I begrudgingly use pol. On occasion there are very important threads. Current events, new 'gates' (i.e. pizza gate), nutrition threads/supplement threads, culture jamming threads. I learned about iodine on pol which has made a big improvement on my health. I don't really recommend pol to people though. At any given time 60-80% of every post is a 'slide' post or demoralize post or research post. I'd say half or more of all comments are bots or bad faith comments. My brain is accustomed to blocking out the bullshit but most people can't and shouldn't try to do it (more dangerous to the subconsious than people might realize). I agree with you about the captcha bullshit. It makes posting very tedious and I only post in threads I'm VERY interested in like seedoil threads or remoralize threads. Redpill threads and event summary threads can also be very useful. I really love finding gems like these. I'm thinking of starting a s/eventsummaries subverse on saidit for these types of effort write up png files.