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graemep • yesterday at 2:34 PM • 3 replies • view on HN

its still probably the safest form of transport.

> I can't remember the last time I read good news related to my country.

I hear comments like this from people from many countries.


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nradov • yesterday at 8:12 PM

The relative safety of various transportation modes varies a bit by country. In the USA at least, commercial airliners and buses are marginally safer than trains. (All of those are much safer than passenger cars.)

https://faculty.wcas.northwestern.edu/ipsavage/436.pdf

lopis • yesterday at 3:03 PM

Normal publications rarely publish good news. At most, news are often neutral, but mostly bad. One has to go out of their way to read actual good news.

bamboozled • yesterday at 2:58 PM

My feeling is there is a serious psychological manipulation campaign going on against the west and allies via social media.

Go look at Youtube on a story about UK helping Ukraine and look at all the comments saying, "Putin is not our enemy", "Russia is better than our own government, the UK is a failure".

It's not healthy.

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