I know you mean well, but it's fine to discuss your family at a level you feel comfortable. Your family is part of your experience in the world and that is fundamentally a part of your political perspective.

It's not my problem that some people on the Internet want to insist they're the expert on everything, even people, people they've never met.

When it comes to people, we should all try and keep an open mind about what perspectives might exist. These narratives that people are so divided, that Republicans are racist, greedy, and narcissistic, and that Democrats are handout seeking, weak, and naive ... they need to be challenged (and first hand testimony is important but often seriously lacking).

If we're just going to deny another person's experiences are real anytime they don't align with our world view ... what's the point of even being on a forum?

I have a side of the family that still supports Trump. That same side of the family has interracial marriages and there are black babies that are very loved upon (and no, it wasn't some scandalous thing, the relationship and the marriage was uncontroversial).

Clearly, those members of my family are not voting for Trump because they're racist and afraid of skin colors.

They're (in my understanding) voting for Trump because the older members when they were younger had more economic opportunities and felt more attached to their community and their faith. I don't agree with them on priorities, but it's not racism, it's in more ways a sort of nostalgia for a time period when life didn't involve so many complex and nuanced topics.

Maybe, maybe not, maybe I'm a duck in a suite.

I don't know if they really do... I mean they're derived from it, but it's pretty unlikely any of the quake code is in CS2 or the latest call of duty.

Quake is definitely a legend regardless, just for creating the PvP FPS scene.

Exotic, extravagant, unconventional, unique come to mind

Going to need a lot more context than that.

I'm sure site admins could just clear the 2FA field if they wanted. Would they? IDK, probably not unless they had good reason.

Could someone steal your session information and disable your 2FA with that? Yeah, but I doubt they did, you'd have to have your system compromised or some kind of cross site scripting.

Did you use any shady lemmy clients?

etc

My parents are that way, dad is an atheists and mom is a christian that doesn't actively attend any church (and hasn't in decades).

I would argue the top picture is also a big no no.

Click bait avoided, a prerelease build of Windows suggests some kind of general advertising in the start menu beyond promoting ads.

As much as that makes a great story... The groundwork for lemmy goes back years. It's true that lots of issues were addressed and client apps were ported after Reddit started going down hill, but a ton of work was done beforehand to make that all possible.

I think you've got Gen Z and Millennials backwards.

It's not a broad generalization at all. It's a widespread pattern of hypocritical and contradictory conservative outrage, statements, and laws.

• "I should be able to teach kids about the Bible in school, but you can't teach them about Yoga"
• "we can't have vulgar language, oh unless it's from our religious book"
• "I can't make a cake for you because you're gay and that's against my religion. What do you mean you won't make a Christian cake? That's religious discrimination!"
• "Happy holidays!??! Happy holidays??! You monster, how dare you wage war on Christmas! We have religious liberty in this country! What do you mean that protects other religions? There's only one God and one religion!"
• "It's totally fine that the polling places in large democratic areas have hours long waits so long as my polling places are quick and easy"
• "it's totally fine that a county with 10,000 people has the same number of ballot drop boxes as a country with 3,000,000 people"
• "marriage is between a man and woman ... and may include 17 divorces; they gays can't have it"
• "we need to teach kids (i.e., indoctrinate them in the ways of) Jesus not this woke (black history, trans, etc)"
• "let's let white kids off with a slap on the wrist while we throw a black kid in jail for smoking a plant"
• "I can't believe a president could have such a scandal in the white house as to have had an affair with an assistant! We need to impeach! No, I don't think extorting an ally for information about an opponent is worthy of an impeachment! Trying to overthrow a legitimate presidental victor with a procedural trick? Nah that's not worth an impeachment either! Oh but hey, this Biden guy's son who lost one of his parents and a sibling in a car crash, that lost his brother to cancer, that has a drug problem, called his dad while he was in business meetings to show off... so you know his dad definitely was up to something! We've got to impeach him over that! What do you mean that was before he was even president and that's completely unprecedented?"
• "We should totally lock her up for those emails! What do you mean the guy screaming that's son and law did the exact same thing?"
• "We're sorry we can't appoint a supreme court justice just before the election! Psych! We totally can if it's nominated by OUR president!"
• "We need law and order in this country! What do you mean Trump broke the law? Nah, I'm not hearing it; this is clearly a partisan witch hunt and the majority conservative staff of the FBI is out to get conservatives! Oh but we'll DEFINITELY weaponize the federal government and go after our political rivals full steam if we get the presidency in 2024"
• "I believe abortion is amoral, that's why I hid the fact that my ex/current lovers have had one"
• "I believe homosexuality is amoral, that's why I am one in the closet"
• "we're going to be the party of health care, but don't watch as we strip you of your federal protections for your health care"
• "we're the party of the little man, but don't watch as we cut taxes for the rich (and you but make sure that expires under the next term (probably while the Democrats are in power)"
• "the national debt is an outage! Oh let's spend as much as Obama did in half the time! Oh Biden is in power again, spending is out of control!"
• "the problem isn't guns it's mental health, but we're not going to do anything about that either! Must be because the kids aren't in church, the gays, video games, or hey look over there, a squirrel!"
• "climate change? Nah. It's not real. Okay maybe it is, but it doesn't matter because look at China! Oh we could make a dent and get the ball rolling? Well, it's too late anyways, we should've been building nuclear plants! What do you mean I just made that up? Clearly I've been trying to solve this via nuclear the whole time, and it's not another dog whistle! Oh and btw all of my top presidential candidates say they don't believe in man made climate change! But yeah, totally serious about this issue!!"

... and that's just off the top of my head. If you're a conservative, wake up, your party is a mess.