This was a Critical Mass event, which is why the bicyclists are taking up all of the street as a way to reclaim the streets and protest the lack of safety for riders under usual conditions. It’s not legal, but protests are never useful if they’re fully legal now, are they.

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    what the hell they do if there was emergency that ambulance needed access

    So the neat thing about ambulances, and other emergency vehicles, is they have flashing lights AND sierns to let people know they are there.

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      And protesters always swiftly move to let emergency vehicles through, because they know not to block actually useful vehicles like ambulances and fire engines

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        I agree, crowds of protesters are far more observant than drivers. I’ve seen ambulances stuck in new York traffic before

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          This guy has a picture of it happening once, in another country, with people stationary on foot, it has to be true. Unless there is a picture floating around out there of people not moving… That would blow this whole thing up.

          God, anecdotal evidence is such brain rot.

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            Nobody thinks this proves anything. If you think that is what is happening, tend to your own brain rot.

            This is evidence supporting an argument, not evidence proving an argument. Feel free to provide contrary evidence.

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              Oh look, more brain rot.

              I can find images of people not moving. That would go against the argument. My point is, cherry picking one or two instances of something proves only that it can happen. Not that it does.

              I mean I Googled “protesters blocking emergency vehicles” and got tons of results. So what we a exactly does that picture prove? It happened once? Cool.

              Very first result, incase you need it. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/just-stop-oil-waterloo-bridge-ambulance-b2443700.html

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                The vehicle, which had its blue lights on, was trapped on Waterloo Bridge on Wednesday morning due to congestion caused by Just Stop Oil, Met Police said. Pictures and footage from the scene shared on social media show queues of traffic in both directions on the busy bridge.

                The climate campaigners have hit back at the force’s handling of the incident and claimed it was the Met police blocking the ambulance so they could “blame it on a protest march going in the other direction”.

                The protesters weren’t the one blocking the ambulance. The cars were, and the cops didn’t do anything to alleviate that so the ambulance could get through the cars and to the protesters who would’ve let it through anyway.

                You should read the entire article when you try to do a gotcha.

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                was that so hard?

                cherry picking one or two instances of something proves only that it can happen. Not that it does.

                close; it proves it DID happen, which necesarily implies it DOES happen. You are right to object that a single genuine datapoint (or as you like to spin it, “anecdote”) cannot say anything about frequency, but I really have to steelman what you are saying to get there.

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                  was that so hard?

                  No, it’s not hard to spoon feed someone information but I didn’t think I had to. Fuck, everyone is just the give it to me now, I don’t want to have to look into anything. People just take photos at face value and make judgment calls without even the most topical vetting. God this is depressing.

                  close; it proves it DID happen, which necesarily implies it DOES happen. You are right to object that a single genuine datapoint (or as you like to spin it, “anecdote”) cannot say anything about frequency, but I really have to steelman what you are saying to get there.

                  Close, it proves it did happen, which only proves it did happen once, that’s it. It does not, in any way at all, ever, by any form of logic mean it still DOES happen. You can infer that, but that is not what it proves, at all.

                  A single data point by itself can easily be classified as an anomaly, meaning not normal. Without context you can’t determine if it’s the rule or the exception, only that it happened once. It could be a 1 trillion to 1 chance and it just happened to be that picture. We have no idea, it means nothing. Trying to act like it does is nothing short of using an unreliable data point (anecdote) to push a narrative.