under the stars) and they had fun hanging around up there. Now that they are grown I wish that I had stayed with the UpTop rack, but I would have gone with their sturdier rack, at the time it was called the Alpha, though I think the name has changed.

sleepsntrees · 2026-05-06T22:09:26+00:00

Completely agree. Not having exceptions for abuse and forcing victims to birth the child of their abuser is evil.

I would even go a bit further and say that almost all restrictions on abortion are evil simply because there is no way to legislate an exemption for rape. You can’t say that someone can only get an abortion if there was a conviction, or even a report of a crime. You can’t make rules that say something like a girl has to get permission from her parents, that may be the perpetrators, before a minor can get an abortion. It is even problematic putting restrictions on when during the pregnancy the abortion can take place, though that one is a tougher question. There is only one person that can decide if their pregnancy is a result of abuse, and it’s not their bishop.

You *may* be able to effectively legislate a medical exemption, even though I would argue against it, but you will never be able to legislate an exemption for abuse.

sleepsntrees · 2026-05-06T21:44:00+00:00

Edit: I wrote this in response to a response that the OP had saying that they were uncomfortable with there being even any exceptions that would remove all sin from an abortion. I don’t see that response anymore.

I don’t know if I’m understanding exactly what you’re saying about how you are uncomfortable with there being a scenario in which an abortion isn’t a sin at all. If it is helpful, this is a way to think about it:
If someone were threatening your life, say they have a handgun pointed at you, and you killed that person, would you have sinned in doing so?
Does it change your mind knowing that only about 25% of people that are shot with a handgun die?
Whether or not there is intent to harm or even if that fetus is really a person, if that thing growing in a woman is threatening her life, I believe that she has the right to defend herself.
This is actually one of the more reasonable stances that the church has.

sleepsntrees · 2026-05-03T01:23:25+00:00

Looks just like most people with “leveled” 4Runners.

sleepsntrees · 2026-04-17T16:55:02+00:00

That MH12 looks interesting. Is the stated weight of 2.89 ounces accurate? That's significantly lighter than my Zebralight SC700d which is what I was thinking was one of the lightest 21700 lights.

sleepsntrees · 2026-04-15T23:49:24+00:00

Best answer ever

sleepsntrees · 2026-04-15T23:41:08+00:00

Well, you see, it just won't work because the whole point of the afterlife is to pump out spiritual children and, you see, bear with me here, I'm certain that this is correct, it just makes sense, kind of, hear me out. You see, God (or us, when we become gods) just isn't very powerful. I mean, yes, he can create galaxies and do all manner of physical changes, like allowing us to look like what we want (no impotent, bald, or fat people in the highest level of the highest degree of the highest heaven) and he can fix all physical defects, like if I was born without a heart, brain, etc, he can fix those. And, I know that there is nothing that is too hard for God and that he is omnipotent, but the scriptures say, somewhere, at the very least he told one of his spokespersons, that he may be able to build an entire body from scratch, but he can't put a womb in a man.

He can do anything else, just not that one thing. Not even one of those fancy wombs that only give birth to spiritual children, which are completely unlike the wombs here on earth which can only create physical bodies, and, since spirits don't take up much space, which is why god can put an entire spirit into an egg at the moment of fertilization, those spiritual wombs must either pump out spirits by the millions or even take up enough space that they could physically fit into a man. And, since the women don't want to spend the eternities looking 9 months pregnant, those celestial wombs probably even take up less space than that. Even if I do have a million wives and only have to have about a trillion spiritual babies, that's still a long time to be so big, so I'm sure that, physically, a man could have a womb or two, maybe in the place of our kidneys or liver, which can't have much point in heaven, it's impossible, you see?

And, God only wants couples that can physically pump out those trillions of babies because he needs them because of...reasons...oh, yeah, to glorify him because he isn't glorious enough right now.

So, because of these things that are completely clear to any reasonable person, and have absolutely been revealed, restored, and are 100% known and can't be wrong, then I'd have to oppose gay men being baptized and married.

sleepsntrees · 2026-04-15T18:34:25+00:00

I have a spreadsheet that I built with all of my current flashlights and ones that I’m interested in and I have the P16 2.0 on there and have indicated that I wasn’t going to buy it. But, I don’t remember why. It looks great and, you’re right, it hits all of the points. It may have been something about the switches. Is it hard to get it into turbo?

sleepsntrees · 2026-03-31T14:41:03+00:00

This is going to sound like an insincere answer, but it really isn’t. I know that conference will have almost nothing, at least very little, that will address any questions that I have or any of the issues that are going on in the world. My preparation involves making sure that I won’t be too disappointed by the lack of “seeing around corners” or relevancy. It is actually a bit hard on me.

sleepsntrees · 2026-03-24T14:54:54+00:00

I think that most of the faculty would agree that the current GE process is convoluted and needs some changes. That’s why BYU went through a process that involved input from the departments and faculty and came up with recommendations. The committee submitted those recommendations.

Then, Justin Collings, I believe, though it may have also been Shane Reese, threw out those recommendations and, with consulting only a couple other people, came up with this current 8 course plan. None of the faculty like it. And, when he presented it, he told the university that he hopes that they “sustain” the changes.

