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    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

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        I want the return of fun conspiracy theories.

        Bigfoot. Aliens. Secret government weapon projects.

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          I’m aging myself, but I used to listen to Art Bell on his Coast to Coast show for this reason. Then as the years passed I became saddened and creeped out that what used to be entertainment became actual identities and lifestyles for some people.

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            I’ll age with you. I used to listen to Coast to Coast at night when falling asleep or driving home from my night shift at BK in the late 90’s.

            Wanna take a ride?

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              I’ll never forget listening the night the guy “flew into area 51”, Mel’s Hole, and I still remember hearing Art’s disgust when he super glued a cigarette to his lip 🤣.

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      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.

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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.

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      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.

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        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.

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      this would actually be pretty interesting. any details?

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        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.

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          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.

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        Its still going to be the majority of what you think. I also went to look at tor network once and it was disturbing. Child porn and hit men. I seriously didn’t sleep well for awhile after.

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        It’s pretty hard to just stumble upon the messed up shit. Normally there is a “Hidden Wiki” maintained by the community that has links to popular sites. All the urls are randomized and look like foc8u6bsi.onoon so you can’t just try hitman.onion or something.

        I used to like looking at the dark net markets and random forums I saw linked because the people were crazy/interesting. I actually got Hulu/Netflix accounts for like $4 bitcoin when I was a stupid 14 year old.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    Tulpas. People basically intentionally making themselves schizophrenic

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      I actually think the idea of forming a character in your head that talks to you “autonomously” (not under conscious control) is kind of interesting, but people take it very seriously and think that tulpas are spiritual beings or deserve human rights. It’s an fascinating community.

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      That actaully sounds dangerous to study undefined> Tulpas

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    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.

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      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

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    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.