So, can I use that chart to somehow whip up some LSD-25 in the kitchen? How would I go about doing that? It's not for me, the neighbour wants to know.
Sure, all you need is some moldy grain, a petri dish, and a bicycle.
Google "PIHKaL" and "TIHKaL". Erowid used to host the full text of both books, dunno if they still do (Shulgin himself distributed them for free)
Edit: eh fuck it, I was curious if they were still there...
https://www.erowid.org/library/books_online/pihkal/pihkal.shtml
https://www.erowid.org/library/books_online/tihkal/
The synthesization of LSD-25 is in TIHKaL (though, from my understanding, it's not very easy)
Those are the links from Google, but they're not loading on my phone so I dunno
This frame is actually taken from an Illumination film, not Disney.
Looks like it is from the Disney Junior show, Puppy Dog Pals.
Which film do you think it is from?!
Oh, is it? I thought this was Secret Life of Pets.
My 4 yr old watches it sometimes and it was creates by and the man is voiced by Harland Williams. It was one of those moments where I recognized the voice and had to look it up.
So an LSD reference in his show is easy to believe.
The shelf also looks like a penis! The horror!
The rotation of the LSD diagram is intentionally cutting off that bottom corner because it's not a hexagon like the shelves
Sure, but you wouldn't make a shelf without the bottom part
Also the rightmost branch disappearing behind his hair wouldn't exist as it is Oxygen not Carbon.
And it’s missing the methyl group in the bottom right.
Oh I totally missed that! Maybe the OOP was on LSD when they attempted their comparison? 🤪
It’s possible the artist thought it would be funny to use LSD for the model, then just chopped off the parts that are inconvenient for a shelf.
And added new parts as they felt like it.
I mean there's no elements listed so this could theoretically be a different chemical with a similar shape?
I mean ehhhhh. It's not impossible, but LSD definitely seems the most probable if we assume this is a chemistry reference (the most compelling alternative idea to LSD imo is that it could be erroneous human pattern recognition). LSD is synthesized from ergotamine and has an ergoline structure, and of the family of lysergamides that look similar, LSD clearly fits the best given its popularity and the way the carbonyl group lines up with that bit of shelf going off to the top-right.
(Please take that with a grain of salt; I'm not a chemist.)
It's definitely not LSD. There's no CH3 group off the bottom right and others are saying the cut off part of the LSD molecule in the picture has more to it too.
Maybe it's meant to illicit the idea, but it's not a perfect match.
others are saying
Others are wrong. Please see the Reddit post where it shows the topmost portion. It has only three edges. It's open-topped.
As for the methyl and CH3 groups, that's where, as noted, I begin to suspect erroneous human pattern recognition, but I'd also see a universe where those were too cumbersome to incorporate as elements of a functional shelf (unlike the carbonyl group, albeit that's only one layer) and thus were ignored.
It's just added plausible deniability. By not matching perfectly the person who added it in can just play dumb and just claim that it is a coincident if someone got mad.
Also this meme is about nine years old.
https://au.lifestyle.yahoo.com/drug-lsd-reference-in-disney-kids-show-puppy-dog-pals-37231747.html
The article bemoans drug references in Alice In Wonderland , which has uh... Lots of drug references.
https://mostrecommendedbooks.com/series/alice-in-wonderland-books-in-order
Idk about the caterpillar smoking hookah though, it's plausible deniability, since afaik, tobacco use is only permitted in hookah, under Islamic law. Maybe @ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world can confirm or deny, or whether it's sect-specific?
Heyo! Not very big on Islamic jurisprudence because it's often nonsense and haram af as it seeks to make unlawful what God made lawful (Qur'an 16:116) but it's certainly "sect-specific" for lack of a better term, since the Qur'an warns against intoxicants (basically just alcohol but I'm not doing anything "stronger" than that, like crack, even if it's not the result of fermentation, lol) but not against anything else in that category that isn't mind altering and shisha is just tobacco with flavouring, basically. 🙃
Thank you so much. I have questions but they have to wait. I should be sleeping.
Catch some zzzs, ttyl! 👋
A Reddit thread from April 2017 (possibly its first appearance?) does try to critique it. Notably, for example, there's a hexagon instead of a pentagon at the base, and the top shelf has three edges instead of four.
It's easy enough to explain this away given that you have to make it a shelf and therefore level, but humans have recognized more credible-seeming patterns before (I can't cite them because I can't remember exactly what they were, but I've seen some really funny ones in the Bible), so it also seems plausible that people are just pattern-recognizing. This is professionally animated, so time went into this, and you could imagine, for example, that the bulb hanging down from one of the shelves wouldn't have have been included since it changes the structure of the compound (but then you could equally argue that the shelf was there and some other animator put a light bulb on it).
All-in-all: eh. Seems neat as a harmless fan conspiracy.
Animators also tend to take a lot of shortcuts, though; especially when it comes to backgrounds in shots. I could definitely believe that some animator was like, "ok, we need a science-y looking decoration back here" and so they went on a royalty-free stock 3D asset website and downloaded this one based only on what it looked like.
I didn't know anything about this show going into this and probably should've checked, but apparently this god among twinks shown in the OP is an inventor, so that explanation would track too.
Nothing wrong with having fun. My complaint is people complaining about references that were in the wholesome original works. 😅
The shows creator is Harland Williams, so its extremely likely.
Holy shit.
You know, that old children’s tale from the sea?
Hey girl! Ya hungry?
My headcanon is that Bob is Kenny, under an alias. Maybe witness protection. But he was out one day buying avocados and he came upon a man with an ice pick and a snorkel who trained him in the ways of invention.
Enlightenment comes in a paper tab, even the corpos know that
Don't shade the mushrooms.
Disney made Fantasia which is the best thing to watch while tripping balls so I guess it tracks
Ever watch the Bald Mountain section with Black Sabbath by Black Sabbath playing instead? It's fucking wild
Doing this in the theater was awesome, but it was difficult getting a responsible sober person to shepherd a group of people tripping balls safely there and back. That's a much harder job than many people realize.
Not to be confused with the much much lesser Fantasia 2000.
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