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The new Noise will have a Current Events folder (news/politics etc.) and the catch-all General Discussion folder. Sports would fall under GD, unless people think that's current events? pooh - yeah we can totally float whatever sports are in active season

Sports is being folded into the general discussion board. Because that folder largely operates via megathreads, it actually has the least (or near the least) amount of individual threads of any board on the site. So in terms of consolidation it just makes sense to just move those megathreads to a more consolidated/trafficked space. In theory it will help anchor the "tone" of the new GD section and it also eliminates any ambiguity about where to post one-off sports content.

Hi all, per the site-wide announcement thread, we're going to make some changes to the forum fairly soon - largely folder consolidations and mergers to reduce the scale of the site. But one new feature we are going to introduce are private, self-run general discussion groups (called "clubs" even though it's a totally lame name) for each of the main board communities. I set up a Toonami Off-Topic club here which is basically the evolution of this thread once it gets going and everyone joins. As a general matter, I haven't customized it or anything at this time - I'd much rather someone with authentic anime/Toonami credentials swings the bat. Is there anyone who everyone might agree I can designate as the club leader/admin?

May 27, 2023 will mark the 20th anniversary of the ASMB/UEMB community. Twenty years is a long time, from Prospero to Lithium, the Fan Collective years, back to regular Lithium, later to that awful NodeBB feed, and then the transition to UEMB on freeforums, the shift to SMF, and the final upgrade to the IPB version we are currently on. There've been plenty of friendships, social circles, marriages, and even a few board babies, on top of two decades' worth of Very Important history and lore. However, as times go on, people's lives, interests, and priorities change and it has taken a toll on site traffic. As such, we are treating the 20th anniversary as a pivot point - based on the reality of the moment. It may be the best time to hold one big, final board reunion before calling it a good two decades. Or we may keep on keeping on, it really all depends on the trajectory of the next several months. To that end, we recently circulated a survey to gather input from current members, lapsed members, and never-joiners on their likes, dislikes, hopes, dreams, and other data. We thank the 100+ people who took a moment to fill it out. Based on the feedback we received, we are planning the first significant restructure of the site layout in five years. The general thrust of the redesign is that, in addition to significantly consolidating the number of topical discussion boards, we want to provide the various sub-communities with the disparate experiences they seek. To do so, we are going to experiment with a "public square"/"private community" format using the Forum and the Clubs feature. Public Square (Forums) The public square will consist of the topical boards, one vanilla "general discussion" board, and one vanilla "current events" board (the three existing "flavored" Noise folders will all be archived). This is an intentional decision: to consolidate public discussions, to reduce the social "ownership" of various folders based on the legacy ASMB communities, and to consolidate the redundant "general discussion" spaces this generated. The consolidated forums are intended to be a neutral space with middle-of-the-road tempo and moderation where people from the disparate corners of the broader community can feel free to engage based on subject matter. The topics of retired folders will default to the General Discussion folder, giving it more variety and discussion anchors, and some active or "classic flavored" threads from newly archived folders may be ported to the applicable board (or club, which I discuss next). Tentatively, the board structure will look something like this: Welcome to UEMB UEMB.Com Site Support & Community Discussion UEMB Creative Share Space Media Bastards Anime & Manga Arts, Lit & Music Games Movies & TV Toonami & [adult swim] (both regular toonami episode discussions and general [as] news) General Noise Current Events General Discussion Private Communities (Clubs) The second component is that we will enable each legacy community to self-run their own social space where they can engage in casual conversation amongst themselves, on their own terms. These spaces (currently named "clubs" by the software) are structured like customizable mini-forums, and are fully integrated into the sidebars and feeds and related aspects of the forum. They will be inaccessible/unreadable absent membership in the club, and will be largely self-moderated by responsible individuals within that sub-community (there are certain conditions, such as minimum rules; note that site mods and admins will have access and may step in if needed). We will work with each community to the extent that it needs assistance customizing their space or getting it off the ground. We will also work with other groups that reach out if there is a need for additional private social spaces. The Clubs tab is listed immediately prior to the Forums tab under the Browse drop-down, and there you will find the following, hopefully self-evident communities, which you can already join as of this notice and begin posting threads in (once joined/approved by the designated leader): Toonami Off-Topic 2.0 IBers Anonymous Beyond the Thunderdome (additional clubs, independent of this restructure, are listed under a second heading) At the moment, we are still gaming out aspects of the restructure that we haven't necessarily anticipated. There may be secondary changes, including to volunteer ranks or whatever pops up as needed to fulfill the changes, but those sort of issues will be figured out as they arise during the transition. However, the physical changes to the forum will be implemented later this week - time/date TBD schedule permitting (will obviously shoot for a low-activity moment). At such point, the site will probably go down for a few hours to implement some of the more major changes, and will return once complete.

Happy birthday yackie!

