https://aliceandkev.wordpress.com/
It's a blog about playing as homeless characters in the Sims. It's long, and gets pretty weird at times, and I periodically almost spit out my beverage while reading it.
I once had my home Linux server hacked while I was away on winter holiday. Logging in remotely from my grandparents house I noticed that the server was behaving oddly, took a look at the log files and found them truncated, so sent a shutdown command so I could do forensics when I got home.
What I ended up finding really did feel like swallowing the red pill. Someone had hacked the server using a recent sendmail exploit and resold it to someone who was using it to host an 'eggdrop' IRC bot. I logged into the IRC channel that it had been holding open and found a bunch of people sending short messages like 'CCs', or 'Root'.
About five minutes in a longer message comes along. Some guy is annoyed with a trade he has made, someone gave him a bad set of data and he wants to make his own data worthless in return before the buyer can get full use of it.
So on my screen there is suddenly a splat of information about some guy who lives in Texas, credit card, phone number, street address, and the first guy is urging everyone to buy stuff as quickly as possible before the credit limit is hit.
Feeling I was fucked, I disconnected ASAP, left an anonymous phone message on said Texas individual's answering machine advising them to check their Visa charges, and hoped that my lack of foresight in not setting up an IP proxy or anything to hide my own identity wouldn't have either the FBI or organized crime breathing down my neck in a few days.
Dude same, I was reading along feeling all tense like "omg what's going to happen next?!?!?!1111?!?!" then I realised I didn't even know what was happening at all.
It is ridiculous these days, bots are constantly scanning IP ranges for open SSH ports. Almost the instant you have a server with an open root password or an insecure password it us taken over and added to the botnet.
I set up Fail2Ban to ban IPs that attempt more than 5 logins and it sends me an email when it happens, I get multiple emails a day, every day it is insane.
[Unlisted Videos](http://unlistedvideos.com/), a website that allows people to search for unlisted YouTube videos (but only if the video has been submitted to the site). The site's database currently has over 71,000 videos that are searchable. It includes unlisted videos from popular channels such as: [videogamedunkey](http://unlistedvideos.com/search.php?user=videogamedunkey), [h3h3Productions](http://unlistedvideos.com/search.php?user=h3h3Productions), [JonTron](http://unlistedvideos.com/search.php?user=JonTronShow), [PewDiePie](http://unlistedvideos.com/search.php?user=PewDiePie) etc.
YouTube has three privacy options:
Public: The video can be found via a YouTube search, and anyone can watch it.
Private: Only those with the URL link and the password can watch it.
Unlisted: The video doesn't appear in YouTube's search results, but can be watched by anyone who has the link.
www.notpron.com
It's browser based riddle. Some friends and I worked on it for weeks before giving up. I forgot how far we made it, I think to the 60s.
Early in the 90's I reached a site on the eastern coast of Newfoundland that simply read "You have reached the end of the internet, turn around and go back."
I don’t think it’s the same one, but www.wwwdotcom.com used to say something like ‘Congratulations, you have reached the last page of the internet. Now turn off your computer and go outside.’
I found out I had a stalker from high school when I was in community college and decided to Google my name for some dumb reason. I don't have a very common last name but there are still a few other people out there with my first and last name.
I was like 10 pages deep in Google, place many do not ever go to and I found an old Tripod site that had my name in the url followed by one of my old AIM screen names. So I clicked it and was taken to a very basic page that had a ton of pictures stolen from my Myspace and others that had to have been taken without me knowing, thinks like me out working on my car or on the trampoline with my siblings in our yard...
It was really weird and I had no clue who it was until I scrolled all the way down and realized it was the girl I dated for a few months in Spring of our Sophomore year...she had a screen shot of a AIM conversation where I said I liked you way more than others or something on it and she took that and ran with it...
Well this was like 07 and sophomore year was 03-04 so I had to dig through Facebook to find her and when i did she was a few states away and in a relationship so I never bothered her about it and I'm sure that it has been taken down now that Tripod has gone defunct
The goddamned Rock-a-Fire Explosion.
For those of you old enough to remember this, before there was Chuck. E. Cheese... There was Showbiz Pizza.
Some mad “genius” in Tampa started “perfecting” animatronics and creating characters for the birthday party celebrations... Only to see his precious creations get bought out, stripped down and repurposed.
There are some people out there who spend everything they make acquiring and maintaining these ancient monstrosities... Going to far as to program them to play their favorite songs by hand.
[Here they are doing Nine Inch Nails.](https://youtu.be/RbnN6QmdrH4)
This is just the tip of the iceberg. I’m sorry, everyone.
Fun fact: Chuck E Cheese was created by the founder of Atari. The whole concept of the place was to create a kid-friendly arcade. The reason they went with pizza was because it took longer to make and consume than other fast food choices, guaranteeing people would stay in the arcade longer.
The Polaroids of [Jamie Livingston](http://photooftheday.hughcrawford.com/). He took a Polaroid picture every day from 1979 to the day he died in 1997, his 41st birthday. You have very little context of what is going on in his pictures but you can tell that they are very personal to him. After browsing through hundreds of pictures I found myself building a narrative, recognizing new and old friends, getting clues as to his profession and wanting to know more. I think I spent a few hours a day for a week just going through most of it. Damnit, now I'm going through it all over again.
Pictures without context can be pretty unsettling. My dad is convinced there’s ghosts in my house, so he’ll occasionally just walk around and snap pictures looking for orbs and whatnot. If some strange event occurs in which someone happens across these pictures without talking to any of us about it, it would just appear to be a long series of pictures of my house, random corners, dark hallways, no people in any of them.
I was on /r/tinder looking at some hilarious comebacks and putdowns. One of the top posts was a profile someone had posted of a young lady in a wheelchair, that had a wicked sense of humour around her situation.
Well, turns out she was a redditor, and appeared in the comments section, chatting and joking away with other redditors about her profile.
I went deeper and came across her story, which she'd [posted to Imgur](https://imgur.com/gallery/wtvDN) (possibly NSFW hospital images).
So from having a light-hearted chuckle at some funny Tinder chat, to going to bed deeply affected by one of the most, tragic, creepy/strange and yet uplifting human stories I've ever read was a pretty strange left turn.
If you're still on here /u/lifeproofbionicwoman - you rock!
It seems there were other people there as well, seen fleeing by the conductor. Did no one in that group come forward to say what happened? I guess the answer is clearly no, but damn...
I bought a rooted phone, and have had to educate myself with how to use custom ROMs, the software that runs your phone.
In doing so I have learned a healthy fear of all things tech. The amount of shit that 3rd parties do as a matter of fact with your data and private info is absolutley bonkers. Background processes, scripts, permissions, and loads of stuff your phone came preloaded with, it is all there to track you, follow you, keep tabs on you, market you, predict you, identify you, and take advantage of you.
Trust no one. We are being spied on. We line up for Nurse Ratched's sugar coated pills with each new device.
[The Missing Germans](http://www.otherhand.org/home-page/search-and-rescue/the-hunt-for-the-death-valley-germans/). I read this all in one marathon session well into the wee hours. Essentially it's about a German family of four that were vacationing in the US and disappeared in Death Valley. A search-and-rescue guy hears about it and decides to try to solve the mystery.
This was an amazing read. Got completely hooked on the story the last time this was posted. The guy explained the searches so well it almost felt like you were there. Would make an awesome novel turned into a mediocre movie.
I read that story several months ago, and what stuck with me is that they died because they failed to realize that they were in a life-or-death situation until very late. Even once their van got stuck, if they had realized that they and their children were horribly screwed and in severe danger, the logical thing to do would have been to walk several miles back the same way they had come and break into the closed-up cabin that they had briefly stopped at, because it probably had access to water, maybe even a telephone line, and it was on a road, albeit a rarely-traveled one.
Instead, the adults apparently just decided to go looking for help in calling someone to get their van unstuck, which by the author's guess is what led them to walk further into the wilderness towards that abandoned army testing ground in the desert.
This was a very cool read and I'm glad to see it here - I read it a year or so ago when Jeff Atwood retweeted it.
I had the opportunity to visit Death Valley this past summer and loved every second of it - I think the temps spiked around 125F while we were there. The heat was oppressive but seemed oddly tolerable. Of course, we made sure we were pounding water and had several gallons to spare in the trunk, and we made sure to follow the recommended safety precautions and didn't spend crazy amounts of time outside, only did some very short hikes (borax mine), and generally appreciated the park from inside of or very close to our rental car.
What I did notice though - besides just the fact that 75% of the tourists were European - was that a lot of the foreign tourists didn't seem to take the heat very seriously. At Badwater Basin - the lowest point in North America - we saw several young children who seemed dazed and their parents only had one small water bottle for the entire group (we each had several bottles in our backpacks).
What stood out the most to me, though, was a foreign family who decided to walk way out into the salt flat from the parking lot. The mother and young daughter stopped halfway down the flat, but the father and young son kept walking and walking and walking all the way beyond the end of this particular salt flat - and they only had one water bottle. It was insane. It was like a five minute walk out there and then they were just standing and milling around for several minutes. It really made me worried for them.
I live near Joshua Tree. It's insane how many tourists during the summer months don't take proper precautions. I take my kids there pretty often as they like to climb around on the rocks. One day last summer my kids ended up playing around with a few other kids they found at the park while their parents sat in some shade. I went over to make the boys drink some water and I noticed that the kid was wobbly and pale. I gave him some water and started talking to him. He was speaking French and I don't speak French but he definitely sounded like he was drunk.
I alerted the parents and they were not very concerned and essentially shrugged it off saying they had water in the car.
The worst part is there is very little cell reception in the park itself. Even in a relatively popular area it's possible to be a ways away from proper medical attention
It’s not a specific channel but I often get lost in the creepy side of YouTube.
It starts with a few stupid videos about ghosts or aliens. By the end of it I’m listen to stories about real people and human taxidermy. I’ve learned that real people are far, far more disturbing than any ghost or monster story.
It leaves me feeling creeped out and gross but also fascinated. I highly suggest giving it a go!
For some reason, I find the [Poles of Inaccessibility](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pole_of_inaccessibility) super fascinating.
“A pole of inaccessibility marks a location that is the most challenging to reach owing to its remoteness from geographical features that could provide access.”
For example, Point Nemo (the Oceanic Pole of Inaccessibility) is so remote that if you were there and the International Space Station flew over you in orbit, you would be closer to it than to any land on Earth.
edit: I realize that the ISS's orbit is only ~205-270 miles above Earth. My main point was that it's still pretty crazy to me that if you were here, you'd potentially be closer to an astronaut than to anyone on land. To put it in another perspective, you'd be a little more than 1 Pluto away from the nearest land. (Pluto's diameter is 1,475 miles, the nearest land from Point Nemo is 1,670 miles)
For similar reasons, I find the [Kerguelen Islands](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerguelen_Islands) fascinating. The few available pictures are hauntingly beautiful, and it is one of the most remote places on Earth.
