If you multiply the HUD estimated census of homeless people by the average cost of housing it comes out to $11B annually, if by the average cost to incarcerate, then it’s $30B/year. What’s reasonable for administrative costs? Even if you figure 25%, that’s $38B per annum max to house pretty much anyone who wanted it.

The Department of Housing and Urban Development has a budget of $40B. So just like healthcare, we already paying for it, we’re just not getting it.

I’m not sure the Palestinians will view being ethnically cleansed slightly less vigorously as a brighter future.

You are correct. I like to focus instead on those lacking shelter who’ve been completely alienated from society and cannot be ‘re-rehabilitated’. These are the people who are erased when we speak about how lifestyle or work ethic “redeem” those in extreme poverty.

For those with a skeptical nature, I hunted down these numbers.

The US has spent ~$18B on direct military aid to Israel since October 7, 2023. They’ve also spent ~$5B for operations in the region, mostly in the Red Sea and Yemen.

HUD does not provide numbers to “end homelessness”, they report on the state of homelessness including an estimated census of the homeless.

Some annalists have taken these numbers and multiplied them by the cost to imprison someone, or the average cost of American housing. These estimates come out to $11-30B.

So the numbers check out. The only fault I could find with this meme’s claims is that they are slightly misleading in suggesting $20B could “end homelessness” without the caveat that that’s only for one year.

An article I read recently suggested that storing passkeys with Google, Apple, and M$ didn’t have interoperability. Like you need a Mac/iPhone or PC/Android to make it work. Is this true? Can I store a passkey in a platform agnostic way?

Since it’s Halloween, there is a music video about anal prolapse. I’m not going to link to it because it literally gave me nightmares, but search for it if you dare.

Nothing is more valuable to a military than combat experience. I predict that several if not many of the Western servicepeople that trained Ukrainian soldiers will sit for lectures given by their former students.

Kermit the frog should know that it’s not easy being green

If we’re going for shock value, did you know Big Bird was almost on the Challenger? The picture in my mind is an NTSB workers on a boat fishing yellow feathers out of the Atlantic.

Are you telling me that people show up to dealerships and pay to trade in a car? The repo man will come to your house and pick that pile up for free.

I thought the car lease was the worst deal on the lot.

Your making Tuna Cake a’la Bachelor.

When you said context, I thought you were going to link to the Genesis video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yq7FKO5DlV0

Yea. Not only that, when you hear about “dead people voting”, this is often the explanation.

The average Trump voter in 2016 earned 20K more than the average American. Blaming Trump on the working class because of immigrants is inception level scapegoating.

Y’all ever notice the media talk up black Americans abandoning the Democrats every four years? Black Americans are the most reliable Democratic voters since the 60s. It’s white women who make the difference, mostly because they’re the only substantial disadvantaged group that fucks with Republicans.

Just once I’d like to see a “Republicans are loosing evangelical support” because a poll showed them slipping from 68% to 62%.

UFOs are just masculine coded Astrology.

According to some guy on Reddit, the busses left early because frustrated attendees attacked the drivers.

I don’t like this no true scotsman crap with Christianity. If you think Israelis went from oppressed to oppressor in record time, Ima introduce you to this Constantine dude who flipped the script in an afternoon. Because Jesus did what? Helped him in battle.

From that day forward, militant, violent, and expansionist Christianity was the norm. All that crap about the poor is just the “slave morality” that’s naturally shed once on has power. They didn’t betray Jesus, they upgraded him to a god of war.

Obama run buck wild

That’s an unfortunate choice of words.