diff --git a/slides/k8s/horizontal-pod-autoscaler.md b/slides/k8s/horizontal-pod-autoscaler.md
index 1265b02a..38e363f6 100644
--- a/slides/k8s/horizontal-pod-autoscaler.md
+++ b/slides/k8s/horizontal-pod-autoscaler.md
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@
 
   - ... but only because there is no CPU time available!
 
-  - this makes sure that we won't add pods to nodes that are already starved
+  - this makes sure that we won't add pods to nodes that are already resource-starved
 
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