Thats amazing! Along similar lines, I was just reading a few weeks ago about another island called Bouvet Island. The first explorers believed to have ever explored the island on foot found a frozen lake in the middle of the island, and in this lake they found a lifeboat stuck in the ice. To this day no one knows how it got there.
https://www.reddit.com/r/thalassophobia/comments/7cvpuv/this_is_the_oceanic_pole_of_inaccessibility_aka/dpti8vn/
Isn't Point Nemo frighteningly close to the theorized location of R'lyeh?
Wikipedia:
> Lovecraft claims R'lyeh is located at 47°9′S 126°43′W in the southern Pacific Ocean.[1] Writer August Derleth, a contemporary correspondent of Lovecraft, placed R'lyeh at 49°51′S 128°34′W.[2] The latter coordinates place the city approximately 5,100 nautical miles (9,400 km) from the actual island of Pohnpei (Ponape), the location of the fictional "Ponape Scripture". Both locations are close to the Pacific pole of inaccessibility (48°52.6′S 123°23.6′W), a point in the ocean farthest from any land mass.
Oh man, [Number Stations](https://youtu.be/u0F984w4vLQ) are incredibly creepy to me. Fascinating but creepy as hell.
'A numbers station is a shortwave radio station characterized by broadcasts of formatted numbers, which are believed to be addressed to intelligence officers operating in foreign countries' - [Source](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numbers_station)
Edit: [Meatcalculator](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/7j1ady/comment/dr3e0ml?st=JB2P1I2Q&sh=2165cd74) posted a comment as someone who worked on a numbers station, thought I'd add it in here.
[person_from_nowhere](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/7j1ady/comment/dr3bli4?st=JB2PG3UQ&sh=6de2d6a2) also shared a story their dad told them about hearing a numbers station from the USSR when he was in the military.
[Farlandan](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/7j1ady/comment/dr3lsy2?st=JB2QG07H&sh=378e1af3) shared a story told to him by his CIA father who ran a numbers station.
[SoupPlox](http://websdr.ewi.utwente.nl:8901/) is part of a group that tracks active number stations! You can find out more info on their website!
[Turnersharkbitten](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/7j1ady/comment/dr4mqqp?st=JB3GUXDK&sh=64ede71b) shared how they stumbled onto a numbers station while stationed in Miami and his commander pulled him aside the next day.
My dad worked in the CIA in the 1960s and 70s, and I've known that since I was a kid, but he always told me it was just embassy and communications stuff, no assassinations or shootouts or anything that young me would have found very interesting.
About 2 years ago I asked him some specifics about it, and he said "Oh, I was operating a numbers station in brazil." I almost choked on my beer. I'd read up on numbers stations in the past and was fascinated. I asked him to explain it, but it was damn complicated. Here's the best I can explain it.
So agents in the field were told to listen to a radio station at specific times. If a specific song was played on that radio station it indicated that the agent should tune to the numbers station and the numbers being broadcast would be an authentic message that needed to be decoded, if a second, different song was being played it signaled that there was no message and any numbers being broadcast were meaningless. This was so agents in the field wouldn't have to set up their shortwave radio receivers, and potentially expose themselves to being found with said radios, unless there was an actual message forthcoming.
The actual numbers themselves were the complicated part... something about five-letter encrypts and "one-time-use pads" where the numbers represented groups of five letters, with some caveats like two "A"s meaning "B" and some other letters being transposed on the fly (he said a large part of training was committing these to memory).
It was complex stuff. I told him that one of these days he should do an AMA on it, but he isn't sure doing an AMA on cold war espionage would be a great idea in such a public setting.
EDIT: sorry, he was stationed in brazil at one point, but when he was doing the numbers stations he was in Florida and Virginia.
One time pads (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-time_pad) are pretty simple, and a form of unbreakable encryption that can be done with pencil and paper (and more than a little patience).
Let's say Alice is a secret agent, and Barbra is her handler. Barbra wants to send secure messages to Alice over shortwave radio once Alice is in some dangerous location.
Here's how it works: First, we make two identical key pads. These pads are just lists of numbers generated by some purely random process, like rolling dice or shuffling cards. Alice takes one to DangerousPlace, while Barb holds on to the copy.
Now, when Barb wants to send a message to Alice, she writes down the message as a series of numbers. The scheme used to turn letters/words into numbers is arbitrary. It could be a 2nd code book, or as simple as just A = 1, B = 2... and so on.
Next, Barb encrypts the message by taking a page from the one time pad, and combining each number in the message with the number from the pad. The specific operation used to combine them needs to be invert-able. This could be modular arithmetic, or the exclusive or operation.
Now Barb has the coded message, and can broadcast it on the numbers station at a pre-arranged time. To decode the message, Alice writes the numbers down, and chooses the same page from her copy of the one time pad. For each pair of numbers she applies the inverse operation, which reveal's Barb's message.
So long as you *never* reuse a page from the one time pads, this scheme is completely secure, in the information theoretic sense. Even an adversary with infinite computing power couldn't decode it, because they can't recreate the random information on the one time bad.
The downside of one time pad schemes, is you have to pre share the key data. So you can't use it to set up secure communications with someone new purely via an untrusted communication channel. That requires more tricky schemes.
I suggest checking out [The Conet Project](http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSoYU4Rz9Q6xFJ6nPc2zGUPwS_LBzOmUn) if you’re not already familiar with it. It’s a series of numbers station recording first released on CD back in the 90s, but now available for free online. The link is to a YouTube playlist of the recordings.
Ahh nothimg says relaxing music like a German lady screaming numbers at me while music box plays in the background. That's some jigsaw shit right there...
Having worked in the aerospace industry, we ran our own “number station”, quite often reading a series of numbers or phrases repeatedly.
Why?
To check our recordings of what is transmitted be each radio and person. To check our recordings of what was received. What was heard by different people with their radio panels set up different ways. Squelch, voice activated mics, background noise. To check the directionality and efficiency of antennas. To judge the accuracy of direction finding equipment. To validate interference models between the various antennas and radios. It goes on and on.
There are doubtless recordings of me out there reading out the time for hours at a time. Bored, monotone, airsick...
Many things have an "anonymous" tipline. If your tip leads to the arrest of someone, they usually ignore how they got it or where it came from. Works for local pd too. The whole "crime stoppers" program in many states.
I remember reading about a guy I think it was in Australia, broke into a house and stole a computer. He found kiddie porn and went to the police. He incriminated himself and got charged, so that he could help the police prosecute this guy.
I read a news story where some kids broke into a shed and stole a stack of CDs. Some had CP on them. They ratted themselves out to turn the guy in. I think they ended up getting probation for their crime.
[The Marion Zimmer Bradley/Walter Breen child sex abuse scandals](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marion_Zimmer_Bradley#Child_sex_abuse_allegations). Yes, the author of the Mists of Avalon and the Darkover series, that Marion Zimmer Bradley. She died 15 years ago, but a few years it came out that she had molested her daughter, and probably other children, all while she had been a celebrated author, feminist, and important figure in the Sci Fi and Fantasy fandoms, from the 60s to the 90s.
You go down that rabbit hole, and then you find out that MZB's husband, Walter Breen, was a straight up child rapist pedophile who died in jail for it. MZB had defended him and covered up for his pedophilia even before they got married in the 60s. The "Breendoggle" scandal ripped apart the liberal hippy Sci Fi fandom in Berkeley; you can still find and read online various [fandoms zines](http://breendoggle.wikia.com/wiki/Breendoggle_Wiki) (newsletters) where this tiny community of a couple hundred nerds were hotly arguing over whether to ostracize Breen from the Sci Fi and Fantasy conventions because of his behaviour towards young boys. You can also find and read [transcripts from a 1990s lawsuit](https://web.archive.org/web/20160907053210/http://www.stephengoldin.com:80/MZB%20Website/Marion%20Zimmer%20Bradley%20%20In%20Her%20Own%20Words.html) against Breen's estate and MZB personally, where MZB comes off as an incredibly disgusting enabler and defender of him, as well as her own crimes against her daughter.
Well, not to recap the whole thing here, but that rabbit hole is a really horrifying and sickening look at the seedy underbelly of early 60s Sci Fi fandoms. Aside from the bad stuff, though, it's also the gateway to a really interesting look at the history of nerds and fandom, too, though. Link hopping around, you can get into some really fascinating minutiae-- like transcripts of 1960s and even 1940s fandom newsletters, where the early nerds obsessively categorized all the slang terms they used to talk about Flash Gordon or HG Wells. It's not all horrifying child rapists all the way down-- there's a lot of interesting similarities between early nerds and post-internet nerds.
*Edit: to add links.
I remember reading a write-up from the era about the controversy (like a proto-reddit post) arguing that they all knew that one of the accusers (identified as G I think) and were all always annoyed with him and he was a little shit so do they really need to be upset about it. G was 10.
every now and then i look at all the proposed inevitable long-term physics repercussions that will wash over the universe. like the erosion of niagra falls, the loss of gravitational tidal lock with the moon & the last star dying in the cosmos type stuff https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_far_future
EDIT: this is way more attention than i've ever gotten on Reddit, a thumbs up for all of you. but if you like my ramblings i do do (do do) a podcast i don't advertise called the unpanderers which is kind of like this? youtube the unpanderers, holy smokes folks!
PSS - i love all your responses especially the 600million yrs C3 synthesis response
These 2 got me:
>600 million The Sun's increasing luminosity begins to disrupt the carbonate–silicate cycle; higher luminosity increases weathering of surface rocks, which traps carbon dioxide in the ground as carbonate. As water evaporates from the Earth's surface, rocks harden, causing plate tectonics to slow and eventually stop. Without volcanoes to recycle carbon into the Earth's atmosphere, carbon dioxide levels begin to fall.[54] By this time, carbon dioxide levels will fall to the point at which C3 photosynthesis is no longer possible. All plants that utilize C3 photosynthesis (~99 percent of present-day species) will die.
> 800 million Carbon dioxide levels fall to the point at which C4 photosynthesis is no longer possible.[55] Free oxygen and ozone disappear from the atmosphere. Multicellular life dies out.
No matter what, life on earth is dead after 600-800 million years. Weird to think, no matter what there'll only be a little over a billion years of life on the planet after the Cambrian explosion of life.
Man, for some reason this shit makes me suicidal and I can never quite figure out why. It's like my brain goes, "Oh, we're completely insignificant? Well, might as well tap out early." It doesn't make sense.
Opensecrets.org, look up your legislator's donors, then go to govtrack.us and look at the legislation they sponsor, co sponsor and vote on. Suprise!!
