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🔗 Stripe Atlas

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Stripe Atlas is a powerful, safe, and easy-to-use platform for forming a company. By removing lengthy paperwork, legal complexity, and numerous fees, Stripe Atlas helps you launch your startup from anywhere in the world.

Setup a company in Delaware, USA from anywhere in the world.

🔗 Lebanese Psychological Association LPA's statement (2013)

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In 2013, the LPA joined efforts with the Lebanese Psychiatric Society (LPS) and other non-profit organizations to advocate for the rights of LGBT individuals in Lebanon. The LPA issued a joint statement with the LPS stating that homosexuality is not a disease and does not require reparative treatment. LPA continues to support organizations in Lebanon raising awareness and lobbying for the rights of LGBT people in Lebanon.

🔗 Position Statement on Therapies Focused on Attempts to Change Sexual Orientation (Reparative or Conversion Therapies) (2000)

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The validity, efficacy and ethics of clinical attempts to change an individual's sexual orientation have been challenged. To date, there are no scientifically rigorous outcome studies to determine either the actual efficacy or harm of "reparative" treatments. There is sparse scientific data about selection criteria, risks versus benefits of the treatment, and long-term outcomes of "reparative" therapies. The literature consists of anecdotal reports of individuals who have claimed to change, people who claim that attempts to change were harmful to them, and others who claimed to have changed and then later recanted those claims.

  • Theories at odds with APA position that homosexuality is a mental illness
  • Theories integrate old psychoanalytic theories with religious beliefs.

🔗 Conversion Therapy is Torture - IRCT (2020)

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Conversion therapy, a practice that aims to change, ‘cure’ or ‘repair’ an individual’s sexual orientation or gender identity, is a global problem that causes severe physical and psychological suffering to its victims. A new expert statement by the IRCT and the Independent Forensic Expert Group (IFEG) concludes that conversion therapy is practiced in more than 69 countries, is unscientific and violates the global ban on torture and ill-treatment.

🔗 Ren'Py - a visual novel engine

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Ren'Py is a visual novel engine – used by thousands of creators from around the world – that helps you use words, images, and sounds to tell interactive stories that run on computers and mobile devices. These can be both visual novels and life simulation games. The easy to learn script language allows anyone to efficiently write large visual novels, while its Python scripting is enough for complex simulation games.

🔗 Marx's ideas in 800 words

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Co-operation in place of competition, bring equality where there is inequality.

Through the collective mass action of the great majority in society - the potential for realising justice and liberation for the whole of humanity. <<<

🔗 Public prosecutor puts rape-survivng minor in a shelter instead of remand

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أمر النائب العام، المستشار حمادة الصاوي، باستبدال الحبس الاحتياطي لآية، المعروفة باسم منة عبدالعزيز، الشهيرة بـ”فتاة تيك توك”، وإيداعها أحد مراكز مشروع وزارة التضامن الاجتماعي الخاصة بـ”استضافة وحماية المرأة المُعَنَّفة”.

وقالت النيابة العامة، في بيان، إن المُتهمة واسمها الحقيقي آية، قبلت استبدال الحبس بالبقاء في مركز الحماية باعتباره موطنًا وسكنًا لها، نتيجة لعدم وجود محل إقامة ثابت لديها.

وكانت منة عبدالعزيز، التي تمتلك حسابًا على تطبيق “تيك توك”، قد حُبست مع 6 آخرين، بعد توجيه تهمتي “التحريض على الفسق” و”تزوير حساب إلكتروني”. <<<