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7 months

A 10-year-girl picked up "It's Perfectly Normal" when at the library. She showed her mom the chapter on sexual abuse and said, “This is me.” She was being abused by her father. (1/3)

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This is the kind of book that right-wingers get banned, claiming that they're protecting children.

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The father was convicted, and the judge said, “There were heroes in this case. One was the child, and the other was the book.” The mother was also a hero, for listening to her daughter, and that the librarian who ordered the book and kept it on open shelves.

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I choose to interpret this as a critique of capitalism and consumerism.

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4 months

Winner of snow plow naming contest in Hamilton.

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1 year

We mask in our dojo because we teach that the way of karate means striving to live up to our obligations to each other and our community.

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1 year

What could be more American than kids playing baseball? Oh yeah, that...

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3 months

I just had a guy sneeringly ask, "If masks work, why did doctors only discover them in 2020?"

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4 months

Wind chill here has been in the -40's for days, and I haven't seen one Edmonton tweet about scarves poisoning people with CO2 or grifting by Big Knitting.

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5 months

Somebody brought a cake to share at their job, and a co-worker...

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3 months

David Sedaris in the New Yorker. I used to think he was funny. This isn't funny.

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5 months

Amazon proof of delivery photo.

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3 months

Our little dojo doubled in size because of our COVID protocols. They attracted the kind of people we've always wanted: intelligent and humble enough to heed science, compassionate enough to take care of the community, and disciplined enough to mask while viral levels remain high.

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7 months

At a bus stop in Port Coquitlam.

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1 year

People keep saying masks are bad for mental health. But by masking, I know I'm relying on high-level science and fighting misinformation; I'm protecting my family and community; I'm supporting those being pressured to take theirs off. All that is excellent for my mental health.

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9 months

Fox News anchor: "I remember, 20 years-old, going to Trier, Germany and trying to find the home of Karl Marx 'cause, you know, 1848, he wrote Mein Kampf. I wanted to know what was all about. So, that's part of the education in America."

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1 year

There's much to criticize about PM Trudeau, but he testified and responded for 6+ hours on live TV, while Poilievre refused to answer reporters' questions and Doug Ford just ran away and hid. What a stark difference.

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7 months

In 2023, being human is both disappointing and corrosive to the self. In Ontario, COVID wastewater signal has been rising for weeks. The virus is novel, which means that the long-term consequences of infection are still being discovered, and there's been lots of bad news. (1/4)

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1 year

Response to the WHO declaration.

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3 months

Our dojo photos always trigger some martial arts bros, but really, if wearing a mask is way too hard for you, you're not as tough as these three.

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2 months

I often get comments on our photos claiming masks are bad for breathing. I just delete those replies and block the person tweeting them, but this time, I will cite some of the science we in the dojo depend on.

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1 year

So do anti-maskers look at Japan and see a whole nation living in fear and virtue-signalling, too stupid to understand that masks don't work?

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7 months

It's not "vaccine fatigue." It's intelligence fatigue, science fatigue, care-for-others-and-the-community fatigue. It's the victory of ignorance, stupidity and self-centeredness.

Vaccine fatigue setting in as officials urge everyone to get flu, COVID shots: poll | Globalnews.ca

The report, conducted by Abacus Data on behalf of the Canadian Pharmacists Association found that vaccine fatigue reduces people's willingness to get immunized.

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7 months

A friend just tested positive for COVID for the first time. She's been scrupulous about masking and other precautions, but she's a prof at a major Canadian university and teaches in-person to students and among staff who refuse to mask. She tried hard, but it's not her fault.

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7 months

But I'm also stubborn, and I find it impossible to overcome the desire not to get sick or die and not to make someone else sick or kill them if I'm asymptomatically infected. And my karate teaches me that it takes little discipline to endure the minor inconvenience of a mask.

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1 year

Tom Jones, 82.

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7 months

@KrysMc1 I wasn't there. Someone else posted it. But the City of Port Coquitlam said they've removed it.

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7 months

My little karate class this evening. It's a genuine, albeit very sweaty, community and I appreciate being with these good people so much.

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23 days

If Alex Jones endorse you, you have to be bottom-dwelling shit.

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3 months

Strokes, heart attacks, sudden deaths: Does America understand the long-term risks of catching COVID?

