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Northern Lights as seen in Palmer, Alaska last night. Stunning shot! Photo by Chris Hart. #Alaska #NorthernLights #PalmerAlaska

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Here is something that you almost never see on the modern, post-culture war Internet. There is this website known as "Terra Earth" which is a fansite for the unofficial Soul Blazer trilogy. On their forum, there is a subforum dedicated to conspiracy theories and debating heated topics. Best parts about it are:
1. All of these threads are contained within this subforum. You don't have to participate if you don't want to.
2. A site dedicated to a hobby has an off-topic forum dedicated to this kind of stuff. You almost never see this on modern Discord servers. People who post these kinds of threads usually get permabanned.
3. There is ZERO ideological bias. Everyone came to these threads with an open-mind and almost nobody had knee-jerk reactions. Everything is fair game. People may insult you, but this was before things like witch-hunts and lolcow drama became mainstream.

This subforum (and the forum as a whole) is nowhere near as active as it used to be (with each subforum getting a new post every few months), but the fact that it's still up shows how different the landscape the Internet was at the time. I mean, you even have one of the site's staff talk about how he thinks white pride shouldn't be considered racist (though in the same post, he also considers racial pride to be pointless, but still).

terraearth.com/forums/viewforu

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Hurricane Milton has explosively intensified into a Category 3 storm and continues churning in the western Gulf of Mexico on Monday morning with crosshairs on Florida's Gulf Coast with wind speeds up to 125 mph.
https://www.activistpost.com/2024/10/milton-explosively-intensifies-into-major-hurricane-forcing-florida-to-declare-largest-evacuations-in-years.html
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@cjd @relentless_eduardo anything financial that people don’t understand is either tulip mania, a Ponzi scheme or money laundering
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Using the term "Ponzi scheme" when what you really mean is "speculative bubble" turns a relatively intelligent post into retarded drivel.

Ponzi Scheme Has A Specific Defined Meaning.
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MOST ATTRACTIVE MALE HOBBIES

1. OVERTHROWING THE GOVERNMENT
2. REPEALING THE 19TH
3. ENDING NO-FAULT-DIVORCE
4. ENDING WELFARE
5. ENDING THE FUCKING FED

Just when people thought it couldn't get any worse.

yahoo.com/news/storm-forecast-

Reminder that it is well documented that the government controls the weather. So it's likely intentional that they are creating these hurricanes and not giving anyone aid, so they can then build smart-cities, pod homes or whatever else they want on top of the ruble.

corbettreport.com/corbett-repo

So I just learned that Styxhexenhammer was in jail for violating the NAP on his (ex?)-girlfriend.

Seriously, what's with these hippie-looking guys becoming women-beaters?

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_The Sun, not CO2, drives the Earth’s climate, a new study says_

"Experts analysing data in a report from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (“IPPC”) point to changes in the planet’s albedo – the fraction of the Sun’s energy reflected by Earth – as the factor driving the rise in global temperatures."

https://expose-news.com/2024/10/03/the-sun-drives-the-earths-climate/
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Anyone complaining about online "misinformation" without acknowledging the legacy media and established outlets torching their credibility for many, many years is not being remotely realistic. If they can't even tell you what a man or woman is, you shouldn't be shocked when more and more people tune you out.
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Coming to your city? Karachi has launched the first phase of its Safe City Project, with five poles equipped with 25 surveillance cameras. Cameras will feed live videos to the Central Police Office (CPO) Command and Control Center.
https://www.activistpost.com/2024/10/karachi-pakistan-launches-safe-city-project-with-live-vehicle-facial-recognition.html
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This #FediForum guy doesn't want me to be in a Matrix chatroom where I posted maybe 4 messages six months ago because it makes people uncomfortable that I am visible in the members list. @j12t
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A big divide between online communities is if you're supposed to self-assimilate or if resistance is futile and assimilation will be done to you.

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The "censorship is good actually" to "I want to kill myself I'm so miserable" pipeline is real
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the games industry is waaaaay too focused on "realism" and it takes away from it actually seeming real, funny enough. there's a certain style you have to achieve to trick someone's brain into glossing over inaccuracies, but when you just go all in on the realistic stuff then your brain picks up on it way more.

especially with all of the techniques devs use for various things... they end up looking really bad in motion and you focus way too much on them. it ruins the immersion. i'll take purely rasterized lighting that's really good over ray-traced reflections that smear everywhere when you turn the camera any day.

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