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Stanford grads walk out on Google CEO Sundar Pichai speech

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It was a commencement speech. Here's a transcript: https://blog.google/company-news/inside-google/message-ceo/s...

No mention of AI at all.

Well, they didn't walk out about AI...

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

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

In this seemingly forever argument, it seems there is some nuance in that Palestine is not Hamas and vice versa. One of the perspectives as I understand it is that Hamas is actually a threat to the existence of Palestine; the militaristic behaviour undermines Palestinian efforts at independence (and this is an avenue for exploitation by those who don't want to see an independent Palestine). It is a similar situation…

Hamas is good. Supporting Hamas is not bad. The US military has done exponentially worse things.

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

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

In this seemingly forever argument, it seems there is some nuance in that Palestine is not Hamas and vice versa. One of the perspectives as I understand it is that Hamas is actually a threat to the existence of Palestine; the militaristic behaviour undermines Palestinian efforts at independence (and this is an avenue for exploitation by those who don't want to see an independent Palestine). It is a similar situation…

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That’s not an excuse. Kidnapping is a police problem. Not a genocide problem.

Hamas' mass murdering isn't a "police problem" whatever that's meant to mean and they are quite explicit in their goal of genocide of the Jewish population in the southern levante.

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

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Hamas' mass murdering isn't a "police problem" whatever that's meant to mean and they are quite explicit in their goal of genocide of the Jewish population in the southern levante.

Hamas is not the same as Palestinians. But I understand that Israeli soldiers need justification to shoot at children and raise houses- just as Germans needed justification for their genocide.

Hamas knows that and is willing to give Israeli army those excuses freely, they freely admitted that the whole point of the kidnappings and murders was to provoke Israeli into genocide, which in turn would provide world wide sympathy for their cause. Hamas will fight to the last Palestinian, which is sad.

Don’t get me wrong, Israel is not the good guy here, and Hamas is just taking advantage of their short fuse. Both sides are insane, which is why I think it’s better for us to just sit it out, the only thing we can do is make it worse.

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

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

I saw someone post this was due to H1B visas. Then I drilled into the comments and saw it was a Palestine protest. It is getting hard to know what is true anymore as everyone is trying to push their own narrative.

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

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Regardless of the details of this speech, I believe Sundar Pichai is uncommonly out of touch with reality and with the nation of the United States of America, even among tech CEOs. He should step down.

He ruined Google, started by shattering the culture into a million pieces. He has negative charisma and no imagination. He was best as a mid level manager.

Top shareholders aren't concerned with "the culture."

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

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I've come around on the idea of a Palestinian state. Once they have a state, the Arabs in Gaza and the West Bank will finally have defined borders and a single sovereign. And history shows they can be relied upon to launch another genocidal war on Israel more or less immediately. Then it will be a war between two nation-states, not a nation-state vs. an unaccountable terrorist organization that pretends to be a prope…

> they can be relied upon to launch another genocidal war on Israel more or less immediately. They'll certainly have learnt a lot from Israel in that respect.

On Oct. 7 the Arabs in Gaza creatively used all means available to them to kill every single human in Israel that they could reach. This includes airpower, i.e. the infamous paramotor assault.

If Israel learned from them and creatively used all means available to them to kill every human in Gaza that they could reach, this conflict would have been definitively resolved years ago and the accusations of genocide would actually be true.

But if y'all keep spuriously accusing Israel of committing genocide when they're not, and Israel is "doing the time" anyway, they might just decide to actually "do the crime". As I said, it would certainly resolve the conflict.

So good work! Keep it up! The more you repeat the lie, the more likely you are to turn it into truth.

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

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He ruined Google, started by shattering the culture into a million pieces. He has negative charisma and no imagination. He was best as a mid level manager.

Top shareholders aren't concerned with "the culture."

Not to be crass buts it’s basically slave labor with free lunch

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

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Hamas is not the same as Palestinians. But I understand that Israeli soldiers need justification to shoot at children and raise houses- just as Germans needed justification for their genocide.

Hamas has been the government in Gaza for the last years, so I'm not sure what you want to say by stating the mass murdering by Hamas is a police problem.

18 years IIRC. Entire generation has been raised with one and single mission - destroy Israel. Yes Hamas isn't Palestine, same way Trump isn't America. But it's pretty damn close.
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