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How to send broken links
I appreciate reporting broken links in stallman.org. To make the
reports useful, please send each broken link in a separate email. The
email should contain
- The full name of the page which contains the broken link.
- The URL that the broken link tries to link to.
- Around 8 lines of text which contains the broken link.
Please send that email to me, and I will forward it to the team.
Please don't send more than 4 per day! I can easily get overloaded
and have a backlog.
Thanks. |
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Republicans want to cut SNAP benefits
Republicans want to cut SNAP benefits for disabled Americans who can't
find jobs. They cite Clinton's 1996 "welfare reform" law as an
example to follow, which shows the cruelty of their intentions. |
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Disregarding decision to remove mifepristone
AOC argues that the US government can disregard the court decision
that purports to remove the FDA authorization of mifepristone. |
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Growing up poor and white in rural America
What it's like to grow up poor and white in rural America.
I'd be interested in seeing how this compares to growing up poor and black in
those places. Racism surely continues its dirty work. |
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Jamming Ukraine's drone communications
The Putin forces are making advances in their capability to jam
communication with Ukraine's most common kind of drone. In a few
months they may be entirely useless. |
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Water use in arid land cities
In an arid land city, a rich person can use almost ten times as much
water as a poor person.
Cities head towards a water shortage should
strictly limit water consumption by the rich years before what they
would call a "crisis".
Private wells also deplete the same ground water that makes up the
last resort for the region. They should be strictly regulated.
By contrast, building private desalinization plants run by renewable
energy should be encouraged, because they increase the total water
resources available to the region and don't take it away from anyone
else. |
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Suing EPA for approving plastic-recycling plant
Suing the EPA for approving a plastic-recycling plant that would cause a 1-in-4
risk of cancer for people who live nearby.
The risk of cancer will inevitably extend, though with decreasing
probability, to people who live somewhat farther away. I wonder at
what distance that risk will decrease to an acceptable amount.
100 miles? 1000 miles east?
The report is vague, and represents estimates. I can't be sure from this
report how much danger there would really be. Perhaps Chevron can demonstrate
that the actual danger is far less. But we should insist that it do so
by publishing measurements and analyses. |
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Treating fire-fighting like ambulances
Imagine how horrible it would be if we treated fire-fighting like
ambulances, making people pay for fire-fighting service.
Then turn this around to see the arguments for handling ambulances
like firefighting — a public service provided at little or no charge. |
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Sea-level rise accelerated in southern US
Sea-level rise in the southern US has accelerated. Since 2010 it is
rising more than a centimeter per year.
*A home purchased today in Pensacola will be underwater before the
mortgage is paid off. This is so scary.*
This augments the damage done by hurricanes, but I think the sea-level
rise itself will do more damage, because it is cumulative. Your
locality may go 50 years without a hurricane, but it won't go 50 years
magically skipped by sea-level rise. |
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Urgent: Legal right to ask for asylum
US citizens: call on Biden to respect the legal right to ask for asylum
inside the US.
Requiring asylum-seekers to run a nonfree program on top of that not
only fails to excuse the policy, it is an additional separate
injustice. Governments must never require people to run a nonfree
program. |