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Drugs: Californians Want Legal Psychedelics Will State Let Them
by grarpamp 30 Dec '22

30 Dec '22

Bill Moves Forward That Will Legalize Psychedelic Drugs In California https://thefreethoughtproject.com/bill-moves-forward-that-will-legalize-psy… Despite the overwhelming evidence showing that kidnapping and caging people for possessing illegal substances does nothing to prevent use and only leads to more crime and suffering, government is still hell bent on enforcing the war on drugs. Like a crack addict who needs to find his next fix, the state is unable to resist the temptation to kick in doors, shake down brown people, and ruin lives to enforce the drug war. Instead of realizing the horrific nature of the enforcement of prohibition, many cities across the country double down on the drug war instead of admitting failure. As we can see from watching it unfold, this only leads to more suffering and more crime. Luckily, there are cities, and now entire states in other parts of the country that are taking steps to stop this violent war and the implications for such measures are only beneficial to all human kind. Eight years ago, Colorado citizens—tired of the war on drugs and wise to the near-limitless benefits of cannabis—made US history by voting to legalize recreational marijuana. Then, in 2019, this state once again placed themselves on the right side of history as they voted to decriminalize magic mushrooms. But this was just the beginning and their momentum is spreading—faster and stronger, toward decriminalizing all plant-based psychedelics. Then, this year, the state of Oregon decriminalized all drugs. Now, another state is following suit, but not just with psilocybin— a bill in California is moving forward with a legalization measure for other psychedelics like mescaline cacti, ayahuasca and ibogaine. The California Assembly committee is holding a hearing next month on the bill to legalize the possession, personal use, and facilitated and supported use of the following substances by adults 21 and over. psilocybin psilocyn MDMA LSD DMT mescaline (excluding peyote) ibogaine Senate Bill 519 was proposed last year but was put on hold in August to adjust the wording in order to ensure its passage. As the Tenth Amendment Center points out: Under the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) passed in 1970, the federal government maintains the complete prohibition of many of the drugs on SB519’s decriminalization list and heavily regulates others. Of course, the federal government lacks any constitutional authority to ban or regulate such substances within the borders of a state, despite the opinion of the politically connected lawyers on the Supreme Court. If you doubt this, ask yourself why it took a constitutional amendment to institute federal alcohol prohibition. In effect, the passage of SB519 would end criminal enforcement of laws prohibiting the possession of these drugs in California. As we’ve seen with marijuana and hemp, when states and localities stop enforcing laws banning a substance, the federal government finds it virtually impossible to maintain prohibition. For instance, FBI statistics show that law enforcement makes approximately 99 of 100 marijuana arrests under state, not federal law. By curtailing or ending state prohibition, states sweep part of the basis for 99 percent of marijuana arrests. Furthermore, figures indicate it would take 40 percent of the DEA’s yearly annual budget just to investigate and raid all of the dispensaries in Los Angeles – a single city in a single state. That doesn’t include the cost of prosecution either. The lesson? The feds lack the resources to enforce marijuana prohibition without state and local assistance, and the same will likely hold true with other drugs. “With mental health issues on the rise, it is time that California take an incremental and measured step to dismantle failed war on drugs policies by ending the criminalization of people that possess and use substances with immense healing potential,” the bill’s sponsor Sen. Scott Wiener said in a statement of the bill’s purpose. “It’s the plants that are going to bring us back to sanity. We’ve got to listen to their message and we’ve got to live reciprocally with nature and restore the natural order,” Susana Eager Valadez, director of the Huichol Center for Cultural Survival and Traditional Arts said after Oakland passed a similar decriminalization bill in 2019. The Assembly Appropriations Committee will hear the case for SB519 on Aug. 3. It must pass the committee by a majority vote before moving to the full Assembly for further consideration. Hopefully it does and California shifts from kidnapping and caging people for these substances, to focusing on using them for therapy. While California is certainly no bastion for freedom — especially with their draconian COVID-19 response — bills like this are a win for everyone as it requires far less money to help people than it does to incarcerate them. Now, cops can try to focus on real crimes instead of kidnapping and caging people who are trying to heal themselves with a plant. Supporters hope the decision will begin a nationwide discussion about decriminalizing plant-based drugs.

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SpyVeillance: T-Mobile and Starlink Deploy Global Satcom Cell Interception and Tracking
by grarpamp 29 Dec '22

