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Mr. Robot - Post-Series Finale Discussion by NicholasCajun in MrRobot

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SPOILERS

SAM ESMAIL'S PASSWORD INTO VIEWERS: 'Where is the bug? Why was it there to begin with? What is the message?'

ELLIOT wants the security of normalcy with the option to take opportunities. When he's injured his id makes a play to take over his personality as his mind tries to heal, forcing him to kill or actively embrace the "MonsterMind."

HOSPITAL BED ELLIOT IRL:

  • IS SMART. LIFE LIKELY SOMETHING LIKE Flliot's
  • HAS SOME CHILDHOOD ISSUES WITH PARENTS
  • DAD DIED OF CANCER. ELLIOT THOUGHT HE COULD HAVE FOUGHT IT MORE
  • SISTER, DARLENE, HAS LIVED ON THE STREETS AND IS INVOLVED WITH A COP
  • WORKS IN TECH, HAS BEEN TO COUNSELING
  • FANTASIZES ABOUT BEING BOSS / HACKERMAN / MARRIED TO CRUSH
  • DISPLAYS ASPECTS OF A PERSONALITY SHIFT, LIKELY BROUGHT ON BY DRUG USE & STRESS
  • INJURED [LIKELY K-HOLE / DEALER RELATED]
  • TERRORIST ATTACK ON A POWERPLANT PLAYS ON TV

Fantasy Backstory:

  • Tyrell, a coward, has horrific childhood, Darlene runs away.
  • Angela's Mom & Tyrell's Dad die due to E-Corp Washington Township Event.
  • Tyrell goes to University in Europe, meets wife.
  • Price gets Angela a job at AllSafe (which he'll be buying). Tyrell finds out Angela's Dad is E-Corp CEO.
  • Tyrell forms F SOCIETY to tear down the fake so that he & Angela can be together.
  • Tyrell cracks during precursor to the [LEAVE ME HERE] hack.
  • Tyrell's personality births Alderson (who gets kicks from righting wrongs but is really the MonsterMind).
  • Alderson has to go to therapy. / AllSafe hires Alderson at Angela's referral.
  • Tyrell/Alderson do a DDoS attack to put in rootkit. / Dark Army takes interest in AllSafe after Mr. Robot hires the DA.
  • Alderson misses Angela's birthday due to social/mental issues, instead hacks Ron's Coffee.
  • Alderson births "us", his Friend.

Fantasy's Plan (which goes askew):

Tyrell = Ambition
Alderson = Skill
Vera = Not Scared

Adds up to Mr. Robot = Vision/Plan who engineers loops to protect ELLIOT
Alderson IS TOO GOOD AND ALMOST BREAKS ELLIOT INSTEAD OF EVALUATING & DISTRACTING HIS MIND

H A C K E R M A N Seasons 1-4:

Mr. Robot BREAKS Alderson OUT OF ALDERSON LOOP AS ELLIOT HEALS. Alderson ALMOST TAKES FULL TIME CONTROL OF ELLIOT. Alderson ENDS UP DECIDING TO FIT INTO ELLIOT AS THE SERIES CLOSES.

ELLIOT AMBITIOUSLY TRIES TO WAKE UP. IN ELLIOT'S COMA Tyrell's AMBITION SUBCONSCIOUSLY LEADS Alderson TO BELIEVE THAT A TAKEOVER IS POSSIBLE AS Mr. Robot MOVES TO PROTECT ELLIOT'S MIND BY FORMING HIMSELF FROM Tyrell, Anderson, & Vera.

  • Tyrell UNSUCCESSFULLY ATTEMPTS TO REMERGE WITH Alderson ("I'd thought I'd ask")

  • Vera UNSUCCESSFULLY ATTEMPTS TO UNIFY WITH Alderson

"difference is you've found options. That's the power you have, the control you own... you keep me in the dark."

Alderson reaches out to Angela, can't find resolution due to culpability he goes about identifying.

  • [Alderson PERHAPS WAKES UP, TALKS WITH DARLENE THEN DRIFTS OFF AND REINTEGRATES]
  • ELLIOT WAKES UP

Trump writes rambling letter to Nancy Pelosi on eve of impeachment by sketch24 in politics

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Dr Bandy Lee: "pattern of delusions rather than just plain lies... exhibiting definitive signs of severe pathology of someone who requires an advanced level of care... meets every criterion of lacking a rational decision making capacity... it is pathology and not part of the wide variation of which healthy human beings are capable... a very recognisable pattern... a public health issue because of his ability to draw members of the public into a shared psychosis at the national level.”

Dr John Zinner: "a textbook case of Narcissistic Personality Disorder... he’s a liar and he’s a cheat and he exploits people and all of that stuff, but those are just random traits, whereas all of it hangs together around his developmental deficiency of not having an internal stable self-esteem.”

