On this day in 1984, the Republic of Upper Volta, a name retained from its former status as a French colony, was renamed Burkina Faso, meaning "Land of Incorruptible People", with its people being called Burkinabé ("upright people").
The renaming was proposed by president Thomas Sankara and confirmed by the National Assembly. Sankara's government formed the National Council for the Revolution (CNR), with Sankara as its president, and established popular Committees for the Defense of the Revolution (CDRs). The Pioneers of the Revolution youth programme was also established. Throughout his presidency, Sankara focused on programmes for social, ecological and economic change.
His foreign policies were centred on anti-imperialism, while he rejected the International Monetary Fund's "aid". Sankara welcomed foreign aid from other sources but tried to reduce reliance on aid by boosting domestic revenues and diversifying the sources of assistance. His domestic policies were focused on preventing famine with agrarian self-sufficiency and land reform, prioritising education with a nationwide literacy campaign and promoting public health by vaccinating more than 2 million children against meningitis, yellow fever and measles. Between 18,000 and 50,000 children who died annually of measles and meningitis lived.
Burkinabe built for the first time scores of schools, health centers, water reservoirs, and nearly 100 km of rail, with little or no external assistance. Total cereal production rose by 75% between 1983 and 1986. Other components of his national agenda included planting over 10 million trees to combat the growing desertification of the Sahel, redistributing land from private landowners, suspending rural poll taxes and domestic rents and establishing a road and railway construction programme. On the local level, Sankara called on every village to build a medical dispensary and had pharmacies built in 5,384 out of 7,500 villages. From 1982-1984 the infant mortality rate dropped from 208 per 1,000 births to 145. School attendance under Sankara increased from 6% to 22%.
In support of women's rights, he outlawed female genital mutilation, forced marriages and polygamy. He appointed women to high governmental positions and encouraged them to work outside the home and stay in school, even if pregnant. Sankara encouraged the prosecution of officials accused of corruption and counter-revolutionaries in Popular Revolutionary Tribunals. As an admirer of the Cuban Revolution, Sankara set up Cuban-style Committees for the Defense of the Revolution. His revolutionary programmes for African self-reliance made him an icon to many of Africa's poor. :sankara-salute: :sankara-bass:
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School, oak, overcoat, mathematical. Multiply the left and right sides of the given equation: a^3 d = b^3 dc, or a^3 = b^3 c.
It follows that c must be a cube of an integer. The only cube from 2 through 15 is 8, so c = 8, and a^3 = 8b^3 , or a = 2b.
Substituting in the first given equation, 4b^2 = bd, or 4b = d. In the given range of numbers, b must equal 2 or 3, and d must equal 8 or 12. Since c already is 8, d is 12 and b is 3. Then a = 2b = 6.
False analogy
Scientific discoveries are sometimes made by using analogy. If certain features of two objects are similar, perhaps other features are also similar. Analogy, however, is only a tool for good guesses. The guesses have to be tested.
Analogy has its place in mathematics also, but so, alas, does false analogy:
“By how much is 40 larger than 32?”
“By 8.”
“By how much is 32 smaller than 40?”
“By 8.”
“By what percentage is 40 larger than 32?”
“By 25 percent.”
“By what percentage is 32 smaller than 40?”
“By 25 percent.”
But it is only 20 percent smaller.
-(A) Suppose your monthly income increases 30 percent. By what percentage does your purchasing power increase?
-(B) Suppose your monthly income does not change, but prices go down 30 percent. By what percentage does your purchasing power increase?
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This Friday we're gonna have a Spanish Movie Friday, there should be a Nominations post for movie candidates either today or tomorrow, so be on the look out for that.
:che-poggers: :fidel-bat:
Landlords are in full panic over on twitter about the Moratorium extension. And the dems seem muted in their gloating over Nina, like they know they finally killed the party for their own grifting.
Something seems broken about the USA now. Not just in the general "USA is stagnant and doomed long term" post 2016 sense but in the "This is the actual wheels falling off in real time and things are in the terminal stage" sense.
2022 is gonna be an absolute shit show. I've said it before and I wasn't joking at all, there is a real chance they lose the house and senate by such large amounts that impeachment and conviction of Biden becomes a real possibility.
Awful lot of grifters looking at Trump’s playbook and being like, “well I can do better than that”
you mock me for my huge piss bottle collection now, but when you need a source of ammonia to fertilise the dead soil I'll be the one who's fucking laughing then you smug piece of shit
I have no idea why I wrote this, and I am not sorry for it, but the idea of a doomer prepper who hordes piss bottles for the ammonia is just extremely funny to me
Gonna have to deal with piss hoarding kulaks the only way we know how
:stalin-gun-1::stalin-gun-2:
after the ecological collapse, the rich and powerful will bathe in tubs of warm stale piss to flex their wealth
Boomers have made fun of retail, fast food, and factory work for 30 years as well as dehumanized any type of working class job, and now they're astonished they can't find those types of workers
Eat shit and I hope your dad's business goes underwater
So it begins, just got my first text from a military recruiter. I called the military the "greatest force for evil since Nazi Germany" and they said I'm entitled to my opinion and to check out their link if my mind changes
Remember to waste their time as you might just saved someones life down the line. Also recruiters are very dumb and will respond to obvious bait.
completely unironic :pog-fish: because ngl thats what i'm aiming for right now! gg comrade!
keeping my vanta black curtains closed at all times 'cause I just don't trust big sunlight like that
no, vampires are blood collectors for big pharma, vampires get the wall. I only trust small locally grown sunlight, the corpo shit is laced with mind rays
Corporate democratic radlib vampires of amerikkka are stealing sunlight from the global south and mixing it with fluorescent light and selling it to us under the guise of it being “natural”
There's something really empowering about wearing waterproof boots when it's rainy. Like no, I don't have to to hop around little puddles of water, I'm just walking right in through everything :soviet-huff:
Someone on tinder claimed they post for a living, which brought to mind how awful it might be to date another poster
@Dirt_Owl how do you feel about Thomas Sankara, on a speech warned against 'owls with shifty eyes" among reactionary elements that they must remain vigilant of?
Brave but foolish.
Edit: also they gotta fix that emoji tag. It's a guitar not a bass.
Maybe their eyes are shifting because they're moving their entire heads around.
oh shit, the supreme court decided that blocking roads for a political cause is actually legal. damn, those fuckers actually did something good for once. absolute SHIT LOAD of arrests on those charges from XR, BLM, kill the bill, over the past 3 years that are all now going to get thrown out of court lmao
I told a Karen to calm down after she yelled at my friend today. Then she called me a psycopath and said I should never have children. Totally normal thing for a grown ass woman to do, telling teenagers that they shouldn't have kids 👍
Working in a office (for the first time) and im getting praised for the most inane shit. All i did was send an email and print something out for you. Im giving 5% of my energy ova here and my good name is being plastered on the teams chat lmao
:garf-troll:Do office workers just receive constant participation trophies? Makes a lot of sense honestly
