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This recipe was given to me by a family friend and it's amazing. It makes a chili oil base that keeps for a year on the counter and you can do everything with it. I use it for my chilli to replace pure chili powder as it has more flavour.

I call it a chili oil but it's not just seasoned oil, it's definitely closer to a spice.

You will need:

• 30 grams of one kind of pepper flakes
• 30 grams of another, flaked too

The point of doing two different types of pepper is that you use a hot one, and a milder one. You don't want your oil to be entirely spicy, and so the milder pepper will give flavour instead of heat.

I like cayenne pepper for one half, and for the other half really whatever is very spicy that I can find flaked. If you don't like spice then you can use paprika and milder pepper, for example.

• 250-300 millilitres of oil of your choice
• 8 grams of salt
• 8 grams of toasted sesame seeds
• 1 clove of garlic
• a bit of black pepper, either whole or grounded (we use either differently)
• a mason jar or similar that can hold everything.

Keep in mind you will be getting ~400ml in volume at the end, I actually need to use two jars when I make this because they're too small to hold everything in just one.

Cut up the clove of garlic pre-emptively. The finer the better, you can even press it in one of those mashers.

Pour the 60g of chilli flakes in a bowl along with the garlic and salt and mix with a spoon until it's properly homogenous. We will use the sesame seeds at the very end.

Heat up the oil in a sauce pan. There's not really any suggestion here; I do it with olive oil, my friend does it with canola oil. It will change the taste but whichever oil you prefer is fine.

You can add a few peppercorns in the oil as it heats up if you want, or grind a bit of pepper on the flakes directly.

Don't bring the oil to its smoking point! This is more difficult with olive oil but basically, once it's very very hot, take it off the heat and put it back on as needed.

This is the tricky part (it's not really tricky but it requires care). Once the oil is hot, you will pour just a tiny bit of it in the bowl of chili flakes, and then stir. By "tiny bit", I mean not even enough to cover the top layer of the bowl. This prevents the garlic and flakes from burning or overcooking.

Pour a tiny bit, put the pan down, and stir with the spoon for several seconds. Be careful with oil as it's much hotter than water, it just doesn't boil at the same temperature.

Bring the oil back up to heat if needed, and then pour the same amount on the flakes again.

Essentially repeat that process until you feel there's enough oil in the bowl -- oil is unhealthy in these quantities comrades, so you should definitely cut down on it as much as possible 😉

That's why I recommend between 250ml of oil to 300ml; it will depend on your ingredients as well as just how much you want in there. If you don't have enough, you can quickly heat up some more oil as needed; the chilli isn't going anywhere. I would definitely start at 250ml and work my way up from there.

The consistency of the chilli oil that I prefer is when there is just enough of it to still be stirrable. If you don't use a lot of oil, the flakes will harden and be difficult to use.

At the end, add the sesame seeds and stir evenly again. The idea is that the sesame seeds are more sensitive to heat, and so we add them at the end to prevent them from burning.

Then wait until it cools down and transfer the contents of the bowl into the jar and close it up.

You can use this oil as is but I find that to really release all the flavours, you should mix it with mayonnaise, which is emulsified fat and thus can dissolve oil. You can probably get low-fat mayo which helps cut down on what is essentially pure calories.

That way it can also be used as a cold sauce.

It works by itself too like on pizza, or in your homemade chilli, but in those cases to me it just tastes very very spicy lol

It keeps for one year in a sealed jar on the shelf, no refrigeration required. Doing this process above lasts me months, it's very low maintenance and while 300ml of oil sounds like a lot (it is), you only eat one tea spoon at a time.

Some time back, a user posted their chilli recipe. I've had to have a few tries, but I got pretty good at it (at least good to my sensibilities).

You need:

• 1 kg ground beef, preferably reasonably fatty
• 2 onions
• a few cloves of garlic
• a bit of red wine
• and a bit of oil to start the onions and beef
• 1 bellpepper, if you want
• 1 can black beans
• 1 can kidney beans
• 1 more can of whichever beans you prefer
• 1-2 cans crushed tomatoes
• all the spices you like. I like nutmeg, marjoram, bay leaves (2), salt, pepper, oregano, and of course cumin (a lot of cumin for chilli)
• just a bit of four or five spices mix if you want to try it, it could add an interesting sweet/savoury combination, but it's very potent. Just two-three pinches should be more than enough.
• if you feel bougie, pine seeds. Yes, pine seeds.
• for the heat, I use my own chili oil which I will also post about right after this

Does this not look like a normal chilli? You're right, it's 10 times better.

