#lsd 25

[learnorneverrealize1888000888]

Listening to Boards of Canada on acid is such a phenomenal magikal experience that I recommend the entire earth to try sometime.

[schlock-luster-video]

Happy National Short Film Day, cult cinema fans!

Here's art inspired by What Did Jack Do?, Bumping into Broadway, The Red Spectre, Un Chien Andalou, Boys Beware, The Trip Back, LSD-25, A Trip to Jupiter, Anemic Cinema, and The Red Balloon!

[learnorneverrealize1888000888]

I remember on my first acid trip, I was talking to this dude who had went to burning man & he said he had an experience on a high dose of acid where time had stopped for him on the peak & sped up at the same time all in a brief moment during a conversation he was having with other people there.

ARE WE ALONE IN THE UNIVERSE??

Blog#436

Saturday, September 14th, 2024.

Welcome back,

Are humans unique and alone in the vast universe? This question--summed up in the famous Drake equation--has for a half-century been one of the most intractable and uncertain in science.

But a new paper shows that the recent discoveries of exoplanets combined with a broader approach to the question makes it possible to assign a new empirically valid probability to whether any other advanced technological civilizations have ever existed.

And it shows that unless the odds of advanced life evolving on a habitable planet are astonishingly low, then human kind is not the universe’s first technological, or advanced, civilization.

The paper, published in Astrobiology, also shows for the first time just what “pessimism” or “optimism” mean when it comes to estimating the likelihood of advanced extraterrestrial life.

“The question of whether advanced civilizations exist elsewhere in the universe has always been vexed with three large uncertainties in the Drake equation,” said Adam Frank, professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Rochester and co-author of the paper.

“We’ve known for a long time approximately how many stars exist. We didn’t know how many of those stars had planets that could potentially harbor life, how often life might evolve and lead to intelligent beings, and how long any civilizations might last before becoming extinct.”

“Of course, we have no idea how likely it is that an intelligent technological species will evolve on a given habitable planet,” says Frank. But using our method we can tell exactly how low that probability would have to be for us to be the ONLY civilization the Universe has produced. We call that the pessimism line. If the actual probability is greater than the pessimism line, then a technological species and civilization has likely happened before.”

Using this approach, Frank and Sullivan calculate how unlikely advanced life must be if there has never been another example among the universe’s ten billion trillion stars, or even among our own Milky Way galaxy’s hundred billion.

The result? By applying the new exoplanet data to the universe’s 2 x 10 to the 22nd power stars, Frank and Sullivan find that human civilization is likely to be unique in the cosmos only if the odds of a civilization developing on a habitable planet are less than about one in 10 billion trillion, or one part in 10 to the 22nd power.

“One in 10 billion trillion is incredibly small,” says Frank. “To me, this implies that other intelligent, technology producing species very likely have evolved before us. Think of it this way. Before our result you’d be considered a pessimist if you imagined the probability of evolving a civilization on a habitable planet were, say, one in a trillion. But even that guess, one chance in a trillion, implies that what has happened here on Earth with humanity has in fact happened about a 10 billion other times over cosmic history!”

For smaller volumes the numbers are less extreme. For example, another technological species likely has evolved on a habitable planet in our own Milky Way galaxy if the odds against it evolving on any one habitable planet are better than one chance in 60 billion.

But if those numbers seem to give ammunition to the “optimists” about the existence of alien civilizations, Sullivan points out that the full Drake equation—which calculates the odds that other civilizations are around today—may give solace to the pessimists.

“Thanks to NASA's Kepler satellite and other searches, we now know that roughly one-fifth of stars have planets in “habitable zones,” where temperatures could support life as we know it. So one of the three big uncertainties has now been constrained.”

Frank said that the third big question--how long civilizations might survive--is still completely unknown. “The fact that humans have had rudimentary technology for roughly ten thousand years doesn’t really tell us if other societies would last that long or perhaps much longer,” he explained.

But Frank and his coauthor, Woodruff Sullivan of the astronomy department and astrobiology program at the University of Washington, found they could eliminate that term altogether by simply expanding the question.

“Rather than asking how many civilizations may exist now, we ask ‘Are we the only technological species that has ever arisen?" said Sullivan. “This shifted focus eliminates the uncertainty of the civilization lifetime question and allows us to address what we call the ‘cosmic archaeological question’—how often in the history of the universe has life evolved to an advanced state?”

