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I've noticed that among a lot of the more popular "science-y" food outlets, there are a common thread of technique concerns (maximize browning without drying meat out, use dried chiles instea of pre-ground ones, add multiple ingredients to boost umami), but when you look at the "award winning" chili recipes from contests, you see basically none of that. Typically it's dried powders, tomato, bullion cubes and adding in the spices in batches based on timing. Most popular recipes from other major food outlets don't have the concept of multiple drops for the spices, for example. Is this a product of the ruleset and cooking environments? Is having the stages too big of a pain in the ass?

Per the research project I was talking about yesterday: While municipal governments gather and disperse the Hotel Tax in Texas, the state explicitly pre-empts redistributions that don't actively cause overnight trips.

This is. needless to say SOME BULLSHIT.

Thanks the LOTS of help you guys gave me, they were really impressed with the presentation materials, so there's interest in building stakeholders for a more long-term campaign, but it's still Texas, so this might take a minute.

I'm going to the meeting tonight, but at the very least I got them interested in housing, and i have the seeds of another project around eviction rates and displacement in Austin.

I'm still shaking mad ever

My and my best friend since MS just joined the Austin DSA chapter like 3 weeks ago and now my rant to some people about how the allocation of the Austin Hotel Occupancy Tax is turning into me giving a presentation for a local nonprofit about best practices in other cities and how we should be using it and the mayor might see it and I am a high school dropout who is in no way qualified to do this.

EDIT: A few people had asked me to elaborate more on what this is about, so I thought I'd re-post the basic thesis statement here

"So essentially Austin, like most large destination cities, has a Hotel occupancy tax, and the revenues from that tax are quite large- 2016 was about 80 million dolla