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Theory: Cold Harbor wasn't about blocking ________, it was about blocking ________. Cold Harbor wasn't about blocking memories, it was about blocking personality. Lumon can block memories, they have that down pat. But the severed people we've seen are never blank slates. When Irving woke up on the table, he had an existential crisis. Mark threatened to find and kill the voice on the speaker. And Helly? Her fighting back was practically the whole first season. Now, we've seen Gemma in the other rooms, when it seemed like she DID have a personality. They had to make fake worlds for her to slot into, invent scenarios that made sense to a regular human, and give her a job that had a purpose. Gemma's 24 other innies weren't so different from the innies in MDR: even without personal memories they still functioned like people. But when Gemma walked into Cold Harbor, there was no crisis, no rebellion, no emotions. She didn't function like a person. She was told to do a task, and she did it without questions. That would be the holy grail for cults and companies alike, and Lumon is both. Then Mark walked in, soaked in blood, and was still able to talk her into leaving even though the voice on the speaker told her to stay. Whether it was memories or personality or a shadow of her former self breaking through, Gemma ignored the voice giving her commands and went with her intuition. That's why Jame lost his shit. Cold Harbor was about making a completely obedient worker and/or acolyte through blocking personality and humanity, and it failed.

I think you're essentially right, but in show terms it's about "taming the tempers." Cobel tells i-Mark this at the cabin, that the numbers he's been "refining" are what result in Gemma's innies. Lumon would probably publicly say it's about removing pain, as Kier wanted, but certainly a side effect would be a complaint worker. Good point about Cold Harbor Gemma going with Mark even though she doesn't know him. It made me think: did the process work too well? Did this make Gemma so compliant, so non-resistant to authority, that she'd simply do what she was told, no matter who told her? There's probably more to it, because she ignores Mauer's voice over the PA when he tells her not to interact with Mark. So maybe there is an intuition, or a latent memory of a connection with Mark that pokes through that overrides the voice.

It was about creating a "perfect" version of severance where the innie not only doesn't experience their outie's memories, but also gets no subconscious bleed through of their emotions, and more than that doesn't experience any undesirable emotions at all. So the reason for the crib disassembly trauma trigger is that even though an innie is never going to be consciously bothered by their outie's trauma, they can still be subconsciously affected by the emotions (e.g. Petey says that iMark still experiences some of oMark's sadness in the office, he just doesn't know why). So the implication is that without refinement, Cold Harbor Gemma would be triggered and slowed down by seeing the crib, she just wouldn't know why. And the broader reason is that even disregarding specific contextual emotions from her outie, Cold Harbor's refinement also prevented the new Gemma innie from experiencing instinctive, universal emotions that would hinder her from completing her task. She's not particularly phased by the discovery that she has no idea who she is, she doesn't lash out at the mysterious voice ordering her around, and she doesn't question the purpose of the crib disassembly work or ask what's in it for her. She just calmly and methodically gets on with it. Compare and contrast Helly R being woken up for the first time. A "standard" innie requires heavy conditioning and management to make them compliant and productive, a whole propaganda structure to make their life seem fair. A perfectly refined test innie requires none of that, they're the perfect slave out of the box. The big picture is that Cold Harbor's success would pave the way for Lumon to make the severance chip a huge commercial product. As long as they can use the test innie's patterns as a template for automating the refinement process, everyone can just get the procedure to put any boring or traumatic task they have to go through onto a dedicated innie. With no need to deal with the messiness and ethical discomfort of having to psychologically break and crush the human spirit of the innie - because they will come pre-broken. A more minor aspect of Cold Harbor is that it also proves that none of the personality hacking prevented test Gemma from accessing her common skills or knowledge. She still instinctively knows exactly how to disassemble the crib. Therefore anyone using the severance chip for commercial slavery would be assured that their innies wouldn't need to be trained to cook or clean or whatever, they'd only need to be given the direction.

Oh this is very good. The dentist . . . she asked to take a break. The thank you cards . . . Sarcasm when she leaves. The airplane . . . Surprise and bewilderment. I’m assuming at some point, there is a period of adjustment, maybe even anger and protests in every other room. But Cold harbor was her doing exactly what they wanted, perfectly and compliantly. That’s gotta be it. Good find.

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Cinematicnomad's Movies List

here's a list of 100 movies off the top of my head that i adore—not an exhaustive list of my favorites by any means, but a solid

List Challenges

how many have you seen?

0–9

10–19

20–29

30–39

40–49

50–50

60–69

70–79

80–89

90–100

not a complete list of my favorite films but a general idea of films i go back to a lot for rewatches. how many have you seen?

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JOCX-TV (1988)

Source: archive.org

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THE MENU (2022)
dir. Mark Mylod

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Pick your curse. Assume these are for the next decade unless otherwise stated:

Permanently feeling like you’re going to sneeze (and can’t sneeze)

Permanently have an itch you cannot scratch

Every so often, a Lego appears where you’re stepping

Ice cubes spawn in your shirt several times a week

When you step on a bug, 19% chance one of your shoes disappears forever

There’s always a cicada within 10 feet of where you are

All your “eaten-cold” food will be lukewarm when you try to eat it

Squeaking when you move your legs or arms. You can pick :)

You attract termites to your location

When you touch digital technology, it shorts out/dies

Water sticks to your skin (in a layer) instead of dripping off

You get static-shocked by anything metal. Every. Metal.

squeaky knees sounds good but also cicadas

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Why is “barely legal” pornography always about age? I think they should experiment with teetering on other types of illegality. For example, they could film just outside of a restricted military area.

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12 Angry Men
1957 | dir. Sidney Lumet

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pic 1: my crying happy tears the day i got my first t shot

and i've been smiling ever since 😁😁😁

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