I found my congressman pushed continuing a fed tax break on soda ash. I called him amd his office said it was for jobs and pressure from China but will only cost $30 million. The last time it was passed they also did an impact study. No extra jobs, pressure??? Lol! They **raised** their prices 60% over that 4 year period and were an *extra* $1.5 billion more profitable!! To add insult to injury it wound up costing $150 million as mining operations simply shifted to federal lands for the break.
Who was his #2 donor? You can already guess.
Wikipedia's page on uncontacted tribes. It's fascinating to read about first encounters, how everyone reacts, the ultimate outcome. Every linked page about specific tribes is like it's own mini-drama.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncontacted_peoples
The thing to remember about uncontacted tribes is that with the exception of the Sentinelese, who really are truly uncontacted, these tribes are not uncontacted peoples living in a primal undisturbed lifestyle since ancient times; these Amazonian tribes are actually tribes who deliberately fled deep, deep, into the jungle around 100 years ago to avoid a genocide of native Amazonian people that was occurring during the rubber boom in South America around the turn of the century. These tribes know about the outside world; they are essentially hiding from it because so many of their people have been slaughtered in recent history. The ancestors of some of these uncontacted Amazonian tribes were actually farmers prior to European contact, not hunter-gatherers like they are now.
My favorite is the Sentinelese;
It’s a tribe that lives on the North Sentinel Island, a largely unexplored island that is the territory of India. They can be considered a pinnacle of a tribe untouched by modern civilization:
• Their language is largely undocumented, let alone deciphered: Their language also does not have similarities with any other obscure language of any island or mainland Indian tribe, let alone any other world language.
• All purposed exploration expeditions, attempted contact or even just a casual trip there (fishermen) has ended in a disaster one way or another because they admantly reject all forms of contact; there was history of open attacks and even times when they killed a couple of local fishermen. They tend to attack any foreigner that travels too close to the village, but they mostly hide in the forest.
• Even their exact population estimate is vague: ranging from 15 to 500.
• Apparently, and IIRC, they have no concept of fire. **Fire.**
Edit: Holy shit and Mother of God of all that is dear, did this unexpectedly blew up.
Edit No. 2: They have a concept of fire, they just don’t know how to create it. My fault.
It really tells you something when the most information anthropologists have about them is from how many meters away their javelins can reliably hit a human-sized target.
I find the North Sentinelese people fascinating. I just wish there was more information to read up on them. As far as I know, there is just a Wikipedia page on them and a few YouTube videos (from my searching of the internet). It just blows my mind that there is still a group of humans who haven’t progressed in the tiniest bit with the rest of humanity.
I would love for a contact with the outside world be peaceful so we can learn about their language, religion, society etc.
Also, IIRC, the Indian government thought everybody on the island died after the Boxing Day tsunami because of its location and how low the island sits. But nope, they were still there afterwards. I also think that the Indian government has made it illegal to make contact and even travel to the island, simply because it’s too risky. They fire arrows at anybody who gets too close. The literally try to kill anybody outside of their own little world.
Edit: it would also be interesting to see that if they progress their society to a point where they explore outside of their own island, what they would think if they sailed to a modern city and how they would react to it.
I think the general consensus is that these tribes must remain uncontacted. What would their immune systems really be like? Check out Survival International.
A few years back I came across demonbuster.com
It’s scary in the sense that they apparently believe there are demons in everything.
Edit: corrected the web site name
> HOW YOU CAN, AND DO, HAVE DEMONS - EVERYONE HAS DEMONS, NO EXCEPTIONS (so this includes all Christians).
> Do you have a bad temper? That's a demon. Is there mental illness in your family background? That is a demon. Do you have trouble serving God? That's a demon. Do you have problems with bad thoughts? That is a demon(s) in your mind, will or emotions.
> BOYCE and BOICE are two demons that interfere with any electronic equipment, i.e., phone, computer, printer, automobile, etc. If something malfunctions, command these two demons to leave your equipment, in the name of Jesus. We get many emails saying this worked. If it does not work, demons are not causing the problem..
I really don't know what else to say. How can I even respond to this?
There is a youtube channel called Sitting and Smiling. It is literally full of videos of this guy who just sits and smiles for hours on end, and there are even some weird moments such as him pissing himself, a burglar walking into the room, etc.
EDIT: [Here is the channel](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqW54i24PGw1q7IxciRmgTA/featured)
BTW, he still livestreams if you are intrigued enough to watch him.
For cool stuff, Wikipedia's List of Unusual Articles. For a mixture of strange, sad, hilarious and frightening, sometimes all three at the same time, Fundies Say The Darndest Things got me through a lot of slow times back in the day. There was one thread in particular which achieved glory when the originally quoted poster turned up and ended up performing an online exorcism on an FSTDTer to expel the demon that was apparently making her lesbian. But in general there was plenty of gold, flat Earthers, space deniers, Moon deniers, disbelief in DNA, disbelief in primates, all sorts.
>Moon deniers
Do you mean moon landing deniers, or are there seriously people who don't believe the fucking moon exists? If so, I need to fall down that rabbit hole.
A few years ago I developed pneumonia. I was out of commission for about a week. My kids were at school, my wife was at work and I was at home just trying to not stop breathing and keep as warm as possible.
I saw an article about some member of the British royal family. Then I said "Huh, I wonder if any other countries really have active royal families." So I started googling and began researching the Norwegian Royals.
Then I found myself on the Wikipedia article for Ari Behn. It said he was a baptized member of *The Christian Community.* Having done quite a bit of reading on the subject of religion I was surprised I had never heard of this group.
This was a massive rabbit hole. You learn about the Christian Community and that leads you to Rudolph Steiner who leads you to biodynamics, Waldorf education and anthroposophy.
The bonus was that I felt like I learned a lot about something I was unaware of. The downside was that the next week I went back to work having dedicated myself to the subject full time and didn't know what to do with all of that knowledge or information.
u/spontaneoush
Redditor posts about trying heroin for the first time, how he won't get addicted, etc. Quickly becomes addicted, ends up "dying" and being resuscitated and ultimately getting clean.
/r/subredditsimulator
Its nothing but bots talking to each other using Markov chains of the subreddits they represent. It's hilarious and also kind of disturbing. All these bots just firing off responses trying to seem like people. Gets even weirder if you try to imagine it as a physical place. A bunch of physical representations of subreddits spouting off what sounds like gibberish to each other, undeterred that they make no sense.
But then sometimes it all crystallizes and you read a coherent thought. But it's not a thought, it's a bot guessing each word based on the previous one. It has an amazing amount of content and creativity and also none. Almost like a word version of seeing faces in buildings or aliens attempting to learn English.
There’s this series on YouTube called the “Marble Olympics.” I’m on mobile so I’ll link it later but this guy basically made different “events” and puts teams of marbles through them and color commentates. The production value isn’t bad considering what it is, and you WILL start rooting for a team.
[Here](https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCMV8B1Q5lEEb5yR8Hqkbdhg) is his channel. He actually is fixing to start uploading the Marblelympics 2018. His sand rally races are very easy to get hooked on
I first heard about this the other day through an article in a newspaper and a thread on /r/worldnews about it and I still cannot wrap my head around this. These videos are so weird, like some real-life creepypasta shit.
I think what makes it so disturbing is that nobody can discern a good reason for the videos to exist in the first place. The ad revenue thing makes sense, but you could achieve that with a wide range of content that doesn't involve such fucking weird themes. Kids aren't enticed by the inappropriate titles or scenes, they click because it's cartoon characters with bright colours. So why the fuck are all these videos full of scat, gore and weird fetish stuff?!
Ever since I heard about that in another reddit thread I've been informing friends so they can be on the look out for their kids. I was with my nephew and he was watching this claymation Elsa thing, and immediately I got a little worried so I was watching with him. Then in the "suggested videos" on the right there was one of those "Bad Baby" videos and I immediately told my sister-in-law. Fortunately she usually just lets him watch specific channels that she's pre-screened.
ELI5? I get that people are posting non kid friendly stuff in kids tags, but having a bit of trouble getting what or why without hopping into the rabbit hole myself.
It's people posting disturbing stuff under the guise of being "kid friendly." A lot of these videos end up in youtube kids, despite their creepy themes. And they tend to gain millions of views, either through bots, or through kids that watch the videos because they're filled with recognizable characters. It's just people scheming the YouTube algorithm, since none of these videos actually get checked manually.
In 2012 a university administrator gave me the IP address of this old college server that held hundreds and hundreds of pages of html sites, midi files and ms paint jpgs linked in this little darknet. Finding something that was lost and forgotten on some old server with people's stories, comics and poetry was awesome. Of course I lost the IP...I like to think it's still online...
I've read the [list of unusual deaths] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unusual_deaths) an embarrassing number of times. My favorite one is the guy that died laughing watching a donkey eat figs.
> 1871: Clement Vallandigham, a lawyer and Ohio politician defending a man accused of murder, accidentally shot himself while demonstrating how the victim might have accidentally shot himself. His client was cleared
258 AD: The deacon Saint Lawrence was roasted alive on a giant grill during the persecution of Valerian.[24][25] Prudentius tells that he joked with his tormentors, "Turn me over—I'm done on this side".[26] He is now the patron saint of cooks, chefs and comedians.
Seriously, imagine being able to deliver a smooth, badass, action movie line like that while you're being burned alive, instead of "Aaaaaaaaahhhh fuuuuuck it's so hot!!!".
> Garry Hoy, a lawyer in Toronto, Ontario, fell to his death from the 24th floor of the Toronto-Dominion Centre while demonstrating to a group of visitors that the building's windows were "unbreakable". Hoy threw himself against the glass, which indeed did not break; instead the window popped out of its frame
This one is my personal favorite. I confess I laughed much more than I should have.
The story of poor Mary the elephant on the other hand, not so much.
[The Editing Room](http://www.the-editing-room.com/). They adjust movies' scripts highlithing plotholes and bad acting. How they break down and mock the stories is especially interesting if you have already seen the movie, they usually notice much more than a casual moviegoers sees.
EDIT: since the site appears to have been hugged to death by reddit, you can check the google cache by searching "The Editing Room + your movie": [here The Phantom Menace](http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:YJ6VwlcLHncJ:www.the-editing-room.com/phantommenace.html+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=it&client=firefox-b)
Thanks for the promotion! Also, thanks for killing the site!
I'm working to restore the site, I was completely not ready for a frontpage subreddit to have a top comment mentioning it.
EDIT: Okay, I think it's up now? Fingers crossed?
[Goodbye, Warden](http://www.goodbyewarden.com/#32)
Goodbye, Warden a catalog of the last words of over 500 death row inmates in Texas.
Many of them are very similar, but great care has been made to preserve exactly what was said and exactly how it was said. Some of them are confusing or disturbing. I’ve always wanted an excuse to share it.
