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[โ€“] qprimed@lemmy.ml 13 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 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 0 points 2 years 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 2 years ago (1 children)

I want the return of fun conspiracy theories.

Bigfoot. Aliens. Secret government weapon projects.

[โ€“] iptvsports28@vlemmy.net 1 points 2 years ago

That would be nice.

[โ€“] Zippy@sopuli.xyz 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Actually few have been proven true.

[โ€“] iptvsports28@vlemmy.net 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] Zippy@sopuli.xyz 0 points 2 years ago

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

[โ€“] multicolorKnight@lemmy.ml 10 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.

[โ€“] fubo@lemmy.world 2 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.

[โ€“] qprimed@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

this would actually be pretty interesting. any details?

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

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€“] chungusam0ngus@iusearchlinux.fyi 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] hotwarioinyourarea@slrpnk.net 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Please elaborate. I'm veeeeery interested.

[โ€“] Micromot@feddit.de 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Me too. WE DEMAND ANSWERS!

[โ€“] ryomensukuna@lemmy.one 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[โ€“] lvxferre@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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

[โ€“] Spidertax@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

Don't forget Red Star Linux!

[โ€“] DrWeevilJammer@lm.rdbt.no 1 points 2 years ago

After those, the only logical destination is TempleOS

[โ€“] lemmychatwitpeeps@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Tulpas. People basically intentionally making themselves schizophrenic

[โ€“] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

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

[โ€“] funnyletter@lemmy.one 4 points 2 years ago

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€“] evolatic@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years 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 2 years 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 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.

[โ€“] mrmanager 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[โ€“] evolatic@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years 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€“] AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

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.

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€“] pztrn@bin.pztrn.online 0 points 2 years ago

Start to program.

[โ€“] Puzzlehead@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago
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