Utah Buddhists illegally save brine shrimp in the Great Salt Lake

[Nawth_Chucka]

@CalMeacham

Are these comments for real? It’s been an embarassingly long time since I’ve even visited SLC, but when I lived there I recall no odors at all throughout the Valley. That’s not just my rost filtered memories – I’ve lived in plenty of places that smelled pretty bad, and if SLC had been one of them, I’d remember.

Has something changed there in recent years? Heck, the refineries north of SLC were nowhere near as bad as the refineries in Elizabeth in my home state of New Jersey.

If NJ’s your stench benchmark, then no, nowhere near as bad. But like a PP said, that inversion comes in, we all get rhinitis of some kind. When I head down to Ikea and local environs I have to keep the window of my vehicle up - and I worked at a paper mill for 2 years.

[CalMeacham]

Even with the inversions, I never thought SLC stank, or even had a noticeable odor. And I lived there for years.

Inversions in the winter could last for weeks, leaving you without sun for long periods of time. As good an excuse for going skiing as you could want (Going up to the ski resorts generally got you above the inversion layer, so you could actually see the sun and blue sky)

[RandMcnally]

@Koxinga

I’ve always thought there was a bit of cognitive dissonance (if not outright hypocrisy) in how some religious die hards in East Asia make a big show of releasing some poor fish or bird into the “wild,” and congratulating themselves for the good “karma” they’ve accumulated, with nary a thought of where the creature came from or its ultimate fate.

This may be my ignorance showing but I thought in order to reach Nirvana one has to be above accumulating karma, whether good or bad.