Every couple of months someone on bicycle twitter gets pancaked in an intersection and they all get sanctimonious about how Society MURDERED him because we didn't design all of our streets around his very dangerous hobby.

— Steven Godofsky (@sgodofsk) July 1, 2025

Heh. Exactly. Biking is a dangerous hobby because in the US we made different choices about how to organize our transpo infrastructure as compared to some rinky-dink European town.

Make adult choices about it, STFU, or get pancaked. Anyway, most of the US is unpleasant or untenable to ride a bike in 60% of the year. Right now, it’s 92 outside where I live and will get up to 98 later in the day. I’m resilient to heat and no way I’d ride in that.