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Re: YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki Gets 'Freedom Expression' Award Sponsored by YouTube

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Post by 1_player »

perl4ever wrote: post #167
alwayshasbeen wrote: post #15

Reminds me of when the president of a warring nation once won the Nobel Peace Prize.

I'm not sure if you consider Obama to be unique or are being a bit ironic... You know among the winners of the Nobel Peace Prize have been Henry Kissinger, Mikhail Gorbachev, Menachem Begin, Yitzhak Rabin, Yassir Arafat, Jimmy Carter, FW de Klerk...? There is a reason Lê Đức Thọ refused his prize.

All of which earned their prize AFTER their political achievements.

Obama got his before or just as he was sitting in the Oval Office the first time.

How is that not a farce? Because he was the first black president? Give the Nobel prize to the voters then.

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Post by ttt0 »

anoncake wrote: post #190
ttt0 wrote: post #179

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Find me an intersex person that can both bear a child and impregnate a woman. From my understanding, it's still falls under either this or the other, not a literal third sex. And even if, that's a tiny fraction of what already is a tiny fraction of intersex people. It does not disprove the general notion and it does not justify changing the entire culture around it and basically terrorizing people who are stating the…

> Find me an intersex person that can both bear a child and impregnate a woman. If male == can sire children and female == can bear children, then infertile people don't have a sex which is nonsense. > It does not disprove the general notion Yes, it does. Counterexamples do that. > You could be born with six fingers and that doesn't invalidate the fact that human species have 5 fingers at each hand. Yes, it would. Hu…

> If male == can sire children and female == can bear children, then infertile people don't have a sex which is nonsense.

Your conclusion is nonsense, the premise is not. A broken computer is still in essence a computer, even if it can't actually do any computing as a result.

> Yes, it would. Humans only usually have 5 fingers on each hand. But it isn't important to emphasize that there are 6-fingered humans because no one denies that 6-fingered humans are humans to start with.

It's some kind of genetic disorder, an anomaly. With your standard you can't describe anything, as almost nothing is true 100% of the time.

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#193

Post by ttt0 »

anoncake wrote: post #187
ttt0 wrote: post #153

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For sure, the world is much more complicated and the inability to read between the lines and not taking everything at face value certainly isn't limited to "educated people". But there is a lot of truth to this quote nonetheless. For what it's worth, all of those wacky theories about Q-anon or even flat earth don't beat the fact that people somehow managed to subvert and obscure the fundamental truth about nature tha…

What other people's genitals and reproductive organs look like is generally none of your business. In other words, their sex is irrelevant.

I'm not sure how to respond other that it's interesting how people switched from accusing everyone of being ignorant to demanding from them to be ignorant. Or was it always some kind of doublespeak? Not sure.

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#194

Post by [deleted] »

anoncake wrote: post #187
ttt0 wrote: post #153

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For sure, the world is much more complicated and the inability to read between the lines and not taking everything at face value certainly isn't limited to "educated people". But there is a lot of truth to this quote nonetheless. For what it's worth, all of those wacky theories about Q-anon or even flat earth don't beat the fact that people somehow managed to subvert and obscure the fundamental truth about nature tha…

What other people's genitals and reproductive organs look like is generally none of your business. In other words, their sex is irrelevant.

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#196

Post by jeofken »

alwayshasbeen wrote: post #15

Reminds me of when the president of a warring nation once won the Nobel Peace Prize.

What a farce.

The piece price is awarded by a committee selected by the political parties of Norways Parlament - for Americans, you can think of this as the Democratic Party in an (almost) mono-ethnic white small 5mil country.

Alfred Nobel set it up such because he thought Norwegians would be more peaceful than Swedes. The science and literature prices are given by the (nonpolitical) Swedish royal academy. This is the reason why the peace price is so different from the other prices.

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#197

Post by tonyjstark »

briantakita wrote: post #159
jollybean wrote: post #22

Let this be a lesson to all: intelligence does not in any way correlate with self awareness. It's likely that 'smart' people are just as likely to be unaware of their own follies or inabilities, I would argue, maybe more so as a lot of smart people tend to be 'inwardly focused' and less concerned about their direct environment. This kind of thing happens all the time among Exec. level, but normally we'd expect it fro…

Nowdays, if somebody wins an award, they are the exact opposite. We live is opposite world now.

I have something that I call 'Potato-Law' for this.

It's like how the potatoes in discounters always say 'premium quality' or 'premium potatoes' but if they are, they wouldn't be so cheap or you couldn't buy them at the discounter. OTOH, if you go to a specialty goods shop, they don't write premium on their products. So if something has to be labeled on how good it is, it's probably not.

Re: YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki Gets 'Freedom Expression' Award Sponsored by YouTube

#198

Post by thu2111 »

dehrmann wrote: post #154
itronitron wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It also indicates to me that the leadership at Alphabet is totally out to lunch. I would have thought they had the sense to stop this but apparently not.

You mean the leadership that put Google cofounder Sergey Brin's sister-in-law in charge of Youtube?

And not only sister in law. Executive leader of that highly successful project, Google Video, which ended with Wojcicki being so beaten that she had to tell Google management to buy her only competitor for over a billion dollars.

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Post by thu2111 »

IG_Semmelweiss wrote: post #123
austincheney wrote: post #92

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> but normally we'd expect it from Ford CEO, not Google types. Why? How do you see a distinction there?

Not parent but would assume that "google types" are more likely engineers first, with the assumption that those types are likely likely to have spatial / problem solvin awareness. Contrast Vs traditional traditional CEOs more likely to be hired on the basis of their network and charistma vs actual engineering chops?

Wojcicki is not an engineer. Her background is marketing.

Re: YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki Gets 'Freedom Expression' Award Sponsored by YouTube

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Post by zo1 »

specialist wrote: post #134
ajxs wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> "...so that it will become more inconvenient for her (or for the rest of Youtube) to do more things that interfere with free speech." This is a good theory, I don't think it reflects the situation though. She used her 'acceptance speech' for this absurd accolade to emphasise the importance of censorship in ensuring freedom, that war is peace, freedom is slavery, so on so on. If this was the aim, it clearly didn't w…

aka Freedom Speeches™

Censorship is Freedom!
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