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I’m trying to decide what music to listen to as I drive home from work after finding out The Feds (CPB apparently) just shot two people a couple blocks from my house

While I’m about to pass 140th in Gresham where those two people were picked up by an ambulance from their gun shot wounds
America!
January 13, 2026 at 4:19 AM
It’s just difficult to reconcile what I see with discussion regarding milquetoast political tactics. Like we are on the west wing. Who gives a shit?

I’m glad my Portland reps seem up to speed and cool. They express an urgency and seriousness that I feel and it helps
January 13, 2026 at 3:47 AM
In the parallel to the first time around we are only now in 2018.

And it’s already this bad and intense. This blatant and cruel and organized.

What the proud boy’s did in Portland last time they’ve now been deputized and *are* the cops now, with guns and the right to kill
January 13, 2026 at 3:44 AM
And I was like “with the cops knowledge they had sniper nests above the protest where I saw someone get the skin peeled of their head by a blow from one of the right wing thuds.

And this was before 2020.

Remember? Trump was president for 3 horrific years before 2020,
January 13, 2026 at 3:42 AM
And it makes me feel really out of sorts. Like I’m super not aligned with a lot of the general discourse.

I keep thinking back to the years of right wing violence we had in Portland and how my lefty friends in other places were like “just ignore them”
January 13, 2026 at 3:40 AM
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January 12, 2026 at 9:28 PM
If the trunk is less that a couple inches I’d top it somewhere depending on what lower branches to keep

That’ll force lower branches with more fruit you can reach

People do it , maybe one brave cut this winter and see how it responds this coming year ,
January 13, 2026 at 12:07 AM
If they didn’t do we get to stay in Ireland?

That’s a risk we are willing to take 😂
January 12, 2026 at 11:36 PM
Woah

For home purposes I train everything to an open vase shape

If yours is already that tall you might be in a pickle

How old? Very strong

I have a friend who cut up to 2 inches diameter with no major ill affects.

And people top work 4” or more all the time, often OK, sometimes not
January 12, 2026 at 11:31 PM
Haha seriously
January 12, 2026 at 11:05 PM
I am worried that I am at odds with the typical Southern Appalachian Scottish diaspora Presbyterian.

Obviously I settled that debate personally a long time ago (ohh ahh Up the ‘RA), but there must be people where this is a big area of Presbyterian Apologetics.
January 12, 2026 at 11:00 PM
Yes

Especially so since pear 🍐 have so strong of a tendency toward upward growth

I’d even suggest limb spreaders
January 12, 2026 at 10:35 PM
A little on the nose, saying the quiet part out loud, etc and so on
January 12, 2026 at 9:44 PM
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I looked this morning and... okay, yeah, CNN, greed sure is driving the US market, thanks for the update.
January 12, 2026 at 9:29 PM
I’m gonna be honest listening to the dune books while all this goes on makes me worried some of these people are cooked on Dune Brain
January 12, 2026 at 8:07 PM