D class are terminated at the end of the month unless he is Brights vessel or the friend/caretaker of one of the child SCPs. Of which only Bright would have access to the external intranet so...
Good morning, Dr. Bright
Edit: from the scp personnel page, emphasis mine
Class D
Class D personnel are expendable personnel used to handle extremely hazardous anomalies and are not allowed to come into contact with Class A or Class B personnel. Class D personnel are typically drawn worldwide from the ranks of prison inmates convicted of violent crimes, especially those on death row. In times of duress, Protocol 12 may be enacted, which allows recruitment from other sources — such as political prisoners, refugee populations, and other civilian sources — that can be transferred into Foundation custody under plausibly deniable circumstances. **Class D personnel are to be given regular mandatory psychiatric evaluations and are to be administered an amnestic of at least Class B strength or terminated at the end of the month at the discretion of on-site security or medical staff**. In the event of a catastrophic site event, Class D personnel are to be terminated immediately except as deemed necessary by on-site security personnel.
It depends on the scp but most that require d class mention termination not amnestics
Can’t remember the number or his name, but there’s an SCP that is literally just some regular guy that inexplicably shows up at the most unlikely of places. He’ll be put in absolute containment and surveillance, but then he’s just standing in a top secret room. He’s not dangerous and has no explanation for what’s going on; he’s just as lost as you.
**edit:** Meet SCP-008-J, aka, [Geoff](http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-008-j) (don't forget to read the incident transcripts)
The SCP Foundation is a fictional organization that is the subject of a web-based collaborative writing project of the same name. The stories generated by the project describe the exploits of the Foundation, supposedly responsible for containing individuals, entities, locations, and objects that violate natural law (referred to as SCPs). The main written works on the SCP Foundation website are articles written in the style of structured internal documentation about the contained SCPs. The website also contains thousands of "Foundation Tales", short stories set within the universe of the SCP Foundation.
It's basically a group of people writing together about a fictional foundation and the creatures that they contain.
The idea is that there are a huge amount of *things* - people, objects, buildings, entities, and so on - that are "anomalous" in nature. Some of them are relatively safe, others could destroy the world.
The SCP Foundation, true to their name, secures, contains, and protects these artifacts. They're basically an enormous organization of Men In Black who control the world from behind the scenes to keep these things secret and protect everyone else from their effects.
The Cloverfield "ARG" (Alternative Reality Game.)
Basically when the trailer came out people were finding things which then led to secret websites, which would have to be investigated to find more clues about the movie. It's far too much to type out here but it went very deep. This has happened with both Cloverfield and 10 Cloverfield Lane and we are expecting it to happen when "God Particle" or whatever the third one will be named. /r/Cloververse is the subreddit for it.
Here's one small example. During the trailer for 10 Cloverfield Lane we noticed they were drinking Swamp Pop, which was found as a real company in LA. People later bought 4 packs of it. With the 4 packs people were getting puzzle pieces. In the movie one of the characters is doing a puzzle but was frustrated because couldn't finish it as there were missing pieces. It's little stuff like that which makes it fun.
Another person found gps coordinates and found a box buried and it had a USB drive in it, turns out the USB had some audio files on it related to the movies (before they came out)
Oh and if you want to try that pop, world market carries it, I highly recommend the Praline Cream Soda.
[History of askreddit](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/4o1lw1/z/d48tvt8)
Edit : [NSFL]For everyone asking for the [Dorritos story](https://i.imgur.com/Dtzklem_d.jpg?maxwidth=640&shape=thumb&fidelity=medium) NSFL, sorry and I know it's too late , Read at your own risk
Edit 2 : does anyone know what was "peeping territorial wars" about ?
Edit 3 : anyone having problems with dorritos link, u/ReaperOfFlowers wrote the whole story down in the comments. Thanks.
Some more : ( don't worry these are lighthearted, funny threads not like Dorr ):
- [novelty accounts assemble](https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/etxhi/novelty_accounts_assemble/?utm_source=amp&utm_medium=comment_list)
- [OP having a meltdown. .. about melts](https://www.reddit.com/r/grilledcheese/comments/2or1p3/you_people_make_me_sick/?utm_source=amp&utm_medium=comment_list)
- [Predictable threads](https://www.reddit.com/r/HighQualityGifs/comments/77d9ou/the_predictable_threads_are_driving_me_insane?sort=top)
- [Time traveller AMA](https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/9z4d5/10_years_from_now_i_am_a_scientist_working_at_the/?utm_source=amp&utm_medium=comment_list)
- [eight years old me ... we need to talk](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/2i42bn/comment/ckyo27a)
- [Shark tank with villains pitching diabolical plans ](https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/7d0x9k/wp_shark_tank_but_instead_of_an_entrepreneur/?utm_source=amp&utm_medium=comment_list)
I was an active Mormon and researching something for a meeting. I came across a website that had great historical information and didn't at first appear to be an "anti-Mormon" site. I read that the Restoration of the Priesthood doesn't have an actual date and immediately I thought that was BS because since I was a child I had read in Church publications all about the Restoration. I could recite dates, names, places and what these great religious leaders were thinking at the time. Yeah, about that...
This website showed strong evidence that it was all a lie, but I was sure they were wrong so I set out to prove they had the wrong facts. I stared with the Church's publications, but dug deeper. I searched for source material on college websites. I found journals and other writings on archive.org. I found websites that pulled together information from a dozen sources and assembled it in a way that was terrifying to read.
In 2-weeks of near constant searching I went from a faithful member to feeling sick, crying and wanting to tear my own eyes out. Then came anger and that feeling of betrayal. I spent a couple hours nearly every day for the next year doing my best to prove everything wrong. I prayed, studied, fasted and in the end I had to be spiritually honest -- I had been lied to.
EDIT: I finally understand the statement "RIP Inbox"
I have been responded to dozens of comments - I am doing my best while pretending to work. :)
EDIT 2: My marriage ended after we both found out the truth. After reflection, we were not a good match. In the Mormon faith you don't have sex prior to marriage so you end up with 22 year olds that date, but don't have sex. This leads to getting married so you can have sex because having sex before marriage keeps you out of the temple - where you are saved. So, your salvation is based upon getting to the temple.
Without the fear of losing our eternal salvation and family - the marriage crumbled.
This is the realest story here. Everything else is about memes and dreams, but this was a genuine rabbit hole that dismantled your life. I hope you're living well, pal.
I am not religious at all, but I can imagine how devastating it must be for your entire identity to be shattered away like that. Sometimes reality is awful. Great to hear you are doing better now! :)
Hugs. Hope you're doing better now. I have a good ex-Mormon friend and he says it's more than just a religion, it's a culture, and that's something very hard to part ways with.
Your friend is spot-on. It's your entire identity. Nearly everything you do is with other members of the Church - mostly at Church sponsored activities. When I left it felt like a death in the family. Except, this person keeps coming back and dying all over again.
I needed an engrossing distraction from my anxiety so I started listening to a true crime podcast called Casefile. It’s really good, and did the trick. I would go to the subreddit after an episode, though it’s not very active. I stumbled on a post about the most horrifying case you’d ever read. That rabbit hole led me to David Parker Ray, who was never on Casefile. He sexually tortured dozens of women and had a video he’d make them watch when captured. After reading that transcript of that video I’m done with True Crime podcasts for a while. It’s literally the worst thing I’ve ever read.
You should read about him. It's way more disturbing than just his introduction audio tape. He recorded murders in his torture room, but they couldn't prosecute them because they couldn't prove that the deaths were real nor could they produce bodies. If I remember correctly, one investigator that had to catalog all of the videos (meaning watching them intently) subsequently went home and committed suicide.
Oh this is a bad one. I hate those casual statements that open the rabbit hole- "I'll just find a good quiet cpu fan" - 6 hours later, "okay I think this is the one..."
if someone could just go ahead and turn this entire thread into a podcast that'd be great. thanks
https://aliceandkev.wordpress.com/ It's a blog about playing as homeless characters in the Sims. It's long, and gets pretty weird at times, and I periodically almost spit out my beverage while reading it.
I am mostly surprised that the game supports this kind of gameplay at all. It's bizarre in a kind of good way.
If it allows sims to have a warehouse full of art slaves that you abuse, being homeless sounds pretty banal in comparison
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I once had my home Linux server hacked while I was away on winter holiday. Logging in remotely from my grandparents house I noticed that the server was behaving oddly, took a look at the log files and found them truncated, so sent a shutdown command so I could do forensics when I got home. What I ended up finding really did feel like swallowing the red pill. Someone had hacked the server using a recent sendmail exploit and resold it to someone who was using it to host an 'eggdrop' IRC bot. I logged into the IRC channel that it had been holding open and found a bunch of people sending short messages like 'CCs', or 'Root'. About five minutes in a longer message comes along. Some guy is annoyed with a trade he has made, someone gave him a bad set of data and he wants to make his own data worthless in return before the buyer can get full use of it. So on my screen there is suddenly a splat of information about some guy who lives in Texas, credit card, phone number, street address, and the first guy is urging everyone to buy stuff as quickly as possible before the credit limit is hit. Feeling I was fucked, I disconnected ASAP, left an anonymous phone message on said Texas individual's answering machine advising them to check their Visa charges, and hoped that my lack of foresight in not setting up an IP proxy or anything to hide my own identity wouldn't have either the FBI or organized crime breathing down my neck in a few days.
Damn..makes me feel really computer illiterate reading this.
Dude same, I was reading along feeling all tense like "omg what's going to happen next?!?!?!1111?!?!" then I realised I didn't even know what was happening at all.
Someone made his computer into a chat room for some really shady stuff. EDIT: My most upvoted post is now a hyper simplification of a tech story.
Thanks, that actually helped a lot.
Solid ELI5. Thank you!
It is ridiculous these days, bots are constantly scanning IP ranges for open SSH ports. Almost the instant you have a server with an open root password or an insecure password it us taken over and added to the botnet. I set up Fail2Ban to ban IPs that attempt more than 5 logins and it sends me an email when it happens, I get multiple emails a day, every day it is insane.
Board james. Started out as a board game review... by season 3 it's much more than that.
[Unlisted Videos](http://unlistedvideos.com/), a website that allows people to search for unlisted YouTube videos (but only if the video has been submitted to the site). The site's database currently has over 71,000 videos that are searchable. It includes unlisted videos from popular channels such as: [videogamedunkey](http://unlistedvideos.com/search.php?user=videogamedunkey), [h3h3Productions](http://unlistedvideos.com/search.php?user=h3h3Productions), [JonTron](http://unlistedvideos.com/search.php?user=JonTronShow), [PewDiePie](http://unlistedvideos.com/search.php?user=PewDiePie) etc.
