Bazzite is based not on the regular Fedora but rather the Fedora Silverblue distribution, which is an immutable/atomic operating system built on top of rpm-ostree. Maybe the Bazzite team could create something similar from a NixOS base instead, but they really would have to start their work all over from scratch (as far as making an OS fork fits that wording).

Take a look at the Linux CVE list- https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Flists.openwall.net%2Flin... . Over 80% of the bugs are from drivers, with over 300 suspected security bugs in January 2025 alone. If Rust even quash 30% of them (fair assessment since memory management in C is hard) then Rust in Linux would be considered a success.

This will lead to even lower birth rates in 'modern' societies, while those of 'traditional' subcultures will keep at their level. A problem that solves itself, ultimately, but not before it caused a lot of suffering in the 'modern', disappearing society.

See also: tradwife phenomena, immigrant population growth.

Obligatory mention of that one time Indiana tried to define pi as exactly 3 for all matters of engineering - which was only prevented by a maths professor who just so happened to be in the vicinity and held an in-promptu lecture on basic calculus.

Maybe a mere majority should not be enough to pass a law after all.

Fun fact: In 1800s England, there was a moral panic about (especially) young women *reading*. It was seen as a deliberate act of rotting their brains, similar to smoking opium.

Suicide has been the major cause of death for teenagers for a long time.

What is interesting is that the suicide rate dropped during the pandemic years - when many kids stayed at home, and had all access to social media, but none to ... classmates. Once the pandemic was 'over', and they returned to schools, it rose back to 2018 levels [1]. Maybe the suicide problem is not social media, but an increasingly toxic school environment?

From the same report, it claims that teenage suicide rose most significantly with the African-american population. Maybe an after-effect of the BLM riots and the associated rhetoric?

[1] https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cdc.gov%2Fmmwr%2Fvolum...

myogenetic (adj): originating in muscle.

People of all ages, genders, and hair colours have been shown disrespect long before social media was a thing, and parents often didn't bother getting involved. Whole cultures are extremely misogynistic, and are introducing this into western culture as we speak - no Tate needed.

Society changes all the time. Pressure always creates counter-pressure. The current pressure from especially young men is a direct result of decades of pro-women, girl-power identity politics that to many young boys felt like punishment for being born male. If you want to solve a wave in misogyny, control immigrant populations, especially from misogynic cultures, and stop making biological sex a discriminatory factor.

If you argue from a 'social media causes depression' standpoint, it is very relevant to be able to actually prove that.

We *know* the negative effects of sugar (though a child fed only veggies for his or her childhood will chose the cheapest, most inhumane nursing home for you that you can find).

We *guess* there is a problem with social media, and the usual pearl-clutchers keep hammering all that is wrong with the world on it, much like they did with comics, D&D, video-game induced violence and rock music before. That's what this whole thread is about.

Correlation, meet causation.

What is different between teenagers using social media and those who don't (I suppose other than the other group living in some Himalayan valley without Internet)? Do parents spend more time with less terminally online teens? Do they engage in high-engagement hobbies (like horseriding, or electronics) that are fulfilling, though maybe costly (which would make that approach less available to the majority)?

If you control for these things, I am fairly sure you will find that kids with a higher involvement of their families in their lives are more happy on average.

As long as you do not put two random teenagers in a concrete cell each, controlling for all outside parameters, and show me that the one without the cell phone and social media is happier than the one with those things after a week, I will remain sceptical.

Isn't OpenAI is suppose to be a non-profit and doesn't have to pay any tax till now? Now suddenly it wants to raise $100 billion and presumably make everyone involved very very rich. You can't possibly believe that someone is willing to put in $100 billion into a company that doesn't plan to make any money for its shareholders.

Hey IRS, time to do a deep audit on OpenAI and backdate revoke its non-profit status. It is clear that OpenAI never intended to be non-profit in the first place- it's just a tax avoidance scheme. Revoke its non-profit status and tax it like a normal for-profit company.

>Qualcomm

Treats its SoC customers like they are out to steal Q's trade secret and sets extraordinary high licensing fee.

>Google

Mandatory abandonment of its products and API after the 5 years mark.

>Intel

An electronic company with a terrible history of writing software/APIs.

Good luck

75% of the prediction might be wrong, but for Google they can't just say 'Gartner has 75% wrong on the prediction of the complete dismissal of our company.' If a doctor is wrong 75% of the time, but has 25% that it's right, your child would die, would you take the chance?

That's because no one cares about gov-back green initiatives that worked.

CFC ban
DET ban
Lead gasoline ban
Congestion charges
Food and drug safety