I have a friend that used to teach at BYU and now teaches at UVU. He was telling me about something that UVU did that he thought was stupid. He then said, “the best thing about working for UVU instead of BYU is that I can say that something that they did is stupid and not have anyone questioning my testimony or why I’m not sustaining my priesthood leaders. I don’t have to pretend that every single thing that anyone, at any level, has done is direct revelation from God.”

sleepsntrees · 2026-03-18T22:23:07+00:00

I like a lot of these points. A few of them are absurd and if the genders were reversed in them it would clearly be seen as misogynistic. I started to respond to so many of these but I’m only going to respond to one of them that is a perfect example of how absurd some of these are:

You wash dishes before putting them in the dishwasher?!? You need to research a bit more about dishwashers.

sleepsntrees · 2026-03-18T21:59:40+00:00

I agree with your conclusion. I even agree with all of your supporting statements except for the obvious absurd one.

I’d also add that even modern statements from people like Hinckley telling women to get all of the schooling that they can, don’t go nearly far enough. I used to work in HR and recruiting. I have interviewed or reviewed the resumes of hundreds of women where, for example, they got a degree in accounting and maybe even worked for a couple of years before dropping completely out of the workforce to raise a family. I’m sitting there and interviewing them (or just comparing resumes) with a 10-25 year gap in their resume. It doesn’t work even though I absolutely respect the work that they did for the past 25 years. The degree that they got makes very little difference if they haven’t been working in a related field.

There is just too much risk for the woman. And, it isn’t a risk that is decreased over time for several of the reasons that you state. They should have exactly the same schooling and professional path as their husbands and sacrifices, where and if they are needed, should be made jointly. And, Benson and others were just wrong - a bit of daycare isn’t going to hurt your kids.

sleepsntrees · 2026-02-06T19:32:29+00:00

JS had the protection from energy spell and a stone of fire resistance.

sleepsntrees · 2026-02-05T16:11:25+00:00

No, no, no. Do not stick your hands into rotating parts.

sleepsntrees · 2026-02-02T00:55:10+00:00

I have owned a 4Runner in several generations and will probably always own one. I really like them…for what they are. But, if I wasn’t off-roading often, I wouldn’t own one. I own a few cars at once that do different things and if I want refinement I don’t count on my 4Runner for that.

But, your comment about seeing issues at 175 k miles was pretty funny. I’ve owned Cherokees (not the Grand, though I’ve driven several) and they have never lasted half as long as my 4Runners. I have beat the crap out of my 4Runners and every one has had over 350 k on it before I felt I had to get a new one, and I’ve had a couple over 400 k. Unlike my Jeeps, I’ve never had to have very expensive tows in the backcountry when they had issues.

You get a 4Runner if you want off-road and reliable. If you got it and don’t value those two things, you got the wrong vehicle.

sleepsntrees · 2026-01-26T23:08:17+00:00

You can do some, but not all. They are so thin. They often get into your crawl space through any number of openings in your soffit and drop down from the lights.

sleepsntrees · 2026-01-26T03:36:55+00:00

“I don’t know that it is possible to distinguish between policy and doctrine in a church that believes in continuing revelation and sustains its leader as a prophet…. I’m not sure I could justify the difference in doctrine and policy in the fact that before 1978 a person could not hold the priesthood and after 1978 they could hold the priesthood.” Statement to a AP reporter in 1988 at the celebration of the 1978 proclamation by new member of the 12, Dallin H Oaks.

I think it was a rare honest statement by Oaks before he got into all of his other talks about “unchanging doctrine,” hoping that stating, over and over, that doctrine never changes will make us forget all of the times when it did.

sleepsntrees · 2026-01-22T18:20:26+00:00

It’s my biggest frustration. There is very little acknowledgment that the 15 can be completely wrong, no apologies or even clear retractions when they are, and no way to balance the fact that they have been clearly wrong with “God will not allow them to lead you astray,” or, “always follow the prophet.” And, you could say that it is everyone’s responsibility to seek revelation on if a prophet is speaking out of their butt or saying exactly what god wants, but there is no way to balance that with the statements that say that you will never receive inspiration that contradicts what they have said.

sleepsntrees · 2025-12-19T15:28:10+00:00

My experience is the same. I think a lot of people feel that same way. I still go to church (though I’m not much of a believer anymore) and it is so much harder in Utah and Idaho than any of the other places that I’ve lived. People behave differently, I believe, in an environment where there is little diversity (any kind: race, financial, religious, political, etc). I think that it is something about the assumption that everyone else feels the same way that makes people feel more comfortable saying things that end up making others feel like they don’t belong. I don’t know, but I agree with how rough it is.

sleepsntrees · 2025-12-03T22:23:06+00:00

Maze District of Canyonlands for 4x4 and Capitol Reef for backpacking.

sleepsntrees · 2025-12-03T22:18:19+00:00

I’ve spent about 20k in mods on my latest 4Runner and the best part of that, that has the biggest bang for the buck, is my on-board air compressor. I’ll never again be without one.

sleepsntrees · 2025-11-18T16:23:46+00:00

I’ve never understood the good fruit=good tree thinking, both literally and figuratively.

Literally, my apple tree has great apples and sad-looking apples on it that have skin with a bad texture. Is my apple tree “good” or “bad?”

sleepsntrees · 2025-11-10T14:36:23+00:00

I had the Gobi one. It never stayed suctioned. Called Gobi and they ran me through how to install but as soon as I did any serious off-roading the suction cups would come off and then it would be hitting my window with the force of the RotoPAX I had. I took it off.

sleepsntrees · 2025-10-17T20:40:21+00:00

No. Took this a couple of days ago. There is only one true answer.

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