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  1. Nov 2024
    1. concerned about the mixing of Chinese and native British populations, and the potential spread of opium smoking to the local population.
    2. The practice was tolerated by some London magistrates, who viewed it as a cultural tradition rather than a criminal activity.
    3. widespread practice among the Chinese population in Britain, particularly among seafarers.
    4. development of drug cultures, including bohemian groups that consumed cocaine and other drugs in nightclubs and private parties.
    5. The British System, which allowed doctors to prescribe heroin, morphine, and cocaine to addicts, was established in the 1920s, but it did not eliminate the drug trade.
  2. Oct 2024
    1. I think from the video I watched, I think they said it could be a for profit too. I think if I'm correct, did not have to specifically be a non-profit.

      YEs Kauffman will fund a company that is NOT a not for profit if its terms of assocaition say it has a charitable function. 501c3 for kauffman is all about TAX ANd yes, we can set up an LLC with an FSC bye laws just as easily

    1. Derailed climate action: Mr. Trump will almost certainly withdraw again from the 2015Paris Climate Agreement, dismantle domestic climate and environmental regulations(particularly those seen to hamper the fossil fuel industry), and actively oppose atransition to green energy.

      for - question - Study on 2024 Trump win on polycrisis - Cascade Institute - why is there such a small analysis on the environment and especially planetary tipping points whilst climate clock is ticking?

  3. Sep 2024
    1. not to act in such a case would be the egoic response would be there it would be a response that came from the fear of an individual that it would be cowardice it would be it would be refusing to act washing a veneer of of non-violence over one's egoic fea

      for - nonduality - not acting against violence in such a case (as Ukraine war) is an egoic response - acting out of cowardice - Rupert Spira

      comment - One can act egoically both to take action AND to not take action.

  4. May 2023
  5. Jan 2023
    1. 个人学习可能取决于他人行为的主张突出了将学习环境视为一个涉及多个互动参与者的系统的重要性
  6. Apr 2021
  7. Mar 2021
    1. Nee na ndëmm amul.

      Il dit que la sorcellerie n'existe pas.

      nee -- pr. circ. so, demonstratively distant. Cf. nale.

      na -- 1. pr. circ. so, defined distant. How? 'Or' What. 2. function indicator. As.

      ndëmm gi -- symbolic anthropophagia. 🧙

      am+ul (am) v. -- to exist, to have.

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  11. Apr 2020
    1. Despite their awarded diplomas in the art of writing, you'd be surprised at how many editors and journalists in the United States make English mistakes. For instance, "an" is still often coupled with words that begin with an "H" sound, even though this is improper. I'd advise against treating material from news sources as if it were error-free or even a higher authority on grammar.
  12. Jan 2019
    1. excessive reading has a scattering effect: “In reading of many books is distraction.”

      I feel personally attacked. ;)

  13. Aug 2016
    1. “Starting from a place of 'I don’t have biases' is never helpful.” It’s not necessarily the gender of an engineer that matters, it’s that engineer’s ability to consider perspectives outside their own.
    1. When design solutions address the symptoms of a problem (like sleeping outside in public) rather than the cause of the problem (like the myriad societal shortcomings that lead to homelessness), that problem is simply pushed down the street.
  14. Jul 2016
    1. Marvel has always been political. Captain America started fighting Hitler and the Nazis before the USA entered the War. Fantastic Four fought the Communists. Captain America fought, then resigned because of Nixon. The Invisible Girl became The Invisible Woman, you had a character actually called The Black Panther from a fictitious, idealised African country.
  15. Sep 2013