Strokes, heart attacks, sudden deaths: Does America understand the long-term risks of catching...

There are early signs that COVID infections and reinfections are leading to a rise in life-threatening conditions, says physician and author Carolyn Barber.

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1 year

3 groups of babies. The 1st had RSV & Covid with high viral loads; the 2nd had RSV & Covid with low viral loads; the 3rd had RSV & had previously recovered from Covid. Last group was by far the sickest—the ones that had to be ventilated.

"I was appalled to see the prime minister making those comments": A U of T epidemiologist on the...

Colin Furness debunks the popular theory and explains how Covid-19 may be weakening our immune systems in the long run

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1 year

For everyone who insists Danielle Smith is intelligent, here's Chantal Hebert, who actually is smart: "My fear is that she does not even grasp what is wrong and that this episode is going to be a vignette that will lead the conversation...on, frankly, stupidity...

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8 months

In Okinawa, where people live longer, healthier lives, they create small groups called “moai” 模合, circles of friends who support and encourage each other to find and live with purpose. Our dojo moai, pre-COVID and now: different aspects of the same care for each other.

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1 year

The study concluded that infection rates were actually 2.5 times higher for staff & nearly 6 times higher for students than what was being reported. “The prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 infection in school-aged children is being dramatically underestimated.”

Expert pushes back on Bonnie Henry's claims schools are not a major source of transmission

B.C.'s top doctor has claimed that schools are not a major source of transmission, but is she right? The data isn't clear.

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1 year

Hi, I’m Doug. I live in Canada, and I refuse to accept that infections and reinfections are inevitable—I will continue to wear a respirator to protect myself and others to break the chain of transmission. Will you join me?

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6 months

Share masked selfies, because representation matters. Fight for a world that protects everyone.

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Share masked selfies, because representation matters. …I’ve got plenty to share as a mother, wife, doctor, etc.

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7 months

So I understand that genuine science is in a losing contest with mass psychology; even my narcissism is beset by the serious question of "Can I really be right and so many be wrong?"

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7 months

News stories and medical experts say that the vast majority of the population have been infected. Physics and multiple studies have proven the efficacy of masks. Yet I'm sitting here at YYZ, and my wife and I are two exceptions to thousands of unmasked around us.

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8 months

I was an academic, which taught me that a high level of education correlates to neither intelligence nor ethics. COVID is surging. Many are vulnerable. Is there a big campus anywhere in North America where most professors are masking in their classes?

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4 months

I still don't know the difference between knitted and crocheted, but whichever this is, it's impressive.

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2 months

Murphy and I were out for our walk, and the only house for blocks that hadn't cleared its sidewalk was flying Trump flags (and this is Edmonton, Canada).

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1 year

"A separate experiment from the study found that social distancing barely helped, with the infection risk reaching 80% after just one minute, and 99.9% after 20 minutes."

How switching to an N95 mask gives a 75x boost in COVID protection

A recent study shows why fitted masks like N95s are superior to surgical masks.

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8 months

The study concludes that "cases attributed to ward-based exposure fell significantly, with FFP3 respirators providing 31-100% protection (and most likely 100%) against infection from patients with Covid-19".

Covid: Masks upgrade cuts infection risk, research finds

Wearing a high grade FFP3 mask can almost entirely protect health workers from Covid, research finds.

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1 year

I tweeted a pic of my dojo training masked, and to my astonishment, it blew up. Thank you for your support. Since most won't have seen it, I'm reposting a link to a CBC article where I wrote about our dojo's approach more fully:

OPINION | Karate teaches us the obligations we have to others. COVID reinforced why that's import...

As a student and teacher of karate, Doug Aoki has learned about hard work, discipline and what it means to be part of a community.

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Guy's evangelical Christian brother kept leaving him voicemails about Satan, so he made them into a music video.

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1 year

Wacko Christian Nationalism has oozed across the border into Canada.

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2 months

Some of the outstanding younger members of our dojo. Since I usually get replies saying masks are useless, here's what the latest of many similar studies says: "Community masking saved substantial numbers of lives." We take care of our own.

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4 months

Christmas Eve with Alex's last grandparent, who's 87.

