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Obake
Dead Internet Theory: Most of the Internet is Fake
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About Current Events & Philosophy
This board is dedicated to what you see around the world, news and your opinions. It can range from Philosophy, Religion, Conspiracies and Politics. Just remember to keep it civil and don't take...
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Punp
Ways in which we are manipulated in our daily lives
Let us list the ways. For example, in the UK the government have paid for adverts to "nudge" the public into behaviours which they deem correct. i.e. if you buy fireworks or candles, your Alexa...
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RisingThumb
RisingThumb
Punp
Mid-dream advertising
Last night I was dreaming of a public setting where everyone was looking in the same direction for instruction (think a school, or a seminar). The instructor said a sentence with the words "just...
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Punp
Punp
Aevisia
"Reverse" racism, sexism, etc.
I was taking a browse through the IndieWeb's code of conduct today and came across this, and I'm interested to see what Agora's thoughts are on it? Is this the current societal standard? Racism...
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Sketch Relics
Sketch Relics
MindControlBoxer
Philosophy corner
I was gonna do this as a profile post but lately I've been writing things and deleting them. Ill keep them here, feel free to post your own thoughts. Porcupine is not allowed in this thread unless...
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The Chibi One
The Chibi One
Pangolin
War in Ukraine
Ukraine will be turned inside out like a sock. Thoughts and prayers with civilians who deserve none of this.
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Andy Kaufman
Andy Kaufman
Punp
Yesterweb Discord set to close to refocus "effort into different projects"
Screenshot here, text to follow: Best of luck to sadness and the rest of the moderation team in transitioning away from Discord.
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Some_porcupine
Some_porcupine
☉Kud
The speedrun of a fandom
I've been in fandom spaces ever since I was a wee lad, and I've seen fandoms of the entertainment I enjoy grow and die throughout many years. However, the recent formation of one fandom in...
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The Chibi One
The Chibi One
GENOSAD
Is God Omnipotent?
In my high school days, I enjoyed watching a lot of le "epic atheist takedowns" as a small act of rebellion, as I was an atheist attending a Catholic school at the time. These days I don't concern...
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Venomnik0
Venomnik0
Pliskin
Correlation between Times, Places, and the Internet
Recently, I hopped on the abomination that YouTube has become in recent years, as it was my only choice, to retrieve a video I watched plenty of times back in the day. Uploaded in 2009, it was an...
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Pliskin
Pliskin
flux
What are your thoughts on this TV license in the UK?
I learned recently that the UK is coming down on people in a totalitarian fashion for not being licensed to use electronic media or watch TV. I think this is absolute bullshit. I am not sure of...
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Obake
Obake
Accursed-Seer
The Ethics of Piracy as an act of Anti-Corporate Ethical Media Consumption - A Short Essay
In a world where large corporations hold significant power and influence, it is not uncommon for them to engage in practices that are exploitative and unethical. From the use of DRM that causes...
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Ardea
Ardea
Punp
The infinite Samsara of The Agora Road (Condemnation/Forgetfulness/Forgiveness)
On Agora Road, I have noticed that people who are lambasted in one context are instantly forgiven in another. For example, userA posts some coombrained thread and gets rinsed for it by userB and...
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Ardea
Ardea
TardActual
Lets have an honest civil disscution.
Who's really in charge. What do you think is going on? What's going to happen next? Collapse or nah? That type shit.
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Some_porcupine
Some_porcupine
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What are your thoughts on communal parenting
What are its advantages and disadvantages?
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Ardea
Ardea
Svind
Monetization of everything, and the loss of divinity in creativity
This post was initially supposed to be a blog post on my personal website, however after writing more I realized I'd rather discuss the topic with Agora, the nature of the post being somewhat of a...
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Punp
Punp
Crabbelly
The new Matrix: Resurrections film
What does everyone think about it based on the trailer? I'm quite excited to see it, big fan of the whole series and concept. Not that I can tell much from the trailer but by the looks of it I...
