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Skyscrapercity.com for architecture, construction, urban issues etc. One of my favs, mainly because it's a old school forum so no upvoting/downvoting, no algorithms and no teenagers. Quality may be varied though - depends of which regional subforum you are browsing.

Reddit - geopolitics, philosophy, printSF. Avoid main subreddits and use multireddits feature to connect similar subreddits into one feed.

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I disagree with the Skyscrapercity recommendation. I stopped posting there because there were too many very young, very inexperienced people promoting themselves as experts and jumping ugly with anyone who disagreed with them.

You could post something completely factual with references and contemporary media accounts to back it up and if it didn't fit the hive mindset, you'd be ridiculed.

Maybe it's changed. But when I was there, it was a bubble of groupthink.

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