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Dan Riley (dan131riley@federate.social)'s status on Saturday, 21-Sep-2024 23:40:57 JST Dan Riley
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- Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸
@blenderdumbass @chris Apple has made significant concessions to the Chinese government. Other than that they seem to have a pretty good record of trying to make it impossible for anyone--including Apple themselves--to retrieve personal information.

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Dan Riley (dan131riley@federate.social)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Jul-2024 08:38:34 JST Dan Riley
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@thomasfuchs https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sheep_wars&diffonly=true
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  The sheep wars, or the sheep and cattle wars, were a series of armed conflicts in the Western United States fought between sheepmen and cattlemen over grazing rights. Sheep wars occurred in many western states, though they were most common in Texas, Arizona, and the border region of Wyoming and Colorado. Generally, the cattlemen saw the sheepherders as invaders who destroyed the public grazing lands, which they had to share on a first-come, first-served basis. Between 1870 and 1920, approximately 120 engagements occurred in eight states or territories. At least 54 men were killed and some 50,000 to over 100,000 sheep were slaughtered. Cattle ranching was a well established trade in Texas by 1870, when sheepherding was starting to become popular in other parts of the Old West. Because of this, in Texas and elsewhere, many cattlemen had close relationships with local government figures and were able to use this influence to their advantage. According to one unnamed Texas historian, "In court action, the cowboy [cattleman] usually won." The sheepherders were always the weaker of the antagonists. They were often advocates of free grazing on public land, while...
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Dan Riley (dan131riley@federate.social)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Jul-2024 08:32:53 JST Dan Riley
- Thomas 🔭🕹️
@thomasfuchs great, let’s just fence it all off and use it for grazing sheep. Surely that hasn’t been tried before?

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Dan Riley (dan131riley@federate.social)'s status on Friday, 22-Dec-2023 09:55:31 JST Dan Riley
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@mattblaze Is this H0 or N gauge?

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