Rob Pike
Some years ago, I was walking from the kitchen back to my office at Google, carrying a piece of cake on a plate flat on my hand. There was a path between the desks, and walking towards me was Henry Kissinger followed by Eric Schmidt.
Eric saw what I had in my hand, and locked eyes with me. I was as tempted as I have ever been, but in the interests of world peace and keeping my job I kept my hand where it was, where it then passed just a few inches from Kissinger's face.
jwz
@jay @glyph @robpike
"If you punch a nazi... who's next?"
"Hopefully more nazis... why would you... why would you only punch one? That doesn't seem right..."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKICKcMU3MU
JayF
@glyph @robpike @jwz Because caking him would be violence. And answering people who endorse violence with violence only enhances the cycle. Even if the weapon used is cake.
Lots of people screwed up the past. I can't go back there and fix it, and any good feelings I'd get from them getting justice wouldn't fix the world they broke. Instead, I want to point my brain forward to help prevent more ... cake-ethical-conundrums in the future :D
Glyph
@robpike @jwz this story, and similar ones I’ve read tonight, make me sad. To be clear, I do not blame you, but it does distress me that many tech people adjacent to my general social orbit have met mass murderers and *none* of us have had the courage to even throw a bit of cake. Individually this would have been reckless, even foolish, but I wish we lived in a world where, collectively, a Kissinger would have nary a moment in public without some kind of baked good being smashed into his face
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