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[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

anything qanon related will make your brain implode faster than a carbon fiber pressure hull at 12k feet.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (5 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I want the return of fun conspiracy theories.

Bigfoot. Aliens. Secret government weapon projects.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

That would be nice.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Please elaborate. I'm veeeeery interested.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Me too. WE DEMAND ANSWERS!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago (2 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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

this would actually be pretty interesting. any details?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I am not aware of any such.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Don't forget Red Star Linux!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

After those, the only logical destination is TempleOS

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Oh man I went down the morgellons rabbit hole once. Super disturbing stuff

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Tulpas. People basically intentionally making themselves schizophrenic

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

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[–] sweetcuppincakes 2 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (4 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Not OP, but take a wild guess

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years 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.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Anytime you feel sick and google the symptoms...

[–] sweetcuppincakes 4 points 2 years 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.

[–] httpjames 2 points 2 years ago

Cicada 3301. It was a mysterious ARG made by an anonymous group over a decade ago that, to this day, has never been solved. I was intrigued at how little we know about the group behind it and wondered if we'd ever receive a message back from them again.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

stinkymeat.net

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Learning about Ricardo Lopez, BjΓΆrk's stalker from the late 90's. Very disturbing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Start to program.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Was diggin' "the mud flood" and "tartarians", but the "hole in the head of the sphynx" is what had the most impact. Every mainstream documentary 'bout the sphynx in gizeh, doesn't speak about nor gives an aerial shot, where the entries are shown. Guess the egyptian gatekeepers around "Zahi Hawass" hide a bunch of (good & bad) stuff from the ancients, like the vatican.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I2P network. It's full of awful things.

[–] Cl1nk 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Is it like the dark areas of the Tor network?

[–] sharkfucker420 1 points 2 years ago

It's mostly drugs bro, and dread. Not that bad

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