Notices by Radek Czajka (rcz@101010.pl), page 2

Kombinuję jak zrobić system sterowania muzyką używalny przez całą rodzinę. Chatbot na Matriksie sprzężony z MPD, sprzężony z youtube-dl? Kartoniki z płytami i kodami QR do skanowania? Dobrze kombinuję?

BTW, an aside point — there is a general problem with girls ditching sports, but boys do have another problem, stemming from social over-investment in particular elite sport, which is football. From what I observe, girls, if they do sports, tend to try more varied disciplines, while boys tend to over-concentrate on football, probably wasting a lot of developmental potential they could activate by trying something different.

@kuba

Professional sports are the tip of the iceberg, under which there's college sport, country-level or local amateur competitions, junior sport, children sport etc. I agree we put too much resources in the most elite events, but we should be careful not to throw the baby with the bathwater. Part of the motivation my kid gets to train at his sport was the thrill of getting an autograph from an Olympic medalist while training, for example.

The idea of 'fairness' doesn't (and cannot) mean removing all differences so that people win or lose randomly.

Let's say we have a sport without categories at all — sth like strong man competition. I wouldn't say it's 'unfair' — but what you lack is inclusion. This sport is for the heaviest men only.

We introduce protected categories to achieve *inclusion*. If we introduce protected categories for women, and weight classes, and age categories — then this sport starts to include those people. If you're a girl, it only makes sense for you to even begin training in such a sport if you know there's a protected category for you. Obviously, you might never get to the absolute top, but getting to the absolute top is not the only objective in sport, and not the only value of sport.

What we would call 'unfair' is breaching those protections — fairness is a property of processes. If you have weight categories, that creates inclusion — but for this categorization to be fair, you need to actually enforce them. If you allow people to choose their categories, e.g. allowing a 120 kg person into the category for under 80 kg, this is not fair — and you're obviously hurting the inclusion of people under 80 kg. Regardless of the fact that under-80 kg people still have other differences between them.

@kuba

TL;DR: No, it isn't fair. She proposes, instead, ditching the notion of “fair competition” entirely in favor of a notion of a “freak show”, moving to e-sports, or eventually abolishing elite sports altogether.

Do you think female athletes (such as Riley Gaines, assaulted yesterday for speaking on this topic) should be convinced by these argument that they don't deserve a protected category for female people?

@kuba

Zdecydowanie trzeba się przyzwyczaić do tej myśli: media, które czytasz, okłamują Cię. Niezależnie od tego które. Zwłaszcza w sprawach tzw. światopoglądowych — notorycznie kłamią i te z prawa i te z lewa.
@jacekstaszczuk

Obawiam się, że to wymaga konsultacji prawników z nerdami. A to nigdy nie jest łatwe.

@wariat @kuba @prywatnie @miklo