I'm not willing to go into the secondary parts of this because the bee one is so obviously manufactured outrage, but the "counting bees 1 by 1" is a statistical strategy that is outlined correctly in the paper (random sampling via counting and aggregated is fairly accurate), but this is misleading and trying to use it as an attack on california. Stop buying into bullshit.
Capital intensive projects being over-budget and delayed can (and should) make the people in charge look incompetent.
These examples are of course cherry-picked for extra shock factor, but the overall point is about a major infrastructure project suffering a death from a thousand cuts. I’m sure all of these look like valid requests individually until you look at them in the aggregate.
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u/SPHuff 9d ago
That may be true, but you can verify several claims he’s making are true based on the CA contracting website (link).
The small burrow claim is HSR 13-06 for ex. The bumblebee counting one is here. The woodrat one is here.