My understanding is that it means going, loosely, to the opposite side of the state of the major metropolitan area in that state. Upstate NY is the northwest part, upstate MA is the west part, upstate PA is the northeast part. I’m looking around, and it seems to also 1) only be used on a few states, 2) usually is on the north half (but not always), and 3) is somewhat interchangable with “rural”.

there’s not really a joke here it’s just a bunch of slurs

Not only is @jacksilver@lemmy.world right, but additionally, this article is extremely biased in favor of Xorg and is much more of a (completely unfair and one-sided) take-down of Wayland oriented at technical folks and not at all an explainer for laypeople

this comment is school shooter coded

“Flags”, red or green, are usually the latter, but both are certainly good for this thread!

you might not be offended, but you’re definitely insufferable

tell me I did not just look this thing up and see a barrel jack power port 🤢

my 2017 laptop charges by USB-C, this hardware looks gorgeous in every other way but the only excuse for a barrel jack is if you need to move more than 100 watts, and even that last holdout for the barrel jack is dated

It can charge by USB-C apparently, but the barrel jack is still there 😔

I have tried arguing with the people I would categorise as ‘anti-intellectual’ more than 99% of people to ever have lived trying to understand them

this betrays a lot about your attitudes towards 99% of people and how you interact with them

Consider that the ones who aren’t as enlightened as you just haven’t had the privilege to get the free time, financial flexibility, and education to spend a lot of time and effort self-reflecting on their own intellectual purity. Consider also that there are many in that group who count you as anti-intellectual for your prioritization of the ideals of a squeaky clean intellectual platform over the material realities of living in the world and having to engage in conflict and contradictions.

If you don’t think going to bat for AirBNB in any capacity whatsoever is a smoking gun for nefarious evil, we’re just not going to see eye to eye here.

Snopes disagrees with you, and Wikipedia says Butler left SCRB in 2020 to join Airbnb as director of public policy and campaigns in North America. Not an “unspecified advisory role”, seems highly specified to me.

That, and being a lesbian means nothing for LGBT rights - look at Kyrsten Sinema.

You’re right, the only remaining option was to appoint an AirBNB director from Maryland

absolutely despicable. He promised a black woman, Barbara Lee was right there, but instead of taking a progressive he had to look all over the damn country to find a black woman who was more of a corporate sellout and had to import one from literally the other side of the nation, because picking the popular one who’s literally from the same district would have been too untenable to corporate interests.

Democrats really take so many liberties with their lesser evil positioning, it’s sickening.

hi, I’m an actual lefty and please don’t sully our name by associating it with that dickweed

I will say though you’re kinda right here

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Yes it is, whataboutism is defined as when a leftist says something that a liberal doesn’t like. This is exactly that.

Collective bargaining and negotiations isn’t the goal, and striking also isn’t the goal. The goal is to win your stated demands (or as many of them as possible), like you said. Collective bargaining is safer and involves putting less at stake but is less of an exertion of force and offers less opportunity to flex your strength as workers united. Striking is riskier and is much more devastating to fail at but garners much more public recognition and cements how necessary you are in the event you succeed. Both are choices and both should be available and used at the appropriate time.

As for the original quote I made, I think there was a little bit of a disconnect there, I agree that rail workers should be nationalized (although that doesn’t mean they shouldn’t also be unionized), I’m saying that the problem is that the auto workers can have their strike entertained because they’re “less important” (read: the consequences of their striking are less immediate) where rail workers can’t have their strike entertained, because while they’re just as exploited, they’re also more day-to-day mission critical.

It doesn’t count as keeping up if you’re passively floating along with the average, that doesn’t take effort. That’s just being a moderate. The thing that takes effort is to either maintain a progressive platform or to maintain a reactionary one. Regression to mean is the opposite of keeping up.

Individuals learn and change, but learning and changing is only impressive when you’re doing it in the name of progress and not in the name of pandering to the most tactically expedient blend of reactionaries and progressives.

Hey, “strongly supporting gay marriage” is below the bare minimum. Same sex marriage has 71% support. Being any politician who doesn’t support same sex marriage is tactical suicide. Even Trump supports same sex marriage (7 years ago!) because it’d be stupid not to. Let me know when he actually takes a stand.