That still leaves huge uncertainties in calculating the probability for advanced life to evolve on habitable planets. It's here that Frank and Sullivan flip the question around. Rather than guessing at the odds of advanced life developing, they calculate the odds against it occurring in order for humanity to be the only advanced civilization in the entire history of the observable universe. With that, Frank and Sullivan then calculated the line between a Universe where humanity has been the sole experiment in civilization and one where others have come before us.

Originally published on https://science.nasa.gov

COMING UP!!

(Wednesday, September 18th, 2024)

"IS IT POSSIBLE TO STOP TIME??"

[learnorneverrealize1888000888]

It felt like I was outside of time lookin in on acid.

[slashdementia7734]

[blondegirl032083]

Experimental Compound MER 17 (Frenquel) and LSD-25 (1955)

This film examines medical experiments to determine the efficacy of LSD-25 and MER 17 (Frenquel) in treating psychosis. - ARC 1634172 / LI 263.1057 National Archives - Experimental Compound MER 17 (Frenquel) and LSD-25 - National Security Council. Central Intelligence Agency. (09/18/1947 - 12/04/1981). -

[sbcdh]

In 1967 the government discovered that specific syllable structures combined with specific vocal tones and ultra-low-frequency sounds could speed up the process of unconscious internalization by over 1500%. This became particularly useful for teaching low-level employees large amounts of information, as "hypnophonic learning" could be done while the subject was asleep.

Hypnophone use became standard for new employees of the IRS and SEC, as it made large scale memorization of tax code and financial law significantly cheaper and easier than traditional conscious education.

However, long term use causes the subjects long term memory to atrophy, requiring nightly repetitions of hypnophone use. Some enterprising employees found that the effects could be counteracted with low dosages of LSD to preserve neuroplasticity.

Roughly 1 in 7 employees encountered a strange phenomenon: Mild financial clairvoyance.

One in roughly 50 employees experienced more significant effects, generally those ensconced in large isolated IRS warehouses, which seemed to replicate the monastic lifestyles of historical sages, depriving subjects of ordinary stimuli in favor of becoming attuned to minute changes in the sub-finantial background grid.

Once it was learned that these "enlightened" employees could predict market trends before they happened, the technology was bathed in funding, patented, and made the soul property of the IRS.

Now, these "Plutophants" are kept in nigh-perfect sensory deprivation at all times, fed a constant hypnotic fugue stream of psychic conditioning in the form of "radiosonic neuro-induction" which contains a special form of the United States Tax Code modified for recursive hypnophonic induction, as well as a ticker tape wired directly into the users spine.

The effects achieved are nothing short of stunning. The invisible hand is no longer invisible to us. The market can be fine tuned with surgical precision. The price of bread has maintained a perfect 0.002% +/- variance for over 25 years now, and those who attempt to disrupt the guidelines are regulated by the SECs crack psychonautics division, who are now able to hunt market manipulation via their disruption in the financial dreamscape.

Very rarely, a Plutophant can become so attuned to the guidelines that they achieve a sort of catastrophic neuro-depatterning, their synapses begin to produce a counter-signal to the neuro-induction frequencies; jamming, and eventually overpowering the machine. Study is still ongoing, but it is believed that they somehow perpetuate their own neurological fingerprint into the financial causal background grid itself, literally becoming "one with the market."

Study is ongoing.

[banderdyves]

guys uhh a reminder that colin drugged stefan and made him jump out of his window and also he's 25 and stefan is 19 so if you ship them dni ://////

LMFAOOOOOOO

also reminder that it's an idol x fan ship so theres a possible power imbalance. this ship is disgusting and NEEDS to go! :/// i say before falling over and my pockets spill tons of polaroids containing every frame of the lsd sequence

[budsnbiceps]

Absolutely stunning purple lady, she goes by the name of LSD-25

[blondegirl032083]

Experimental Compound MER 17 (Frenquel) and LSD-25 (1955)

This film examines medical experiments to determine the efficacy of LSD-25 and MER 17 (Frenquel) in treating psychosis. - ARC 1634172 / LI 263.1057 National Archives - Experimental Compound MER 17 (Frenquel) and LSD-25 - National Security Council. Central Intelligence Agency. (09/18/1947 - 12/04/1981). -

[solarsturniolo]

Part 2 of frat boy from hell

@matts-myloverboy this is for u 🤍

1. very egotistical for someone that is not conventionally attractive

2. lied to me about his body count??? for whatever reason??

