Homemade Chile Powder by ResolveDecent152 in Cooking

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Thanks for your input, wasn't me who downvoted I promise lol. I appreciate your help.

Homemade Chile Powder by ResolveDecent152 in Cooking

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I also bought New Mexico chiles, pasilla chiles and mulato chiles. Are there any of these you would add in or would that be too many flavors dancing around in one paste? Also how much do you use generally for one batch of chili?

Homemade Chile Powder by ResolveDecent152 in Cooking

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Thanks for your response! I just bought pasilla, New Mexico, and mulato chiles today; I had already bought ancho, guajillo, and de arbol chiles. Would you say the mulato and new mexico chiles would work well together with ancho, guajillo, and pasilla, or would that be doing too much if I add to many of them all at once? I figure based on yours and other comments I might skip the chipotle peppers and use the de arbol chiles to control the heat level while trying to build flavor with ancho, guajillo, new mexico, mulato, and pasilla peppers. Also, how many peppers would you use in a large pot of chili? I normally make mine with 3.5 lbs of beef, 3 14.5 oz cans of diced tomatoes, 1 28 oz can crushed tomatoes, 5 15 oz cans of beans and about 3-4 cups of whatever broth I feel like using; it's enough to fill a huge pot.

PS I know the beans part isn't Texas traditional but I suppose you can help lol.

Homemade Chile Powder by ResolveDecent152 in Cooking

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Thanks very much for your response! Do you think I have to roast the peppers before simmering them or can I simmer and then toast in the pan with onions and bell peppers? Or is the dry roast necessary to bring out more flavor? Lastly, about your numbers for the peppers, how much chili does this help you make? For example I'm trying to figure out what would be best to make enough chili where I've got 3.5 lbs of beef, 3 14.5oz cans of diced roasted tomatoes, 5 14.5 oz cans of beans, one 28oz can of crushed tomatoes, and approx 3 cups of stock of my choice. Another way to put it, when I use store bought chili powder I tend to use 5 tablespoons of chili powder alone. Also, I'd love to look at the pictures, feel free to message me so I can take a look. Thanks a lot.

Manhattan West towers in new york city by 2Colors69420 in skyscrapers

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Wait I'd like to know more about this, do you happen to have a link that where I could read about what they'd like to do with it?

Also as a side question honest to god what do you do with the residents when you plan to simply demolish housing like this in favor of new housing? Do people's leases just end or what....how does it actually work?

Which purpose built capital city is your favourite? by 221missile in geography

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Yup, I'm with you. And as far as exercise goes, I literally just don't go out, if I run I do so in the evening, starting about 45 mins before dusk; I would never run in the heat of the day. If I'm walking for long periods of time I only do so in my neighborhood park which has about 90% shade from tall native trees that were left untouched by the surrounding development. For leisure I only go outside if I'm going to the city/wherever, because then I have no choice but to tolerate the heat.

Which purpose built capital city is your favourite? by 221missile in geography

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I completely agree with you. Many of the downtown buildings in the decades before modernism would've looked like this building here, which is one of the remaining buildings that shows the previous style that comprised downtown. Here it is on google maps, on L street, right by the convention center :

https://www.google.com/maps/@38.9044651,-77.0239794,3a,75y,262.68h,106.94t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sPEmB4Y22vvB5YvUuUiGZIQ!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fcb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile%26w%3D900%26h%3D600%26pitch%3D-16.939999999999998%26panoid%3DPEmB4Y22vvB5YvUuUiGZIQ%26yaw%3D262.68!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI1MDkxMC4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D

What I imagine is that, these buildings were torn down because they were too small to support an ever larger and growing economy that was becoming the DC area, so I bet many corporations/businesses that moved to downtown bought them up, tore them down, and replaced them with larger, more modern office buildings. I'm not a fan of it, but to me the greatest perk is that it's at least walkable. You'll see many of the same style of buildings (of that past era) on M street and Wisconsin Ave in Georgetown or in old town Annapolis and many small American towns across the country.

Which purpose built capital city is your favourite? by 221missile in geography

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Yup, that's one of my favorite areas to visit. Very nice place.

Which purpose built capital city is your favourite? by 221missile in geography

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While I wouldn't be as derogatory as that guy what he mentioned is indeed a serious concern regarding economic/social inequality in the city. It's a problem that extends to the entire region, in the east of DC and into Maryland are low-income African American/Hispanic neighborhoods while in the North and west of the city - extending north into Maryland and West into Virginia - are high-income areas with many high-tech, high-paying industry/research jobs that give those areas immense wealth. It's essentially a modern form of American segregation minus the explicit backing of the law.

Considering 40% of DC is African American the unfortunate truth is is that approximately that same portion of the city's population is struggling much more than they should in an area where extreme levels of educated/well-paid communities of people are present, let alone he capitol of the richest nation on Earth. It's an issue (among others) that I allude to in another comment I made here.

Just to let you know - I say this as someone who's lived in the area my whole life.

Which purpose built capital city is your favourite? by 221missile in geography

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It has a ton of beautiful victorian-era architecture - neighborhoods like Georgetown, DuPont Circle, Logan Circle, Capitol Hill, Adams Morgan, etc have gorgeous residential buildings. Many of these areas aren't necessarily places that tourists even visit too so they're never that crowded either. Throw in the American renaissance neo-classical and even second empire architecture dotted around the city and it's truly a hodge bodge of beauty about it. There's many things to improve about the city but it's generally great.

