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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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      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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        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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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.