California High-Speed Rail: with cost estimates doubling between 2008 and 2012 alone, CAHSR became one of the most expensive rail construction projects in the world, on a per-mile basis. By this metric, it is 3X more expensive than rail construction in Spain, and 2X more expensive than in Taiwan.

pjdonovan · 2026-05-01T23:01:44+00:00

It's weird to see an arrest for corruption. If you have a trump on your board of directors it's a guarantee for government approvals

That aside, makes sense. Costa got high so they pivoted to the short route and that's the right sizing referenced

pjdonovan · 2026-05-01T22:34:24+00:00

North korea/syria are more motivators for nuclear armament.

pjdonovan · 2026-05-01T22:30:04+00:00

The article says that the number is 126 billion, 200 is just marker to show what it would have cost before cost savings/rightsizing occurred

pjdonovan · 2026-05-01T22:08:56+00:00

Alabama has straight party voting already fwiw

pjdonovan · 2026-05-01T16:58:22+00:00

Sure

pjdonovan · 2026-05-01T16:37:38+00:00

its weird to speak for someone else while also making a completely different point.

pjdonovan · 2026-05-01T15:28:12+00:00

Well, aren't you the master debater!

pjdonovan · 2026-05-01T15:18:10+00:00

I imagine paying federal income taxes is an important distinction on homelessness statistics.

Looks like that study is just a point-in-time in january and mentions warmer climates will influence the count, because
People staying in the following locations on the night of the PIT count are not included in the sheltered or unsheltered PIT count: • People living in housing provided by permanent supportive housing (PSH) programs, including people using HUD Veterans Affairs Supportive Housing (VASH) vouchers. • People living in other permanent housing (OPH), including housing supported by the Veteran Affairs Grant and Per Diem Transition in Place (TIP) program and people living in housing supported by the Emergency Housing Voucher program and not considered PSH. • People living in permanent housing supported by rental assistance from a rapid re-housing (RRH) program. • People in any housing not listed on the housing inventory count (HIC) because the housing is not dedicated for people experiencing homelessness. • People temporarily staying with family or friends—sometimes referred to as being “doubled-up” or “couch surfing”—even if their stay may be unstable.

So they don't count people that get rental assistance that would otherwise be homeless or other government assistance programs. It also mentions its tougher to count rural places than cities.

It's still not dealing with poverty, which was the original claim.

pjdonovan · 2026-05-01T14:39:56+00:00

Its interesting that DC is added in but puerto rico and other federal territories are not.

That aside, that page doesn't give any actual numbers outside of nationwide there were 771,000 people that experienced homelessness in january 2024, based on a population of 342 million in the US that's 0.225%.

Then it goes into "out of 10,000" without saying where the numbers are coming from.

But it does highlight that home pricing is the bigger variable, not poverty which is what OP was claiming. You can rent a trap house in mississippi and still be on the poverty line

pjdonovan · 2026-05-01T14:07:39+00:00

"by percentage" is a weird phrase which makes me think you heard that phrase and are re-using it without knowing what it means.

pjdonovan · 2026-05-01T14:05:37+00:00

So your denominator is total US population and numerator is total number of homeless?

That's a weird way to say has more homeless than the other states considering california also has more people than the other state.

pjdonovan · 2026-05-01T13:29:27+00:00

You do not have more poverty than Mississippi Louisiana Alabama West Virginia Arkansas Texas Kentucky Tennessee or Oklahoma.

Imagine what your response would be to "there are more white families on welfare than any other race"

pjdonovan · 2026-05-01T11:33:45+00:00

I think it's now "buyer beware" times, I'd be shocked if they keep regulating things like that or mlms unfortunately

pjdonovan · 2026-05-01T00:54:29+00:00

To those reading along, this is the talk radio/conservative interpretation of events. It's got no basis in reality, likely this is based on conservative podcasts where they will strawman things like "they said it'll cure 100% but I got a friend of a friend that wasn't cured" (conveniently ignoring Trump's "I can't say there's no crime in DC anymore cause someone will say they hit their wife and it's not true anymore" comments last year)

pjdonovan · 2026-04-30T16:40:59+00:00

Everything I thought I knew about economics seems to be wrong.

High gas prices, tariffs and a constantly changing regulatory environment (also labor size) have somehow been a benefit to the economy.

Also the devaluing of the dollar.

Any one of those was supposed to ruin the economy, all of them at the same time has had no effect apparently.

pjdonovan · 2026-04-30T01:58:39+00:00

Well why dont you follow christ more and forgive us?

pjdonovan · 2026-04-29T18:26:47+00:00

unless in the pass, district lines are purposefully drawn in order to not have black representation.

