Presentation is huge, at least for me. The thing that pulled me over to the Linux side was people posting screenshots of their tricked-out desktops with cooling-looking terminals. It made learning the terminal look fun, not intimidating.

You avoided my bigger question.

Love should be conditional. It should be reciprocated.

Years and years of mental abuse makes the love for your family go away.

Right. Because your love was conditional. Which is a good thing. You loved them; they abused you; you quit loving them.

What am I missing here?

Sure, I’ve heard that referred to as your “logical family” (as opposed to your “biological family” ). I have estranged family members, too.

What’s interesting is HC Trumbull’s contrast with the Arabic concept of blood being thicker than milk (from the Wikipedia entry) which seems to be closer to your meaning. I’m not sure if this is referring to people who have fought together or if it’s some kind of “blood brother” ritual, though. Unfortunately, in English the word “blood” is used as a metaphor for family.

In my case, and in the case of some of my friends, family members are just a disappointment while my friends and I have unconditional love for eachother and are even there through the hardest times.

I’m glad that you’ve found friends like this. I don’t understand the appeal of unconditional love, though. I expect that if I turned into a horrible person, my friends’ love for me would go away, and I wouldn’t think any less of them for that.

It seems like your love for your family is conditional upon them not being assholes. I think that’s completely reasonable and appropriate, but why have unconditional love for your friends but not your family? If your friends started treating you the same way your estranged family members have, wouldn’t your love for your friends also cease?

Maybe I’m missing something important about love here. This seems likely, because a lot of people hold the value of unconditional love in high regard and act as though its goodness is so obvious that it doesn’t need to be explained. Perhaps you could tell me how I’m wrong here.

Yes, and that’s a good thing for you. But is it a good thing for the dog? I’ve known dogs with very abusive human companions.

This is why I don’t understand why unconditional love is put up on a pedestal. The person that you love unconditionally could fall, hit their head, and become a completely different person who now treats you horribly. Should you still show them that same love?

People saying this mean to say that family bonds are more important than friendships.

That is how this phrase has been interpreted since the 12th century.

But it’s incomplete. The full expression:

blood runs thicker than water from the womb

This version comes from “The blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb”. A couple of writers in the late 20th - early 21st century made the claim that this was the original phrasing; however, they did not cite any sources to back up this claim. See details in the Wikipedia entry.

You can also listen to Internet radio for free.

Until you get to Mambino, the boss of bosses!

Weird. It let me in, no problem.

It’s an ad. You were reading an ad.

This is just another ad for AI. Gotta keep that mindshare up!

They do a ton of sketchy shit. I was skeptical, but this article convinced me.

If you need to use a Chromium browser, there are a shit-ton that aren’t Brave. I use Ungoogled Chromium.

The story behind the blink tag is so ridiculous.

At some point in the evening I mentioned that it was sad that Lynx was not going to be able to display many of the HTML extensions that we were proposing, I also pointed out that the only text style that Lynx could exploit given its environment was blinking text. We had a pretty good laugh at the thought of blinking text, and talked about blinking this and that and how absurd the whole thing would be. … Saturday morning rolled around and I headed into the office only to find what else but, blinking text. It was on the screen blinking in all its glory, and in the browser. How could this be, you might ask? It turns out that one of the engineers liked my idea so much that he left the bar sometime past midnight, returned to the office and implemented the blink tag overnight. He was still there in the morning and quite proud of it.

Okay, mom.

Every answer is easy when you’re making shit up.

Lemmy is just reddit decentralized, so it’s going to attract the same types of people.

I like the corollary I heard: “An AI can never find out, so an AI should never be allowed to fuck around.”

At which point people will have forgotten about DOGE and have to be reminded.

Yeah, I agree with you, but Democrat “right-lite” (or whatever you want to call them) are still getting their shots.

Last time I checked, most Democrats are pro-vaccine and very pro-capitalist.

Afaik it’s not permanent.

You would think…