Current Events > Universal trims trees that were shading picketing strikers

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sauce?

Oh hey, Universal admitted to trimming them.

https://twitter.com/helenshang/status/1681511763291013120

sauce from the alleged sauce, because everyone seems to think that plopping a twitter url is somehow adequate
https://deadline.com/2023/07/universal-pruned-ficus-trees-wga-picket-line-barham-boulevard-1235440896/

Why else would they butcher trees like that without getting a permit from the city and invoke the Tree Law?

Alright, so we have evidence now that Universal was the company who did it without getting a permit from the city. Yep, they're evil.

Evil is big jump to make lmao

Evil is big jump to make lmao

Evil is big jump to make lmao

Does guidance meant to prevent freezing damage really apply in a place that hasn't seen freezing temperatures in more than 40 years?

https://www.currentresults.com/Yearly-Weather/USA/CA/Los-Angeles/extreme-annual-los-angeles-low-temperature.php

Fuck every cog in the Hollywood machine. I hope it all burns down.

Article claims it's done "annually", so the city apparently never cared until the twitter mob mobilized.

Here's something new.
https://twitter.com/adamconover/status/1681835552658583552?s=20

Things keep happening to inconvenience the strike and cause safety hazards and people are still willing to go to bat for major corporations and give them the benefit of the doubt?

The whole studio is effectively shut down, so it's a prime opportunity to do some construction, I guess.

Wink wink nudge nudge

https://twitter.com/Variety/status/1682544813756018689

Is that each tree or all trees? Because either case someone fucked up.

Is that each tree or all trees? Because either case someone fucked up.

i wasn't expecting much, but i thought it'd at least cover to cost to replace any of the trees that die.

Thats not how trees work.

Thats not how trees work.

As the twitter rage goes on, it's incredibly obvious that the trees are rapidly re-foliating. They'll be fine.

the tweet in #17 implies otherwise. it won't be quick, but this kind of thing can do more than just cosmetic damage.

Here's something new.
https://twitter.com/adamconover/status/1681835552658583552?s=20

Things keep happening to inconvenience the strike and cause safety hazards and people are still willing to go to bat for major corporations and give them the benefit of the doubt?

everybody involved sucks

we now have proof universal did it and they did it to hurt the strikers

and the people who denied this fact wont admit they where wrong

No. No it cant.

And you shouldnt take lawncare advice from an unemployed actor.

remember when you were in here insisting it was all perfectly normal and that the city probably did it and thats the proper way to trim those trees

and then remember when all of that was proved false?

seems like that unemployed actor is more credible than you

And yet if I were to drive out of my neighborhood there would be limb cuttings all along the ditch from them cutting them back last week.

They do things for liability reasons as well. This could be the city for all we know.

Sometimes good instincts about who to trust are a useful substitute for available information

I rember telling you all to wait for an actual message to be released by someone nesides a loon with an amateur background in tree law.

you ended up being one of the most incorrect people in the topic and yet youre still calling them a loon? what does that make you then?

We didn't wait and were correct all along.

He waited and he's still wrong.