Interesting Links for 09-09-2020

[andrewducker]

'There will be consequences': No US trade deal if Boris Johnson reneges on Brexit agreement, Congressman warns

(tags:USA UK Europe NorthernIreland trade Doom )

Northern Ireland Secretary admits new bill will break international law'

(tags:law NorthernIreland Doom )

When We Follow Orders To Hurt Someone, We Feel Their Pain Less Than If We Hurt Them Freely

(tags:psychology violence pain )

Caster Semenya is being forced to alter her body to make slower runners feel secure in their womanhood

(tags:women OhForFucksSake sports )

Brexit: Sir Keir Starmer tries recasting himself as the 'competent Leaver'

(tags:labour UK Europe )

U.S. to block cotton, tomato product imports from Xinjiang over forced labor

(tags:China slavery USA trade )

Every Star Trek Film Ranked from Worst to Best

(tags:movies StarTrek )

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(tags:motivation comic funny )

Comments

[ninetydegrees]

"Caster Semenya is being forced to alter her body to make slower runners feel secure in their womanhood"

This is awful for Caster Semenya. It's also awful for feminism. And sport. Shame on this court. Shame on the sport industry for making this a thing.

Inflicting pain and also, tomatoes

[anna_wing]

I've always wondered about these tests, though. They seem to me to confuse Doylist and Watsonian interpretations of behaviour. Surely it makes a difference if you're in an obviously controlled experimental setting, in a country and institution with actual functioning laws, regulations and internal ethics guidelines, and are presumably fairly sure that no one is actually going to be seriously injured, so it's not real? What the same person will do can differ hugely according to context and circumstances.

It reminds me of those silly 'leadership' or whatever games where they try to get people to pretend that chocolate coins are stakes worth getting excited and arguing about, and there are quite a lot of people who do get excited, even though it is utterly irrational to do so. Though fewer if everyone has just had lunch, and no-one's hungry....

I was just told yesterday that most of the tinned tomatoes in the EU are actually from China, and just packed in Italy...