However obscure this page might be, I was there just a few days ago. Clicked on it from this article about a tree that was cut down, and it was apparently a big thing in the UK. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sycamore_Gap_tree

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domh 8 hours ago | parent | next [-]

This was huge news in the UK when it happened. Massive public uproar for an illegal felling. The perpetrators were both jailed: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c6295zv9101o

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jcul 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I can understand the outrage. Was there any motivation given for why they cut it down? Just vandalism?

	▲	nephihaha 4 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I've been following the story for a while and it has never been adequately explained by mainstream media. Consider this... They drove for over an hour in the middle of the night in foul weather to a remote location to cut down a particular tree. That suggests some preplanning.
	▲	domh 7 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Yeah I think so. Attention seeking, maybe something to do with a planning application to live somewhere being rejected too: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn811px4m7mo Honestly it's my first time looking at the story for a while! I just knew they got jail time for it.

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comrade1234 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

"What are you in for?"

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vanderZwan 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I remember that incident! As a side-effect I discovered that beautiful panorama picture[0], which was perfect for my two-monitors-plus-laptop-screen set-up aside from the low resolution, so I used my stippling notebook[1] to hide that a little bit[2]. I could probably tweak the stippling settings a bit to have prettier output, but it's been my wallpaper for over two years now.

[0] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/56/Sycamore...

[1] https://observablehq.com/@jobleonard/a-fast-colored-stipple-...

[2] https://blindedcyclops.neocities.org/sycamore_gap_tree_pano/... https://blindedcyclops.neocities.org/sycamore_gap_tree_pano/... https://blindedcyclops.neocities.org/sycamore_gap_tree_pano/...