• Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    Based on the article, I can’t tell if this is a good thing or a bad thing. What was on the train? Where was it going?

    • Aux@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      It happened not too far away from Moscow, so it is quite unlikely that it was a military cargo train. But who knows?

      • BombOmOm@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        From the picture, it looks like a cargo train and not a passenger train. Anything that hurts Russian industry is positive for the war effort. Particularly when it comes to trains as now that route is closed for a time, in addition to the loss of the train and cargo.

  • deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz
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    1 year ago

    A strange turn of phrase in the headline. Consider… “A derailment due to interference by authorised persons”.

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      1 year ago

      It’s a relevant distinction.

      Interference by unauthorized person’s = outsider threat.

      Other possibilities could be intentional malicious actions by authorized people (insider threat), or a mistake by authorized people (human error, incompetence, negligence, …)

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        1 year ago

        Right on.

        It’s just that I’d have expected those synonyms to have been used in the headline.

        Though thinking about it some more: maybe the vagueness is actually more correct if it’s unknown if the interference was deliberate.

        I suppose it’s a small mercy that the headline wasn’t “unauthorised interference on Russian railway, you’ll never guess how many cars detailed”.