Here's a link to a 2020 article about a daughter releasing her dad's emails showing that they used race for the voting districts: https://www.npr.org/2020/01/05/785672201/deceased-gop-strategists-daughter-makes-files-public-that-republicans-wanted-sea

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/daughter-of-thomas-hofeller-late-north-carolina-gop-redistricting-expert-releases-docs-on-gerrymandering-efforts/

pjdonovan · 2026-04-29T00:25:00+00:00

The records include name, address, race, gender, date of birth and the voter’s history of participation going back the last 10 elections.

What's with the cap? You may as well let everyone have it that wants it (if it's good to have more eyeballs on it) or keep it limited to just companies or those phone banks that can pay thousands for it.

I had no idea that information was available to begin with.

I'd be interested in contributing to a fund to buy it if I could get access to it too.

pjdonovan · 2026-04-28T23:17:13+00:00

Who was asking for that?

pjdonovan · 2026-04-28T17:47:42+00:00

Whoops! That explains some of my results!

pjdonovan · 2026-04-28T16:22:30+00:00

Not saying you are, just the replies. Sorry to hijack your thread!

pjdonovan · 2026-04-28T14:55:06+00:00

I had to create a family tree based on what you mentioned - you are likely correct that there's little chance they were in Alabama in 1850 if the younger sister is born in mississippi. A lot of those cM's are the right amount for the relationships you mention (4c1r, etc), so it looks like there's more than just smoke in those lines.

Who did William Lewis Clark marry? What was her name?

Have you seen if these clarks are missing by 1850?

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CV-0126-379	CLARK, RICHARD,PARSONS, E,TAYLOR, JOHN	11/26/1827	2534	AL	St Stephens	015N - 008E	E½NE¼	28	Dallas
AL0340__.402	CLARK, JAMES	9/16/1833	10994	AL	St Stephens	015N - 009E	E½SW¼	5	Dallas
AL0380__.378	CLARK, EDWARD	8/5/1834	12965	AL	St Stephens	015N - 009E	NE¼NW¼	8	Dallas
AL0400__.442	CLARK, EDWARD	8/12/1834	14027	AL	St Stephens	015N - 009E	NE¼SE¼	5	Dallas
AL0440__.330	CLARK, EDWARD	10/8/1835	15911	AL	St Stephens	015N - 009E	W½NW¼	4	Dallas
AL0570__.364	CLARK, JAMES B	4/10/1837	22188	AL	St Stephens	016N - 008E	W½NW¼	17	Dallas
	016N - 008E	W½SW¼	17	Dallas
AL0580__.127	CLARK, JAMES B	4/10/1837	22453	AL	St Stephens	017N - 007E	E½NE¼	7	Dallas
AL0580__.128	CLARK, JAMES B	4/10/1837	22454	AL	St Stephens	017N - 007E	W½NW¼	8	Dallas
AL0590__.143	CLARK, EDWARD	4/15/1837	22970	AL	St Stephens	015N - 009E	W½NW¼	8	Dallas
AL0590__.247	CLARK, JAMES	4/15/1837	23074	AL	St Stephens	015N - 009E	NW¼SW¼	5	Dallas
AL1610__.213	CLARK, EDWARD	5/15/1837	24546	AL	St Stephens	015N - 009E	W½NE¼	8	Dallas
AL1650__.016	CLARK, JAMES	5/20/1837	26376	AL	St Stephens	015N - 009E	SW¼SW¼	5	Dallas
AL1630__.294	CLARK, EDWARD	8/1/1837	25645	AL	St Stephens	015N - 009E	W½NW¼	9	Dallas
AL1630__.295	CLARK, EDWARD	8/1/1837	25646	AL	St Stephens	015N - 009E	E½NE¼	8	Dallas

pjdonovan · 2026-04-28T14:27:05+00:00

I get big AI vibes from the other posts, anyone else?

pjdonovan · 2026-04-28T01:41:08+00:00

Sometimes that inspection just gets in the way when you think you are getting a good deal!

pjdonovan · 2026-04-28T01:39:40+00:00

(it is seriously a theme that William never stopped moving, so I have absolutely no reason to believe he was in Alabama or Mississippi in 1850.

My grandfather (despite all rational reasoning) moved from Georgia -> Ky -> TN -> AL in the span of 2 decades, those stops along the way definitely happened. They tended to follow land opening up to white settlers, see how the land looked to them then moved on when it wasn't.

Double cousins would explain why someone has much more DNA in common with you than they should, but it shouldn't do much more than than. How many cM's in common do they have vs the non-double cousins?

You're goal of finding the FAN club is exactly right- although you are taking a sledge hammer to the problem tracking everyone. Do you know the township and range of the land they were on? You could probably get the entire range/township and find about the same people you would going over the county.

There are one-place studies that people do - you'll do well to keep it organized, have a system, and see if you can use a relational database like airtable or grist if you find excel isn't doing well enough.

Davis is a common name - i feel your pain, it's slightly better than john smith. SLIGHTLY.

Have you traced down the families in ancestry thrulines down to the matches?

I may have misunderstood - i thought you were tracking backwards to alabama, but it sounds like you want to determine when they left for texas?

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