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PaperclipPerfector  1mo ago (text post)   3224 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for July 17, 2026

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Is there any overlap between this forum and development forums in the vein of SkyscraperCity and CityData? SkyscraperCity is an urbanist forum, and I find it intriguing to browse threads there to see what infrastructure projects various cities are undertaking, including my nearest city.

CityData was originally more of a real estate forum where people could start threads to inquire about life in various American suburbs and small towns, and it's quite fascinating to learn about the amenities and ins and outs of a random small town most people overlook in a state that I've never set foot in. It's branched out into different subforums for politics, philosophy, theology, and hobbies. In a sense, it is like a smaller Reddit that is substituted with conservative boomers. The caliber of discourse tends to be higher as you don't have stoned vegetables giving their dilettante conjectures, though it does have a few occasional trolls.

I like CityData. It's one of the few places you can find honest assessments of neighborhoods which acknowledge their racial/ethnic demographics, something that has been completely taboo on Reddit and mainstream media for decades. (Even mentioning ethnicity outside of "bad thing happening, POC most affected" contexts gets you downvoted to oblivion and/or banned. (I've got a hunch that this is because the "intellectual elite" don't want the white hoi polloi to realize how far the Great Replacement has already gone.)) A nearby mid-rise apartment neighborhood called Mosaic has been overrun with Muslims for some reason, and a reddit comment that was quoted as calling it "Mosaicistan" was removed for "hate speech" or some such retarded reason.

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