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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

by rplnt 9mo ago

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 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sycamore_Gap_tree

domh 9mo ago
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 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c6295zv9101o
- comrade1234 9mo ago
  "What are you in for?"
- jcul 9mo ago
  I can understand the outrage. Was there any motivation given for why they cut it down? Just vandalism?
  - domh 9mo ago
    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 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.
  - nephihaha 9mo ago
    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.
vanderZwan 9mo ago
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_Gap_Tree.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/56/Sycamore... [1] https://observablehq.com/@jobleonard/a-fast-colored-stipple-generator https://observablehq.com/@jobleonard/a-fast-colored-stipple-... [2] https://blindedcyclops.neocities.org/sycamore_gap_tree_pano/sycamore_gap_tree-1.jpg https://blindedcyclops.neocities.org/sycamore_gap_tree_pano/... https://blindedcyclops.neocities.org/sycamore_gap_tree_pano/sycamore_gap_tree-2.jpg https://blindedcyclops.neocities.org/sycamore_gap_tree_pano/... https://blindedcyclops.neocities.org/sycamore_gap_tree_pano/sycamore_gap_tree-3.jpg https://blindedcyclops.neocities.org/sycamore_gap_tree_pano/...

by rplnt 9mo ago

domh 9mo ago

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 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c6295zv9101o

comrade1234 9mo ago
"What are you in for?"
jcul 9mo ago
I can understand the outrage. Was there any motivation given for why they cut it down? Just vandalism?
- domh 9mo ago
  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 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.
- nephihaha 9mo ago
  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.

vanderZwan 9mo ago

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_Gap_Tree.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/56/Sycamore... [1] https://observablehq.com/@jobleonard/a-fast-colored-stipple-generator https://observablehq.com/@jobleonard/a-fast-colored-stipple-... [2] https://blindedcyclops.neocities.org/sycamore_gap_tree_pano/sycamore_gap_tree-1.jpg https://blindedcyclops.neocities.org/sycamore_gap_tree_pano/... https://blindedcyclops.neocities.org/sycamore_gap_tree_pano/sycamore_gap_tree-2.jpg https://blindedcyclops.neocities.org/sycamore_gap_tree_pano/... https://blindedcyclops.neocities.org/sycamore_gap_tree_pano/sycamore_gap_tree-3.jpg https://blindedcyclops.neocities.org/sycamore_gap_tree_pano/...