3. he lowkey looks like the dream man (yall i wish i was joking, my friend and i did a side by side comparison and the resemblance is…)

4. he’s not funny

5. he’d cancel plans so many times, it drove me up the fucking wall

6. he begged to see my ass tat for about a month because i got it out of spite when i cut him off the first time (i always do something to make myself hotter after men disappoint me).

7. i hadn’t spoken to him in a month and he broke no contact with me WHILE I WAS AT A CONCERT. he proceeded to text me the entire last half of the concert.

8. the same night, he added my friend (that i went to the concert with) on snapchat and tried to slide into her dm’s (it failed because nobody finds him attractive but me 😭)

9. he doesn’t look the same in any picture, so i’m convinced he’s a skinwalker

10. i got a guy’s snap at the bar one night and he confronted me about it the next time we hung out. (“so you’re just giving out your snap to guys at the bar huh? i mean i wasn’t going around doing that 🙄”)

11. i told yall he follows me and watches me at the bar, but guys it’s like BAD lmao. If i go upstairs, he goes upstairs. If i go downstairs, he’s there five minutes later watching me. He sat at the bar watching me sing every bar to WAP with my friend on Halloween. Every single second he was watching me.

12. His halloween costume was Napoleon Dynamite (it was literally just a vote for pedro shirt) (he knows how much i despise people who put 0 effort into a halloween costume)

13. said he wanted to try lsd…

14. left me sitting by myself for two hours while he played beer pong

15. he does this weird thing with his arm when he plays pong, it’s like some weird crane thing and idk it’s cringe and weird

16. asked me for a nip slip pic while he was in an airport 😀

17. asked me for nudes while i was on a trip with my friend because “i’ve missed that body”

18. calls me mommy (not a red flag, i just wanted to include it)

19. it took him until almost 3:00 to say happy birthday to me on my birthday

20. he got a ticket for buying alcohol with a fake

21. his grammar is god awful and it makes me want to punch him

22. he sexualized billie eilish as if i wouldn’t defend her with my life

23. he eats like a pig

24. i have never seen this man drink water (unless it was MY water that I ASKED FOR after sex)

25. his nut tastes like straight battery acid

26. he’d beg me for back scratches and head scratches

27. he refuses to buy new socks??? his have holes in them and are falling apart at the seams????

28. one of his roommates drives me up the fucking wall, i hate him so much lmfao

29. he’s so rude to the pledges??? yeah i get they’re still in the hazing faze and such but he literally forced one of them to make his bed and clean his room WHILE I WAS RIGHT THERE and told him to compliment me and blah blah blah i was like DAWG THIS IS A HUMAN BEING BE NICE TO HIM????

30. he’d stalk my stories for the longest time

31. he wanted to take my super cool Friday the 13th hockey jersey??? (“can i borrow it? and by borrow it i mean keep it?”)

32. i got a really bad leg cramp in his bed one night and told him to get up so i could stand up and stretch it out. He would not move and told me he could give me a massage but that i’d need to take my pants and underwear off????

33. he thought i wouldn’t find out that he got with a girl with an std. he tried to kiss me and i pushed him away. “woah…why’d i lowkey get rejected?”

34. that same night he asked if i had been talking to any other guys. I said no. I asked if he had been talking to any other girls. He lied and said no. I showed him the screenshotted receipts i had that said otherwise.

35. I made him get tested. When i asked if he got the results back he said “No, but visual results are in the clear.”

36. he tried to hit my cart without me offering and without asking??? hello, that’s not yours?????

