a pattern repeating everywhere seems to be visible. people are no longer accepting of differing views. worse, all differing views are usually taken to be necessarily hostile.
and more importantly, each of these views are formed by an opinion based on information that is not directly verifiable by individuals. in absence of trust in the channels (supposedly) bringing us facts and institutions of authorities (supposedly) acting for our good, what are the possible futures?

On Wed, 30 Jun 2021 at 08:29, grarpamp <grarpamp@gmail.com> wrote:
Silk Road was not the first darknet onion drugmart
to accept bitcoin... SR came later, but it was
one of the first that became massively popular.
SR also had a good book forum / section.