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6TH ANNUAL
BULL CITY FOODRAISER
FINAL METRICS THREAD
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 Going to fill this thread with the updated final numbers

Prior threads are here –

➡️ Foodraiser history thread: https://t.co/Hz0jxFrswF

➡️ Initial 6th Annual data thread: https://t.co/XkK4oWE9iT

➡️ 6th Annual results photos + video thread: https://t.co/JJrMKDYzlK
You'll recall that we had to buy a sh*tload of grocery bags that were not included in our initial data thread

And then had to buy another sh*tload the next day 🤦‍♂️

Those paper bag runs added $386.94 to the expenditures ($193.47 x 2)
That put the grand total spent at $55,426.68:
➡️ $10 for cashier's check
➡️ $55,029.74 for food
➡️ $386.94 for bags

The Bag Fund donations exceeded what we needed though, so we capped 2020's #'s at actual expenditures and will hold the rest for 2021 (more on that down-thread)
Counting the new donors who contributed to The Bag Fund, and de-duplicating the folks who'd already donated to the main fundraiser, we ended up with 825 total donors
*Excluding the matchers,* here's the revised donations-by-platform breakdown with # of donors in parentheses:

➡️ GoFundMe (365): $16,542.00
➡️ CashApp (46): $1,328.47
➡️ Venmo (170): $8,172.74
➡️ PayPal (221): $9,346.78
➡️ Cash (1): $16.62

PRE-MATCHES SUBTOTAL (803): $35,406.61
Then 2 of the matchers also contributed to The Bag Fund, so here are the revised matcher numbers (with donation platform on left):
And since several of the donors to The Bag Fund donated via PayPal, the merchant fees charged also changed slightly:
The folks who donated to The Bag Fund that were beyond what we actually spent are part of the initial list for 2021

We've got $786.60 carrying over to start the next event:
In terms of how many students we've actually served each year, here's the best data Turquoise and I were able to come up with based on her records and my old tweets+texts:
I know with 100% certainty that 2015 is accurate (because it was so small) and 2020 is accurate (because it just happened), but I don't know for sure how close the others years' numbers are because it wasn't a data point I tracked 🤦‍♂️ https://t.co/bSIuuojkxz
That's all I've got for tonight

I've got 2 more charts yet to finish; one is a straight expenditure-per-student, and the other is a requested "fair market value" per bag based on retail costs of the same products

@GomeralDAL is working on some stuff too IIRC, including tonnage
I also just realized there's a typo in this tweet 🤦‍♂️

The PayPal donor # is 219, not 221 (the +2 discrepancy are Bag Fund donors who'd also donated to the initial drive)

So total non-match donors is 801, then 24 matchers, for the 825 total donors https://t.co/KWkwhuhwjc
This is what I get for tweeting spreadsheet data at 3:30am 😂

Good night y'all
Yeah I did after that 😂 Wanted to get everything done though so I could finally "close out" the fundraiser; sharing the end data is a standard part of our process https://t.co/u9PT9sdWim
Short answer is I don't know yet 😂

Historically I've encouraged folks to use Venmo, CashApp, or the "Friends & Family" option on PayPal to avoid merchant fees – but we were very close to the transaction maximums for each of them this year 😬 https://t.co/nU47WMXYJa

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T. Greg Doucette
T. Greg Doucette
@greg_doucette
Maximum of 2 hours of floor debate per objection

No requirement to use the whole 2 hours


Doubt it. I think you'll get maybe an hour with Arizona so Congresscritters can get their viral C-SPAN clips, then they'll get bored with it and move on


Correct


The Speaker and the Vice President preside over their respective chambers like normal, then decide who talks


I'd need to go through whatever rules the House adopts tomorrow, they're not my forte
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T. Greg Doucette
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6TH (😱😱) ANNUAL
BULL CITY FOODRAISER
FRIDAY, 12/04/2020
ALL-DAY THREAD
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We have a few new people here since our December 2019 event, so let's start things off with some background 😬

Waaaayyy back in 2015 – seriously, how many decades ago was that?? – I teamed up with local schoolteacher Turquoise Parker (@PrkrsProfessors) to help her out with a problem

Turq taught at Eastway Elementary, which was just a couple blocks from my law office

Eastway is also one of the poorest schools in Durham (including, for example, having a few homeless shelters whose kids it serves)

And all the schools shut down for several weeks each December

Y'all know how much kids like to eat

So Turq was worried their parents wouldn't have the means to keep them feed over the winter break, and we decided to run a food drive to help her class
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T. Greg Doucette
T. Greg Doucette
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No


No

https://t.co/9MgwobVvYS


Incitement is speech that is:

1️⃣ intended to cause, and
2️⃣ reasonably likely to cause
3️⃣ imminent
4️⃣ lawless action

It needs all 4 elements

If any of those 4 are missing, it's First-Amendment protected speech

And constitutionally protected speech is never sedition

No


Immediate is imminent
4 minutes from now is imminent
4 hours from now might be imminent but probably is not
4 days from now definitely is not
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T. Greg Doucette
T. Greg Doucette
@greg_doucette
The midterm Congress doesn't matter; it would be the Congress elected in 2024 that takes office on 3 January 2025

But yes, both chambers of Congress acting together have always had the power to install a President. See Hayes-Tilden 1876


Someone has to have the power. Would you rather it be the President? 5 justices of the Supreme Court?

