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Yes? No welding required, just a few thumbscrews, if you use one of these: https://westernsafety.com/nolan-portable-derail-pd-2/ https://westernsafety.com/nola

Yes? No welding required, just a few thumbscrews, if you use one of these: https://westernsafety.com/nolan-portable-derail-pd-2/ https://westernsafety.com/nolan-portable-derail-pd-2/ On sale now! Or pick this one for bigger and faster trains: https://www.aldonco.com/store/c/127-SaberTooth-Portable-Derails.aspx https://www.aldonco.com/store/c/127-SaberTooth-Portable-Dera... There are lots of tools, weapons, chemicals, and other things that a person could do that would be bad. It doesn't take much creativity, just a callous disregard for other people. But in contrast to the fearmongering and crime you'll see in the media, consider it a bit of good news that in spite of how incredibly easy it is to intentionally cause harm to someone else, billions and billions of people choose not to do that every single hour of every single day.

xani_ 4y ago
I mean, you now have told a lot of people that you can just get a tool to derail a train easily, that I'd guess most (I didn't) don't even know it exists.
- samatman 4y ago
  I think that's GP's point: derailing a train is just a search engine away, and that's only scary when we think about it, which we almost never do. Which in turn is because our emotions around people setting out to do that, are calibrated around the fact that it basically doesn't happen outside of war conditions.
  - xani_ 4y ago
    I googled how to do it just for lulz and got youtube video with someone showing one... and some russian/ukrainian looking name in comments asking about it and asking where to get one, from like a month ago https://www.kyivpost.com/russias-war/anti-putin-russian-rebels-derail-huge-coal-train-in-east-siberia.html https://www.kyivpost.com/russias-war/anti-putin-russian-rebe... I wonder whether it's related. Probably not but train derailments are weirdly relevant to current world state... But back to the topic... I don't think anything should be censored and am of opinion freedom of speech just need to be taken wholecloth, good with the bad, but you gotta wonder how much easier it is now.

xani_ 4y ago

I mean, you now have told a lot of people that you can just get a tool to derail a train easily, that I'd guess most (I didn't) don't even know it exists.

samatman 4y ago
I think that's GP's point: derailing a train is just a search engine away, and that's only scary when we think about it, which we almost never do. Which in turn is because our emotions around people setting out to do that, are calibrated around the fact that it basically doesn't happen outside of war conditions.
- xani_ 4y ago
  I googled how to do it just for lulz and got youtube video with someone showing one... and some russian/ukrainian looking name in comments asking about it and asking where to get one, from like a month ago https://www.kyivpost.com/russias-war/anti-putin-russian-rebels-derail-huge-coal-train-in-east-siberia.html https://www.kyivpost.com/russias-war/anti-putin-russian-rebe... I wonder whether it's related. Probably not but train derailments are weirdly relevant to current world state... But back to the topic... I don't think anything should be censored and am of opinion freedom of speech just need to be taken wholecloth, good with the bad, but you gotta wonder how much easier it is now.