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lemmy.world

Trains are cool, but industrial sabotage against authoritarian regimes is cooler

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lemmy.dbzer0.com

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?

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lemmy.world

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

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lemmy.world

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.

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lemmy.nz

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

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feddit.de

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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lemmy.nz

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".

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Unauthorized persons discover this one weird trick. Fat controllers hate them!

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