What happens with the beans and meat is the fat and fibers seem to interact and create something very specific in terms of texture and flavour, which we can improve with the use of seasoning and herbs.

This makes around 2.4 kilograms of chilli which will make 6-8 portions. You can also easily freeze it, it works great.

First things first, prep time. Cut your onions in half and slice them. Dice your garlic -- the more you crush garlic, the better it gets. Cut your bellpepper in squares or triangles.

Then let's start cooking. Cook up the meat in a sliver of oil inside a very deep pan on high heat. The pan should be able to hold 5 litres in volume and you'll have to stir as you add ingredients to reduce the space they take. It definitely works in a 5 litre pan but you'll need to give it some help.

Once the meat is around 70% cooked, add the onions. Stir the meat constantly to get it cooked evenly.

Once both are cooked (meat is browned and onions get translucent), add a dash of red wine and stir until mostly evaporated.

Then, add all the cans as well as the bellpepper that you've cut up. You can also add the garlic at this stage as it cannot overcook in liquids. Stir until it forms a homogenous mix and at this point, I would wait until the content starts boiling and then reduce the heat to medium so that it keeps cooking but doesn't boil on you.

Stir until everything is even and integrated, and then add the spices and the pine seeds if you have them as well as your chili pepper. Add 2 bay leaves and don't forget to remove them later (though fun fact, you can eat bay leaves obviously and if you crush them very finely, you can just leave them in the chilli. They taste good).

If you need more liquid, add another can of tomatoes. Chilli is not a soup, the point of the water content (from the can of tomatoes) is that it helps dissolve the spices and cook everything evenly. You really don't need a lot of liquid.

Once you've stirred enough, taste it and adjust spices as needed. Honestly you can go ahead with the seasoning, you have 2 and a half kilos of chilli in there. I find I prefer salted chilli, it gives it a more "natural" flavour.

And that's it. Leave it on low-medium heat for 45 minutes or more (just be careful about boiling off all the water, you still want just a bit). Afterwards, let it cool down to room temperature, portion your chilli in containers and freeze them!

So documents were uncovered recently that show "Beau of the fifth column", a breadtuber, was convicted on federal charges to 60 years in prison commutted to just 60 days. Then the government gave him back his properties, and he reappeared sometime after that as "Beau", a fake name with a fake accent he uses to sound like a conservative blue-collar type guy.

Usually if the government hands out seized property, they need to give a reason, but they didn't. Additionally the prosecutor did not charge crimes they could have probably charged, like assault (not battery) and possibly kidnapping.

The charges were on human trafficking, which however doesn't mean much: the government considers that bringing people into the country under the wrong visa is human trafficking, even if you do it for selfless reasons.

It seems the reasons were not selfless though. Beau and three others formulated a plan to bring in female workers from Slovenia, Croatia, and bordering countries to the US to subcontract them as hotel staff. Temp working is of course legal and many people do it already, and I still think bringing people into a country so they can have a better life (and they consent to it) is a based thing, but what the suit doesn't show (because they didn't charge it) is that:

• They would house the workers and make them pay for rent, I think also preventing them from finding their own place.
• They would also bus them to work and make them pay for it, again with no other option.
• Testimonies allege verbal abuse, threats and insults to the workers who sometimes lived with up to 15 other roommates in a hotel room.
• They made the workers pay 2500$ for a visa application that usually costs up to 200$.

What got him in hot water was the visas, since they falsified the employer as the hotel instead of their company (Eurohouse). This was in 2003 up to 2007 btw.

It's becoming clear that Beau is an FBI informant. Why else would they reduce his sentence and give him back his property? He was not on the left before, he used to write about Anonymous and that's about it. Then he reemerges with a fake persona, a "socialist" outlook, and starts saying fed stuff like that people should not apply for a permit before a protest and the organisers should not tell this to participants (a cool way of getting everyone arrested and give them a criminal record!)

Honestly there's nothing to salvage with "breadtube", I can't wait for its demise.

