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Please keep pisspants drama out of my thread.

I think the coalition met the urgency of their shared goal in 2018/2020. The problem is once they accomplished their shared vision (Trump out) and they faxed a blank slate, their differences started to outweigh their facial commonalities. Then the build back butthole type fiascos make more sense.

I mean I don't have like a written job posting. But think like cross-folder, "general" community bona fides, can be trusted with user data, values some degree of continuity/staff collaboration but also has some new energy/ideas, closes the toilet lid when they're done peeing so the cat doesn't accidentally take a swim trying to get up to the window, etc. It's not urgent (especially if the self-run groups take some of the burden on katt and I) but there's a few people I've got an eye on not just for this question but in terms of helpers/mods/volunteers in general. This transition is giving us an opportunity to work with more/new people on all sides and get a better sense of who is interested in the community generally, so we'll see. It's a slow-burn thing.

I've been looking for someone credible/neutral who might have interest for like three years. katt everytime someone nominates her without asking her first:

i want to post pictures too

She did not testify that Donald Trump choked out his driver. She testified that she was told a story, and no one has refuted that she was told that story under oath. The facts of the story don't speak to the honesty of the witness, it's a secondhand retelling. It doesn't matter whether the story she was told that she is retelling was presented to her literally or hyperbolically, what matters is that she said she was told a story by one firsthand witness as to his state of mind (that he intended to go and was upset that he was stopped) and that a second firsthand witness did not dispute it at the time of the telling. The literal facts of the story are irrelevant, the corroborated facts about his known state of mind are what's important, given he went back and sat in the dining room alone watching it on TV for the next two hours with no phone records while Mike Pence and all of Congress were evacuated, some evading "seditious conspirators who hadn't met the necessary triggers yet to be labeled insurrectionists" by meters or seconds (aka why it's just a failed insurrection/seditious conspiracy). The materially relevant aspects of the story she retold (i.e. his state of mind, his intent, and the denial) were corroborated by multiple more witnesses per the last committee hearing, and we've also discovered the Secret Service mysteriously lost all their records of that specific timeframe.

happy birthday ric

proud to say that I hit 2.5 of my 4 benchmarks

I don't think "disarray" is the right framing. The coalitions I think are contextually different, in part because the Electoral College and geographical advantages minimize what Republicans need to win while maximizing what Democrats need to win. So that means like the Republican coalition is much narrower, because it only needs a smaller cohort to win power, and is more effectively purging it's outlying members because it can. Meanwhile the Democratic coalition is a much broader tent, so it's always prone to a lot of natural disagreement but everyone needs to stay in that tent to break even. There are localized examples of "disarray", like GA statewides will be real interesting to see how Republican voters act, given Kemp and Raffensperger are probably more dangerous to maga than a Democrat Trumpistas can easily vilify. But I think the Mastriano-type GOP Christian Nationalist candidate is going to be the new norm more and more.

I heard on the radio that the Ukrainians damaged the major bridge crossing on the Dnipro River that Russia uses to supply the Kherson urban area. Not totally destroyed, but unable to shuttle military supply convoys to the west bank. As Russia grinds its way through in the northeast, I think this is probably where there will be a lot of activity soon, fighting for the western bank.

the follow-up will be that they were also trying to find a way to write off the sandwiches as a charitable donation

was the boy Ukrainian? then the Russian robot has a motive

I cleaned out the sidebar now that it's resolved, so as not to distract from the actual topic carry on edit: i posted this before i realized someone moved it to GD, i put it back in CE

That one was 120 pages long and had a bunch of drama in it, I'd rather you make a clean v3 if that's cool

I don't know if I actually touched the grass or not

rules that I definitely didn't break, right? RIGHT???? I went to a yankees game once around that same time period. and I fell asleep a couple innings in and woke up when it was time to go.

one time (of the three times) I hit the ball, i was running from first to second and the other kid had picked up the ball and just stood there and looked at me smugly. so with my expert knowledge of the rules at the time (which was just something like "the running part is tag but it's the ball that's "it"), I brilliantly just stepped around him, stepped back, and kept running as he continued to just stand there and not touch me with the ball. when I made it back to home plate, the coach said something like "good job, but don't do that" and I was legitimately pissed because i strongly felt i definitely did the right and correct thing in the absence of any additional information.

when i did junior pee wee, i caught the ball once except instead of my glove, i caught it with my eye socket

But man, imagine how much less video there probably would have been plastering McCarthy's hypocrisy across the wall if only he didn't pull his five appointments to the commission from consideration.

From this vantage point, given the federal law being executed was of the peaceful transfer of power, the practical difference between the one charge and the other (notwithstanding everything I previously explained about the complexities of proving the requisite elements of an outdated penal statute and how some crimes as written are unprovable) is the degree of violence necessary for a court to entertain insurrection. And because the violence of storming barricades, fighting and injuring security, breaking into the US Capitol, etc. did not rise to a high enough degree of violence, I can only really say that the best argument that it wasn't an insurrection was because the Congress and Vice President successfully evacuated before the rioters, including people with zip ties, weapons, walkie-talkies, and a makeshift gallows outside reached them. Which is to say that you're right to the extent that technically it was a failed insurrection. As far as this, well the committee answered this directly in the five minutes beginning at the time stamp: Not only did multiple witnesses corroborate the gist of the story Hutchinson relayed (that there was a heated dispute between Trump wanting to go to the Capitol and the detail refusing to take him), but the Secret Service is finally beginning to play ball with more to come down the road.

The aberration was a one-off gimmick thread. https://unevenedge.com/topic/31410-remember-that-one-thread-in-ib-that-got-to-10000-posts

I am a bit of a caveman so I don't fully understand the scope of NFT opportunities, but this is definitely the first time I've seen an announcement about a game company and NFTs that hadn't gone the other way.

This folder isn't IB, there's a club and a discord that are both IB. This is General Discussion and no folder camp has dibs, so you best start discussing your generals.

Right. So traffic and activity have declined significantly over the past few years. Routine visitors have declined by between one half and one third, however actual content has fallen off significantly more than that. Below is a basic chart for context: Set aside "new blood" for the sake of discussion, because I included it just to make the point that it's not even a target at this point. The "active user" category is self evident - people who both log in and engage in content. The "other ASMB" category are people who never made the jump, or popped in once or twice but never engaged. The "lapsed user" category is made up of people who were formerly active, and have either left the site completely or lurk for one reason or another, and their absence represents about four times the amount of content that is posted in the current normal. This is obviously unrefined (it doesn't distinguish between the types of content being posted for example), but it paints the picture. So we conducted a survey to seek out opinions from active users, lapsed users from all corners, and maybe even some of the other ASMB folks who never joined. What do people like about the site or wish the site did better, what don't they like or why did they leave? The goal was to try to construct a path that might give everyone a little of what they want and see if we can increase numbers from the orange and yellow categories without alienating the red category. It may be that we can't, due to one too many mistakes in the past or just that it's the natural life cycle of a near-20 year old internet community. But it's the people that say things like "I don't come around often, but I really value that we still have a home" or "the ASMB was really important to me in a vulnerable time and I appreciate that you're still out there" that make it worth the effort to try. The 20th anniversary date isn't a guaranteed kill-switch date if nothing changes, but at a minimum I think we've agreed that it would be a pivot point in one way or another.