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turntableToothache
turntableToothache
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Brazil shuts down Twitter/X
https://buenosairesherald.com/politics/social-media-site-x-shutdown-in-brazil-after-supreme-court-judge-orders-ban TL;DR Brazil asks Musk to have a legal representative in Brazil to answer...
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15horses
15horses
Andy Kaufman
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Times ahead of you, Times behind you [READ OP BEFORE VOTING]
You only have 2 votes, one for your best and one for your worst times! Hello! This is an exercise in outlook! I've been talking to Moon on giko and then the topic of "are your worst times...
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Ardea
Ardea
lain is here
What If Terry A. Davis Really Did Build God's 3rd Temple (TempleOS)
I've been enjoying some of the schizoposting here, so I figure why not share an idea I've been playing around with. It's more a thought experiment on a hypothetical than it is a theory, but I'm...
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troopen
troopen
turntableToothache
The Minecraft Movie
View: https://youtu.be/PE2YZhcC4NY?si=FTUfzWP_JcUv1ddh The year is 2024, and you're browsing the Internet looking for entertainment, you come across a youtube video called "A Minecraft Movie"...
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abraKadabra
abraKadabra
manpaint
The Stop Killing Games Movement
So I recently learmed about the "Stop Killing Games" movement. In short a large group of people are trying to get various governement around the globe to outlaw planned obscolesence in video games...
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wonderfullife
wonderfullife
Captain Crucial
I hate these people so much that I can't stop thinking about them
Anytime something happens they're the first to come to my mind. I have a txt file I keep a bunch of statistics about them in. It's been on my desktop for 2 years now and gets so much use that it...
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ETierhuman
ETierhuman
Panasonicdx
What are your political views?
I'm new here and was wondering what the general political views of people here are. No judgment just curious. Personally I'm a libertarian socialist broadly but probably more of a mutualist if you...
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The Chibi One
The Chibi One
IlluminatiPirate
Viper arrested for kidnapping, made "You'll cowards dont even smoke crack" Album popular in the Vaporwave community
I just saw this, I dont know if it's really him but wtf man :LaughHard::LaughHard::LaughHard: View: https://youtu.be/HA9J6lgoI-Q?si=QkkxDXa6nzEgwLec...
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IlluminatiPirate
IlluminatiPirate
Moonscraps
Quantum Humanity
Sorry for the terrible title, but I had no better phrasing. Here I be to ask a question that has been bogging me, Is mental maturity / growth ultimately stripping oneself of everything that isn't...
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handoferis
handoferis
Aral
Belief-o-matic: which religion are your beliefs closest to?
https://www.beliefnet.com/entertainment/quizzes/beliefomatic.aspx Let's see what you got. Tbh I do have a bit of a thing for Buddhism, although I wouldn't convert. I think that'd be probably the...
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Punp
Punp goes to Manchester Pride parade, 2024
Hello! I had heard nothing but bad things about pride parades, so in my desire to expand my experiences I decided to visit one and report back like Marco Polo to Kublai Khan. I also want to learn...
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Punp
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Pluto
Isn't it odd how certain mental pathologies (ADHD, autism, psychopathy, etc.) appear to be inheritable?
I've had this thought for a while now. I'm not talking about the stuff that's obviously an unintended fuck-up or the result of a reoccurring mutation (e.g. Downs Syndrome). Obviously not all...
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Fairykang
Fairykang
Outer Heaven
How long until the collapse?
In case this somehow survives another 100 years, its Price is Right rules. Closest guess without going over. Personally I think 2022 is the beginning of the end so I'd give it another 20 years or so.
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Digital Cheese
Digital Cheese
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☸️ Buddhism thread
Anyone else into Buddhism here? I studied Western philosophy at a crappy state uni ~10 years ago, went through grad school, yadda yadda, now I'm in Indonesia and looking at pursuing a path as a...