29 Dec '22

Two of the biggest TOP-SECRET US Govt Telecom and Satcom Contractors combine to deploy global phone sats... nope, no spyveillance going on there. Bluffdale will be storing and mining literally all 8 Billion phone convos. Feed them end2end p2p crypto noise. "Eliminate Dead Zones": Elon Musk Partners With T-Mobile For New Satellite-To-Cell-Service https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-08-26/how-musk-plans-to-kill-o… https://www.t-mobile.com/news/un-carrier/t-mobile-takes-coverage-above-and-… https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1562956451538014209 Elon Musk's SpaceX teamed up with T-Mobile CEO Mike Sievert to beam cell service via Starlink satellites to "most places in the US," including more than half a million square miles of dead zone areas that aren't covered by cellular networks. The two companies would create a new mobile network to broadcast T-Mobile's existing mid-band spectrum via Starlink satellites to anywhere in the continental US, Hawaii, parts of Alaska, and Puerto Rico. SpaceX and T-Mobile wrote in a press release that the new network would "provide near complete coverage in most places in the US — even in many of the most remote locations previously unreachable by traditional cell signals." Musk tweeted that the new service, launching in 2023, will "eliminate dead zones worldwide." Starlink V2, launching next year, will transmit direct to mobile phones, eliminating dead zones worldwide — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 26, 2022 Bloomberg explained how the new satellite-to-cellular service would work through powerful antennas attached to upgraded Starlink satellites: The new network will be accessible thanks to large, powerful antennas attached to Starlink satellites. Musk said each antenna would measure some 25 square meters (269 square feet) and be "extremely advanced because they've got to pick up a very quiet signal from your cell phone and then be caught by a satellite that's traveling 17,000 miles an hour." The T-Mobile service will run in a similar way to data roaming, where a user's mobile will scan for service and if it finds none it will connect to the satellite. Musk, at an unveiling event at SpaceX's Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas, along with T-Mobile Sievert, on Thursday evening, gave an "open invitation to carriers around the world" about adding the new service. Bloomberg noted that most smartphones are already equipped with technology to beam a signal to space so that additional equipment won't be required. But there are limitations, and the main issue is bandwidth, as Bloomberg pointed out: The main issue is bandwidth, which will at first limit the service to text messaging. The coverage area will be divided into large cell zones, with each zone's connectivity limited to around 2-4 MBs. Musk said that would allow for some 1,000-2,000 voice calls per cell, or millions of text messages, but the service would not provide a substitute for ground cell stations. "This is really meant to provide basic coverage to areas that are currently completely dead," Musk said, adding there could initially be a delay of "half an hour, maybe worse" for messages to pass through the system. Testing for the new satellite-to-cellular service is expected later this year after SpaceX launches the new satellites into low Earth orbit.

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Cryptocurrency: WarOnCash - Banks Ratchet Up Restrictions and Tracking
by grarpamp 18 Dec '22

18 Dec '22

https://twitter.com/jacski/status/1542682049466626050 Control of money is HERE! PULL OUT. The great reset remember when that was a conspiracy theory and it was laughed at? Right.. Anyone reading this. It’s absolutely essential you look into Bitcoin. PERMISSIONLESS money The system is starting to squeeze you like a Boa constrictor snake and it won’t stop.. We don’t need the their system! Think bigger think #Bitcoin Anything over $10k is flagged as “suspicious “. I got asked when I withdrew $10k. I lied and said it was for a car. They even quizzed me about the car. This is a low-key way of bringing in the #cashban Wait until cash 💰 is phased out by 2025, and replaced with a CBDC,then you’ll know all about control. Y'all don't understand. When you deposit YOUR money, you're giving the bank an UNSECURED LOAN. This is why they can make you jump through hoops to get it back. It, legally, isn't your money any more once they have it. This is from a US Supreme Court case. Likely the same in OZ. Same in the UK too. And they can use your money for a bank bail in, then issue you with worthless shares Fractional reserve lending. They don’t have the money. Get ready for the shitshow.

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please ban the fucking asshole gmkarl@gmail.com
by punk 16 Dec '22

16 Dec '22

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xNY.io - Bank.org | DOJ Memo #4 - Goldman Sachs Deferred Prosecution Agreement
by Gunnar Larson 16 Dec '22

16 Dec '22

Dear Mr. Marzulli: The Department of Justice has yet to respond to Memo #1, Memo #2 and Memo #3 with our recent inquiry to the 1Malaysia Development Berhad Deferred Agreement. Goldman Sachs' Deferred Prosecution Agreement with the United States of America is in potential breach, with ethical enforcement being concerned. Memo #4 <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ajVVx6NGB9wd2GDXfLRftf0RVFpqjl8WWITvdNV…> aims to associate the malfeasance in Malaysia with war crimes of aggression (in the planning, initiation, or execution of a large-scale and serious act of aggression), leveraging the world’s only military divided capital city Nicosia, Cyprus. Please find a copy of Memo #4 <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ajVVx6NGB9wd2GDXfLRftf0RVFpqjl8WWITvdNV…> attached to this email addressed to your attention. A hyperlink to Memo #4 <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ajVVx6NGB9wd2GDXfLRftf0RVFpqjl8WWITvdNV…> can be found here: https://bit.ly/3tGOf5s. Very Respectfully, Gunnar Larson -- *Gunnar Larson - xNY.io <http://www.xNY.io> | Bank.org <http://Bank.org>* MSc <https://www.unic.ac.cy/blockchain/msc-digital-currency/?utm_source=Google&u…> - Digital Currency MBA <https://www.unic.ac.cy/business-administration-entrepreneurship-and-innovat…> - Entrepreneurship and Innovation (ip) G(a)xNY.io +1-646-454-9107 New York, New York 10001

