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Montana man faces sentencing for cloning giant sheep to breed large sheep for captive trophy hunts
  • For some reason, the AP only mention this explicitly in their original article, not the linked follow-up article:

    [Marco Polo argali sheep from Central Asia] are protected under international convention as a threatened species and outlawed for import into Montana to protect native sheep from disease and hybridization.

    It seems to be the Lacey Act he's charged with violating.

  • Do your homework.
  • Edit: I misunderstood your question and tone, sorry, but everything below still stands!

    They're temporary buildings made of wood, plaster of Paris, and cement, built here as an 1898 World's Fair.

    "You are being lied to" heavily implies that the history of Omaha is being glossed over somehow (perhaps with respect to the Civil War? though it was a Union state, and the photo decades later than the war), and that this was the architectural style and decadence of Omaha. You are being lied to, every day, by politicians and advertisers and corporations - but the photo has no relevance to this. These buildings are little more than façades.

  • Is Google Maps getting worse?
  • The only real issue with OpenStreetMaps is that the quality varies significantly town-to-town depending on how much love it's had by local, knowledgable contributors. Road directions are one of the more complex things to configure in OSM, especially with complex multi-lane junctions, and so densely-populated areas and major roads are likely to be quite good, whereas more rural areas can be hit-and-miss.

  • Quest rule
  • I'm all for interesting side quests, but it does hurt immersion a little when High Priest Powervac impresses upon you how urgent it is that you stop The Great Finger Eater and save the galaxy, but you've also really got to gather nine forget-me-nots for Widow Stoop and honestly, they're of equal importance.

  • Is America Ready for a President Who Can Convert a Word Document to a PDF?
  • One candidate is 78 years old, types in all-caps, and forgets what he was saying halfway through a sentence. For my money, I think it's a fair bet that the difference between a PDF and a native MS Word file eludes them.

    On second thoughts...

    Come to think of it, a regular client of Epstein's teenage human trafficking ring probably know more about 'PDF files' (ahem) than most of us.

  • It's Reddit starting to malfunction?
  • I do still search for Reddit posts when looking for opinions about products, solutions to technical problems, etc - much as I don't want to use the platform, the quality of content is generally much higher than Quora, the Microsoft Forum, and other open discussion hubs.

    I refuse to be an active user, though. I know it needs to make money, but fuck their attitude to their users and moderators.

  • John Oliver Gets Played Off During Emmys Speech While Honoring His Family’s Dead Dog: ‘F— You, There You Go!’
  • Video of the speech from ABC. The award was for best scripted variety series. Music starts at 0:58, so I guess they're allotted a minute.

    The Sarah McLachlan joke is presumably because she's an animal rights activist, and appeals for donations are normally set over somber orchestral music?

  • QuickLook in 1.0.1β is great! Some suggestions...
    • Consider allowing the user to sloppy swipe away from QuickLook, rather than reaching for the button in the top-right.
    • For posts with links to somewhere other than the image, consider following through to the link (e.g. news article) rather than loading the image.
    • When the user has clicked into the post/comments page, consider enabling QuickLook from tapping the image in the post.

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    We're remaking Morrowind as a total conversion mod for Skyrim. We've been on Mastodon for a while now, and today seems as good a day as any to also start sharing on Lemmy. Looking forward to seeing this community grow!

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