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Some_porcupine
(Bad, post- modern, "future-less" (culture-less) timeline) Young people (1984-2014) giving up on life, future...
thanks @WhiteSnake for birthing this idea edit: what this post is about (skipping the foreword from user W-S who ghosted me XD)...
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Some_porcupine
Some_porcupine
AnHero
Pop Cultural Vapidity in the 90s & 2000s
I don't exactly have a proper 'thesis' for this, since this is something I only think about sometimes when something reminds me, but have you ever looked at stuff from the 90 and 00s and marvelled...
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Some_porcupine
Some_porcupine
The rise of profilicity and the future of society
This thread is based on a post I made about the recent massacres in the United States. A sort of sequel to my meme critique thread which got a surprising amount of attention. Over the past...
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Some_porcupine
Some_porcupine
Still a Youth
The Future of Computing
Recently, quantum computability has made great strides. Is the future truely quantum? or is this an academic's fantasy?
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Orlando Smooth
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troopen
Computing as a utility
Before the concept of Unix, there was Multics, prompted by the theory that the future of computing would be a utility. I am convinced that the modern internet if preempted by local mainframes or...
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troopen
troopen
remember_summer_days
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Evidence for Christianity
Making this thread so that people debate Christianity here instead of the paganism thread I just made. Its no secret that I think Christianity is more likely to be true, and I've seen New Atheism...
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timelinker14
timelinker14
Ridiculous: "rise in 20-somethings with heart arrhythmias caused by herbal supplements"
https://archive.ph/45DA1 They're blaming anything but the vaccine, the most obvious culprit. They already admitted this: https://www.webmd.com/lung/covid-19-vaccine-myocarditis "It can happen...
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troopen
troopen
【Ｏｂｓｉｄｉａｎ Ｐｉｌｇｒｉｍ】パラダイス・
How every religion could be true and how sience actually can't 100% disagree with that
Okay, enough bullshit. After the whole shitstorm about who likes Jesus Sempai and who doesn't, and after some users got offended at everyone and left (cringe tho), I thought I'd write something...
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【Ｏｂｓｉｄｉａｎ Ｐｉｌｇｒｉｍ】パラダイス・
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wearyinternettraveler
Imgur to Delete Large Swaths of User-Generated Content
https://help.imgur.com/hc/en-us/articles/14415587638029/ In true >redditcostanzayeahrightsmirk fashion, they close out their garbage decision with a heckin cute doggo. For those who don't know, imgur used to be the main...
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Some_porcupine
Some_porcupine
Michaelsoft_Binbows
CIA is gnostic?
Greetings and salutations fellow degenerates and basement dwellers. I was browsing around the freedom of information act portion of CIA.gov and I found a neat document on the Monroe institute and...
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Hypatia
Hypatia
Punp
[INTERNET ODDITY] Hairy woman
Here's an internet oddity for you. I'm writing it now as I experience it because it's actively unfolding. I'm also recording the video so I have it to prove it exists. Summary of the Event...
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Punp
Punp
Captain
The Religion Of Lyrical Jesus Busta Rhymes
Spread the love and give me somemore! Let us celebrate the holy words of lyrical Jesus. Each Day a verse of wisdom and fellowship. All are welcome in the Church of Rhymes. The Holy Scripture...
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赤い男
赤い男
Captain
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Would You Convert From Christianity To The Church Of Busta?
I have been bless to see the light and be one with Busta. The Christian fellowship on Agora has inspired me to spread my beliefs to the forum at all costs and spread the good news! Everybody...
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Ashman
Ashman
bees
Might install the Christianity texture pack.
As the title says, might do the ol' Finnish conversion.
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Captain
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containercore
Centerwashing & Idea Laundry
I've noticed a social media phenomenon that I'm curious if anyone else has observed. Let me grab an example that not only sums up what I'm talking about perfectly but which is also very funny...
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