Her name is Theresa Kachindamoto, and she is a senior chief – political leader of a region with a population of about 900,000 people.
She didn’t run for election; she was appointed, without her knowledge, while she was living and working in a completely different part of the country. She just received a call one day telling her to come back to her childhood home, because she was in charge now.
So she did; and when she arrived, she discovered widespread sexual abuse of children. She browbeat 50 uncooperative local leaders into accepting her decision to annul all the marriages. She then fired four of them when they continued to allow children to be married off in their areas. She still faces widespread opposition from parents who consider it their right to sexually abuse their daughters if they want to; but Kachindamoto very evidently does not give a fuck, and is continuing to use political and legal means to protect children in the region.
She’s not just an anonymous do-gooder; she’s an effective political leader despite incredibly difficult circumstances. Theresa Kachindamoto.
I’m reblogging myself because I read the source. The lead scientist involved theorized that it was going fast enough that A) it would not have burnt up in our atmosphere, and B) it would not have been caught in Earth’s orbit. Essentially meaning, the first man made object launched into space was a manhole cover that’s still traveling the cosmic abyss.
That’s not true though because the V2 rocket was the first object that entered what is considered space.
I did some research on the V2 just now. The V2 never left our atmosphere. So no, it didn’t make it to space. It made it into the upper levels of our atmosphere, almost into orbit. The manhole cover blew way past the V2s recorded height.
So i mentioned about a server for intensive language learners yesterday. Here’s the invitation link.
Again, the server is a technical one. I didn’t add chats/channels for each language because you can find many servers like this. (If anyone wants the invitation link to one, @lipwigvonmoist will gladly give you one.)
If you want to chat occasionally, there are 5 plain chats (text and audio) that you can use anytime for practice or anything else.
The server has several channels (the ones that I’ve mentioned here) and i’ll add more if there’s a need for new ones.
We will choose 5 languages and @lovelybluepanda makes 2 files with 1-2 grammar lessons explained and 10-25 words and your job is to learn what the files contain for whichever of the language(s) you want to learn!
We are starting on August 1st so you still have time to join and vote for the language(s) you’re interested!
The 5 languages we chose for the event are Japanese, Korean, French, German, and Finnish. Although the event has been going on for two weeks already and we have four lessons for each language, feel free to join if you’re interested!
