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[โ€“] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

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

[โ€“] NABDad 9 points 1 year ago

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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah, I'm all for conspiracies and many have been proven true over time. Q is a whole different world.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I want the return of fun conspiracy theories.

Bigfoot. Aliens. Secret government weapon projects.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

That would be nice.

[โ€“] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Actually few have been proven true.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Government surveillance and things like Iran-Contra and MK Ultra are what I'm meaning.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Those were not exactly conspiracy theories. They were investigated and proven. They were illegal from the start.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Before they were proven they would have been regarded as conspiracy theories.

[โ€“] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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.

[โ€“] fubo 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[โ€“] danieljackson 3 points 1 year ago

I've used Freenet multiple times in the early 2000s. I don't remember anything crazy, I wasn't looking for it either. Just conspiracy theory, and photos smuggled from North Korea.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Sounds like when I was a kid in middle school around that era and just discovering the wild world of internet porn. Saw girls my age in some of the darker corners of the net back then, and somehow something clicked that I probably shouldn't be seeing what I was seeing.

[โ€“] NewEnglandRedshirt 4 points 1 year ago

I'm almost afraid to ask, but what did you find?๐Ÿซฃ

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

this would actually be pretty interesting. any details?

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I am not aware of any such.

[โ€“] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lee Harvey Oswald did not kill JFK, his head just kind of did that sometimes.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Please elaborate. I'm veeeeery interested.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Me too. WE DEMAND ANSWERS!

[โ€“] DominicHillsun -1 points 1 year ago

Can you not be a plebbitor?

[โ€“] evolatic 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Did your research end up changing your friend's mind?

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Not OP, but take a wild guess

[โ€“] evolatic 1 points 1 year ago

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.

[โ€“] Muffinrobotofdoom 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I still prefer OG T-Dazzle

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[โ€“] evolatic 1 points 1 year ago

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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] Contravariant 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah I also learned the hard way not to look up skin diseases on the internet. And if you must, disable images first.

Wikipedia still catches me off guard every so often.

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Are you talking about Hannah Montana Linux, Ubuntu Satanic Edition, or Justin Bieber Linux?

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Don't forget Red Star Linux!

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

After those, the only logical destination is TempleOS

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

oh, boy! that one is a mind melter alright.

[โ€“] daddyjones 6 points 1 year ago

Ok, this was years ago, so the details are a little vague. Maybe that's not such a bad thing, but it might make the story a little less interesting. But it was very creepy/disturbing.

I was looking at an open source software project for something (don't remember what) and was exploring the home site for the project. It all seemed very techy and geeky and, while I don't remember what the project was, I remember it looked very useful.

I continued to poke around among the documentation and, after I'd found everything I wanted about the project itself, began looking around the site more generally. As well as being the home page for the project, it was also the home page for the developer himself.

I read through his "about" page and it all seemed perfectly normal for us geeky types and then I clicked on a link that said something like "pictures".

What I then encountered was a warning page. It said that what followed was several pictures of dead bodies in various states of decomposition. It said that the site owner enjoyed looking as these pictures. It didn't say explicitly, but it was strongly implied that it was sexual pleasure he experienced.

I'm grateful that he put that warning page there because I did not want to see those pictures. I quickly closed the browser completely and sat in a state of shock for a few minutes.

The idea of those pictures was bad enough, but to come across them (or the idea of them) so out of the blue and in a completely different context was extremely disturbing.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Tulpas. People basically intentionally making themselves schizophrenic

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's way more to schizophrenia than just seeing something that's not there, though.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Look up, you'll see the point as it passes by

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I can't recall the creepiest, so here's a kinda eerie website I found called Terminal 00:

https://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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

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.

[โ€“] Puzzlehead 2 points 1 year ago
[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Anytime you feel sick and google the symptoms...

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Start to program.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

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