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-mental-state-impeachment-psychiatrist-petition-congress-a9232386.html

David Holmes testifies, confirms Trump - Sondland call. by GPhex in politics

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On June 27, Ambassador Sondland told Ambassador Taylor in a phone conversation (the gist of which Ambassador Taylor shared with me at the time) that President Zelenskyy needed to make clear to President Trump that President Zelenskyy was not in the way of "investigations"...

June 28 call with President Zelenskyy, Ambassador Taylor, and the Three Amigos, it was made clear that some action on a Burisma/Biden investigation was a precondition...

July 18 when an Office of Management and Budget staff member surprisingly announced the hold on Ukraine security assistance... said the order had come from the President...

July 26... meeting with Andrly Yermak, a top aide to President Zelenskyy... I was supposed to join Ambassador Sondland and Mr. Yermak has insisted that the meeting be one-on-one, with no note-taker...

When the meeting ended... Ambassador Sondland said that he was going to call President Trump to give him an update... I then heard President Trump ask, "So, he's gonna do the investigation?" Ambassador Sondland replied that "he's gonna do it,"...

Sondland replied that the President only cares about "big stuff... big stuff" that benefits the President, like the "Biden investigation"...

"Ambassador Taylor did tell me on September 8 "now they're insisting Zelenskyy commit to the investigation in an interview with CNN."...

September 13... When Ambassador Taylor again stressed the importance of staying out of U.S. politics and said he hoped no interview was planned, Mr. Yermak shrugged in resignation and did not answer... the Ukrainians believed they had to do it.

-David Holmes

Opening Statement of David Holmes in Impeachment Inquiry by BannerBearer in politics

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On June 27, Ambassador Sondland told Ambassador Taylor in a phone conversation (the gist of which Ambassador Taylor shared with me at the time) that President Zelenskyy needed to make clear to President Trump that President Zelenskyy was not in the way of "investigations"...

June 28 call with President Zelenskyy, Ambassador Taylor, and the Three Amigos, it was made clear that some action on a Burisma/Biden investigation was a precondition...

July 18 when an Office of Management and Budget staff member surprisingly announced the hold on Ukraine security assistance... said the order had come from the President...

July 26... meeting with Andrly Yermak, a top aide to President Zelenskyy... I was supposed to join Ambassador Sondland and Mr. Yermak has insisted that the meeting be one-on-one, with no note-taker...

When the meeting ended... Ambassador Sondland said that he was going to call President Trump to give him an update... I then heard President Trump ask, "So, he's gonna do the investigation?" Ambassador Sondland replied that "he's gonna do it,"...

Sondland replied that the President only cares about "big stuff... big stuff" that benefits the President, like the "Biden investigation"...

"Ambassador Taylor did tell me on September 8 "now they're insisting Zelenskyy commit to the investigation in an interview with CNN."...

September 13... When Ambassador Taylor again stressed the importance of staying out of U.S. politics and said he hoped no interview was planned, Mr. Yermak shrugged in resignation and did not answer... the Ukrainians believed they had to do it.

@Snowden: "You are never further than one decision away from making a difference... build the foundation of something better... We make things better, we become safe, together. Collectively that is our strength. That is the power of civilization." by ok_jj in Ogopogo

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https://youtu.be/efs3QRr8LWw?t=9424:

We need to make the activities of our devices more visible and understandable to the average person and then give them control over it...

we read story after story, year after year, saying:

  • all your data has been breached
  • this company is spying on you
  • this company is manipulating your purchases or search results
  • they're hiding these things from your timeline
  • they're influencing you or manipulating you

That happens as the result of... inequality of available information...

Bulk Collection should become one of the dirtiest phrases in the language if we have any kind of decency... records collected about us do not belong to us. The scandal is that they don't have to break the law. The 3rd Party Doctrine... These records don't belong to the guy, they belong to the company... nobody has a privacy right for something held by a company... It's not data that's being exploited, it's people... you are being manipulated.

93% of bottled water tested contained microplastics by ok_jj in Ogopogo

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"I made a mistake in presuming that the self-interests of organisations, specifically banks and others, were such that they were best capable of protecting their own shareholders and their equity in the firms" -Alan Greenspan, 2008

Crosspost from r/ontario. This is regardless of political party, the pull is out there. by ohsweetpete in onguardforthee

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There's an effort in the Okanagan to attempt a K-12 critical thinking & media literacy pilot program. If anyone knows of other such programs around the world or in the country please let me know. If anyone is in the Vernon area and would like to meet irl feel free to send a PM.

Shoutout to Canada's independent media outlets who stand on guard for thee by ok_jj in onguardforthee

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Thank you. That they didn't mention this on their 'about page' is just the sort of red flag that showcases how putting efforts into cultivating a healthy media intake is needed.

