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This happened last year, but it's a reminder that "stray bullets" (i.e. moving vehicles) are still a danger to everyone.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Now you say:

Read my comments, I’m not arguing the incident, I’m arguing against shitty clickbait.

Earlier you said (emphasis yours):

No info here other than some random-ass tweet claiming there had been an accident.

You can do better than this.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yes, exactly, provide proof or it's just a claim. That's it. We're circlejerking over a shitty clickbait article based off a tweet that provides no additional information. We can do better than this.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

i... i'm not circlejerking over anything. the same thing happened in my city to the ghost bike of a good good man. this shit is very sad and extremely sucks.

look i'm sorry that Canadian Cycling Magazine doesn't meet your journalistic standards or whatever, but "this is clickbait" is a very weird reaction to this article. sometimes the tweet is all the information there is and publishing it elsewhere helps inform people who are not on twitter--of whom i am one, and was one back in december, 2022 when the op's article was published.

at this point, i think you're actually mad about something else. i don't know what that is, but a normal reaction to someone taking the time to answer you questions about veracity is, "oh, thanks" and not... whatever this is.

(ps: it's interesting to me that you called BLU "a guy." it feels kind of like calling the ACLU "a guy.")