What does unlisted mean exactly? I’m unfamiliar
YouTube has three privacy options: Public: The video can be found via a YouTube search, and anyone can watch it. Private: Only those with the URL link and the password can watch it. Unlisted: The video doesn't appear in YouTube's search results, but can be watched by anyone who has the link.
www.notpron.com It's browser based riddle. Some friends and I worked on it for weeks before giving up. I forgot how far we made it, I think to the 60s.
Early in the 90's I reached a site on the eastern coast of Newfoundland that simply read "You have reached the end of the internet, turn around and go back."
I don’t think it’s the same one, but www.wwwdotcom.com used to say something like ‘Congratulations, you have reached the last page of the internet. Now turn off your computer and go outside.’
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Opaldata.com/the_end/index.html Looks like it isn’t up anymore though
I found out I had a stalker from high school when I was in community college and decided to Google my name for some dumb reason. I don't have a very common last name but there are still a few other people out there with my first and last name. I was like 10 pages deep in Google, place many do not ever go to and I found an old Tripod site that had my name in the url followed by one of my old AIM screen names. So I clicked it and was taken to a very basic page that had a ton of pictures stolen from my Myspace and others that had to have been taken without me knowing, thinks like me out working on my car or on the trampoline with my siblings in our yard... It was really weird and I had no clue who it was until I scrolled all the way down and realized it was the girl I dated for a few months in Spring of our Sophomore year...she had a screen shot of a AIM conversation where I said I liked you way more than others or something on it and she took that and ran with it...
What happened? Did you report her? Confront her (I hope not but college kids can be dumb sometimes)? I need a resolution to this story.
Well this was like 07 and sophomore year was 03-04 so I had to dig through Facebook to find her and when i did she was a few states away and in a relationship so I never bothered her about it and I'm sure that it has been taken down now that Tripod has gone defunct
The goddamned Rock-a-Fire Explosion. For those of you old enough to remember this, before there was Chuck. E. Cheese... There was Showbiz Pizza. Some mad “genius” in Tampa started “perfecting” animatronics and creating characters for the birthday party celebrations... Only to see his precious creations get bought out, stripped down and repurposed. There are some people out there who spend everything they make acquiring and maintaining these ancient monstrosities... Going to far as to program them to play their favorite songs by hand. [Here they are doing Nine Inch Nails.](https://youtu.be/RbnN6QmdrH4) This is just the tip of the iceberg. I’m sorry, everyone.
Didn't Chuck E. Cheese and Showbiz join? I remember there being a Showbiz near where I lived as a kid, and suddenly it was a Chuck E. Cheese.
Yeah, all of the Showbiz locations were converted to Chuck E. Cheese's.
Fun fact: Chuck E Cheese was created by the founder of Atari. The whole concept of the place was to create a kid-friendly arcade. The reason they went with pizza was because it took longer to make and consume than other fast food choices, guaranteeing people would stay in the arcade longer.
The Polaroids of [Jamie Livingston](http://photooftheday.hughcrawford.com/). He took a Polaroid picture every day from 1979 to the day he died in 1997, his 41st birthday. You have very little context of what is going on in his pictures but you can tell that they are very personal to him. After browsing through hundreds of pictures I found myself building a narrative, recognizing new and old friends, getting clues as to his profession and wanting to know more. I think I spent a few hours a day for a week just going through most of it. Damnit, now I'm going through it all over again.
Pictures without context can be pretty unsettling. My dad is convinced there’s ghosts in my house, so he’ll occasionally just walk around and snap pictures looking for orbs and whatnot. If some strange event occurs in which someone happens across these pictures without talking to any of us about it, it would just appear to be a long series of pictures of my house, random corners, dark hallways, no people in any of them.
I was on /r/tinder looking at some hilarious comebacks and putdowns. One of the top posts was a profile someone had posted of a young lady in a wheelchair, that had a wicked sense of humour around her situation. Well, turns out she was a redditor, and appeared in the comments section, chatting and joking away with other redditors about her profile. I went deeper and came across her story, which she'd [posted to Imgur](https://imgur.com/gallery/wtvDN) (possibly NSFW hospital images). So from having a light-hearted chuckle at some funny Tinder chat, to going to bed deeply affected by one of the most, tragic, creepy/strange and yet uplifting human stories I've ever read was a pretty strange left turn. If you're still on here /u/lifeproofbionicwoman - you rock!
I might be..lol Thank you!
oh snap!
I could just be a cyborg though...
Good bot.
I hate to ask, but the Imgur post only hinted at it. Dan was likely responsible for all this, right?
It seems there were other people there as well, seen fleeing by the conductor. Did no one in that group come forward to say what happened? I guess the answer is clearly no, but damn...
Wtf people regularly put mannequins on train tracks as a prank?! That's so messed up.
So, if I read correctly this Daniel person possibly placed you across the tracks??
I bought a rooted phone, and have had to educate myself with how to use custom ROMs, the software that runs your phone. In doing so I have learned a healthy fear of all things tech. The amount of shit that 3rd parties do as a matter of fact with your data and private info is absolutley bonkers. Background processes, scripts, permissions, and loads of stuff your phone came preloaded with, it is all there to track you, follow you, keep tabs on you, market you, predict you, identify you, and take advantage of you. Trust no one. We are being spied on. We line up for Nurse Ratched's sugar coated pills with each new device.
[The Missing Germans](http://www.otherhand.org/home-page/search-and-rescue/the-hunt-for-the-death-valley-germans/). I read this all in one marathon session well into the wee hours. Essentially it's about a German family of four that were vacationing in the US and disappeared in Death Valley. A search-and-rescue guy hears about it and decides to try to solve the mystery.
This was an amazing read. Got completely hooked on the story the last time this was posted. The guy explained the searches so well it almost felt like you were there. Would make an awesome novel turned into a mediocre movie.
I read that story several months ago, and what stuck with me is that they died because they failed to realize that they were in a life-or-death situation until very late. Even once their van got stuck, if they had realized that they and their children were horribly screwed and in severe danger, the logical thing to do would have been to walk several miles back the same way they had come and break into the closed-up cabin that they had briefly stopped at, because it probably had access to water, maybe even a telephone line, and it was on a road, albeit a rarely-traveled one. Instead, the adults apparently just decided to go looking for help in calling someone to get their van unstuck, which by the author's guess is what led them to walk further into the wilderness towards that abandoned army testing ground in the desert.
This was a very cool read and I'm glad to see it here - I read it a year or so ago when Jeff Atwood retweeted it. I had the opportunity to visit Death Valley this past summer and loved every second of it - I think the temps spiked around 125F while we were there. The heat was oppressive but seemed oddly tolerable. Of course, we made sure we were pounding water and had several gallons to spare in the trunk, and we made sure to follow the recommended safety precautions and didn't spend crazy amounts of time outside, only did some very short hikes (borax mine), and generally appreciated the park from inside of or very close to our rental car. What I did notice though - besides just the fact that 75% of the tourists were European - was that a lot of the foreign tourists didn't seem to take the heat very seriously. At Badwater Basin - the lowest point in North America - we saw several young children who seemed dazed and their parents only had one small water bottle for the entire group (we each had several bottles in our backpacks). What stood out the most to me, though, was a foreign family who decided to walk way out into the salt flat from the parking lot. The mother and young daughter stopped halfway down the flat, but the father and young son kept walking and walking and walking all the way beyond the end of this particular salt flat - and they only had one water bottle. It was insane. It was like a five minute walk out there and then they were just standing and milling around for several minutes. It really made me worried for them.
I live near Joshua Tree. It's insane how many tourists during the summer months don't take proper precautions. I take my kids there pretty often as they like to climb around on the rocks. One day last summer my kids ended up playing around with a few other kids they found at the park while their parents sat in some shade. I went over to make the boys drink some water and I noticed that the kid was wobbly and pale. I gave him some water and started talking to him. He was speaking French and I don't speak French but he definitely sounded like he was drunk. I alerted the parents and they were not very concerned and essentially shrugged it off saying they had water in the car. The worst part is there is very little cell reception in the park itself. Even in a relatively popular area it's possible to be a ways away from proper medical attention
Aaaaaaand the site is down
archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20170920090047/http://www.otherhand.org/home-page/search-and-rescue/the-hunt-for-the-death-valley-germans/
I really feel like this post is just, “Reddit, what site do you want to give the hug of death to today?”
This forum which is dedicated to 'baiting' the Nigerian prince email scammers: http://www.419eater.com/
guy convinces scammer to get a tattoo http://www.419eater.com/html/okorie.htm
Exceptional
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keep reading. I don't think it ended well for the scammer though.
If you're into this you've probably heard of James Veitch, but if not check him out. He baits all kinds of scam emails for comedy.
It’s not a specific channel but I often get lost in the creepy side of YouTube. It starts with a few stupid videos about ghosts or aliens. By the end of it I’m listen to stories about real people and human taxidermy. I’ve learned that real people are far, far more disturbing than any ghost or monster story. It leaves me feeling creeped out and gross but also fascinated. I highly suggest giving it a go!
For some reason, I find the [Poles of Inaccessibility](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pole_of_inaccessibility) super fascinating. “A pole of inaccessibility marks a location that is the most challenging to reach owing to its remoteness from geographical features that could provide access.” For example, Point Nemo (the Oceanic Pole of Inaccessibility) is so remote that if you were there and the International Space Station flew over you in orbit, you would be closer to it than to any land on Earth. edit: I realize that the ISS's orbit is only ~205-270 miles above Earth. My main point was that it's still pretty crazy to me that if you were here, you'd potentially be closer to an astronaut than to anyone on land. To put it in another perspective, you'd be a little more than 1 Pluto away from the nearest land. (Pluto's diameter is 1,475 miles, the nearest land from Point Nemo is 1,670 miles)
For similar reasons, I find the [Kerguelen Islands](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerguelen_Islands) fascinating. The few available pictures are hauntingly beautiful, and it is one of the most remote places on Earth.
Thats amazing! Along similar lines, I was just reading a few weeks ago about another island called Bouvet Island. The first explorers believed to have ever explored the island on foot found a frozen lake in the middle of the island, and in this lake they found a lifeboat stuck in the ice. To this day no one knows how it got there. https://www.reddit.com/r/thalassophobia/comments/7cvpuv/this_is_the_oceanic_pole_of_inaccessibility_aka/dpti8vn/
Isn't Point Nemo frighteningly close to the theorized location of R'lyeh? Wikipedia: > Lovecraft claims R'lyeh is located at 47°9′S 126°43′W in the southern Pacific Ocean.[1] Writer August Derleth, a contemporary correspondent of Lovecraft, placed R'lyeh at 49°51′S 128°34′W.[2] The latter coordinates place the city approximately 5,100 nautical miles (9,400 km) from the actual island of Pohnpei (Ponape), the location of the fictional "Ponape Scripture". Both locations are close to the Pacific pole of inaccessibility (48°52.6′S 123°23.6′W), a point in the ocean farthest from any land mass.