37. Maybe this is tmi? but he’d finger me so hard that i would bleed every time…like blood would be EVERYWHERE. It didn’t even feel good either

38. the d was alright. it was better when i got to be on top

39. one time in missionary he rolled his eyes and it looked like that tiktok trend guys used to do where they’d tap the side of their forehead and roll their eyes. I got the ick and had to change positions into doggy so i wouldn’t have to look at him again

40. he said i love you while he was balls deep in me and i was just like 😀 oh

41. his tinder profile was…scary…

42. he bragged that he could make me cum 5 times with just his mouth. (he didn’t make me cum once in the many times we hooked up)

43. Oh my god this shit pissed me tf off. He and his frat brothers brought their dog to a frat party. The dog was two months old, drenched from the rain, TERRIFIED because he was being cornered by 40 drunk girls, and the fucking idiots managed to LOSE HIM. I straight up told him we weren’t fucking until they found out where the dog was and got him safely home.

44. he saw guys flirting with me at the bar and went up to interrupt these guys and start talking to them???? for no reason??? i was like wtf is going on???

45. the first movie he chose to pick for us to watch together was about a girl being kidnapped, raped, and sold into sex slavery??????

46. he has a horrible taste in movies and thinks he’s hot shit because he likes the wolf of wall street. (spoiler alert, EVERYONE LIKES THE WOLF OF WALL STREET)

47. the first date i went on with him was a double date. I was so disinterested that i almost got up and left because he was ignoring me to have a 30 minute conversation with the frat president IN THE SAME ROOM AS ME. RIGHT ACROSS FROM ME.

48. he’d invite me over and tell me to just come in whenever i’d get there. I’m stubborn and old fashioned, so i’d wait in my car until he’d come wandering out looking for me lol

49. his frat got rejected by the school. they can’t throw any parties or events on campus lmfao

50. he says the n word

Anywayssssss 😀

[mamin-krasny-chlapec]

Dobra. Ja muszę to napisać xD. Wczoraj o 14:55 wziąłem 8 tabletek dexa caps (bo dwie ktoś inny zjadł). I ja to wytrzasnąłem jak sprzątałem u Babci szafki. I wziąłem po prostu, bo ona i tak mówiła, ze to wszystko do wyrzucenia. Niestety nie było innych przysmaków. Tylko dexa caps i 10 tabletek Dorety mocnej (rzygam już Tramadolem, bo ostatnio wpierdolilem 4 opakowania w bardzo krótkim czasie i po prostu mam dość xD). Ale wracając wziąłem te dexa caps i popiłem piwem (w sumie resztką). I huj. Później przeczytałem, że jest przeterminowany o ponad dwa lata XDDDDDD. Ja naprawdę boje się dekstrometorfanu i zwyczaj mam później żałować, że go wziąłem. Zaczęło się spokojnie i mi się to podobało. Ale w szczycie działania gdzieś po ponad 2h miałem dość. Nawet jak usiadłem miałem wrażenie pływać w łóżku. Zostałem tylko ja i moje myśli. To było okropne. Myślałem tylko, że wolałbym zajebac morfinę czy here, albo już nawet kodeinę. Luminastil jest tysiąc razy dla mnie lepszy, bo po nim przynajmniej mam kontrolę nad własnym ciałem (na motor czy do auta jednak po nim nie wsiadam, ale po Opio już tak, bo nic mi nie robi). Efekty byłby fajne gdyby wyłączyć to uczucie, że nie masz kontroli nad własnym ciałem i otoczeniem. Przeżyłem okropną sesje (jak zwykle.. na LSD też zawsze bad trip). Później się najarałem, bo myślałem, że to choć trochę zbije efekt DXM. Ta......... Siedziałem i nie wiedziałem kim jestem, a teraz łapy się trzęsą, boli mnie łeb, nogi bolą, z nosa leci, łzy same już płyną ja wiem, że to skręt. Już dziś wyjebane polecę jak ja pierdole. Jeszcze znalazłem dwa opakowania pregabalin sandoz 75 mg. Dawno nie było, a pamiętam jak sylwestra któregoś zajebalem do helupy i majki (nie było to dużo bo jedna kapsułka miała 25 mg, a ja wziąłem trzy co daje taki standard 75 mg). No cóż.

A wiecie czego najbardziej nie lubię jak nawet troszeczkę zmniejsze dawke opioidów? Kurwa bolących łydek i przedramion, ogólnie ból mięśni i łzawiących oczu. Katar z nosa i łzawiące oczy mam w sumie cały czas. Ciekawe jak tego się pozbyć.

