Good afternoon here's your daily reminder to STOP CALLING RAILWAYS WITH SUB-200KMH TOP SPEEDS "HIGH SPEED RAIL"https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-05-29/ethiopia-already-is-the-china-of-africa …
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By applying the new word too broadly, prematurely, and inaccurately (usually to trains not much different than the ones we've BEEN stuck with for decades now), we're only guaranteeing that a few decades down the line, this new word will be as worthless as the old one
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Here in DPRK (Kalifornia), the media/pundits have to call it HSR, even tho it'll never come close otherwise the voters would realize they've been hoodwinked
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in their defense, the CAHSR project is at least a plan for actual HSR (300kmh operating speeds, etc), unlike, say, the notorious Acela
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Hm, plan. I'm not sure I'd go with that term, I'd call it a pipe dream. Or a hallucination.
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those are not mutually exclusive!
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