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I have so many friends who are Japanese and some who left Japan to move other places ... I often talk with them about the situation ... growing situation in Japan and how as a culture and country it's been closed off and trying so hard to keep itself kind of purely Japanese to the point of stagnating on so many fronts. The reluctancy to share culture, to effectively export culture, to bring IN new influences etc ... to potentially lose so much because of stubbornness and stagnation is awful.

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About a dozen classified documents were found at former Vice President Mike Pence's Indiana home and turned over to the FBI, sources tell CNN https://cnn.it/3WALeQv

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Let us not judge our Indian brethren as savages only because of what we accuse them of in war. They did deeds that were shameful and these we do not forget, but why do we with so great dilligence forget our own horrible deeds committed against the Indians,—deeds that their own but weakly parallel? We too have sinned, though our higher ideals all cried out for the virtues that we claimed, but in the heat of conflict forgot.

https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/American_Indian_Freemasonry

Ancient cell phone article

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72-year-old suspect in Lunar New Year fest mass shooting found dead.

https://www.denver7.com/news/national/la-mass-shooting-suspect-kills-10-near-lunar-new-year-fest

#MontereyParkIncident

Final Update:

Per LASD insider. Man in the white van identified as suspect Huu Can Tran. Suspect shot himself in the head this morning after contact with PD. He was the prime suspect in the mass shooting.

Family reporting he had a complete mental breakdown. Investigation will continue. Now involving several Federal Agencies.

Massachusetts Maritime Academy. Graduated in '76 and yes, wise guys, we had water back then!

Don't fall for the BS Rs are selling.

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Very enjoyable time at the Cape Cod Maritime Museum in Hyannisport, MA.

#ukraine #humor

Too often true

To those who celebrate: Happy Lunar New Year!

Morning thought:

For people who aren't psychopaths or sociopaths, compassion isn't an option or even a choice; it's a natural reflex on seeing the suffering of others.

Why, then, is there so little compassion in the world? Not because people do not feel it, but because they've been taught to suppress it, given all kinds of excuses that will avoid compassionate action:
• There's not enough time
• Someone else will do it
• I already gave
• My taxes are paying for that
• It'll just go for drink
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