[daenystheedreamer]

most "they should be at the club 😞" asoiaf characters

theon. and give him lsd. my friend took lsd and came out of it a transgendah man and i think something similar would be of great benefit to theon. he should be trying to fuck the bachelorettes at gay bars.

renmarge..... They Should Be At The Club. not loras though idk he doesnt give partying vibes. he's a gymbro! alcohol will ruin his gains

myranda royce omg she deserves to be an it girl

rhaenyra... get him to the dyke bar NOW!!!

tyrion lannister. he's 25. get him to that damn club. he needs 21st century drugs

controversial opinion but lysa tully. littlefinger hoster and that BASTARD jon arryn ruined her life. she should have been a gay man's hag. she should have been at the fucking club

[centrally-unplanned]

I played Needy Streamer Overload, which was a lot of fun, with an asterisk. NSO is a Lifesim Management game for a batshit up-and-coming streamer, where you as her 'boyfriend' allocate her time between streaming, resting, and content inspiration/development to hit 1 million followers. The writing is very on point for actual streams culture;the topics and comments and all that are very true-to-life, while its zany edgecore presentation is hilarious. And the UI is full kino:

Vibes - and also, spoilers, not just a cutesy aesthetic, as the player is not in fact a real person so the digital viewport is ludonarratively cohesive, +1 point.

However, it also pissed me off for specific me reasons!

So, these games tend to go into two buckets. One is the engine builder - managing the lifesim is both involved and The Point of the game. You work hard to optimize and achieve the goal. The second is narrative device - the lifesim elements are more about narrative choice than challenge, and either can't be failed or are trivially cleared. You approach playing those 2 game types differently.

NSO presents itself like the former - its mechanics are pretty involved. Managing Followers, Stress, Affection, & Mental Darkness, all on a clock, while unlocking ~10 different streaming content topic progression trees, its a lot to track. Not saying its crazy hard or anything, but its what you spend your time doing. You will be asking yourself questions like "yes I could have sex with her for the third time this week to lower stress and boost affection so I can burn that affect buildup on the Sexy Stream lvl 2 to sync my highest topic bonus with my streaming streak bonus before I need to end it for a rest cycle, but I can only play that card so many times, is day 13 too early?". That is fun, and where your focus lies. On my first playthrough I tried to hit the 1 million target, barely succeeded, but burned out Ame's stats so much I got a short, pretty-much-failed ending.

So on my second playthrough I tinkered around and stumbled on a soft infinity engine, where I could push Ame's stress to the limit in the opening days to get her follower count to the point where she would unlock "follower milestone celebration" streams that I could bank, that did not increase stress but would count towards a streaming-every-day streak bonus, and never take a rest day to get that bonus insanely high. I got several million followers with low stress, low darkness, I thought I did a good job.

And I got a short, pretty-much-failed ending.

Turns out this game has 30 endings, and the lions share of the long, involved ones are from you completely fucking up. You will get a way more interesting ending if you make Ame-chan overdose on LSD and she trips her way into breaking though the illusion of the internet. You want to raise her darkness high as hell for half of them. You can found a cult, you can induce all sorts of violence against her or others, whatever you want. But the game didn't tell me!!

It instead presented me with a solid optimization puzzle, which I spent like 10 hours doing. I shouldn't have bothered! It doesn't really tell this partially for surprise, but if we are being honest its because they expect you to google it, and they expect you to watch streamers unlock 25 of them after you do 5. Which is how modern games are made, but personally I don't love relying on that. I do think games are at their best when they self-teach a player the right way to engage with it.

But I respect that some people would see the discarded scraps of a tryhard faildaughter that is Ame-chan and immediately push her into doing conspiracy theory streams while smoking weed. I am just not someone you can plunk an engine in front of and expect me not to try to tinker with it. This is 50% on me.

[piratesexmachine420]

Parity-calculating circuit!

Explanation below the cut.

As even-numbered base natives (decimal, binary, hex, octal, etc.) we take for granted that determining the parity of a given integer (is it even or odd) is trivial. Just look at the last digit! parity(x) = parity(x % b), where x is some integer and b is the radix of your number system. (e.g. in decimal parity(107) = parity(107 % 10) = parity(7) = odd).

In binary this even easier, as the least-significant digit can only be either 0 or 1: even or odd.

