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Devi, to comicstrips in Back in my day...

That's really country specific, in the UK we only have one pine and it's not that common. We have a huge issue currently because after the wars they replanted a lot of land with pine as it was fast growing and we needed wood, but now they've outcompeted the native trees so there's a big program to get rid of the pine and plant native trees, but it needs to be done really slowly or the whole forest is messed up.

Devi, to asklemmy in My beagle has suddenly started resource guarding random stuff. What should I do to get this behavior to stop?

Exercise doesn't have to be walking, how mobile can you be? Can you hide food around the house? Or throw a frisbee?

It might be tricky to teach but if you're stuck in one spot you can get a couple of balls and play fetch, you hold the second ball, refuse to throw it until he brings the first one within reaching distance, smart dogs get that quite quickly. It also helps their brain cause they have to work out what you want them to do.

Talking of the brain, sometimes thinking is as good as doing, so you can set up puzzles, set up a frozen kong, all sorts.

Devi, to asklemmy in Are any of the DNA testing companies trustworthy?

The Golden State Killer was caught after police detectives uploaded his DNA to a personal genomics website in 2017 pretending it was theirs.

That's untrue. They uploaded it to Gedmatch which is the one website that allows these things. They didn't 'pretend it was theirs', they legitimately uploaded it from a police account. They do this a lot but you need to opt in now due to the legal challenges. They've solved quite a few crimes and identified many unidentified bodies, including a number of murdered children.

Devi, to RedditMigration in RIP RIF

End of an era. Start of a new one though.

Devi, to asklemmy in What is the most unusual spirit you have in your home bar?

Pisang Ambon, banana liqueur, I tried it in a bar in Spain, really liked it, and bought it. But what do you do with Banana Liqueur in your house? Nothing mixes well with that. Occasionally I sip it, but I've had it a decade and drunk maybe a third.

Devi, to piracy in Is there a place with the complete Doctor Who collection (Classic, Modern, AND spin-offs)?

Everything doesn't exist. There are 97 episodes currently missing. I started watching from the first ep a while back, there was a fair few more missing at the time, but I pretty soon got lost with big chunks missing.

You can use iplayer through a VPN if that's useful to you.

Devi, to asklemmy in How to pull rocks out of pipe in the ground?

Blue tack and a stick? Like stick the rocks to it then pull out?

Devi, to asklemmy in Does France have a terrorism problem?

This is not a twitter I follow, I had to search out the cartoon to explain the issue and this was the first result.

But I do agree with your second point, Charlie Hebdo do this to anger people, to get followers. They are looking to recruit the far right and create backlash against certain groups.

Devi, to asklemmy in What is something you watch/do but not for its intended purpose?

When I was younger and went out all night often me and my flatmates used to wake up and watch that until we felt better. Like 4 hours of it every saturday and sunday morning.

Devi, to asklemmy in What would be some of your top choices of things to see if you were the size of an ant?
Devi, to asklemmy in How do you discourage a dog from biting while playing?

This is old fashioned dominance training, it's been proven not to work well and it damages the dog and your relationship with them.

Devi, to asklemmy in Do InvisibleFence brand controller units work with non-IF collars?

You can't bring yourself to tether him but electrocution is just fine?? That makes no sense.

Huskies are escape artists, they will get out of nearly anything eventually if left to their own devices, including an electric fence, you need to supervise them. A fence with a top that leans in is the best method.

Devi, to comicstrips in Alone

I think the people who are genuinely made unhappy by it just don't really understand it. My friend told me once that she avoids it cause she sees everyone having a better life than her and gets depressed, but people just put good stuff on social media cause you don't want to be a bummer. It's just like going out for drinks, you don't sit down and go "I've really been struggling with stomach pain this week, my doctor is doing scans", no, too much, and that's what a facebook status is, just an opening statement read by potentially hundreds, so it's a light statement, a joke, something to share, that sort of thing.

Devi, to asklemmy in What is the best type of pet to have as a buddy?

If you know how to take care of fish, there's some fish that are more personable. I had a Butterkoferi Tilapia at work who was fun, he would play with a ping pong ball, we had a constant fight on how we decorated his tank, I like gravel to be nicely spread out, he liked it all in one corner.

There's things like flowerhorns who like being stroked, or puffers who recognise their owners.

It's not a dog but it's definitely a buddy.

Devi, to asklemmy in Are any of the DNA testing companies trustworthy?

I can't find a good site that explains everything but this one explains how they use genealogy to collect names to baptise -

https://www.al.com/living/2012/08/mormons_use_genealogy_at_churc.html

They then use a proxy person to run a baptism for them.

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