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Urgent: Raise the Wage Act

Richard Stallman · 16 Sept 2026 · stallman.org

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  1. To suppose that this rock art image has a precise message encoded in little details, as writing would have, has no factual basis that I know of.
  2. Nonetheless, ancient rock art is precious, because it may convey a not-so-detailed message that would nonetheless be amazing to understand, if someday we can.
  3. I am pretty sure that the US made some sort of vicious secret intervention, because the newly elected? president is a magat.
  4. Finland made great progress towards eliminating homelessness by giving people houses which they could feel was home. Alas, right-wing government has cut some of the spending and is driving homelessness back up.
  5. The systems are really dangerous, but we cannot trust the companies that develop them to protect us from them.
  6. Historically, whenever companies get power over what people's computing facilities can do, they use it against us, building malicious functionalities, designed to benefit them, into the software they invite us to use.
  7. The president of Ecuador is turning the country into a dictatorship by banning parties that don't support him.
  8. Global heating is an intentional outrage, not a natural calamity. It is being done to us knowingly.
  9. Republicans' long-term strategy, since Reagan, is to spend a lot of money (mainly on things that won't benefit non-rich Americans), refuse to raise taxes, and therefore greatly increase the national debt.
  10. Racism today: when a white person faces accusations of wrongdoing, the accusation is against per alone. When a black person faces accusations, racists use that to cast aspersions against blacks in general.