Not so for odd-numbered bases! As a trivial counterexample, 1T0 (dec. 6) is even and has an even least significant digit (0, dec. 0); 1T (dec. 2) is even but has an odd lsd (T, dec. -1).

Fortunately, we have a slightly more roundabout way of determining parity. The parity of any given balanced ternary integer is equal to the parity of the sum of its digits, for example 1T10 [dec. 21] is odd and 1 + T + 1 + 0 = 1 [dec. 1 + -1 + 1 + 0 = 1], which is also odd.

This makes some intuitive sense if we consider five facts:

The parity of the sum of any two integers is even iff both are even or both are odd; the sum of any two integers is odd iff one is odd and the other is even.

The parity of the sum of a given set of integers is equal to the parity of the count of odd integers in that set. For example, Σ{1, 2, 3} is even because there an even number of odd numbers (specifically 2: 1 and 3), Σ{1, 2, 3, 3} is odd because there an odd number of odd numbers (specifically 3: 1, 3 and 3). Why does this work? Let's step through a bigger example: Σ{1, 2, 3, 7, 9, 2, 0, 5}. First, we'll group these numbers by their parity: (1 + 3 + 7 + 9 + 5) + (2 + 2 + 0) We know that the sum of the even numbers can only be even, so for the purpose of calculating parity we can simply ignore them. Only the sum of the odd numbers will have any bearing on the result. Second, we'll try to group the odd numbers into pairs: ((1 + 3) + (7 + 9)) + 5 Since we had an odd number of odd numbers, we are left with one unpaired number. Since the sum of odd + odd is even, these paired odds will all sum to even numbers: (4 + 16) + 5 The sum of these results can thus also only be even: 20 + 5 Odd + even = odd (20 + 5 = 25, which is odd) If there has been an even number of odd numbers, we wouldn't have had an unpaired odd number, and thus the result would have been even.

The product of any two integers is odd if both are odd, otherwise it's even. (e.g. 5 * 7 = 35, 6 * 7 = 42, 6 * 8 = 48)

Since 3 (our radix) is odd, 3 to any nonnegative power will also be odd -- exponentiation is of course merely successive multiplication. Thus, the parity of any given digit * radix-to-some-power product will be determined by the parity of that digit -- it doesn't matter what that power is. 1 * 3^0 is odd, 1 * 3^1 is odd, 1 * 3^2 is odd, 1 * 3^982908 is odd. Likewise, 0 * 3^0 is even, 0 * 3^1 is even, 0 * 3^2 is even, 0 * 3^982908 is even.

Any number can be written as a sum of products between digit values and increasing powers of the number system's radix. For example: 127 in decimal is equal to 1 * 10^2 + 2 * 10^1 + 7 * 10^0, and 11T0 in balanced ternary is equal to 1 * 3^3 + 1 * 3^2 + -1 * 3^1 + 0 * 3^0.

Let's apply this to our original example: parity(1T10) [dec. 21]. First, we re-write it as parity(1 * 3^3 + -1 * 3^2 + 1 * 3^1 + 0 * 3^0). Because 3 to any nonnegative power is odd, we can rewrite this as parity(1 * 3^0 + -1 * 3^0 + 1 * 3^0 + 0 * 3^0).

3^0 is 1, and 1 is the multiplicative identity, so we can re-write this further as parity(1 + -1 + 1 + 0). (Hey, that's the sum of the digits!)

Finally, we know from earlier that the parity of the sum of any set of integers is equal to the parity of the count of odd numbers in that set. Since there are three odd integers in this sum, and three is odd, we know that parity(1 + -1 + 1 + 0) is odd.

We can take advantage of this fact to build a (relatively) simple parity-determining circuit out of successive stages of half-adders. The first will compute 1 + -1 = 0 and 1 + 0 = 1, the second will compute 0 + 1 = 1.

But wait a minute: half-adders have carry-outs. They're not guaranteed to produce fewer digits of output than they get as input! Fortunately, we can take advantage of the fact that C_out and S will never be nonnegative and equal, and thus we can calculate their sum with an OR gate. Take 1101 [Dec. 37], then. 1 + 1 = 1T and 0 + 1 = 01, 1 OR T = 0 and 0 OR 1 = 1, 0 + 1 = 01, 0 OR 1 = 1. 1 is odd, hooray!