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1 year

19 February is the Day of Remembrance for the incarceration of Japanese Americans. In Canada, my parents' families were taken from their homes and put in internment camps or sent to work as stoop laborers in Southern Alberta.

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Parents and sons at our last class; a sample of the great families we are grateful to have in our dojo.

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1 year

Preprint: “Our modeling suggests that between 12 and 25% of the population...will have long COVID at any given time... “Our findings suggest the importance of a multilayered strategy...universal masking in essential venues and air quality standards”

Shielding under endemic SARS-CoV-2 conditions is easier said than done: a model-based analysis

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues unabated, many governments and public-health bodies worldwide have ceased to implement concerted measures for limiting viral spread, placing the onus instead on the...

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2 months

Wind turbines destroying a pristine landscape.

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7 months

We've trained outdoors since June, but today we return to the studio in Scona High. Sprung hardwood floors, mirrored walls, 7 windows open for ventilation, a UV air purifier and a HEPA filter. COVID numbers are starting to decline here, but for now, masks will remain mandatory.

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1 year

My friend is visiting Tokyo. When she went into stores, almost everyone (except the white tourists) was masked. When I had to pick up something at an Edmonton drug store today, only one person was wearing a mask--and she had a blue surgical one. The cultural divide.

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22 days

Saturday class is getting bigger (and three people who were there aren't in the photo).

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1 year

Picked up our house sign today. Fighting with @RachelNotley and @AlbertaNDP for a better future for this province.

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11 months

Shockingly, I got vaccinated six times and I'm still alive (and have never tested positive for COVID).

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1 year

My wife and son have gelato from the same store in Cortona, Gelateria Snoopy, 21 years apart.

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4 months

Japanese doctor warns of potentially fatal COVID-related brain damage in children: a young girl died and another suffered paralysis from "acute encephalopathy," a brain disease they developed after coronavirus infections.

Japanese doctor warns of potentially fatal COVID-related brain damage in children

UTSUNOMIYA -- Following cases in east Japan's Tochigi Prefecture in which a young girl died and another suffered paralysis from

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1 year

People dining in restaurants should say, "Obviously, crowding in a room where no one is masked, when several respiratory viruses are widespread contributes to the transmission of those viruses, but we're going to do it anyway," instead of claiming it's safe.

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2 months

Karate is a fighting art, and at the Seibukan Karate Dojo, we're fighting for trans rights as basic human rights. We see this as particularly important in 2024, when Marlaina Smith and Pierre Poilievre are so eagerly stoking transphobic hate.

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9 months

Because my son, Alex, loves his Nonna, who's 94, he wore a mask when he visited her in hospital.

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11 months

"I won't fund a War Room. I will fund an emergency room." Rachel Notley

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1 year

I'm 67; my senior student is 40; our newest member is 7. Here's the three of us doing a plyometric core exercise.

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Drunken conservative scum outraged by being treated much better than they deserved. Support Sauvage Canmore.

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2 months

COVID-19 virus can stay in the body more than a year after infection, research finds

The COVID-19 virus can persist in the blood and tissue of patients for more than a year after the acute phase of the illness has ended, according to new research from UC San Francisco that offers...

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My cousin died from a heart attack. She was 19. She was not obese. She was not a smoker. She did not have an unhealthy lifestyle. Fuck you, Chelsea Petrovic. And fuck any government that would give any power over public health in this province.

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@abdaniellesmith just named Licensed Practical Nurse Chelsea Petrovic as principal secretary to @AdrianaLaGrange . UCP candidate suggests heart attack victims should take personal accountability |

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1 year

I'm sure someone will complain this is cultural appropriation. I think it's just great.

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16 days

This doesn't happen in a civilized country.

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1 year

"The real Kraken is no longer the virus – it’s our monstrous level of indifference to the pandemic’s ongoing, and inequitable, carnage."

Opinion: The COVID ‘Kraken’ has been released, but it’s not a variant – it’s our indifference

Instead of catastrophizing every new subvariant, we should be developing strategies for living with a constantly mutating virus

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1 year

Apparently, a lot of public health officials don't get this joke.

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1 year

We have mandatory masking in our dojo. We have immunocompromised members, and we are morally obligated to take care of them. It's dumbfounding and deeply unethical that hospitals in Alberta refuse to show the same care.

