> There's no overlord trying to hide the conspiracies of the world, it's just bringing a much needed regulation to the news, as essential component to the modern democracy.
Who defines 'reasonable' when 'news' is inherently opinionated?
The one with the deepest pockets for legal protection?
Who says that only 'businesses' are and should be the ones reporting news?
And who regulates the regulators?
Seriously.. EFF v ATT, for starters, along with any of the entirely half baked 1-sided, spin-laden 'real news' that is coming out of just about any major entity these days..
So if they made the entire search algorithm customizable and 98% of users kept the defaults, would you be satisfied? Regardless of how realistic that idea is, Google would still be an arbiter of truth. There is no way around it.
one thing not mentioned here but hinted at is tolerance -
The 4 day window between doses hinted at is pretty much required in order to have anywhere near the same effect with the same quantity so doing this in a regular way is more like 'regular chemical therapy' a couple times a week than a 'morning pick me up' like cofee
not sure how tolerance builds over the long run - so could be wrong here if it actually plateus; that said probably not the best idea to be on LSD every single day if even in small doses..
I've done it 30 days in a row once. Tolerance is really quite negligible at these doses. However you do definitely notice full +50ug trips between for about 1-2 days afterwards.
Also, tolerance is maybe the wrong word as it suggests that all effects are diminished. With psychedelics, pretty much all of them except DMT when microdosing, it seems more like this for continous microdosing without days off:
Day 3-4: Loss of the psychedelic "touch" in thought and perception, including associated creativity and easier ability to psychedelic thinking, now feels more like a stimulant without associated amphetamine bodyload
Day 5-6: Slight loss of clarity
Day 8-9: Further loss of clarity and beginning loss of energy and stimulation
Day 12-13: Sober state becomes indistinguishable from microdose - true tolerance sets in
Back in my carefree youth, I often took LSD multiple times a week. I never noticed any sort of "tolerance"... tripping was tripping. Of course, not microdosing, and not daily, but it doesn't feel like a "tolerance" drug, really, the way, say, opiates are a tolerance drug.
Show me the set of NYT/WaPo/ETc pieces consistently outlining an editorial position for any one of the following issues:
Unaccountable global free trade deals are a bad idea, Assad is not an evil guy that should be replaced via direct or indirect US action, That Syrian rebel groups are in fact heavily islamised, that Putin is not trying to be Stalin 2.0, that the Ukraine is a mess due to problems on all sides, that a Palestinian 1 state solution is preferred to the current 2 state strategy, or equating the level of theocratic social repression in Iran and Saudi Arabia.
Does the occasional piece crop up hinting that these could concievably be valid positions if they weren't actually incorrect? Yes. Does that mean they are consistently viewed or even evaluated by pinning down biases and weighing them against objective comparitive philosophical standards, particularly applied to the topic at hand? Ha!
Despite the cherry picking of subjects in your post, in 15 minutes...
Saudis @ NYT from a selection of recent articles:
"Trump has made it clear he is not worried about supporting human rights or freedom; [...] that all those difficult questions about gender equality and the like are going to be off the table for the next four years, and that Iran is very much on the table,” Mr. Riedel said." https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/03/14/world/middleeast/moham...
"Activists in the country have long protested its patriarchal society that essentially prohibits women from traveling, marrying or attending college without permission from a male relative, who is called their guardian." https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/01/05/world/middleeast/saudi...
"Western human rights organizations criticized both the trial and the sentences, saying that the accused were denied proper legal representation, charged over activities that should not be crimes and pressed into signing “confessions” that were used against them." https://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/12/06/world/middleeast/saudi...
I personally don't think this is so much a result of Assange having a bias as it is a result of him being in a compromised position since being imprisoned in the Equadorian embassy..
One the one hand, he has the US wanting to prosecute him and on the other hand, if the claims are to be believed, Russia is happy to use WL as a channel to air their dirty US intel bits, by context implying that he is de-facto forced to take a Russia aligned position since they are the only ones with power covering him.. And of course outing this bias essentially means he plays the one card that might keep him from say, disappearing into a river or mysteriously ingesting rare radioactive isotopes..
If the shoe were on the other foot and the US were not so interested in prosecuting him to cover themselves, and it were Russia/China/Etc forcing him to hole up somewhere I'd wager that the US would be more than happy to play the same game of using wikileaks as a channel, with Assange staying mum, and Russia/China/Etc would be crying foul..
Of course this only presumes the 'wikileaks as russian channel' info is even true, since pretty much anyone not in the gung-ho US camp is branded as a Russian shill (Assange, Snowden) or a deranged lunatic hell bent on global destruction (Assad, Hussein, Khomeni, Chavez, etc.)
By the way, ever notice you don't hear so much about Anonymous these days since about the time of the elections and Hillary's server getting discovered?
There are much much much bigger factors at play than Assange's bias or non bias in this drama..
