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Tor. A serious study of as many .onion sites as I could find. There are many reasons why people want to be anonymous. I don't know why, I just felt compelled to look at the edges of humanity.
Back in the early 2000s, I heard tell of Freenet, thought it sounded like a cool project, and started poking around there. I soon determined that a lot of the material being exchanged there was not anything I wanted anywhere near my disk, even encrypted. Deleted it pretty darn quick.
this would actually be pretty interesting. any details?
Drug dealers, arms dealers, hit men, conspiracy theorists with apparent mental health issues, child porn. I was at least somewhat amused until the last, then it was like, "Yeah no, I'm done with this" All you need is a copy of TAILS.
yeah, ouch. my condolences to your humanity. :-(
If there is a credible global survey of .onion sites available (with content statistics), I would definitely be interested in it.
I am not aware of any such.
anything qanon related will make your brain implode faster than a carbon fiber pressure hull at 12k feet.
edit: this is not a good thing
Yeah, I'm all for conspiracies and many have been proven true over time. Q is a whole different world.
I want the return of fun conspiracy theories.
Bigfoot. Aliens. Secret government weapon projects.
That would be nice.
Actually few have been proven true.
Government surveillance and things like Iran-Contra and MK Ultra are what I'm meaning.
Those were not exactly conspiracy theories. They were investigated and proven. They were illegal from the start.
Before they were proven they would have been regarded as conspiracy theories.
A while ago I discovered that my home town newspaper made their entire archive searchable online. For fun I decided to search for my family to see if anyone had been in the papers.
The only one I found was my dad in a city council meeting public comment session arguing against fluoridation of the water supply and saying it was a communist plot.
Yep. That's my dad. I once found a box of John Birch society leaflets in our attic. If it wasn't for the fact that operating anything more complex than a light switch is effectively beyond him, he'd be up to his scalp in q-anon bullshit.
As it is, the tv never changes from fox news.
Lee Harvey Oswald did not kill JFK, his head just kind of did that sometimes.
Please elaborate. I'm veeeeery interested.
Me too. WE DEMAND ANSWERS!
One time I had a weird skin thing and was trying to look up whether I should be worried about it, and stumbled onto a bunch of shit about Morgellons Disease, in which people think they have fibers or parasites growing out of their skin.
I just had a weird ingrown hair.
Oh man I went down the morgellons rabbit hole once. Super disturbing stuff
Linux distros
Are you talking about Hannah Montana Linux, Ubuntu Satanic Edition, or Justin Bieber Linux?
Don't forget Red Star Linux!
After those, the only logical destination is TempleOS
oh, boy! that one is a mind melter alright.
UwUntu
In trying to prove to a friend that fluoride in the water wasn't bad, I had to dig into the conspiracy to refute each point.
Did your research end up changing your friend's mind?
Not OP, but take a wild guess
He did conceded on some the absolutely bat shit claims but couldn't bring himself to fully believe the fluoride shouldn't be in the water.
Can you post your points?
Sorry this was a long time ago. The guy has definitely mellowed some since though he did have a brief Stephen Crowder stint during the pandemic. Old habits die hard.
Tulpas. People basically intentionally making themselves schizophrenic
There's way more to schizophrenia than just seeing something that's not there, though.
Look up, you'll see the point as it passes by
And what, prey tell, is the point? I don't get it, but it's harmless, so mostly I just saw judgement in the OP.
I can't recall the creepiest, so here's a kinda eerie website I found called Terminal 00:
www(dot)angusnicneven(dot)com
It's not necessarily super disturbing, but it has a design that is a bit eerie and trippy, to me at least.
I had head phones and as soon as I read "I will make you listen" and noticed there was a lot to scroll down to, I closed the page. Eff that lol
I didn't even know this site had sound!
That makes it even eerier and I love it!
I didn't stick around long enough to find out lol
Eugenia Cooney, YouTuber and streamer who seems to be dying of anorexia. There's more disturbing shit such as her weird relationship with her mom and the way she seems to pander to anorexia fetishists.
Not a rabbit hole per-se, but I've found at least three accounts of different people suffering some kind of dementia. One of them in particular was actively deteriorating and was paranoid that she was suffering Lyme disease. She wasn't; she was losing her mind and it was obvious from her post history. So sad.
Back in the unidays (over couple of decades ago...) I stumbled upon a website about crime scene photos of the most brutal murders and suicides that I've seen in my life at that time. I can't remember the name but I remember it had a porn sounding name because I was searching for a porn site.
That shit took of between the friends and classmates like a wildfire. Everyone was talking about it untill the university firewalled it from the school network.
Anytime you feel sick and google the symptoms...
Start to program.
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