Opinion: Why hospitals should keep mandatory masking

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4 months

鏡開 kagami biraki (opening the mirror), the first class of the new year is tomorrow. Anyone interested in learning traditional Okinawan karate in a COVID-conscious community would be very welcome. N95 masks are mandatory; we run 2 HEPA filters; we monitor CO2. #karate #Edmonton

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3 months

Two pics from yesterday. Rachel Notley with Caidence, a 12 yr-old with cerebral palsy awaiting her liver transplant, delayed because of Danielle Smith's destruction of healthcare, and Smith with the worst of humanity: Peterson, Carlson, and Black. You are the company you keep.

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1 year

Scientific evidence that rats are better people than conservatives and Christian nationalists.

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11 months

In past years, we've marked the beginning of Pride month, but with transphobia and homophobia viciously prominent, here are dojo members from this morning, each wearing a belt with a color from the Pride flag in support of the human right to be who you are and love who you love.

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1 year

Going to a thrilling Springsteen concert in a mask offended both anti-maskers and many of the covid-cautious. I'm fine with that. We weren't the only ones. This couple from California sat right in front of us. Didn't see anyone else in the stadium with them, though.

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"I have spent hundreds of hours in the microscope looking at the worst viruses can do to the brain, including the Zika virus, HIV, Flu, and others. I've never seen the type of damage SARS-CoV-2 leaves behind after infection with other viruses."

Danielle Beckman

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COVID-19 will never be like the Flu. Never. At least not for the brain. I would love to be wrong; please prove me wrong with evidence and real science! It is quite simple. #SARSCoV2 can access the brain using several different mechanisms that Influenza cannot. A: Viral…

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The Ford government at its best.

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I am very proud of the dedicated, principled, and welcoming community of our little dojo.

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"Consistent use of a face mask or respirator in indoor public settings was associated with lower odds of a positive [COVID] test...Use of respirators with higher filtration capacity was associated with the most protection, compared with no mask use."

Effectiveness of Face Mask or Respirator Use in Indoor ...

This report describes face mask or respirator effectiveness in helping protect against COVID-19 infection.

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1 year

I consider myself covid-cautious and obviously people are still getting infected. But while I see that touring bands are getting COVID, I haven't seen anything about outbreaks from arena concerts or NHL/NBA playoff games. Is reporting failing us or has the pandemic changed?

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2 months

My Roblaw$ shirt came. #Roblaws

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"Face masks can be worn during exercise with no influences on performance and minimal impacts on physiological variables."

The impact of face masks on performance and physiological outcomes during exercise: a systematic...

Face masks are promoted for preventing spread of viruses; however, wearing a mask during exercise might increase CO2 rebreathing, decrease arterial oxygenation, and decrease exercise performance. A...

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1 year

Fatherhood.

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6 months

My son is 27. We talk most days. But when he was growing up, if there had been something he couldn't tell me, I would've hoped for a good teacher he could confide in. As a dad, my relationship to him is defined not by my "rights," but my obligations. Because I love him so much.

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Some dangerous Eritrean refugees that Trudeau welcomed destroying the Canadian way of life. Their first snow.

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1 year

Training at the hombu (headquarters) dojo at Christmas. We follow the example of Shimabukuro Hanshi (at rear), the head of Seibukan, and require masks in our own dojo. We believe that's required if we respect him, science, and the Seibukan dictum to take care of others.

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My kid on the train to Florence. We're the only ones masking I've seen.

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26 days

This may seem a silly and boring pic, but I think it's ingeniously simple: it's the top of a Japanese toilet tank, and when it flushes, water comes out of the faucet so you can wash your hands and the gray water fills the tank.

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2 months

The Seibukan Karate Dojo is proud to announce that Aya was promoted to 8 kyū last night.

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1 year

As someone of Japanese ancestry, I know very well that Japanese culture has its serious problems. On the other hand, I can't imagine this happening in North America.

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1 year

As someone else noted, typical woke behavior.

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3 months

When I posted a pic of my karate students recently, a troll mocked some of them for being out of shape. Yes, some are overweight. But they deserve respect and admiration, not derision, for trying to get fitter and healthier, and they will always be supported in our dojo.

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1 year

Laundry.

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7 months

A bit of our training on Saturday.

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