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Greg Miller Ice Bucket Challenge

Short and sweet. I liked how he challenged a community rep without all the grandiose pollItician stuff that I was expecting.
 
I really still don't get the whole ice bucket challenge thing at all. What exactly are they trying to accomplish and how exactly does dumping a bucket of ice water over your head accomplish this?
 
LogGrad98 said:
I really still don't get the whole ice bucket challenge thing at all. What exactly are they trying to accomplish and how exactly does dumping a bucket of ice water over your head accomplish this?
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I pretty much agree with this take from the LA Times.

https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-mh-ice-bucket-challenge-20140818-column.html
...Stunt philanthropy like the ice bucket challenge doesn't accommodate such distinctions and comparisons--it just feeds whatever charity hits on a catchy device and treats all causes as essentially equivalent, distinguished only by their momentary claim on public attention. The result is that "the most successful charities will be those that are best at soliciting funds, not those that are best at making the world a better place," as the British philanthropic organizer William MacAskill puts it.

...The explosive spread of the ice bucket challenge could even end up hurting ALS fundraising in the long term. The challenge is a fad, and fads by their nature burn out--the brighter they glow, the sooner they disappear.

The hard work of philanthropy always lies in creating a sustainable donor base. But the ice bucket challenge has all the hallmarks of something that will be regarded in 2015 as last year's thing.

Even today the connection between the ice bucket videos and ALS seems tenuous--think about how many times you heard about the "ice bucket challenge" or saw the hashtag #icebucketchallenge on Twitter before you had any idea that it was associated with ALS. The ALS Association may be very pleased with its haul of donated cash this summer, but here's betting that next year's collections will be closer to last year's than this year's.

So, sure. You want to contribute to the fight against ALS, great. But if you're doing it just because you saw or heard about Bill Gates, Jimmy Fallon, Justin Timberlake or Ethel Kennedy dumping ice water on their head, maybe you should give a bit more thought to where you donate your money.
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Unfortunately, almost none of them — Beckham, Messi, Ronaldo, Rory Mcilroy, Tiger Woods, Lady Gaga, the list goes on — manage to take a second out from all the hilarity to state what the whole thing is about, before whacking the clip on Youtube.

Okay, so the widespread publicity means that donations to the ALS Association have risen to $21m in the last few weeks. But this is a campaign that has enlisted the help of seemingly every A-Lister on the planet, including the rather deep-pocketed Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates.

As no less than Steve O from Jackass has pointed out (and been terrorised on social media for): "the fact that not more [...] has been raised is a tragedy. What awareness has this actually raised?"
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https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/our-limited-generosity-is-being-wasted-on-the-als-ice-bucket-challenge-9681666.html
 
LogGrad98 said:
I really still don't get the whole ice bucket challenge thing at all. What exactly are they trying to accomplish and how exactly does dumping a bucket of ice water over your head accomplish this?
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I wish they could find another way to bring awareness to the issue.

seems like we are wasting ALOT of water, while there are alot of parts of the world without clean drinking water and alot of places in severe drought.

seems dumb to me
 
fishonjazz said:
I wish they could find another way to bring awareness to the issue.

seems like we are wasting ALOT of water, while there are alot of parts of the world without clean drinking water and alot of places in severe drought.

seems dumb to me
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Give it another week and the fad will be over.
 
Thanks heyhey. Those articles pretty much sum the whole thing up. Two things struck me watching some of these, or actually quite a few of them. Los of those participating had looks on their faces like the proverbial guy that lost a bet and now had to wear a dress to Walmart or something. Greg Miller's struck me that way. And so many of the celebrity ones are pretty heavily scripted but again like those articles pointed out, almost no one says anything about the cause. They mostly treat the whole thing as mildly embarrassing or as a big joke.
 
Is that PKM at the 0:30 mark?
 
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