• soapyplasm
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    389 months ago

    At least Zion National Park was really cool when I visited it

  • unalivejoy
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    349 months ago

    That’s exactly what the Mormons want you to do. They’re no longer a majority in Utah.

  • @assembly
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    179 months ago

    Well, if you’re already there do some skiing and then leave. If you aren’t there and want to ski, hit Colorado.

  • @skydivekingair
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    149 months ago

    Tell me you’ve never been to Moab without saying you’ve never been to Moab.

    • @RubberElectrons
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      49 months ago

      Yeah but that uranium mine and the windstorms… Hmm.

      I put two and two together when I walked past the “uranium building” along the main street there…

  • Dieinahole
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    149 months ago

    The scenery is great, the culture is not worth sticking around for

    • @FordBeeblebrox
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      69 months ago

      Colorado has the same mountains and no Mormon majority

        • @FordBeeblebrox
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          19 months ago

          We have medical here in UT but yeah it’s not the same, stores don’t carry all the fun stuff.

          • Lightor
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            29 months ago

            And it’s crazy expensive in comparison.

            • @FordBeeblebrox
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              29 months ago

              Wildly so. They’re asking $75 for a 1g vape cartridge nowadays, prices keep going up for the same products.

              • Lightor
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                29 months ago

                Hell they want upwards of $80 for an eighth. Like how do you not laugh when you post that price?

                • Dieinahole
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                  29 months ago

                  Jesus, we were paying $55 an eighth in utah when it was illegal.

                  Plus all the fuckery, convictions, probation, and etcetera

  • @LemmyIsFantastic
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    9 months ago

    Skiing, national parks, LCoL. It’s not that bad. Its great if you love the outdoors.

    • @[email protected]
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      79 months ago

      Utah is beautiful and has tons of opportunity for outdoor activities. Some of the coolest national parks are there, and should be a top priority in anyone’s bucket list. It’s difficult to avoid supporting the mormons in some manner if you go though. Freaking landlords get raging erections thinking about what it would be like to be a top member of the mormon sect.

      • @Deuces
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        59 months ago

        I love so much about Utah, and would highly recommend visiting, but will never live there again. The church isn’t that influential within salt lake City, but go outside and you’re just hoping for LDS instead of FLDS people. What really made me leave wasn’t the low abv beer or the mormans. The environmental inversion is truly hell

    • 🔍🦘🛎
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      29 months ago

      It looks that way because it is

    • @KipmanDynamite
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      39 months ago

      Is that how you say it? And here I’ve been calling it Oo-Tah

      • rumschlumpel
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        I’m not a native, but Wikipedia says this: Utah (/ˈjuːtɑː/ YOO-tah, /ˈjuːtɔː/ ⓘ YOO-taw)

        I deliberately picked a spelling that looks like the romanization of a Japanese first name, though.

    • @[email protected]
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      79 months ago

      It probably is. My so wanted to camp and travel. They decided on Utah, I figured why not I think it’s a shitty morman state but it’s her thing let’s do it. I’ve never been more blown away by a state. Just absolutely beautiful. We stayed a few nights at this place called Goblin Valley, probably the most amazing place I’ve ever camped. I can’t wait to go back.

    • Lightor
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      19 months ago

      It’s not worth it though. Between the horrible air quality and the Mormon church’s strangle hold on the state.

  • @[email protected]
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    And go to Nevada, which it is the gateway for.

    Whoever gets this reference will forever be cool in my book

  • @niktemadur
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    Imagine growing up in a mormon community that controls the state, apprehensively and clumsily reaching out intellectually to the outside world, realizing how the world is much different than your strange lifelong bubble would have you believe; realizing how you are trapped in a cult in relation to the rest of the world; how the church loomed over your entire life, took crucial early years and filled it with irrational horseshit.

    These people must leave and not come back. They have too many buttons that other cult members and leaders can push. That place knows how to hurt these people.