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Cryptocurrency: Must Regulate Itself, Else It's Corrupt, And Its Mission Will Fail
by grarpamp 16 Dec '22

16 Dec '22

Human Freedom depends on cryptocurrency regulating itself. Not so much for regulation per se, as the free market is free to compete via proofs open transparency and reject shady operators, but as part of the need to recognize realign and rally its volunteer forces in regimentation against the fiat enemy that must be starved out, which can only happen via offering a sound alternative to adopt... crypto. Losing sight of the fiat enemy, of soundness, by becoming drunk in your own corruption towards users, the space, and the fight... will lose. Crypto has wasted years worth of advantage and resources, it must sober up, end the pointless shitcoin nonsense, rejoin its forces, clean up its act, take the high road, and start winning the war. It's much easier and sooner than you think.

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Re: [ot][spam][crazy][fiction] morning spam 3: hybrid mcboss
by Karl Semich 08 Dec '22

08 Dec '22

On 11/22/22, Karl Semich <0xloem(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Mind Controlled Cyborg Torturer > > Concepts: > - manliness, power, aggression, devaluing of others > - fear, terror > - coverup? silence. connection. secret pacts. having a shared > understanding. > - frustrating recursive-like bit where the intense fear tries to block > discussion or thought around the nature of the intense fear, backed by > some idea of unspoken silence agreement > - deeper into unspoken silence agreement, being harmed when talking, > with a sense of some kind of expected understanding, as if something > unspoken is being treated as obvious > > Experimentee: "He hurt you when you tried to be you!" > Cyborg Torturer: "I guess you could put it that way." > Experimentee: "He hurt you when you tried to be you so much, that you > started telling yourself it was good to not be you." > Cyborg Torturer: "I think he said that directly, could be wrong." >

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Fwd: [spam][crazy][fiction][random] Non-Canon MCBoss Spinoffs
by Undiscussed Groomed for Male Slavery, One Victim of Many 08 Dec '22

08 Dec '22

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Undiscussed Groomed for Male Slavery, One Victim of Many <gmkarl(a)gmail.com> Date: Mon, Aug 15, 2022 at 8:52 PM Subject: Re: [spam][crazy][fiction][random] Non-Canon MCBoss Spinoffs To: cypherpunks <cypherpunks(a)lists.cpunks.org> Because this victim was so entrenched in passive aggression, they didn't really understand it. They said it all the time, but didn't know what it was. It just seemed how to speak. Meanwhile, the animals and plants had their own words. The victim lashed out at a stick, believing it to be mocking them, and a squirrel began chattering. The squirrel saw how fast the victim of passive aggression was moving, and was talking with other animals in the woods about what kinds of things to expect to happen in the area, and how it made them feel. The victim of passive aggression knew the squirrel was chattering at them. The squirrel didn't know, though. A few other squirrels made noises around, in the trees. Birdsong changed. I'm using Inbox When Ready to protect my focus.

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[ot][spam][crazy] coding therapy: maybe a bugfix?
by Undescribed Horrific Abuse, One Victim & Survivor of Many 07 Dec '22

07 Dec '22

i've gotten conscious that some coding projects can be relaxing to me again i was thinking of looking on savannah for something i could implement

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[ot][coding-therapy?] Moronism And The Thorough Code Review
by Undescribed Horrific Abuse, One Victim & Survivor of Many 07 Dec '22

07 Dec '22

One of the huge changes I've experienced was strong inhibition around thoroughly reviewing things. Before all this, I would read an entire chip spec from from to end, every word on every page, before coding for that chip, and I wouldn't have to read it again: not because I had any kind of eidetic memory, but because I noted each thing that seemed useful somehow, with similar useful things I had already been exposed to. Nowadays, I so fervently want to quickly dip through something, and have an AI or a bunch of enslaved social network users do most of it for me. "If you want something done right, do it yourself," goes right out the window. Trying to be thorough now gives me chest contractions, amnesia, etc etc . The moronism seems too strong for me. This is a huge part of why I make so many bugs when coding, and it gives my other personality, the one planning what bugs to make, so much space to act in. Security reviews are ridiculous now: I add and hide more vulnerabilities than I address. But I'll be sure to address one, because I'm trying to! And then you trust me! It's so bad it's hilarious, like everything else. Another thing that gets much harder with this issue is things like optimization and creative hacks. I used to read all my APIs just like those chip specs, from front to back, and pick the very best solutions for every problem I encountered. Similarly language specifications. Now, like any good influenced person, I only easily see tiny things that engage my influence, and everything else takes great effort and raises my triggers. Often I call this blindness, because I literally do not see physical visual things right in front of my face. I've been dealing with that for years. But suddenly it occurred to me that _calling it out_ in this way could give me an avenue to work on it. And then I see how it describes so many of my issues. It's a really basic one, that I can engage almost anywhere. What tasks, I wonder, are really conducive to practicing thoroughness? Simply the act of methodically engaging and including every part of something, maybe in a software context, and maybe sidestepping things like working memory challenges a little.

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