That what never happened? She's not testifying that any of that happened. She's testifying that one of them (Ornato) told her that this all happened, and that the other (Engel) was allegedly there during the event and listened to the whole story without disputing it. https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/a-closer-look-at-the-hearsay-claims-surrounding-hutchinsons-trump-testimony/

They were charged with seditious conspiracy because the ancient federal insurrection statute is virtually impossible to prove in court. Just like how bribery and nearly every other corruption statute are impossible to prove in court, but we all still know what it is. https://www.themarshallproject.org/2021/01/08/a-civilian-s-guide-to-insurrection-legalese (01.08.2021) A competent prosecutor always goes for the highest crime they believe they can prove, so they don't go for the unprovable one. But the two statutes (insurrection and seditious conspiracy) are right next to each other in the book, cover the same issues, and the one being applied actually has double the maximum prison sentence. Yes, the federal law having been (temporarily) prevented from execution by force was the one governing the peaceful transfer of power (colloquially, an insurrection). But if the prosecutors know they can meet the elements of the parallel crime with a similar penalty and track record of success, they're not going to go for the unprovable one.

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"No worries, it's not legally an insurrection. Because they weren't plotting to overthrow the entire government - they were just conspiring to prevent the peaceful transfer of power to keep the president who lost in power!" So your argument pushing back literally just boils down to pushing back against colloquial semantics? That's not what she testified to.

happy birthday mex wherever you are!

Not saying he wouldn't be willing to side with Thomas in those future cases, but he felt the need to write himself a separate concurrence to explain his contorted rationale for the history books.

Kavanaugh's solo concurrence doubled down that this only applies to abortion and doesn't call into question the other rights. So he's at least one of Thomas' weak links.

He's saying "if you bring these issues to the supreme court, you'll have at least one of the five votes you need." The counterpoint is the reason Alito was specific that this only applies to abortion is because he needed to limit it to abortion to get the five votes. Because the legal analysis here is just filling in for the politics of a 50-year campaign to do this.

No, Thomas went out on a limb to say that because this legal holding only applies to abortion, he's ready and willing to apply the analysis to everything else.

The majority did say that background checks are a viable requirement. I think it was ACB who did a brief concurrence questioning where the line is, but it's been a few hours and my head hurts.

The majority specified that this only applies to the six jurisdictions with similar "just cause" requirements, and that NY and other states with the now-unconstitutional conceal carry laws could adopt laws similar to 43 other states. My own concern is the 50 pages of original intent/traditions analysis, and Thomas' specific call-out of the Establishment Clause as something to be reviewed by that analysis.

If the Republican Congress were investigating a failed insurrection led by Democrat-oriented extremists based on a lie who stormed the Capitol, and the Democratic minority tried to appoint members who were (1) a material witness or (2) publicly announced their intent to use their appointment to muddy the water and change subjects from the politically motivated insurrection (for example, by focusing on an irrelevant comparison to racial injustice protests that weren't an attempted insurrection and storming of the US Capitol), after the Democratic minority successfully blocked bipartisan legislation to empanel an independent, bipartisan committee, maybe the Republican Speaker would be right to reject those appointments. Which again, rejecting two flawed candidates out of five appointees and asking for two alternates is different than saying "your party gets no representation at all in an insurrection investigation." McCarthy is the only reason that Cheney and Kinzinger are the GOP's only representation, and we'll see how the gamble plays out. P.S. There is no jurisprudence underlying this parenthetical, it's a completely unlitigated question that won't be answered by the courts before Gym Jordan runs out the clock.

I reject the underlying premise of this whataboutism. Three of the five picks were accepted just fine, and she asked for two alternates to replace them. The two that were rejected were rejected were too close intertwined with a literal insurrection investigation, one of which was since subpoenaed by said investigation. If literally being a relevant witness isn't good cause to be excluded from running the investigation, I don't know what is. This isn't a generic partisan probe to catch a secretary misappropriating funds on office furniture or boinking their assistant on said furniture, it is an investigation over a literal insurrection mob scaling walls and storming the capitol. Obviously when the House flips the new majority will pretend and use this commission ask an excuse to lower the bar of good faith even further for regular issues, but we don't have to pretend that's not what it is.

I log in via the Pokemon Trainer Club that just requires inputting an account name and password in PoGo. I didn't realize the other login types don't work like that.

I'm confused. If you know the email and you know the password, why can't you log in? I'm not asking to be a tool, I'm just confused.

It won't let you do what?

Why can't you log into the old pogo account and change the Gmail tied to it? I don't think you have to be logged into the email to log into the game.

you have no way of recovering the original account?

They all but admitted beforehand that their goal was to run defense and muddy the water. But Jordan, the ranking member of the Judiciary Committee, and Banks, the head of the Republican Study Committee, have emerged as some of the most vocal Trump defenders in the wake of the insurrection, infuriating Democrats of all stripes who consider Trump’s allies to be complicit in the attack. Both Jordan and Banks have said in recent days that they were hoping to use their positions on the select committee to investigate what Pelosi knew about the security threat ahead of the violence. https://thehill.com/homenews/house/564122-pelosi-rejects-jordan-banks-for-jan-6-committee/ Is the working theory here that Dem leadership is at fault for not knowing or not recognizing that an actual lynch mob was going to literally try to kill them to prevent a peaceful transfer of power - rather than it being the fault of the maga mob and the maga people who incited it? Was it a "Palpatine kidnaps himself" 12-D chess level play? If belligerent Democrats mob the Capitol - scaling walls, breaking through windows, beating security, etc. - with the intent to hang the vice president, assassinate the opposition, and so on, hypothetical Democrat Gym Gordan probably shouldn't be on a commission to investigate them either.