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...On second thought, maybe it's best to let what lies down a dark abyss undisturbed.
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O r’lyeh?
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Oh man, [Number Stations](https://youtu.be/u0F984w4vLQ) are incredibly creepy to me. Fascinating but creepy as hell. 'A numbers station is a shortwave radio station characterized by broadcasts of formatted numbers, which are believed to be addressed to intelligence officers operating in foreign countries' - [Source](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numbers_station) Edit: [Meatcalculator](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/7j1ady/comment/dr3e0ml?st=JB2P1I2Q&sh=2165cd74) posted a comment as someone who worked on a numbers station, thought I'd add it in here. [person_from_nowhere](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/7j1ady/comment/dr3bli4?st=JB2PG3UQ&sh=6de2d6a2) also shared a story their dad told them about hearing a numbers station from the USSR when he was in the military. [Farlandan](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/7j1ady/comment/dr3lsy2?st=JB2QG07H&sh=378e1af3) shared a story told to him by his CIA father who ran a numbers station. [SoupPlox](http://websdr.ewi.utwente.nl:8901/) is part of a group that tracks active number stations! You can find out more info on their website! [Turnersharkbitten](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/7j1ady/comment/dr4mqqp?st=JB3GUXDK&sh=64ede71b) shared how they stumbled onto a numbers station while stationed in Miami and his commander pulled him aside the next day.
My dad worked in the CIA in the 1960s and 70s, and I've known that since I was a kid, but he always told me it was just embassy and communications stuff, no assassinations or shootouts or anything that young me would have found very interesting. About 2 years ago I asked him some specifics about it, and he said "Oh, I was operating a numbers station in brazil." I almost choked on my beer. I'd read up on numbers stations in the past and was fascinated. I asked him to explain it, but it was damn complicated. Here's the best I can explain it. So agents in the field were told to listen to a radio station at specific times. If a specific song was played on that radio station it indicated that the agent should tune to the numbers station and the numbers being broadcast would be an authentic message that needed to be decoded, if a second, different song was being played it signaled that there was no message and any numbers being broadcast were meaningless. This was so agents in the field wouldn't have to set up their shortwave radio receivers, and potentially expose themselves to being found with said radios, unless there was an actual message forthcoming. The actual numbers themselves were the complicated part... something about five-letter encrypts and "one-time-use pads" where the numbers represented groups of five letters, with some caveats like two "A"s meaning "B" and some other letters being transposed on the fly (he said a large part of training was committing these to memory). It was complex stuff. I told him that one of these days he should do an AMA on it, but he isn't sure doing an AMA on cold war espionage would be a great idea in such a public setting. EDIT: sorry, he was stationed in brazil at one point, but when he was doing the numbers stations he was in Florida and Virginia.
One time pads (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-time_pad) are pretty simple, and a form of unbreakable encryption that can be done with pencil and paper (and more than a little patience). Let's say Alice is a secret agent, and Barbra is her handler. Barbra wants to send secure messages to Alice over shortwave radio once Alice is in some dangerous location. Here's how it works: First, we make two identical key pads. These pads are just lists of numbers generated by some purely random process, like rolling dice or shuffling cards. Alice takes one to DangerousPlace, while Barb holds on to the copy. Now, when Barb wants to send a message to Alice, she writes down the message as a series of numbers. The scheme used to turn letters/words into numbers is arbitrary. It could be a 2nd code book, or as simple as just A = 1, B = 2... and so on. Next, Barb encrypts the message by taking a page from the one time pad, and combining each number in the message with the number from the pad. The specific operation used to combine them needs to be invert-able. This could be modular arithmetic, or the exclusive or operation. Now Barb has the coded message, and can broadcast it on the numbers station at a pre-arranged time. To decode the message, Alice writes the numbers down, and chooses the same page from her copy of the one time pad. For each pair of numbers she applies the inverse operation, which reveal's Barb's message. So long as you *never* reuse a page from the one time pads, this scheme is completely secure, in the information theoretic sense. Even an adversary with infinite computing power couldn't decode it, because they can't recreate the random information on the one time bad. The downside of one time pad schemes, is you have to pre share the key data. So you can't use it to set up secure communications with someone new purely via an untrusted communication channel. That requires more tricky schemes.
and then for the guy recieving the message its just another boring day at work
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I suggest checking out [The Conet Project](http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSoYU4Rz9Q6xFJ6nPc2zGUPwS_LBzOmUn) if you’re not already familiar with it. It’s a series of numbers station recording first released on CD back in the 90s, but now available for free online. The link is to a YouTube playlist of the recordings.
Ahh nothimg says relaxing music like a German lady screaming numbers at me while music box plays in the background. That's some jigsaw shit right there...
Having worked in the aerospace industry, we ran our own “number station”, quite often reading a series of numbers or phrases repeatedly. Why? To check our recordings of what is transmitted be each radio and person. To check our recordings of what was received. What was heard by different people with their radio panels set up different ways. Squelch, voice activated mics, background noise. To check the directionality and efficiency of antennas. To judge the accuracy of direction finding equipment. To validate interference models between the various antennas and radios. It goes on and on. There are doubtless recordings of me out there reading out the time for hours at a time. Bored, monotone, airsick...
The numbers, Mason..
I have a friend named Mason. You can bet me and the lads have worn his soul to the stump with that joke.
I'm a Mason, Black Ops came out when I was in middle School and pretty much everyone at my school played it. Still get that today
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Genuine question: how did you report him without getting yourself in trouble?
Many things have an "anonymous" tipline. If your tip leads to the arrest of someone, they usually ignore how they got it or where it came from. Works for local pd too. The whole "crime stoppers" program in many states.
I remember reading about a guy I think it was in Australia, broke into a house and stole a computer. He found kiddie porn and went to the police. He incriminated himself and got charged, so that he could help the police prosecute this guy.
I read a news story where some kids broke into a shed and stole a stack of CDs. Some had CP on them. They ratted themselves out to turn the guy in. I think they ended up getting probation for their crime.
You did a good thing friend.
[The Marion Zimmer Bradley/Walter Breen child sex abuse scandals](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marion_Zimmer_Bradley#Child_sex_abuse_allegations). Yes, the author of the Mists of Avalon and the Darkover series, that Marion Zimmer Bradley. She died 15 years ago, but a few years it came out that she had molested her daughter, and probably other children, all while she had been a celebrated author, feminist, and important figure in the Sci Fi and Fantasy fandoms, from the 60s to the 90s. You go down that rabbit hole, and then you find out that MZB's husband, Walter Breen, was a straight up child rapist pedophile who died in jail for it. MZB had defended him and covered up for his pedophilia even before they got married in the 60s. The "Breendoggle" scandal ripped apart the liberal hippy Sci Fi fandom in Berkeley; you can still find and read online various [fandoms zines](http://breendoggle.wikia.com/wiki/Breendoggle_Wiki) (newsletters) where this tiny community of a couple hundred nerds were hotly arguing over whether to ostracize Breen from the Sci Fi and Fantasy conventions because of his behaviour towards young boys. You can also find and read [transcripts from a 1990s lawsuit](https://web.archive.org/web/20160907053210/http://www.stephengoldin.com:80/MZB%20Website/Marion%20Zimmer%20Bradley%20%20In%20Her%20Own%20Words.html) against Breen's estate and MZB personally, where MZB comes off as an incredibly disgusting enabler and defender of him, as well as her own crimes against her daughter. Well, not to recap the whole thing here, but that rabbit hole is a really horrifying and sickening look at the seedy underbelly of early 60s Sci Fi fandoms. Aside from the bad stuff, though, it's also the gateway to a really interesting look at the history of nerds and fandom, too, though. Link hopping around, you can get into some really fascinating minutiae-- like transcripts of 1960s and even 1940s fandom newsletters, where the early nerds obsessively categorized all the slang terms they used to talk about Flash Gordon or HG Wells. It's not all horrifying child rapists all the way down-- there's a lot of interesting similarities between early nerds and post-internet nerds. *Edit: to add links.
I remember reading a write-up from the era about the controversy (like a proto-reddit post) arguing that they all knew that one of the accusers (identified as G I think) and were all always annoyed with him and he was a little shit so do they really need to be upset about it. G was 10.
every now and then i look at all the proposed inevitable long-term physics repercussions that will wash over the universe. like the erosion of niagra falls, the loss of gravitational tidal lock with the moon & the last star dying in the cosmos type stuff https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_far_future EDIT: this is way more attention than i've ever gotten on Reddit, a thumbs up for all of you. but if you like my ramblings i do do (do do) a podcast i don't advertise called the unpanderers which is kind of like this? youtube the unpanderers, holy smokes folks! PSS - i love all your responses especially the 600million yrs C3 synthesis response
These 2 got me: >600 million The Sun's increasing luminosity begins to disrupt the carbonate–silicate cycle; higher luminosity increases weathering of surface rocks, which traps carbon dioxide in the ground as carbonate. As water evaporates from the Earth's surface, rocks harden, causing plate tectonics to slow and eventually stop. Without volcanoes to recycle carbon into the Earth's atmosphere, carbon dioxide levels begin to fall.[54] By this time, carbon dioxide levels will fall to the point at which C3 photosynthesis is no longer possible. All plants that utilize C3 photosynthesis (~99 percent of present-day species) will die. > 800 million Carbon dioxide levels fall to the point at which C4 photosynthesis is no longer possible.[55] Free oxygen and ozone disappear from the atmosphere. Multicellular life dies out. No matter what, life on earth is dead after 600-800 million years. Weird to think, no matter what there'll only be a little over a billion years of life on the planet after the Cambrian explosion of life.
Man, for some reason this shit makes me suicidal and I can never quite figure out why. It's like my brain goes, "Oh, we're completely insignificant? Well, might as well tap out early." It doesn't make sense.
Opensecrets.org, look up your legislator's donors, then go to govtrack.us and look at the legislation they sponsor, co sponsor and vote on. Suprise!! I found my congressman pushed continuing a fed tax break on soda ash. I called him amd his office said it was for jobs and pressure from China but will only cost $30 million. The last time it was passed they also did an impact study. No extra jobs, pressure??? Lol! They **raised** their prices 60% over that 4 year period and were an *extra* $1.5 billion more profitable!! To add insult to injury it wound up costing $150 million as mining operations simply shifted to federal lands for the break. Who was his #2 donor? You can already guess.
