But they don't stay in the cache, at least for me. I'll wait 5 even 10 minutes sometimes, scrolling around and letting them all load, but then the next day I have to wait all over again (this is without logging out or even closing the browser). I'm also on firefox mobile but get the same results on firefox for desktop.
QuietCupcake
joined 3 years ago
Yeah, thunderf00t was part of the "new athiest" bandwagon that morphed into gamergate. Just like he may have made a decent video or two criticizing right wing Christian fundamentalism, it doesn't wash away the countless "removed" gamergate videos where he went full 
himself. Unless he put out something where he explicitly denounced and apologized for his years of misogyny, racism, and overt chuddery, I would never consider him someone worth paying any attention to.
Cw: weapons grade bazinga.
After it was discovered that Toxoplasmosis makes people more impulsive there was a slew of articles about how it's actually great that humans are so ubiquitously infected with a brain-altering parasite! See, it makes them more likely to *make risky investments and cause the line to go up! 
what toxoplasmosis does to cats
Not to be pedantic but it doesn't really effect cats. Cats are the primary host and a major part of its lifecyle, but it really only effects the intermediate hosts like mice and people as far as behavioral changes and pathology.
I made the mistake of going on suboxone, now I can't really get any benefit from kratom. If I time it right, sometimes it might give me a bit of a relaxed sensation for 10 minutes, but not much else. I also just can't afford it, even if it still did something for me.
You make excellent points about the demographic situation and the like, and it's great to read something positive like that. But it seems really off to be downplaying the threat that fascism poses to the world. To come out and say that it doesn't have the destructive potential this time around is just wild, considering the fascists didn't have a nuclear arsenal last time. And that's not the only reason that it could be even worse in a WWIII scenario than it was in WWII, with the absence of anything like the Soviet Union now, as u/edge was pointing out.
To be clear, where I was using the word "them" I meant the ruling class, not people in general. I see how some of my sentences weren't worded well.
Bringing the ruling class into it... I don't get it.
The idea that humans and human progress are inherently destructive is a lie told by the ruling class because getting people to believe it benefits them. Among other things it absolves them of their own crimes of destruction while simultaneously blaming the rest of us and our positive traits for those crimes. Somewhat ironically it's a lie that helps lead to more destruction. See my other response to u/Sagittari.
Maybe could've done without the "The fuck are you on?" though I guess
To me it's honestly a disgusting thing to claim that human progress and creativity is all based on destruction when in reality it's the exact opposite. I don't think my response was at all over the top given how harmful of a sentiment I think that is.
This stuff matters. Our biosphere is facing destruction at human hands but not because of our desire to create and build things, not because of our ability to express ourselves through our ingenuity to shape stone and wood. Those are not "destructive traits" but profoundly constructuve attributes. The destruction on the scale that it's happening now to both the environment and much of human culture is because of, like I said, a social pathology that's rooted in a system that rewards greed instead of trying to prevent it. It is a pathology that tries to equate greed and destruction with the creative aspects of human nature... just like the comment I responded to was doing. It's a lie. Even if someone who has fallen for it may be well-meaning, they're still perpetuating a very harmful (and destrctive!) misconception. So I think it deserves a strong, even emotionally-charged critical response.
The fuck are you on? "Destroy" stone? There is a vast gulf of difference between altering something, including in creative and constructive ways, and "destruction." Most of us know the difference today and our ancestors certainly knew the difference. Human labor is in general a constructive force even if it can be used to destructive ends. Saying that "our willingness to destroy is the trait that powered our rise" is ahistorical nonsense and anti-human drivel. But it sounds an awful lot like the lying justifications the small subset of the current ruling class likes to use as an excuse and justification to exploit us and actually destroy our environment for the sake of their own narrow profit and greed. But that's no more of a universal human trait than any other disgusting pathology that a select few are afflicted with.
Holed hog. poked pork. pierced porcine. bored boar. ventilated vark.
Would that many more swine be made into swiss cheese. 
GOOD post. Sums up what I was thinking too. Since in this medium we don't have the kind of emotional ques we would normally get as a response in group conversations, upvotes serve that purpose. It is unfortunate that upvotes are so... quantifiable in a way that nods and grunts of approval are not, which really exacerbates any problematic obsession someone might have with getting positive responses. But that does not mean we should scrap the whole method we have for providing that kind of light social approval that is necessary to some extent to have real communal (as opposed to one on one) discussions.
I also think that what you said touches on something that seems to often get forgotten in discussions about the validity of upvotes: They're not just fir the person receiving them. Upvoting someone gives me a sense that I am participating even if I don't want to say anything. I very often feel like I have nothing really worth adding since much smarter people here say it better than I could, but upvoting others I agree with gives me, as a shy lurker, a way to feel like I'm genuinely part of the community too. People talk about the dopamine hit they get when they see they got upvoted. Well I get a dopamine hit by upvoting others and knowing they got a dopamine hit because of my doing so.