Even if they say no tracking, but collect data, I'm still always suspicious. Even of they don't track, a data breach can ruin my day.
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Yeah, homeboy clicked accept on a mile-long ToS. He should know this!
There's research. Theres a link to a 2022 paper in this article.
https://www.petmd.com/dog/general-health/how-many-words-does-a-dog-know
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There's also a whole mess of people who have taught dogs and cats to use buttons that say a word to have 2-way communication. So the dog will go press the button that says "outside" when they want to go out. Some get an active vocabulary of dozens of words.
What I love from these people is that dogs say exactly like what you think dogs would say. Outside, food, hi!, love, play and the like. Cats get bitchy. There's a few instances where multiple cats will have a button for "litter box" or similar. When you tell the cat something it didn't like, it goes over and presses "litterbox" as a kind of F you.
Or just never talk to a tankie because they and not their politics are often annoying.
Thank the gods someone realizes this.
Newsom is a solid status quo maintainer with 2 or 3 senior edgelord staff.
Greg Newberry?! That got owes me $5!
Who wants to throw in €5 on a betting pool for what month the divorce/widow marriage happens?
Also, who wants €20 against a quick poligimist marriage to ensure dominave over the browns and the blondes?
I'm good for it, I swear.
And so when Jesus makes his way back to El Norte, my Mom goes to heaven.
What a silly religion.
Cats can understand about 50-100 words in the primary language of the house.
Your cat knows when you bullshit them.
Hey. My Mom voted for Trump to accelerate the Second Coming of Jesus.
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15 years. Saved until 2040.
Sounds like a ripe fruit for a juicy-ass class action law suit.
The most amazing, revolutionary thing about the Constitution was that its rights applied to everyone within its jurisdiction, not just citizens.
4th Amendment, fare thee well... Nice to have known you.
FFS, I'm on mobile, I'm not swiping you a novel.
Plus you only want a fight and to discard any evidence I provide for you. Like a site filled with actual information about the guy in this vague meme, which you ignore. Even though it's clearly the "source" of the "data" for this meme. Ugh, this is like talking to MAGA people on Facebook, reality is bad, feelings only good.
About the literacy issue, French was the official language for any former French colony, and therefore the only metric of "literacy" for many francophone counties in Africa after independence was, perversely, French. It varies by country, but ECOWAS countries didn't start officially recognizing local languages until much later.
Teaching literacy in local languages, however, is not so easy. There are no manuals or materials, and the French school system that everyone kept well into today is extremely wrote memorization based. I had a friend who did this all from the ground up 20 years ago in a widely spoken language, and everything was starting from nothing, all to get about 100 village kids to read the language they already spoke.
Why keep French? Because the elites use it to perpetuate classism. They all have flats in Paris, so none of this affects them, and only hold back the county because most French-speakers on earth are in West Africa, so they end up learning Arabic or English to try and get a university degree outside Francophone West Africa that is worth their time. It was super bold of Niger to drop French recently, as long as they sorted out how to deal with 4 main local languages that everyone speaks one or two of.
Anyway, I'm going to bed, so you have fun saying more irate things that just point to your own lack of knowledge and willingness to learn. This is not a conversion, it's a rant prompt for you, which is not worth my time. Have a nice day. Or not, you pick.
Lol, thanks I guess! And no true beef from me against @PugJesus@piefed.social at all. But that meme might as well have been about how Thomas Sankara invented the phone book and was secretly the Tooth Fairy.
Burkina Faso is a really interesting place, and just always feelt offwhenever I was there. Like, there's tons of vultures. Everywhere else in the whole Sahel region you'll see doves and crows and eagrets. Burkina is just overloaded with vultures. In the city, out in the county, so weird. Tragic what has happened there over the last decade.
You might need to hear that I don't have any issue with Sankara, or you. I have issues with the meme you shared being essentially fantasy.
Did you even read that article you linked to? Because I have, many times since it was published in 2016. It only supports me, and makes zero mention of Sanakara.
"This was a stupid way of restoring land in the Sahel," says Dennis Garrity, a senior research fellow at the World Agroforestry Centre.
"If all the trees that had been planted in the Sahara since the early 1980s had survived, it would look like Amazonia," adds Chris Reij, a sustainable land management specialist and senior fellow at the World Resources Institutewho has been working in Africa since 1978. "Essentially 80 percent or more of planted trees have died."
