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Stanford grads walk out on Google CEO Sundar Pichai speech

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Re: Stanford grads walk out on Google CEO Sundar Pichai speech

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Post by arjie »

Speech itself was kind of fun: https://blog.google/company-news/inside-google/message-ceo/s...

Pretty light hearted, and honestly considering that he's given a speech to an empty stadium before (as referenced in the first few sentences, I think he'll have handled it just fine.

> But people have also been giving me a lot of advice on what to say. Actually, it’s been the same advice, and it’s about what not to say. People thought it would be really difficult for me; it is the last two letters of my last name, after all.

Ha, chuckle-worthy. Of course he'd find it hard to not pitch AI.

The only thing I find surprising is no-one points out that Stanford is a truly elite education system: Some 2 in 5 of students enter disabled, but almost all of them end up successful over time.

Re: Stanford grads walk out on Google CEO Sundar Pichai speech

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Post by ergocoder »

bdangubic wrote: post #29
ergocoder wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've never seen any protest by students that protested against Palestine. In fact, at University of Washington, a protest was organized to support Palestine after the Oct 7 massacre on Oct 8; they chose to show support Palestine after Palestine did a massacre. And there was a very little criticism on that kind of actions.

> I've never seen any protest by students that protested against Palestine. you should think long and hard why that is but answer is as always quite simple

We all know why, and the reason doesn't fit what you want to believe. That's why you pretend to be obscure about it. Otherwise, you would have just said so out loud already.

Re: Stanford grads walk out on Google CEO Sundar Pichai speech

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Post by za3faran »

ergocoder wrote: post #13
gritspants wrote: post #4

Seems this has more to do with Palestine and Google's involvement with Israel to provide cloud computing.

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Let's not victim blame here. Would you have called the Indians evil for wanting to have liberty from the british occupiers? What about the many other european colonies in Asia and Africa, were the locals "evil" for wanting to resist and get liberty?

Re: Stanford grads walk out on Google CEO Sundar Pichai speech

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Post by DaSHacka »

fhn wrote: post #26
nujabe wrote: post #16

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lol you clearly think the Palestine side are worse, stop being disingenuous and just say it with your chest. Only one side is being armed and funded by our tax dollars, and that’s good enough reason to protest.

your current employer funds the Israelis

...hence the protesting?

Re: Stanford grads walk out on Google CEO Sundar Pichai speech

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Post by spwa4 »

nujabe wrote: post #16
ergocoder wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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lol you clearly think the Palestine side are worse, stop being disingenuous and just say it with your chest. Only one side is being armed and funded by our tax dollars, and that’s good enough reason to protest.

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Re: Stanford grads walk out on Google CEO Sundar Pichai speech

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Post by spwa4 »

conception wrote: post #17
ergocoder wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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Both governments may be but there isn’t a power balance between the two in any appreciable way nor in a civilian casualty balance, especially concerning children casualties.

I think you mean one of the two governments works tirelessly to minimize casualties, especially children.

The other of the two governments works tirelessly to maximize casualties, especially children.

Both sides, of course, occasionally fuck it up too.

Re: Stanford grads walk out on Google CEO Sundar Pichai speech

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Post by neaden »

ergocoder wrote: post #32
bdangubic wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I've never seen any protest by students that protested against Palestine. you should think long and hard why that is but answer is as always quite simple

We all know why, and the reason doesn't fit what you want to believe. That's why you pretend to be obscure about it. Otherwise, you would have just said so out loud already.

It's because the US government doesn't fund hamas and US companies don't work with Hamas.

Re: Stanford grads walk out on Google CEO Sundar Pichai speech

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Post by cyberax »

za3faran wrote: post #34
ergocoder wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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Let's not victim blame here. Would you have called the Indians evil for wanting to have liberty from the british occupiers? What about the many other european colonies in Asia and Africa, were the locals "evil" for wanting to resist and get liberty?

If they did that by slaughtering civilians? Yes. Absolutely.

Re: Stanford grads walk out on Google CEO Sundar Pichai speech

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Post by xenospn »

shigawire wrote: post #18
ergocoder wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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Stanford students are criticizing Google for enabling Israel. If Google was providing support for Hamas they could protest that too.

They could. But they would never.
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