Month: May 2021

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How to Speed Up Flood Mitigation Funding: Part II

Today marks the 1349th day since Hurricane Harvey. That’s also how long it took the United States to win World War II. To date, we’ve studied problems, made bold plans and, in a few cases, actually started constructing flood mitigation projects. But none of the $2.1 billion allocated for Texas flood mitigation by the US […]

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Happy Mother’s Day! As promised, and with your help, I have donated my Doge earnings to two local area women’s shelters.

Happy Mother's Day! As promised, and with your help, I have donated my Doge earnings to two local area women's shelters.

For those who may not have seen it, the other day I made a pledge to donate my Doge earnings to a local women’s shelter.

A little background information to clear up a few questions.

For those of you who are wondering why I went through Doge specifically rather than writing a check, it’s because I hadn’t originally intended to give the money away. I started a few weeks ago with a tiny amount in the hopes of trying to earn enough to put towards a PS5. The money was already in the market when I made my promise.

Because I have little to no life, I sat skimming profits for hours and hours, days and days, and after starting out with a much smaller basis, I was able to rack up $434.53. I held onto the profits and never put them back into the market. I was holding off on making the donation until last night, on the off chance I would be able to add some more to it; however, just as I assumed the prices went down a bit last night.

$434.53. With your help, I have found two shelters to give this money to. The communities of /r/Astros and /r/Houston had two suggestions that earned a large amount of support. These were Daya Houston and the Houston Area Women’s Center. If it weren’t for the community, I would not have learned about Daya – so the post was enormously successful in that regard, considering it was, by far, the most suggested one.

The donation sections are a bit different between the two. HAWC let me submit a custom amount for a donation while Daya had predetermined amounts. I figured the easiest thing was to simply round up to $450.

Therefore, with your help at /r/Houston and /r/Astros, we were able to make two donations today.

$250 to Daya Houston

$200 to Houston Area Women’s Center

I wish you and your loved ones a very special Mother’s Day.

Thank you all for your help. I know it’s not much and it’s not the wild 200000% gains y’all expected but it’s more than I had to give before.

Alexa play A Song for Mama by Boyz II Men

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Does anyone need some free dog food?

Could anyone who is under financial stress use some extra dog food? I lost my dog to cancer this week, and I have a bit of food left. It’s not much, but maybe it can go to good use.

There are 9 cans of wet food, 2 gallon-sized ziploc bags of dry food, and a mostly full bag of treats. And if you want it- a pack of hot dogs, which were one of my dog’s favorite treats.

I am in the Montrose area, DM me for a porch pickup.

EDIT: The food has been picked up. Thank you for all the kind words!

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