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Re: Random Darknet Shopper: A Live Mail Art Piece

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The dark web/deep web/dark net/whateveryouwannacallit has many legal things sold on it. My favorite story was a few years back, a vendor there was selling drugs. However, they also had their own coffee blend, and they would send a bag of their coffee with every purchase. Turns out the coffee was phenomenal. The vendor started getting so many requests to buy the coffee directly that they were able to just start sellin…

To be fair, coffee is just another drug. And there are many drugs which are sold legally which have much worse impact on people and communities, like opiod prescriptions.

So I know what you mean about selling drugs being "semi-ethical" (probably a fanciful way to say "legal") but it's not as unethical as many other things people sell out in the open.

Re: Random Darknet Shopper: A Live Mail Art Piece

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I honestly expected it to be 90% drugs, but I was pleasantly surprised to see the diversity of the items.

Perhaps the other items are sold as a kind of cover-up, somehow?

This occurs on eBay as well. (Note how many gift cards sell for well over their merchant-limited value... in cash or equivalent.)

Re: Random Darknet Shopper: A Live Mail Art Piece

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Source/link? I'm not saying you're wrong, but I've heard a lot of crazy stories about what's supposedly on the darkweb, but a lot of it seems to be just that: stories.

Source/link ? It’s the dark web, you can look yourself. I’m not going to go spelunking for it.

The dark web isn't a cave, it's part of the internet. The user experience of using Tor browser is basically "slow Firefox with unpronounceable URLs". You could easily link something if you've seen it.

The fact that you can't copy/paste a URL here makes me think that you probably haven't seen this. It's more likely that you just heard a Reddit rumor about cannibals on the dark web and decided to repeat that rumor here without thinking through the reliability of your source.

But hey, you can prove me wrong with a simple link.

Re: Random Darknet Shopper: A Live Mail Art Piece

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

You won’t do the work to back your own claim? Ok, well add me to the list of people calling bullshit then. Besides, who, but s cannibal would know the different between a leg of veal pork, and a... leg? Occam’s Razor says the books are jokes, pranks, or scams, and/or that you’re bullshitting. In the absence of evidence at least. Well for starters you can try checking the watchpeopledie subreddit and look for human st…

Well for starters you can try checking the watchpeopledie subreddit and look for human stew. I don’t work for free, I’m barely giving a fuck away.

Here's an example of copy/pasting a link to your claims:

https://www.reddit.com/r/watchpeopledie/search?q=human+stew&...

That wasn't difficult. Unfortunately, that link doesn't support your claims.

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