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[โ€“] qprimed@lemmy.ml 17 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€“] iptvsports28@vlemmy.net 1 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€“] at_an_angle@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I want the return of fun conspiracy theories.

Bigfoot. Aliens. Secret government weapon projects.

[โ€“] iptvsports28@vlemmy.net 1 points 1 year ago

That would be nice.

[โ€“] Zippy@sopuli.xyz -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Actually few have been proven true.

[โ€“] iptvsports28@vlemmy.net 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] Zippy@sopuli.xyz -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] mycorrhiza@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

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

[โ€“] NABDad@lemmy.world 1 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€“] multicolorKnight@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 year 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.

[โ€“] fubo@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year 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.

[โ€“] qprimed@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

this would actually be pretty interesting. any details?

[โ€“] multicolorKnight@lemmy.ml 2 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€“] qprimed@lemmy.ml 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€“] multicolorKnight@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

I am not aware of any such.

[โ€“] chungusam0ngus@iusearchlinux.fyi 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] hotwarioinyourarea 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Please elaborate. I'm veeeeery interested.

[โ€“] LA71@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago

Head splodey powers

[โ€“] Micromot@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Me too. WE DEMAND ANSWERS!

[โ€“] funnyletter@lemmy.one 6 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€“] Gravelsack@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago

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

[โ€“] ryomensukuna@lemmy.one 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[โ€“] lvxferre@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[โ€“] Spidertax@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Don't forget Red Star Linux!

[โ€“] DrWeevilJammer@lm.rdbt.no 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

After those, the only logical destination is TempleOS

[โ€“] qprimed@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

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

[โ€“] evolatic@lemmy.world 4 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€“] gaydarless@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

Not OP, but take a wild guess

[โ€“] evolatic@lemmy.world 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€“] mrmanager@lemmy.today 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[โ€“] evolatic@lemmy.world 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€“] lemmychatwitpeeps@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Tulpas. People basically intentionally making themselves schizophrenic

[โ€“] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] sarsaparilyptus@lemmy.fmhy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 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.

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€“] Lemminary@lemmy.ml 2 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€“] AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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€“] LurkingN3rd@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I didn't even know this site had sound!

That makes it even eerier and I love it!

[โ€“] LurkingN3rd@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I didn't stick around long enough to find out lol

[โ€“] Lemminary@lemmy.ml 1 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.

stinkymeat.net

[โ€“] Hypnotized@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Anytime you feel sick and google the symptoms...

[โ€“] pztrn@bin.pztrn.online -1 points 1 year ago

Start to program.

[โ€“] Puzzlehead@lemmy.world -2 points 1 year ago
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