Here's another interesting observation: since the Sum output of a half adder is equal to (A XOR B) OR (A NAND B) and C_out is equal to (A AND B), what we're actually calculating here is ((A XOR B) OR (A NAND B)) OR (A AND B), aka (A XOR B) OR ((A NAND B) OR (A AND B)), aka (A XOR B) OR 0, aka A XOR B!

So it seems we don't actually have to bother taking the sums in the first place, any parity-preserving gate with two or more inputs will suffice. In other words, we can use any gate obeying this truth table:

| | T | 0 | 1 | |---|---|---|---| | T | 0 | a | 0 | | 0 | b | 0 | c | | 1 | 0 | d | 0 |

Where a, b, c, d ∈ {T, 1}.

XOR is one such gate, but it's not the easiest of them to construct. The pictured circuit is constructed with a (as-of-yet unnamed) gate following this truth table:

| | T | 0 | 1 | |---|---|---|---| | T | 0 | 1 | 0 | | 0 | T | 0 | T | | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |

And the final result is fed into an ABS gate, a single-input gate following this truth table:

| a | q | |---|---| | T | 1 | | 0 | 0 | | 1 | 1 |

[wub-fur-radio]

Appealing Sounds of Confusion & Dismay

Nothing is absolute; everything is possible. – Hassan-i-Sabbah

If you’ve been dismayed to be feeling even more confused than usual of late, Wub-Fur Internet Radio wants you to know you are not alone and wishes to do what we can to help. Toward that end we offer this two part streaming mix of appealing sounds from around the planet and across the multiverses of contemporary psychedelic/stoner/doom/space rock music. Featuring 25 new tunes from 25 of your favorite modern psych combos, including Frankie and the Witch Fingers, Black Sand, Sonic Moon, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, Queens of the Stone Age, Jeffrey Alexander + The Heavy Lidders, Druid Fluids, Dead Feathers, Dead Shaman, Pink Fairies, Gong, Goat, and 13 more bands who are dismayed but not afraid to be confused.

▶︎🎶 Listen on Mixcloud: Part One | Part Two

Running Times: Pt. 1: 1 hour, 14 seconds; Pt. 2: 59 minutes, 52 seconds

Tracklists

Part One

Repeat Transmission (0:55) — Brown Spirits | Coburg, Australia

Just an Illusion (4:29) — Black Sand | New Zealand

Flutter By (4:41) — Druid Fluids | Adelaide, Australia

Let It Out (3:47) — The Wans | Nashville, TN

Give It Time (3:54) — Sonic Moon | Aarhus, Denmark

Gardeners of the Earth (5:20) — White Canyon & The 5th Dimension | MG, Brazil

Gila Monster (4:36) — King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard | Melbourne, Australia

Mild Davis (4:46) — Frankie and the Witch Fingers | Los Angeles, CA

Negative Space (3:53) — Queens of the Stone Age | Palm Desert, CA

What It Is to Be Free (4:12) — Kind | Boston, MA

Counting Up and Down (3:18) — Jeffrey Alexander + The Heavy Lidders | Philadelphia, PA

Those Disruptors (5:25) — Modoki | Tokyo, Japan

La Storia Dell'Aviditia (4:30) — Futuropaco | Oakland, CA

Trying to Keep Control (6:29) — Dead Shaman | Switzerland

Part Two

Robbery (9:56) — Dead Feathers | Chicago, IL

Another Sailor Who Dies at Midnight (3:06) — Tangerine Stoned | Italy

Join the Resistance (5:35) — Goat | Norrbotten County, Sweden

Montezuma (4:49) — Edena Gardens | Copenhagen, Denmark

Hassan I Sahba (6:02) — Pink Fairies | London, UK

Tiny Galaxies (3:51) — Gong | UK

Something To Fall Back On (3:50) — The Wytches | UK

FTW (7:09) — LSD | Dublin, Ireland

In My Own Dream (8:19) — The Third Mind | Downey, CA

Your Confusion May Now Be Visible (4:50) — DWLVS | San Francisco, CA / Philadelphia, PA

Barely a Season (2:26) — Abronia | Portland, OR

All tracks released in 2023.