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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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    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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    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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    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.

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    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.

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    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.