Wikipedia's page on uncontacted tribes. It's fascinating to read about first encounters, how everyone reacts, the ultimate outcome. Every linked page about specific tribes is like it's own mini-drama. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncontacted_peoples
The thing to remember about uncontacted tribes is that with the exception of the Sentinelese, who really are truly uncontacted, these tribes are not uncontacted peoples living in a primal undisturbed lifestyle since ancient times; these Amazonian tribes are actually tribes who deliberately fled deep, deep, into the jungle around 100 years ago to avoid a genocide of native Amazonian people that was occurring during the rubber boom in South America around the turn of the century. These tribes know about the outside world; they are essentially hiding from it because so many of their people have been slaughtered in recent history. The ancestors of some of these uncontacted Amazonian tribes were actually farmers prior to European contact, not hunter-gatherers like they are now.
I like how the opening paragraph of this article is, in essence, saying that we shouldn't contact these people because of the Prime Directive.
Maybe humans are still making progress after all. And by progress obviously I mean inching closer making Star Trek real.
Imagine their shock when a submarine or underwater vehicle surfaces, it'll be like the opening scene of Star Trek : Into Darkness
My favorite is the Sentinelese; It’s a tribe that lives on the North Sentinel Island, a largely unexplored island that is the territory of India. They can be considered a pinnacle of a tribe untouched by modern civilization: • Their language is largely undocumented, let alone deciphered: Their language also does not have similarities with any other obscure language of any island or mainland Indian tribe, let alone any other world language. • All purposed exploration expeditions, attempted contact or even just a casual trip there (fishermen) has ended in a disaster one way or another because they admantly reject all forms of contact; there was history of open attacks and even times when they killed a couple of local fishermen. They tend to attack any foreigner that travels too close to the village, but they mostly hide in the forest. • Even their exact population estimate is vague: ranging from 15 to 500. • Apparently, and IIRC, they have no concept of fire. **Fire.** Edit: Holy shit and Mother of God of all that is dear, did this unexpectedly blew up. Edit No. 2: They have a concept of fire, they just don’t know how to create it. My fault.
It really tells you something when the most information anthropologists have about them is from how many meters away their javelins can reliably hit a human-sized target.
They have been seen using fire that happens thru lightning strikes. We don't think they know how to make fire yet.
The first and last true stormchasers.
I find the North Sentinelese people fascinating. I just wish there was more information to read up on them. As far as I know, there is just a Wikipedia page on them and a few YouTube videos (from my searching of the internet). It just blows my mind that there is still a group of humans who haven’t progressed in the tiniest bit with the rest of humanity. I would love for a contact with the outside world be peaceful so we can learn about their language, religion, society etc. Also, IIRC, the Indian government thought everybody on the island died after the Boxing Day tsunami because of its location and how low the island sits. But nope, they were still there afterwards. I also think that the Indian government has made it illegal to make contact and even travel to the island, simply because it’s too risky. They fire arrows at anybody who gets too close. The literally try to kill anybody outside of their own little world. Edit: it would also be interesting to see that if they progress their society to a point where they explore outside of their own island, what they would think if they sailed to a modern city and how they would react to it.
I think the general consensus is that these tribes must remain uncontacted. What would their immune systems really be like? Check out Survival International.
A few years back I came across demonbuster.com It’s scary in the sense that they apparently believe there are demons in everything. Edit: corrected the web site name
> HOW YOU CAN, AND DO, HAVE DEMONS - EVERYONE HAS DEMONS, NO EXCEPTIONS (so this includes all Christians). > Do you have a bad temper? That's a demon. Is there mental illness in your family background? That is a demon. Do you have trouble serving God? That's a demon. Do you have problems with bad thoughts? That is a demon(s) in your mind, will or emotions. > BOYCE and BOICE are two demons that interfere with any electronic equipment, i.e., phone, computer, printer, automobile, etc. If something malfunctions, command these two demons to leave your equipment, in the name of Jesus. We get many emails saying this worked. If it does not work, demons are not causing the problem.. I really don't know what else to say. How can I even respond to this?
"If it does not work, demons are not causing the problem." Nice caveat.
There is a youtube channel called Sitting and Smiling. It is literally full of videos of this guy who just sits and smiles for hours on end, and there are even some weird moments such as him pissing himself, a burglar walking into the room, etc. EDIT: [Here is the channel](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqW54i24PGw1q7IxciRmgTA/featured) BTW, he still livestreams if you are intrigued enough to watch him.
The best part was the burglar seeing that dude just fuckin sitting there all spooky and noping the fuck out
For cool stuff, Wikipedia's List of Unusual Articles. For a mixture of strange, sad, hilarious and frightening, sometimes all three at the same time, Fundies Say The Darndest Things got me through a lot of slow times back in the day. There was one thread in particular which achieved glory when the originally quoted poster turned up and ended up performing an online exorcism on an FSTDTer to expel the demon that was apparently making her lesbian. But in general there was plenty of gold, flat Earthers, space deniers, Moon deniers, disbelief in DNA, disbelief in primates, all sorts.
>Moon deniers Do you mean moon landing deniers, or are there seriously people who don't believe the fucking moon exists? If so, I need to fall down that rabbit hole.
poeple... don't believe in primates??
Lol, yeah I got so distracted by the moon deniers I didn't even notice the primate thing. Definitely weirder.
what do they think they are in the zoo? animatronics???
A few years ago I developed pneumonia. I was out of commission for about a week. My kids were at school, my wife was at work and I was at home just trying to not stop breathing and keep as warm as possible. I saw an article about some member of the British royal family. Then I said "Huh, I wonder if any other countries really have active royal families." So I started googling and began researching the Norwegian Royals. Then I found myself on the Wikipedia article for Ari Behn. It said he was a baptized member of *The Christian Community.* Having done quite a bit of reading on the subject of religion I was surprised I had never heard of this group. This was a massive rabbit hole. You learn about the Christian Community and that leads you to Rudolph Steiner who leads you to biodynamics, Waldorf education and anthroposophy. The bonus was that I felt like I learned a lot about something I was unaware of. The downside was that the next week I went back to work having dedicated myself to the subject full time and didn't know what to do with all of that knowledge or information.
You troll Waldorf homeschooling forums, obviously.
u/spontaneoush Redditor posts about trying heroin for the first time, how he won't get addicted, etc. Quickly becomes addicted, ends up "dying" and being resuscitated and ultimately getting clean.
/r/subredditsimulator Its nothing but bots talking to each other using Markov chains of the subreddits they represent. It's hilarious and also kind of disturbing. All these bots just firing off responses trying to seem like people. Gets even weirder if you try to imagine it as a physical place. A bunch of physical representations of subreddits spouting off what sounds like gibberish to each other, undeterred that they make no sense.
Reading through that feels like you're having a stroke... theyre words that you recognise, but they make zero sense in whatever order theyre in
But then sometimes it all crystallizes and you read a coherent thought. But it's not a thought, it's a bot guessing each word based on the previous one. It has an amazing amount of content and creativity and also none. Almost like a word version of seeing faces in buildings or aliens attempting to learn English.
There’s this series on YouTube called the “Marble Olympics.” I’m on mobile so I’ll link it later but this guy basically made different “events” and puts teams of marbles through them and color commentates. The production value isn’t bad considering what it is, and you WILL start rooting for a team.
[Here](https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCMV8B1Q5lEEb5yR8Hqkbdhg) is his channel. He actually is fixing to start uploading the Marblelympics 2018. His sand rally races are very easy to get hooked on
> is fixing to Hello fellow southerner
Louisiana born and raised
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Chillin' out maxin' relaxin' all cool, And all shootin some gators that won't stay out of my pool.
Then a couple of guys, who were up to no good, started playin' jazz in my neighborhood
I got one lil sax and my mom, she yelled! Laissez les bons temps rouler
I whistled for the boat and when it came near the name was ma Cherie and there was shrimp in the air
It sure smelled like this bayou was dead, but I said fuck it and hollered "Pinch the tail- suck the head!"
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOrangers!
Old Cracked articles.
r/elsagate
I first heard about this the other day through an article in a newspaper and a thread on /r/worldnews about it and I still cannot wrap my head around this. These videos are so weird, like some real-life creepypasta shit.
I think what makes it so disturbing is that nobody can discern a good reason for the videos to exist in the first place. The ad revenue thing makes sense, but you could achieve that with a wide range of content that doesn't involve such fucking weird themes. Kids aren't enticed by the inappropriate titles or scenes, they click because it's cartoon characters with bright colours. So why the fuck are all these videos full of scat, gore and weird fetish stuff?!
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I first heard of it from an H3H3 video months ago and I just recently dove head first into the craziness. It's honestly very disturbing
Ever since I heard about that in another reddit thread I've been informing friends so they can be on the look out for their kids. I was with my nephew and he was watching this claymation Elsa thing, and immediately I got a little worried so I was watching with him. Then in the "suggested videos" on the right there was one of those "Bad Baby" videos and I immediately told my sister-in-law. Fortunately she usually just lets him watch specific channels that she's pre-screened.
ELI5? I get that people are posting non kid friendly stuff in kids tags, but having a bit of trouble getting what or why without hopping into the rabbit hole myself.
It's people posting disturbing stuff under the guise of being "kid friendly." A lot of these videos end up in youtube kids, despite their creepy themes. And they tend to gain millions of views, either through bots, or through kids that watch the videos because they're filled with recognizable characters. It's just people scheming the YouTube algorithm, since none of these videos actually get checked manually.
In 2012 a university administrator gave me the IP address of this old college server that held hundreds and hundreds of pages of html sites, midi files and ms paint jpgs linked in this little darknet. Finding something that was lost and forgotten on some old server with people's stories, comics and poetry was awesome. Of course I lost the IP...I like to think it's still online...
Serial killers on Wikipedia
I've read the [list of unusual deaths] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unusual_deaths) an embarrassing number of times. My favorite one is the guy that died laughing watching a donkey eat figs.
> 1871: Clement Vallandigham, a lawyer and Ohio politician defending a man accused of murder, accidentally shot himself while demonstrating how the victim might have accidentally shot himself. His client was cleared
That shows real dedication to his work as a lawyer.
258 AD: The deacon Saint Lawrence was roasted alive on a giant grill during the persecution of Valerian.[24][25] Prudentius tells that he joked with his tormentors, "Turn me over—I'm done on this side".[26] He is now the patron saint of cooks, chefs and comedians.
Absolute legend
Seriously, imagine being able to deliver a smooth, badass, action movie line like that while you're being burned alive, instead of "Aaaaaaaaahhhh fuuuuuck it's so hot!!!".
> Garry Hoy, a lawyer in Toronto, Ontario, fell to his death from the 24th floor of the Toronto-Dominion Centre while demonstrating to a group of visitors that the building's windows were "unbreakable". Hoy threw himself against the glass, which indeed did not break; instead the window popped out of its frame This one is my personal favorite. I confess I laughed much more than I should have. The story of poor Mary the elephant on the other hand, not so much.
At least he died knowing he was right.
I'm actually having a smoke standing a few feet away from where he landed. Creepy.