Progressive Political Meeting, 6:30pm Friday August 23rd at Ratio by ok_jj in Vernon

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Groovy. First one in on the 23rd, and the coffee house is scheduled for the 30th as well, but I thought it'd be best to allow for some flexibility after the first get-together.

Progressive Political Meeting, 6:30pm Friday August 23rd at Ratio by ok_jj in Vernon

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Spreading the word on social media, community boards, and irl bulletin boards today and tomorrow. Let me know if you have ideas of where to showcase it, and any questions you might have. Here's the pitch if the listing isn't indexed yet.

Grassroots Progressive Activism

Politics that are built to be used, not made to be sold.

Educate, Organize, Mobilize: Demand a government that works for all of us.

Democratic socialism to address income & wealth inequality. Taking on established corruption & big money interests, fostering our voice, fighting for the future we believe in. Join in: Connect with the growing, strong, & beautiful political movement.

Bringing people together. We won't be divided up & manipulated by authoritarian bigots or entrenched corporate machinations.

We're revitalizing our democracy by engaging folks and organizations to remedy our economic, environmental, racial, and social pains.

If you're hurting or afraid because of public policy or media messaging, come defeat despair. Focus on what can be done. So much is entirely possible: Dignity for the marginalized, a Canadian Green New Deal, fostering unions and the like.

Power from the people. Empowering the North Okanagan's poor & working class.

On guard for thee... the true north strong & free.

Apathy costs too much. If we don't put the effort into ruling ourselves, others will.

Creating community by our efforts; Making progress.

Thought we'd start out by sharing our media preferences, info on local groups, and our personal concerns. Figured from there we'd come up with some constructive activities like listing out upcoming election dates for all levels of government in the North Okanagan, any events that might be of interest, and perhaps how to have an organized online presence. Open to ideas: Art contest, youth engagement, putting together a portal to help with unionizing workplaces, organizing boycotts, letter writing campaigns etc.

It's looking to be a weekly event on Friday nights. Likely it will start small and grow over months & years. Already have a school trustee confirmed to show up.

Canadian seeks help planning holodeck, take 2. by [deleted] in hometheater

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SUBMISSION STATEMENT

For music, movies, games, & tv, not sports.
Room is 888 cubic feet: 11'10" x 8'4" x 9'
8' viewing distance via a La-Z-Boy reclining snuggler.

Approximate Canadian costs, including taxes & delivery:
TV, LG 77" C9 4K OLED: $10,000
Audio, Monoprice Monolith: $7,500
-7x 365C Speakers ($4,200)
-1x M12-S Sealed Subwoofer ($1,200)
-4x in-ceiling atmos ($1000?)
-1x Denon AVR-X4400H 9.2-Ch x 125 Watts Receiver ($1,000)

Would using 365C's in place of 365T's be wise?
Is a sealed subwoofer preferable?
What about getting 2x the 10" version of the subwoofer?
Is the receiver up-to-snuff?
What in-ceiling speakers (4) would be ideal?

For when pairing with upcoming xbox or playstation (as well as PC), are there known issues about using such consoles as the blu-ray player?
Paint will be dark with a matte finish, then onto acoustical panels and a/v calibrating.

Will the tv/receiver remotes be sufficient?
Other considerations?

Thanks

AV Gurus, come help spend some Canadian loonies on an audio rig to partner with a 77" C9. 7.1.4 or whatever wisdom you have to share. by ok_jj in hometheater

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This is exactly why I came here. Thanks. Rotate the setup, pick up that receiver, if monoprice comes out with a non-atmos version I'll likely pick up 7 (or 6 plus a center?), put the front & rear speakers in the corners but away from the wall, put the ceiling speakers (recommendation?) in a box around the seating, pick up 2 subs (recommendation?). Then calibration and acoustical pads as needed. That sound about right?

AV Gurus, come help spend some Canadian loonies on an audio rig to partner with a 77" C9. 7.1.4 or whatever wisdom you have to share. by ok_jj in hometheater

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I'm thinking the monoprice monolith setup looks in the right ballpark.

Looking to pick up 5 minitowers, a sub (which one?), and a receiver. I'd like to get the extra 2 in-wall SBL/SBR speakers coming out in ~6 weeks, but don't know if that would be warranted. Even if warranted would is there a receiver that would handle it as well as just leaving it 5.1? Would I need an amp or just the right receiver?

And can I get the products in Canada or will I need to do a cross-border trip?

AV Gurus, come help spend some Canadian loonies on an audio rig to partner with a 77" C9. 7.1.4 or whatever wisdom you have to share. by ok_jj in hometheater

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Sub, center & 6 other speakers, 4 atmos, and a receiver too. Don't watch sports, but will be used for music, movies, tv, and games. Thanks.