It's functionally impossible to have an election where one party wins the presidency but neither chamber of Congress, and 218 Representatives + 51 Senators agree to toss results


The issue is who is responsible for counting the electoral votes and confirming they're legit. Congress exclusively has that power, and the sheer volume of people that have to be convinced to ignore the results confirms it's the right branch to have it
@Pogman42

If people want to abolish the Electoral College, go for it

But it requires 2/3 of the House + 2/3 of the Senate + 3/4 of state legislatures. It's not an attainable goal, and will not be an attainable goal in our lifetimes

Meanwhile, that energy could be better used elsewhere


Likely unconstitutional, and unenforceable even if it were not
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T. Greg "'Constitution...
@greg_doucette
Strongly desirable, but 0% likelihood IMO

I'd love for the President's pardon powers to be restricted to before the election


Very low

I won't put them at zero because you never know what could theoretically happen, but the last amendment was largely accidental and still 28 years ago

The last intentional amendment was ratified 49 years ago


No

People shouldn't end up with fewer rights by banding together, that's just


Don't know the precise verbiage, but it would require the Wyoming Rule for House seats and expand the Senate to 3 Senators per


Yes: that's the purpose of the House, and the # of electoral votes for President being rooted in the
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Excuse me, BBC Good Food?


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There should be trials at The Hague for these.


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This lunch is 500 yen ($4.80) at Sukiya, a Japanese fast food restaurant which belongs to a category with about three big competitors.

I love the aesthetics of this category and they’re under remarked upon.


I think people underestimate QSRs in terms of social utility, but Sukiya et al describe themselves as mission-oriented enterprises. I believe this is largely sincere, and goes back to the 60s and 70s, when the clientele was primarily manual laborers who had migrated to work.

Japan was not a rich nation at the time, and day laborers in particular were both unlikely to be able to cook for themselves and unlikely to have much of a food budget, and so the chains sprung up offering an honest-to-goodness cooked meal delivered in under a minute for cheap.

This heritage continued over the years, even after Japan became a much more wealthy nation, and these chains function as social support and dignity for folks in diminished circumstances.

They also are a wee bit of a cartel, and I appreciate the aesthetics of the cartel:

Back when I was first in Japan, in the mid 2000s, there was an increase in the price of beef.

And the heads of the three chains got together, and decided that the price of the basic beef bowl needed to increase, but given the economic circumstances how could they hold the line.
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With all our go-to pizza joints closed, homemade pizza was the only solution to our cravings.


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You’re gonna need gnocchi. I happened to have some that I rolled a while back, hanging out in the freezer. It’s cold mashed potatoes, flour, egg. Simple. But also, store bought is FINE!


Boil them JUST until they float. That’s, like, long enough to get out the rest of what you’ll need.

When the little potato dumplins float, scoop then out gently with a wire strainer like this one, and place them in a colander you’ve sprayed with cooking spray. They are sticky.


Pour out the gnocchi water except dor about the last cup and a half, the really cloudy bit. Set it aside. I use a yeti tumbler so it stays hot. You’ll need it later.

Don’t mistake ‘tater water for a hot beverage, though.

Get your instant pot back on the low-low setting, and put in a goodly-but-not-scary amount of butter. In this case, a teaspoon. Then another teaspoon of duck fat. (Or just a bigger scoop of butter if you don’t have duck fat).

The duck fat I used is from Fatworks:


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You add flour, water, salt, and most importantly, yeast. When baking bread, you have to let the dough rise.

No reasonable intervention will significantly increase the speed the dough rises for really good bread, possibly the best bread in the world.

No matter how much you yell at the bread, the dough will only rise to the sufficient amount after a given amount of time.

If you go to the store for the mass distributed stuff, the copy pasted churned brand, whatever it is, will never compare to homemade bread.

If you get the store bought stuff, it’s optimized for shelf life, which always detracts from the quality of the immediacy of the homemade stuff.

If you go to a bakery, it’s better, but never as good as the manual kneading you can do for yourself for what you want.

Bread making is simple, and world-class bread making is even simpler than what you may think. Mostly because humans converge on the flavors, texture, and content of their perfect bread.

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Flavorless bread is bland. I’m a huge fan of personal choices I get with the categorization one has under the term “garlic bread.”

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