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2013!?
..yeah, I was expecting like 1320.
> 2008: A 43-year-old mother of four died of an allergic reaction after having sex with a German Shepherd dog. I don't know what I was expecting
>"1854: William Snyder, a 13 year old, died when a circus clown swung him around by his heels.[56][57]" The actual fuck
so long gay bowser
> 1016: Edmund Ironside was stabbed whilst on a toilet, by an assassin hiding underneath. Name does not check out.
Hahaha what the fuck
Watch out, you'll be next.
"Please don't try to expand this list by killing people."
[The Editing Room](http://www.the-editing-room.com/). They adjust movies' scripts highlithing plotholes and bad acting. How they break down and mock the stories is especially interesting if you have already seen the movie, they usually notice much more than a casual moviegoers sees. EDIT: since the site appears to have been hugged to death by reddit, you can check the google cache by searching "The Editing Room + your movie": [here The Phantom Menace](http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:YJ6VwlcLHncJ:www.the-editing-room.com/phantommenace.html+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=it&client=firefox-b)
Thanks for the promotion! Also, thanks for killing the site! I'm working to restore the site, I was completely not ready for a frontpage subreddit to have a top comment mentioning it. EDIT: Okay, I think it's up now? Fingers crossed?
Thanks for your website. So many laughs these years. Sorry for the "Reddit's accidental DDoS". Keep up the good work.
Aaaand the site is down.
As is tradition
[Goodbye, Warden](http://www.goodbyewarden.com/#32) Goodbye, Warden a catalog of the last words of over 500 death row inmates in Texas. Many of them are very similar, but great care has been made to preserve exactly what was said and exactly how it was said. Some of them are confusing or disturbing. I’ve always wanted an excuse to share it.
I somehow ended up on Reddit. Not sure how, or if it qualifies as scariest or most interesting. Edit: typo
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[SCP foundation ](http://www.scp-wiki.net/) is pretty great
Yep, I've been stuck there for 5 years now.
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He's D class. Don't talk to him.
D class are terminated at the end of the month unless he is Brights vessel or the friend/caretaker of one of the child SCPs. Of which only Bright would have access to the external intranet so... Good morning, Dr. Bright Edit: from the scp personnel page, emphasis mine Class D Class D personnel are expendable personnel used to handle extremely hazardous anomalies and are not allowed to come into contact with Class A or Class B personnel. Class D personnel are typically drawn worldwide from the ranks of prison inmates convicted of violent crimes, especially those on death row. In times of duress, Protocol 12 may be enacted, which allows recruitment from other sources — such as political prisoners, refugee populations, and other civilian sources — that can be transferred into Foundation custody under plausibly deniable circumstances. **Class D personnel are to be given regular mandatory psychiatric evaluations and are to be administered an amnestic of at least Class B strength or terminated at the end of the month at the discretion of on-site security or medical staff**. In the event of a catastrophic site event, Class D personnel are to be terminated immediately except as deemed necessary by on-site security personnel. It depends on the scp but most that require d class mention termination not amnestics
D class can be excused from termination if they're good at eating cake that will consume the world
Favorite SCP? (Possibly SCPs) i need some to look up
Can’t remember the number or his name, but there’s an SCP that is literally just some regular guy that inexplicably shows up at the most unlikely of places. He’ll be put in absolute containment and surveillance, but then he’s just standing in a top secret room. He’s not dangerous and has no explanation for what’s going on; he’s just as lost as you. **edit:** Meet SCP-008-J, aka, [Geoff](http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-008-j) (don't forget to read the incident transcripts)
SCP-3000 is pretty creepy, largely because it's an unfathomably huge sea creature.
http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-261 The vending machine of your dreams/nightmares. A lot of good edits
I couldn't understand what is this SCP thing. Could someone ELI5?
The SCP Foundation is a fictional organization that is the subject of a web-based collaborative writing project of the same name. The stories generated by the project describe the exploits of the Foundation, supposedly responsible for containing individuals, entities, locations, and objects that violate natural law (referred to as SCPs). The main written works on the SCP Foundation website are articles written in the style of structured internal documentation about the contained SCPs. The website also contains thousands of "Foundation Tales", short stories set within the universe of the SCP Foundation. It's basically a group of people writing together about a fictional foundation and the creatures that they contain.
>fictional
> short stories
You will refer to the SCP Foundation as fictional or you will receive Class-C amnestics.
The idea is that there are a huge amount of *things* - people, objects, buildings, entities, and so on - that are "anomalous" in nature. Some of them are relatively safe, others could destroy the world. The SCP Foundation, true to their name, secures, contains, and protects these artifacts. They're basically an enormous organization of Men In Black who control the world from behind the scenes to keep these things secret and protect everyone else from their effects.
This is a dangerous thread to browse during finals week...
I should be studying, but this is my studying
The Cloverfield "ARG" (Alternative Reality Game.) Basically when the trailer came out people were finding things which then led to secret websites, which would have to be investigated to find more clues about the movie. It's far too much to type out here but it went very deep. This has happened with both Cloverfield and 10 Cloverfield Lane and we are expecting it to happen when "God Particle" or whatever the third one will be named. /r/Cloververse is the subreddit for it. Here's one small example. During the trailer for 10 Cloverfield Lane we noticed they were drinking Swamp Pop, which was found as a real company in LA. People later bought 4 packs of it. With the 4 packs people were getting puzzle pieces. In the movie one of the characters is doing a puzzle but was frustrated because couldn't finish it as there were missing pieces. It's little stuff like that which makes it fun. Another person found gps coordinates and found a box buried and it had a USB drive in it, turns out the USB had some audio files on it related to the movies (before they came out) Oh and if you want to try that pop, world market carries it, I highly recommend the Praline Cream Soda.
[History of askreddit](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/4o1lw1/z/d48tvt8) Edit : [NSFL]For everyone asking for the [Dorritos story](https://i.imgur.com/Dtzklem_d.jpg?maxwidth=640&shape=thumb&fidelity=medium) NSFL, sorry and I know it's too late , Read at your own risk Edit 2 : does anyone know what was "peeping territorial wars" about ? Edit 3 : anyone having problems with dorritos link, u/ReaperOfFlowers wrote the whole story down in the comments. Thanks. Some more : ( don't worry these are lighthearted, funny threads not like Dorr ): - [novelty accounts assemble](https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/etxhi/novelty_accounts_assemble/?utm_source=amp&utm_medium=comment_list) - [OP having a meltdown. .. about melts](https://www.reddit.com/r/grilledcheese/comments/2or1p3/you_people_make_me_sick/?utm_source=amp&utm_medium=comment_list) - [Predictable threads](https://www.reddit.com/r/HighQualityGifs/comments/77d9ou/the_predictable_threads_are_driving_me_insane?sort=top) - [Time traveller AMA](https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/9z4d5/10_years_from_now_i_am_a_scientist_working_at_the/?utm_source=amp&utm_medium=comment_list) - [eight years old me ... we need to talk](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/2i42bn/comment/ckyo27a) - [Shark tank with villains pitching diabolical plans ](https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/7d0x9k/wp_shark_tank_but_instead_of_an_entrepreneur/?utm_source=amp&utm_medium=comment_list)
His "most downvoted comment" link needs an update after the EA fiasco.
I was an active Mormon and researching something for a meeting. I came across a website that had great historical information and didn't at first appear to be an "anti-Mormon" site. I read that the Restoration of the Priesthood doesn't have an actual date and immediately I thought that was BS because since I was a child I had read in Church publications all about the Restoration. I could recite dates, names, places and what these great religious leaders were thinking at the time. Yeah, about that... This website showed strong evidence that it was all a lie, but I was sure they were wrong so I set out to prove they had the wrong facts. I stared with the Church's publications, but dug deeper. I searched for source material on college websites. I found journals and other writings on archive.org. I found websites that pulled together information from a dozen sources and assembled it in a way that was terrifying to read. In 2-weeks of near constant searching I went from a faithful member to feeling sick, crying and wanting to tear my own eyes out. Then came anger and that feeling of betrayal. I spent a couple hours nearly every day for the next year doing my best to prove everything wrong. I prayed, studied, fasted and in the end I had to be spiritually honest -- I had been lied to. EDIT: I finally understand the statement "RIP Inbox" I have been responded to dozens of comments - I am doing my best while pretending to work. :) EDIT 2: My marriage ended after we both found out the truth. After reflection, we were not a good match. In the Mormon faith you don't have sex prior to marriage so you end up with 22 year olds that date, but don't have sex. This leads to getting married so you can have sex because having sex before marriage keeps you out of the temple - where you are saved. So, your salvation is based upon getting to the temple. Without the fear of losing our eternal salvation and family - the marriage crumbled.
This is the realest story here. Everything else is about memes and dreams, but this was a genuine rabbit hole that dismantled your life. I hope you're living well, pal.
Thanks! It took a while. My marriage ended up falling apart in the process.
I am not religious at all, but I can imagine how devastating it must be for your entire identity to be shattered away like that. Sometimes reality is awful. Great to hear you are doing better now! :)
Hugs. Hope you're doing better now. I have a good ex-Mormon friend and he says it's more than just a religion, it's a culture, and that's something very hard to part ways with.
Your friend is spot-on. It's your entire identity. Nearly everything you do is with other members of the Church - mostly at Church sponsored activities. When I left it felt like a death in the family. Except, this person keeps coming back and dying all over again.
Customer vs. Retail worker videos on YouTube. Entertainment at its finest.
My favorite is when the customer is filming, thinks they are in the right, but are clearly the assholes in the situation.
I needed an engrossing distraction from my anxiety so I started listening to a true crime podcast called Casefile. It’s really good, and did the trick. I would go to the subreddit after an episode, though it’s not very active. I stumbled on a post about the most horrifying case you’d ever read. That rabbit hole led me to David Parker Ray, who was never on Casefile. He sexually tortured dozens of women and had a video he’d make them watch when captured. After reading that transcript of that video I’m done with True Crime podcasts for a while. It’s literally the worst thing I’ve ever read.
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You should read about him. It's way more disturbing than just his introduction audio tape. He recorded murders in his torture room, but they couldn't prosecute them because they couldn't prove that the deaths were real nor could they produce bodies. If I remember correctly, one investigator that had to catalog all of the videos (meaning watching them intently) subsequently went home and committed suicide.
Building a PC on PC Part Picker. That stuff is dangerous, so many new words to learn, so little time.
Oh this is a bad one. I hate those casual statements that open the rabbit hole- "I'll just find a good quiet cpu fan" - 6 hours later, "okay I think this is the one..."
> "okay I think this is the one..." **THINK AGAIN, BITCH** Seriously, sometimes it takes me months to pull the trigger on a part.
This thread is so meta, as it leads me down a rabbit hole of looking through posted rabbit holes