A very old enzyme. Still fixing inorganic carbon in the biosphere through yet another mass extinction. Still grabbing the wrong molecule on occasion. Anyway, here are some more phosphoglycerates.

Kill your lawn, grow a garden. As you do this, look within and do the same.

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  • RuBisCO@slrpnk.nettoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•What is a real trip on acid like? Is there any comparisons in movies? I took 3 tabs once and it just turned the world literally black white and gray. Did I miss something like the euphoria or whatever
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    11 days ago

    Taking Woodstock (2009)
    The seemingly bland or tacky artwork begins to shift, only subtly at first.
    A certain level of apprehension sets in, and a soothing voice is called for to calm down.
    More visual tricks; edges and straight lines begin to wiggle, physical sensation seems extra somehow, certain textures or patterns ‘pop out’ like a pop-up book, and it’s as if someone turned the saturation and brightness up everywhere.
    Cultural rules begin to dissolve, “just don’t be an asshole” is the permeating vibe.
    By the time he’s out the van, he’s in new clothes, and still hallucinating. The kids burning their IDs (selective service cards? draft notices?) aren’t given a second glance.
    And then the hills and the crowd start to undulate like giant waves, and a nebula grows out of the stage. (Seeing wholesale fabricated hallucinations like this is rare. Typically it’s an existing visual that is severely distorted to the point that describing it results in scenes like this one.)

    Overall, not a bad representation. Kinda lacking in fractals, but not bad.
    It’s hard to convey what happens psychologically, and the way time distorts. As David Cross once said, “Two things go right out the window when one is tripping: time and money.” Both lose their meaning.

    I agree with other comments, you had something other than LSD, not sure what.

    Also, The Rum Diary (2011) has a decent tripping scene, toward the end IIRC.

  • RuBisCO@slrpnk.nettoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•What TV shows are absolutely worth watching?
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    1 month ago
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    Elliot was ultimately motivated by a desire to protect himself and those he cared about. I never got that impression from Tyler; he was more interested in seeing humanity evolve and sculpting the concept of masculine.

    Mr. Robot himself did not arise out of insomnia.
    There is no violent therapy group for men in Mr. Robot; the themes around masculinity are absent.
    fsociety doesn’t really franchise, not like Project Mayhem.
    Tyler was an amateur chemist; Elliot is a master hacker.
    There is very little social engineering, and IIRC zero hacking in Fight Club.

    That being said, of course there are similarities. Maxence Cyrin’s cover of Where Is My Mind? is an obvious callback; Darlene is kinda like Marla, if one squints; the targeting of capitalism and debt; Project Mayhem comes into possession of some police.
    But do they own the FBI or the largest conglomerate?
    Where is White Rose or Phillip Price in Fight Club?

    Among other things the power plays are larger in Mr. Robot: organized crime the size of nations, corrupt federal agencies, corporations too big to fail. Fight Club was published and directed before 9/11, the Arab Spring, the subprime mortgage crisis and more, and it shows.

    I love both. But Mr. Robot feels like the grown-up, fleshed-out cousin that followed certain concepts through to their logical conclusions. Are they alike? Of course, no doubt. But I wouldn’t say they are so similar that if you’ve seen one, you’ve seen the other. They are distinct and unique. The more closely one analyzes them, the more one finds that the similarities are superficial.

    Or so it seems to me.