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Ukrainian plane was 'unintentionally' shot down, Iran state TV says

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Re: Ukrainian plane was 'unintentionally' shot down, Iran state TV says

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Post by seibelj »

This is why my number 1 fear for the destruction of humanity is not climate change, plague, asteroids, or super volcanoes.

It’s nuclear weapons. One wrong “Oops!” by the military and the entire world self-destructs in mutually assured annihilation. Absolutely depressing.

Re: Ukrainian plane was 'unintentionally' shot down, Iran state TV says

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Post by ComputerGuru »

dilap wrote: post #4

Why the scare quotes? I think we can be pretty confident that Iran did not do this on purpose.

Every time a BBC link is posted this comes up. BBC does not use scare quotes but BBC prefers (requires?) important/central descriptive or modifiers to be directly quoted, even when they’re single words.

Re: Ukrainian plane was 'unintentionally' shot down, Iran state TV says

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Post by grp000 »

seibelj wrote: post #2

This is why my number 1 fear for the destruction of humanity is not climate change, plague, asteroids, or super volcanoes. It’s nuclear weapons. One wrong “Oops!” by the military and the entire world self-destructs in mutually assured annihilation. Absolutely depressing.

I looked up nuclear close calls because I thought false positive almost-launches only happened once or twice in the past. I had no idea the last one was in 1995 or that there were much more close calls than I expected. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_close_calls
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