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Mostly I was just trying to point out that while the media and popular culture reduces parts of the world to simple caricatures, usually the particulars are more complex and nuanced.
Salt Lake City for example was the first major US city I encountered the audible cross-walk indicators for the visually impaired. And not just here and there, but all over the city. Salt Lake City has had popular gay and lesbian mayors and a vibrant and resilient collection of various sub-cultures that may not be desirable to the LDS Church but persist nonetheless.
"Fake news" is just propaganda presented as "news."
Sometimes a sentence is just a sentence.
Believe people (individuals, groups) when they tell you who they are.
My only quibble is that for resorts like Winter Park (3000+ skiable acres) compared to Nordic Valley (100 skiable acres) the larger resorts and their expansive boundaries require complex interfaces and even then they're seldom all that useful.
I grew up in Colorado but navigating the runs and maps of the big resorts has become meaningless given the scale and my own human failings, and despite my historical experience and knowledge.
Nordic Valley could display the entire resort as a heatmap indicating snow-depth and skiability because it is a small and compact set of runs. While when you take a place like Brighton or Vail or Breck and the sheer scale of the resort makes displaying meaningful data very difficult.
https://vaxopedia.org/2018/09/25/how-can-i-get-vaccinated-if...
Factory farming in NL versus California is probably pretty similar. California's not really a great place for ranching in the first place though, better to just do that in a place like Vermont with a lot more water.