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I agree. It's actually quite clever, because technically it's correct - it does enable a rail link between Scandanavia/Italy. But your average user is going to

by smcl 5y ago

I agree. It's actually quite clever, because technically it's correct - it does enable a rail link between Scandanavia/Italy. But your average user is going to see the headline, think "WHAT? Surely that's not right, let's just click and see what they mean..."

tgv 5y ago
So, a) it's click-bait, and b) it's not even true, because in that technical sense the two are already connected. Not clever.
- smcl 5y ago
  I dunno, I tend to use "clickbait" to refer to things that are either more egregiously misleading or which just doesn't pay off at all. This is at least an interesting article about a cool engineering project.
  - Fatnino 5y ago
    Why not title it as just that, an interesting engineering project instead of bringing in Scandinavia in the title for the sole reason that it pulls more unsuspecting clicks.
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    - smcl 5y ago
      Good question, maybe ask whoever wrote the article
cheschire 5y ago
I definitely fell prey to this. I thought $11bn was far too cheap to build a tunnel that long.
oefrha 5y ago
I’m sure at some point a tunnel was built somewhere to technically connect Portugal and Vietnam.[1] Flagged. [1] https://basementgeographer.com/the-longest-train-ride-in-the-world/ https://basementgeographer.com/the-longest-train-ride-in-the...
- smcl 5y ago
  If there was a specific freight corridor between Portugal and Vietnam that was enabled by the construction of a cross-border tunnel which cuts through 55km of mountain, then I think we would see a similar fanfare for that. It's a bit harsh to flag me though, I didn't do anything wrong
  - oefrha 5y ago
    I flagged the article for clickbait…