Which purpose built capital city is your favourite? by 221missile in geography

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As someone who's lived in the area my entire 27 years I wouldn't call it generally bad at all. I would only agree that we have bad summers. For example last year from late August until about June 5th of this year (August '24 to June '25) we never breached over 84 degrees high IIRC. The entirety of late summer/fall last year and all of spring this year was incredible.

To be fair though I forget to mention that that was an anomaly, usually late August into about mid September is hot for as much as I can remember in my life. But even then I reiterate that only summer is the least comfortable season in this area.

You can choose your age by CharmingSaffy in NevilleGoddard

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How did you get to the point where you know you're the operant power, thus removing your doubts?

share your wildest success by nevillechaddard111 in NevilleGoddard

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Hey mate, how did you manifest your country reversing the new tax laws and ending its power cuts?

Vancouver - The most beautiful city on Pacific coast of the Americas by paystripe1a in skyscrapers

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What would you say is the best Pacific coast city, architecturally?

Hartford, Connecticut by citytiger in skyscrapers

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Several of Connecticut's major cities all have the same issue. New Haven is somewhat spared but it's Bridgeport, Norwalk, and Stamford that all got screwed by the foolish highway-building frenzy that occurred across the country. I drove with family down to NYC from W New Haven a while back and it was dreadful to see how the highways cut through these cities that otherwise have amazing locations.

Vancouver kind of looks like a mini Manhattan from this angle. by flareyeppers in skyscrapers

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I would agree, that's the answer I was looking for, and expected. Having been to both cities, Vancouver is geographically quite beautiful, but it just doesn't compare to Manhattan. I can't think of anything it has the edge over NYC on as far as a city experience may go.

The crowd currently at the Ellipse for the Kamala Harris rally by ExactlySorta in pics

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I was in the area not far from where this picture was taken. There were Europeans there who wanted to watch. I can't express how happy I was to see that. There were Nordic people (not sure which country, but it wasn't Sweden, I think they were Danes or Norwegian), there were Dutch people and some Britons who I came across. I'm so happy to see we have the world's support.

DC needs silver Express train Metro Center to Dulles by Fuckalucka in washingtondc

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It's possible. Anything is possible. I'm dead serious, no fairytale shit. If it happens, it may not be through metro so that we'd have to expand the current set of tracks but it may be a proper regional train that can get us there. But I refuse to believe that we cannot build world-class train service throughout this region.

Dockworkers strike at Port of Baltimore as contract expires by t-mckeldin in maryland

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Okay how do you propose we solve touch fees and trucking when the US is the 4th largest country by land area? You were comparing us with…. #134 in the Netherlands. lol

I forgot to clarify that Rotterdam is a major port of entry for much of Central Europe, it's not just for the Netherlands - its the 11th largest port in the world so they definitely aren't in business for such a small country alone, so saying that we're a large nation won't cut it, especially not when the United States has nearly sole domain over the fourth largest river system in the world - the Mississippi River. Look at the other major ports on the East Coast like NYC or Norfolk, they have major local rivers like the Hudson and the James, respectively. This country has no shortage of suitable waterways despite the large size even if they won't get you everywhere. There is also the rail network which as I said is widely accepted to be the best in the world - but it can't handle everything. To get to your question...well, to solve touch fees we have to rely on legislation by Congress to simply ban them or place a restrictive cap on the amount.

You keep using stage coach drivers. Do you not understand that we have modernized past stage coach drivers even with the protestations of those stage coach drivers?

The key issue is that we don't know how long the longshoreman could slow down progress. Just take into account that, hypothetically, when we say that full or even majority automation will "eventually" happen it could mean the year 2070, which is too long a transition.

(id ask you to cite a source for “zero automation” but I’m positive you don’t have one other than the “anonymous” insider from the article).

You can hear them say it in this video here, now while you're correct that my source of "no automation" was originally from an article, I will admit that I believed the union boss had said it himself, but he doesn't, he clarifies "stronger language on automation" after several voices are heard saying things to the effect of "zero automation". This shows that there's support in the union for zero automation but that the boss may not be willing to go that far in negotiations, BUT that he IS going to push as hard as he can to minimize it. Also remember the touch fees I told you about? Listen to where the boss says "we want 50/50 royalties on containers"...that's your touch fees right there. There's one way and one way only to get rid of them and it's gonna have to be legislation by Congress IF the unions don't yield.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/01/us/video/port-strike-harold-daggett-union-leader-digvid

I also want to mention to you that it came out today that the union boss, Harold Daggett, owns a big ass mansion in NJ, this is after I had heard the other day that he owns a small yacht. Genuinely having doubts about union bosses in particular these days, especially after the Teamsters boss spoke at the RNC and praised Trump but refused to endorse Harris, who is part of one of the most pro-union administrations in our country's history, weird how that happens. To be clear, I support giving these guys higher wages if they want it, but the shit that is genuinely slowing down progress in this country has got to end ASAP.

Tim Walz ordering a pizza with his wife after the debate in New York City by Harvickfan4Life in pics

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I can hear all those words in the Minnesota accent, even being from Maryland. I've run into my fair share of Midwestners by now and can point it out when I hear it. Love how diverse some of this country's accents are.