Because it supports Unicode as variable/class/function names and Unicode includes all the characters humans have ever used, even dead languages (I assume for historians to digitize ancient texts?)

And they're walking in car infrastructure. Some of the most unpleasant, not made for humans places, not to mention dangerous. Compared to walking in what a city should feel like.

Actually you're right. Didn't see that at first.

Do you see the people walking in the top left picture?

That's what access to the public looks like.

More expensive than the building itself below a certain size

Also isn't English the only European language not to call Pineapples some variation of "ananas"?

We call them "dirt beans" in Mandarin which is an improvement I guess?

Source: https://www.eyebuydirect.com/blog/what-is-the-rarest-eye-color

Counterpoint: HSR is far more energy efficient than air travel, which would otherwise be the preferred option because regular trains are just not fast enough for country as big as China. Even when the electricity is generated from coal, the simple physics of not needing to literally defy gravity significantly reduces the carbon footprint of the trip.

To paraphrase Alan Fisher, electric cars fail to solve the biggest problem with cars: The fact that they're still cars.

Can't wait to have Google's telemetry injected into my Linux apps

Hot take: Japan invented the bullet train, but China perfected it.