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Last year Washington State collected more tax revenue for marijuana than for alcohol or tobacco.

Washington state collected a total of $559.5 million in legal marijuana income and license fees in fiscal year 2021, including $4.1 million in cannabis license fees. The data is available in the Liquor and Cannabis Control Board’s FY 2021 Annual Report (p. 21).

The report also shows that the marijuana revenues were $286.8 million more than that of liquor, and that the marijuana tax income to the state for fiscal 2020 of $559.5 million grew by slightly more than $85.6 million from the prior fiscal year.

Revenues collected by the Liquor and Cannabis Board from legal cannabis taxes, license fees, and penalties are distributed as follow, according to the report:

        General Fund – $191 million
        Basic Health – $272 million
        Local Governments – $15 million
        Washington State Health Care Authority – $54 million
        Department of Health – $9.7 million
        Washington State Patrol – $2.3 million
        Washington Liquor and Cannabis Board – $10.4
        Other – $1.8 million

RCW 69.50.540 sets the template for allocations of state spending funded through marijuana sales taxes and licensing fees.

Nearly half of all marijuana revenues fiscal 2015 through fiscal 2021 went to the Basic Health Plan Trust Account.

That account is described by the Office of Financial Management as providing “necessary basic health care services to working persons and others who lack coverage, at a cost to these persons that does not create a barrier to the utilization of necessary health care services.”

Plus savings from not prosecuting users and wasting police resources.

Works for us!

As a side note Bill Gates and Steve Jobs both smoked weed and tripped on LSD.
Jobs said that taking LSD was one of the most important things he ever did in his life!

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Get free Netflix etc trials without paying.
When the trial expires get another right away.

The service anonymizes you so Netflix etc. don't know you are immediately reupping.
Uses an anonymous temporary credit card loaded with jut the amount needed, so the trial is cancelled automatically with no further action needed.

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[NO TERRIER]

"We have since terminated the employee" ...

Whoa! Seems a bit harsh to kill them before a trial and all. But hey, it's blackhat world. ;)

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E.O. Wilson defines Species broadly as well.

If they can't reach each other to breed then they are a new species, even if progeny would be viable otherwise.

So when I travel to Japan, I'm a new species of human compared to being in Seattle! Weird right?

But when you look at intermixing populations from Japan and Seattle over time it makes more sense. You can see the diversification and mixing. Then it's not so weird.

Food for thought.

I'm currently seeing about 2,000 headlines a day in my RSS feed reader. Many duplicates, but sorted by title makes it easy to skip many. Use regex to sort out feeds you don't want to see. Adblocker in the RSS reader and browser and hosts blocking at the DNS level works great for me. Throw in a paywall bypass addons and a citation checker and so on and you'll be good to go. I always start my day with RSS, not loading up a bunch of webpages to see what's new.

The offlinebay.org is approaching 6,000,000 indexed torrents and optionally provides the entire website and the database offline locally on your machine. The index is a combination of torrents sourced from The Pirate Bay, Magnetico (DHT), Torrent Paradise, and BTDB. Tracker info from Coppersurfer, Leechers Paradise, and Cyberia.

It operates like a normal website, but instead of using a webserver for searches and results, it uses a 'database torrent' via WebTorrent. The decentralized technology uses more bandwidth than a webserver (5MB per search). All searches and results are saved in-browser and will not be downloaded again with future use (unless the database torrent is updated), making it much faster the more you use it.

You can download the entire database too if you want.

The homepage is also served via WebTorrent/BiglyBT/Vuze to prevent censorship. Use 'right-click, save as...' to save the website and you will have access to it as long as you or someone else is hosting the database torrent.

It works over TOR. You can get an unlisted bridge via WebRTC and help others do the same by using the TOR Snowflake plugin.

If you are using BiglyBT, Qbittorrent, Transmission or some other torrent client with support for I2P, then you can automatically download the torrent (more) anonymously over I2P only using just the regular magnet link if you want.

Pretty cool and simple tech.

International Property Registry

That way when things change no one can say ... "there are no records for that property".

If property changes hands on individual or even nation scales, via purchase, war, or anything else, we can still track previous ownership for due compensation, or track owners for pollution remediation and so on.

That seems like a good use of blockchain technology to me.

Support Free-Speech! TOR reduces the chances of retaliation for exercising our right to free speech. Use it.

I run an exit and several relays plus use the snowflake RTC addon to help others connect. I have encountered the same blocking issues that you have.

Here's what I did.

$400 a year and tax-deductible in the USA.
(disclaimer: nothing to do with Calyx)

It is unlimited and unthrottled due to a previous agreement with the USA feds and Clearwire before Calyx got the bandwidth rights.

Calyx doesn't even have to know who you are! They will take a cash payment and ship the hotspot to whatever address you provide. This is useful for activism as one may have a hotspot that only (Farraday bag the rest of the time) appears briefly at protests and so on with fewer links to your person. ...

There are many good uses for TOR. Know the consequences for your actions. Be willing to accept the Bayesian odds you'll get unanonymized. Most important ... /play in your own league/ !

Oh, thanks to all the TOR supporters out there. Fuck those who don't want anonymity on the Net. Activists and journalists get killed for exposing corruption, pollution, and all kinds of wrongdoing.

With all it's shortcomings, Tor helps with that.

If it ain't broke don't fix it.

Winamp 2.95
+MLipod to sync with portable players.
+Milkdrop for killer visuals
+MusicBrainz for autodownloading and embedding tags and album art for all those incorrectly labeled rips and youtube downloads (ytl-dlp for downlods from youtube).

And a bit offtopic but ...

+SanzaZipClip portable /tiny/ player
with 128GB SDXC card doubles as portable drive with multiboot (Win/Linux) plus holds all my music
+RockBox FOSS firmware to add ogg FLAC and other codecs

Super lightweight for outdoor activities.
Pair with bone conducting headphones for safe bicycling, hiking etc (since you can still hear your surroundings).
Use good over ear phones when you want quality sound.

Works great for audiobooks and learning bird songs and so on too.

Clementine on Linux is a good choice as well.

There's still a place for standalone music players. Sansa ZipClip +128GB SDXC +Rockbox FOSS firmware still works great for me. Super small and light. Waaay lighter than a phone.

Mostly Off-Topic ...
Music. Bird call ID sounds. Audiobooks. Paired with bone conducting Rockshokz headphones means I can hear the media clearly /and/ still easily listen to my surroundings (since my ears aren't blocked by earbuds or headphones) when hiking, riding a bike/ running etc. Use good headphones when fidelity matters. If you have wired headphones, or just a piece of headphone wire with the jack you can listen to FM radio too. Good for emergencies. You can make the screen all white for an emergency light, or all red to not block night vision. You can even play DOOM on it. Really! No GPS or tracking. Doubles as a portable drive for booting GNU/Linux etc. Used Winamp 2.95 with mliPod plugin for years. Then Clementine player on Linux, which I still use. Talks to the Sansa fine. Why change what's not broken? With all those other uses I guess Sansa isn't just a standalone audio device technically.

Interesting and Insightful

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