a shameful waste of madhouse time

The “Summer Rain” offensive keeps on going, and it seems that i’ve almost deliberately been avoiding watching or keeping up with the news, because of how depressing it would be. I know Shareef is there, and I know that he’s suffering, mentally, and there’s not really much that I can do about it.  And here [...]

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It’s really depressing, following the comments in these threads. Some people are completely, well i won’t say racist,but they do rely completely on stereotypes and I don’t get it–i’ve always thought that most of the foreigners and expats in China were pretty bright, or at least more cosmopolitan, more progressive for having traveled more. I [...]

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I don’t know too much about the field of evolutionary pysch, but here’s an abstract from a paper which I can at least somewhat understand.
Abstract
The portrayal of the actions of fictive characters for purposes of entertainment is a familiar phenomenon. Theories that seek to explain why we are attracted to such fictions and whether we [...]

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