"We moved the vision of the Great Green Wall from one that was impractical to one that was practical," says Mohamed Bakarr...
So even the other experts you found agree with me.
Next, you don't even know what the meme says. From www.thomassankara.net
He initiated a nation-wide literacy campaign, increasing the literacy rate from 13% in 1983 to 73% in 1987.
That's the 60%. It's all over the internet. No math needed.
Look, there's no reason to die on the hill of someone else's misrepresented meme text. That's someone else doing Sankara dirty, not you. There's no reason to double down without doing due diligence, it's just self-own after self-own. And no reason to resort to personal attacks.
For the claims in the meme? I don't have it, and most of it are just claims made with no evidence to support them. Other than he told people to plant trees and claimed to have planted millions, but wherever those trees are now, it's not in Burkina Faso.
“Many of his achievements were reversed by his successor who literally couped him, therefore, they never existed”
???
Sadly, what I meant was that none of his achievements amounted to anything actual Burkinabae people experienced as genuine long-term beneficial changes. That nothing he did from this image lasted or was enough of a net good that even a week of some other guy couldn't undo it all.
The environmental initiative was abandoned after his assassination
Yeah, I've done a ton of desertification remediation projects, and this is not the flex you think it is. Primarily that desertification prevention projects are always nice ideas and fade after a couple years when you find out how well most interventions don't work. I've watched hundreds of people in the Sahel plant trees for big, well-funded events. Most die within a year or so because, as it turns out, small trees need water. Planting trees is not some new invention. OK, so he planted 10 million? They're trees - where are they? I've been to BF a few times, it looks just as much like a desert as Niamey, and it's bleak AF once you get north of Ouaga. Trees require years of labor to get to the point where trees take. He was probably just looking at issues with charcoal use and forestry issues and did the math. It's nice that he did this, but this isn't some mind-blowing unique thing. It's what every foreigner shows up and tries to do as well in the Sahel, like they're the first one to think of it. Even if 10% of the trees survived, you would think that 1 million trees would still be around, yes?
“By 60%” not “to 60%”
Had time to dig into this, and whew - this is simply not true. There's no source for the 73% literacy rate claim. Second, explain to me how people became UNliterate? BF's literacy rate is around 40%. Yet, the most literate group is children who had been in schools. Why are the adults, including the older adults running at 10% literacy rates when 73% of everyone was literate 30 years ago? We would see literacy rates that don't look like every other Sahelian country.
Second, literacy is not learning the alphabet, and in the 70's and 80's, literacy was only the ability to reach French, an abomination of a language. Leftovers of the colonial past that the stats were only for French, and they included local languages later. If you think it's so easy, go learn to read french this week and tell me how that goes for you.
What may have been misconstrued, IMO, is one of two things: It might have been teaching local language written in regular romance letters, which, again, is not literacy because there's really not anything to read in local languages. People sound out the things they read like signs, so it's sort of half way to anything. OR he included people who claimed to know Arabic from Koranic schools. I promise you, no one can read Arabic IRL, but it's an alphabet. You do occasionally out in the villages see people writing local language in Arabic, which is interesting. But it's not the same thing as literacy.
“The country was a mess by its very formation; therefore, Sankara had no achievements”
Not at all - it's that while he was violating human rights just a bit (very popular at the time) to hold the new country together, it left him distracted and fighting for internal power, rather than doing things that were longer-lasting. Meaning that you can't just think it was a magical utopia for a few years based on a meme. His achievements don't live on beyond memes that make it sound like Marxist African leaders had any sort of successes at all. No one needs to come by and tear them down, it al gets washed away because everything in the Sahel is hard on life and achievement. Nothing lasts. And Sankara is no exception.
Y'all ever been to Burkina Faso? None of this was true IRL, let alone after a week of Compaoré, and it's certainty phenomenonal levels of inaccurate out of context. Burkina Faso is just plain weird.
The desertification is on par with everyone else in the neighborhood, and benefits from being south of the Niger river. "Literacy" rates are measured in French, so that 60% is riding on post-colonial olds. Literacy takes years of schooling, not enough time for measurable increases during the period he was in charge.
Plus, he was subsumed by the mess that came from trying to smash the Upper/Lower Volta territories into each other and make the colonial nether region of Upper Volta into a standalone country. That he was taken out by his successor is very common in West Africa around that time. BF want some Paradise stolen by a dictator. It was a shitshow some idiot thought they could run better.
Is the wack part how much BS this is?
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