I checked with the host (one of our editors) and they're fine if people join. If you join right now, just tell me you're here for book club in vetting and I'll give you a role that will let you access it.

They'll be reading Capital from the start, volume 1 chapter 1.

Again, when this post is 30 minutes old so get your spot right now! They're unlimited but once it starts, it starts.

---> https://discord.gg/MUmsSARr

There was never any alt. You got bamboozled.

No, I'm joking of course. My question is: do you want to keep the hunt going, or has everyone had their fill?

After all, what is important is what was left unsaid, and so it's important to have it said. I'm guilty of that too sometimes.

Reply now or face the consequences!

I have been terrible and have hidden an alt account on lemmygrad!

Spring is coming up soon in a few months, and that also means Easter. And Easter means Easter eggs!

Anyway. As you might have guessed, your goal in this Easter egg hunt will be to find out my alt account!

You could win a Steam game out of it! (Not any steam game but a specific one as I have some keys, but it's good I promise).

Here's an FAQ to help you out during this hunt:

Why are you doing this?

I got the idea from last time Wisconcom tried to infiltrate (not the discussion from a few days ago, even earlier) but never got around to it. I want to show him how easy it is to actually make a convincing alt if you put some effort into it, which he never cares to do.

But I have full faith in my comrades to figure out my alt account in a timely manner!

I must let you know that I taken care to make this alt account as ethically as I could, considering the circumstances. I can't say much more at this time though.

How do I participate?

Everyone can participate, except the admins as they know which account I have hidden around if they look into our account requests.

You will have to rely on your sleuthing skills as well as discuss with your comrades (edit: forgot to finish my sentence); As of now I will not be replying to DMs about the alt, but this could change too.

When you feel that you have collected sufficient clues, drop a comment in the thread below!

How do I win?

This is where it gets interesting. To win, you must not only correctly identify the account, but also explain your reasoning.

Then, you must make that reasoning known in the comments below -- that's right, everything you say can be used by anyone else to help them so make sure you're right!

This means you also can't just spam account names until you get the right one.

The first person to figure out the correct account wins! But if you win, you get to decide who should win the key to the game, it doesn't have to be you. That way, you all work collaboratively like communists instead of filthy individualistic capitalists. (we can change this if you also collectively decide it's a bad idea).

There might be runner-up winners (2nd, 3rd place etc) as I had originally set aside one key for the game but I still have some that people apparently don't want to take. How ungrateful!

What do I win?

I don't want to spoil the game just yet but it has good reviews, it's a good time waster and it came out not long ago on Steam.

What if the hunt is too hard?

In the spirit of an egg hunt, I might periodically drop hints. I won't specify how though, you'll have to keep your eyes open.

I have no idea if this is gonna be easy or hard, so we'll see how it goes.

When does the hunt begin? And when does it end?

The hunt begins now, my alt could be literally anyone! Maybe it's not even created yet? 👀 Who knows! Certainly not me.

And it ends whenever I run out of keys. However, if people find it fun, then we will not spoil the answer until everyone has had their fill. The remaining players will simply be playing for fun.

If nobody finds my account for a month, let's say? Then the hunt still goes on! You will find this alt, or perish. It's an order!

truly a christmas gift

If you think it's bad now, it's gonna get worse in the coming years.

Reading and analysing what's been happening around us for the past 10-20 years, it's clear that we're in a Nazi Germany situation. And when fascism will be here, we will ask "how did that happen?"

The future looks bleak.

Comrades seem to think the only tasks we need filled on Prolewiki is editing -- adding new content.

In truth, we will take whatever we can get, that's the beauty of this project.

As an editor on the wiki (for which you just have to request an account: https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Special:RequestAccount), you can:

1. Proofread and patrol others' edits.
2. Create new pages as stubs so that others can fill them out later.
3. Add pictures to articles.
4. Help with CSS and other front end changes.
5. Help categorize articles properly.
6. Add works to the library.
7. Write your own essays in our essays section.
8. Create redirects (misspellings, case-sensitive, other spellings, etc) to pages.
9. If you're trustworthy, even help out on social media!

And I think that's not even all of it.

We don't ask for quotas or anything when participating, and as you can see there's a lot of stuff you can probably already do with us!

If you're interested, request an account on the wiki and join our discord! (https://discord.gg/ZQTBNRU9v5) we have a good community going now.