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The groups you join should appear at the bottom of the Forum page, under the archives, and should appear just like regular boards do in that regard. Does it work for you?

I curated some of the most recent content here into club topics. I picked thread names that made me laugh, moreso than for actual descriptions because i am a child. Going to retire this thread, for anyone who missed the memo the link to first-time access is here:

When I'm sad and lonely late at night sometime this week I might go through this thread and splice out some recurring topics and port them over as individual threads in the club. Unjumble it, like a set of Christmas tree lights.

I transferred ownership so you can tailor it however, add a real image for a logo instead of the uemb emblem. I also made TG a club mod because why not. Then, funny thing happened, I somehow banned myself from the club space, even though I have access as admin.

so Liz Cheney said the lawyer for an upcoming witness reached out to the committee because DJT tried to call the witness directly at some point after the Hutchinson hearing. I think she said they referred it to DOJ.

now I know what tim poole sounds like, because the committee played some of of his footage interspersed with other right wing "influencer" reactions to the 12/19 1:42am trump tweet calling for the "wild" protest wait, I've already forgotten

I think politics stuff worked out in terms of visibility, so they're probably fine. And I think it'll work out better to mix politics with other current events (news, RIP threads, etc) rather than shoehorn it into an intentionally angry folder. Classic rants content can fall into GD or whatever topic someone wants to rant about, maybe we can create a universal "rant" tag an OP can apply to threads.

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.

My mom had a 20+ year old electric mower she used for a couple years that was just sitting in the garage since she got married over 20 years ago. Opened it up and replaced the battery (only a 24v) and it works perfectly fine for what I actually need it for.

"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.