• JackbyDev@programming.dev
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    7 hours ago

    I saw this video on TikTok. The amount of people who think it’s okay to do this is insane. Even if you genuinely believe the cyclists don’t have the right to ride like they were, that doesn’t suddenly make it acceptable to drive like this. “Two wrongs don’t make a right” is literally something we reach children lol, but I guess people still haven’t learned that.

    I don’t know what it is about being in a driver’s seat that makes people so aggressive.

  • Sprocketfree@sh.itjust.works
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    24 hours ago

    What a garbage rag. They seriously are putting this on bikers for not “moving to the right.” I’m fucking livid with this crap and that editor should be fired. Garbage people running that news organization.

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      1 day ago

      Did you watch the video? Or see the screenshot in the article? The street is filled with bicycles. They weren’t blocking the street, they were using it.

      • Sauerkraut@discuss.tchncs.de
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        10 hours ago

        God forbid that anyone outside a car use and enjoy a publically owned roads. Cities should be exclusively for cars, not people, just like Jesus intended. /s

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        1 day ago

        @ltxrtquq @takeda (I can’t watch the video, so I’m going off just the image)

        Imagine how pissed that driver would be if they were actually following what the driver probably thinks they should be doing: riding single file next to the kerb.

        The long queue of bikes would prevent the driver turning onto the road for so long.

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          10 hours ago

          Or imagine if you replace every bike with a car and then have bumper to bumper traffic a mile long. When cars block roads no one gives it two thoughts. It is so frustrating how ignorant carbrains are

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          11 hours ago

          Yeah, that’s the funny thing about carbrains crying that “bikers should follow the law!!!” They would be crying even harder if bikers actually drove like cars.

          I mean… I bike on the sidewalk all the time because (1) it’s much safer for my life, (2) nobody is ever on the sidewalk (b/c car dependency), and (3) it’s more convenient for drivers. Do these dummies really want me driving in the street taking up the whole lane? Stopping before them at stop signs? Lol no they don’t want that.

          • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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            11 hours ago

            Following the law is dangerous for cyclists, for sure. If I come to a complete stop at a stop sign I won’t be able to get up to speed instantly, and the motorist might decide to swerve around me and put us both in danger. Or they might road rage and kill me.