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   Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 01-May-2025 10:53:42 JST Adrianna Tan

   My mom is going on her 10th trip to Taiwan. To her; high speed trains are just normal. She did not love the train I put her on when she visited me, ha

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 01-May-2025 10:54:28 JST Adrianna Tan

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     I don’t think I thought about infrastructure until I came to the U.S. I just expected and assumed there would always be trains.

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     SnoopJ (snoopj@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 01-May-2025 10:55:17 JST SnoopJ

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     @skinnylatte I don't think we've thought about it very much after we tore it all down, either :blobfoxdeadinside:

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 01-May-2025 10:56:22 JST Adrianna Tan

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     To be clear, I love the slow Amtrak trains too. Mostly out of stubbornness. And just coz I like all trains in general. But yeah, it’s a shocking downgrade in network and quality and everything. Even Indian Railways is like, much more.. substantial in near every other way. If I had to count no of trips OR number of hours, I’ve probably spent the most time in my lifetime so far in Indian Railways trains.

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     Itamar Turner-Trauring (itamarst@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 01-May-2025 11:02:50 JST Itamar Turner-Trauring

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     @skinnylatte Recent trip to Spain was interesting cause one train was (semi-)high speed, but another train was "high speed" and in practice paused for 20 minute in a random field, had slow zones, etc. so felt very Amtrak-y. But mission accomplished, the kid has ridden at least one nominally high-speed train.

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 01-May-2025 11:10:21 JST Adrianna Tan

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     • Chunshek :HomestarRunning:

     @chunshek yeah that too!

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     Chunshek :HomestarRunning: (chunshek@prettyaweso.me)'s status on Thursday, 01-May-2025 11:10:22 JST Chunshek :HomestarRunning:

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     @skinnylatte
     I think most of us who grew up in a "city state" don't think about it. Infrastructure is always there and always maintained because a city state simply cannot exist without it.

     It's only after you move out of the city when you realize that even a little missing piece or a little disrepair in infrastructure can be hugely inconvenient.