Social media addiction is a subset of screen addiction, and screen addiction is destroying Gen Alpha at an alarming pace. I have so far found zero specialists who can help with this. It's not just a matter of taking screens away, we have literally turned an entire generation into junkies who will lie and cheat to get their fix. The adolescent mind never stood a chance; male or female.

If Meta wants a nicer spot in hell they can at least help with the mess they have profited off of. Help train the next generation of rehab specialists and help people find help. We made big tobacco do it, we can make these monsters do it as well.

That is not a trivial feat in the least. You don't have to give your kids smart phones, you don't have to have a PC at home. You can try to send your kid to a school that deemphasizes technology. And yet your kid will still end up with a screen addiction because it is that consuming. Kids don't have a chance. What today's kids face today is so far beyond what any of us grew up with that there really is no comparison.

My youngest siblings grew up on a heavy diet of Barney and Friends and it drove me up the wall. At least there was only a certain time of the day that was available on broadcast TV. And my 8 bit NES was not portable in any reasonable meaning of the word. Those barriers are gone now and the programming targeting kids makes Barney look like Mr Science.

If they buy the Mona Lisa and decide destroying it is what they want to do that is their decision.

Destroy the Mona Lisa? It's been done before. Nobody noticed.

From what I can see from reading TFA, Europe has not one, but two problems, both climate related. One, of course, is the heat. The other, that nobody here is talking about, is a massive drought. I'll bet that we're reading about crop failures and famines later this year.

Maybe they could call it 20 minutes into the future" .

Uber and Lyft drivers almost certainly wouldn't count on this, as they - with very few exceptions - use GPS to navigate. A taxi is a completely different animal in that regard.

Yet you took the time to reply. You could have chosen to ignore it instead. Glad we can count on folks like you to continue to drive down the signal to noise ratio here.

Yes, I know my ID is also 7 digits long. I don't consider myself longtime, even having read and posted for over 20 years here.

No, no, no! That's DeadRat! Can't you get anything right?

I'm using Fedora f43 and running 7.1.5-101. Debian is falling behind.

However, they are very cryptic with brevity seemingly valued over understandability.

Agreed. However, all a new user needs to learn to get started in a CLI is one command: man. Once you have that, and a little practice in understanding what it's saying, you've got everything you need.

We have levels of wealth inequality that are worse than the gilded age right before the Great depression.

Where did you get that utterly wrong idea from? Not that the Gilded Age was a time of great wealth inequality, but that it was just before the Great Depression during the Roaring Twenties, roughly a century ago. If you'd bothered to check, you'd have learned that it ran from the late 1870s through the late 1890s, decades earlier.

So echo chambers for singers with weak voices are still OK, right?

Tell us you've never served in the military, without telling us you've never served in the military. :)

And when did you serve, and where? I was in Uncle Sam's Navy, '69-''73, including time in Tonkin Gulf.

If memory serves, his work on thiotimoline was just a sideline to the work that earned his doctorate. And, if you want to try to confirm his thiotimoline results, you can find it on Madagascar, a large island in the Indian Ocean, mostly inhabited by Zuni and Pueblo Indians.