Tag: morons morons everywhere

latining:

cenkrett:

To everyone who is shocked by the blatantly oppressive and overtly fascist things the Trump administration is doing… why? Why are you surprised? This was all 100% predictable. This is all completely in line with his attitudes and behavior from before the election. People have been screaming about this for many months now. You’re allowed to be appalled, you should be appalled, but there’s absolutely no excuse for being shocked.

He’s doing everything he bragged about doing. You do not get to act surprised.

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UC Davis paid $175,000 or more to scrub police pepper spray incident from web searches

feathersmoons:

copperbadge:

mustangsally78:

geeksofdoom:

mostlysignssomeportents:

Looks like the geniuses who run UC Davis never Googled the words “Streisand Effect.”

After a police officer pepper-sprayed UC Davis students in a widely reported 2011 incident, the California university contracted with SEO consultants for $175,000 (or maybe more) to scrub unfavorable online items about the incident and boost online reputations of both the university and Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi.

The Sacramento Bee reported on the SEO scandal, and based their story on documents newly released in response to requests filed last month under the California Public Records Act.

In January 2013, UC Davis contracted a Maryland firm, Nevins & Associates, for a six-month contract that paid $15,000 a month. Nevins was the first of many “reputation management firms” paid off by the university administrators. And that payment was just the start.

http://boingboing.net/2016/04/13/uc-davis-spent-175000-to-scr.html

obviously I need to reblog this every single time it appears on my dash. you should too.

http://www.sfgate.com/politics/joegarofoli/article/UC-Davis-pepper-spray-officer-awarded-38-000-4920773.php#photo-2534623

I never thought I’d say I was glad I didn’t choose to attend UC Davis, but I’m glad I’m not an alumnus of UC Davis. 

FYI, if you are an alum of Davis and you’re ashamed of their behavior but not sure what you can do, here’s a thing. Speaking as someone who works in fundraising, one of the very loudest ways to get the attention of school administration is to tell them why you won’t be giving them any money, ever. Tell them you don’t want your money going to scrub images of their shame off the internet, and you don’t want to pay the salaries of the people who caused it. Don’t tell them to take you off their solicitation list – just tell them, every single time they solicit, through mail or email or by phone, that you won’t be giving them any money and you won’t be engaging with the school in any way (engagement is a new metric and many schools measure fundraising success in part by how many people attend events, tweet positively about the school, et cetera).

Tell them you’re ashamed of your school and that you’ll tell every alum you meet. And this doesn’t just go for Davis – if your school pulls this kind of shenanigans, tell them you won’t give them money, you won’t engage with them, and you will tell everyone you went to school with why. Tell them every time they ask you for money you’ll tweet about their shame, or you’ll find someone on linkedin who went to your school and tell them not to give either.  

Some schools have a “lost generation”, a few years to a decade where something they did so appalled or traumatized the students that there’s just no way that most of them will ever donate or support the school. Most schools would do anything to get that generation back. And if they see an impending “lost generation” of alumni because they chose to scrub these images instead of owning their mistakes, well. It can’t fix what’s broken, but it may prevent it from happening again.

Unis really do depend on not just the financial support, but the social support of alums. The bigger the uni, hilariously, the more this is the case.

Alums are basically free advertising. Invaluable free advertising. They are the most important part of reputation. Harvard is what Harvard is in no small part BECAUSE THAT’S HOW PEOPLE THINK OF HARVARD.

So.

slytherbitchvakarian:

konkeydongcountry:

jimmybobjames:

konkeydongcountry:

jimmybobjames:

konkeydongcountry:

i’m sick of these SJWs telling me not to buy bottled water

i propose a new hashtag

#watergate

but didn’t that already happen?

no, you’re thinking of #gamergate

#watergate is an all new movement advocating choice in drinks

wait but what about the thing in the 60’s where this guy

image

suddenly stole buckets upon buckets of water from this thing

image

and got slapped in the hand for it?

don’t be silly, everyone knows about Tricky Dick’s Wet ‘n’ Wild Water Heist of 1967

What

geekzyllah:

moniquill:

asgardreid:

takashi0:

ifinddelightinthegruesomeandgrim:

this is literally both sides of any political argument

This is literally how the average tumblr user’s mindset works

One of these sides was pretty objectively right though.

Don’t you love it when a group of people violently repelling confirmed murderers from their community and the group of confirmed murderers (who expressly in the narrative came to steal resources) are portrayed as ‘equally bad and wrong’?

^^^

Also can we just pay attention to the part where “they are evil” and “they can’t be trusted” are IN NO WAY the same thing?  The English are saying “they’re not like us, so we already know everything we need to know about them and can proceed with their destruction” and the Native Americans are saying “they’re not like us, so we need to stay alert and pay attention because they might not have the same cultural assumptions that we do.”  HOW is this equivalent AT ALL?

last-snowfall:

seananmcguire:

camwyn:

typhlonectes:

Don’t  Do This Shit #314:  Get Close to a Bison

A 62-year-old Australian man sustained serious but
non-life-threatening injuries after an encounter with a bison near Old
Faithful Lodge in Yellowstone National Park around 11 a.m. today.

According to witness reports, several people were crowding a bison that
was lying on the grass near an asphalt path, when the man approached
the bison while taking pictures with an electronic notepad.  He got to
within 3 to 5 feet from the bison when it charged him, tossing him into
the air several times.  

When responding rangers arrived on scene, the bison was approximately
100 yards from the victim.  The victim was transported to a ground
ambulance and then taken by helicopter ambulance for further medical
treatment.

Visitors are reminded that Yellowstone wildlife is
wild. Wildlife should not be approached, no matter how tame or calm they
appear.

When an animal is near a trail or boardwalk, visitors should
still give it a wide berth, not approaching closer than the recommended
safe distances: 25 yards (23 m) away from all large animals – bison,
elk, bighorn sheep, deer, moose, and coyotes and at least 100 yards (91
m) away from bears and wolves.

Bison can sprint three times
faster than humans can run and are unpredictable and dangerous. Visitors
are advised to always give the animals enough space, even if that means
altering their plans to avoid crowding the animal.  

For further information on park safety, please visit:

http://www.nps.gov/yell/planyourvisit/safety.htm

Read more at: Yellowstone National Park

I thought they taught Australians how not to die of wildlife by the time they were old enough to walk.

“It’s not venomous I’M GONNA LICK IT.”

They get convinced they’ve cornered the market on deadly animals and don’t realize ours skip poison and venom in favour of blunt force trauma.

raisel-the-riveter:

I’m kind of blown away by how completely disingenuous people in this discussion about Daredevil are managing to be?? like surely, if you’ve heard any interview with any actor ever, you
know actors have doubles a lot! for basically anything you can think
of! Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss had a frigging whistling double. Finn Jones, who plays Loras on Game of Thrones, had a shaving double
for a scene where he shaves another character. no one blinks at this
stuff but suddenly when the possibility of a blind actor is mentioned,
everyone’s like “you’re saying they could use a WHOLE SEPARATE ACTOR? to do DANGEROUS OR PHYSICALLY DEMANDING FEATS? a double, if you will, just for stunts? who has ever
heard of such a thing??”

#like!#chris evans had his frigging FACE pasted onto someone else for like a third of a movie!#charlie cox’s stunt double is featured heavily in every episode of daredevil to begin with!#they manage to cut it so you don’t observe that bc THEY ARE GOOD AT THEIR JOBS#blind people dont’ have some kind of jamming field that makes this sort of clever editing#which is already rOUTINELY USED#impossible somehow!