Ahaha, the mindfuckery. Not just the finale thing, but also with my sleeping pattern. Sure, it's fucked up already, but... I should have finished my recaps earlier. Should have finished them on the day when it happened. And before I slept, because sleep makes me confused about times. But recap writing takes some time, and after a city happened I was always so tired. Also, thread reading had priority.
And so I got confused about Hong Kong. Had to edit two entries. I wrote about Sunday and then in the same entry about Hong Kong and got the time wrong, wrote 8pm when it actually was Monday, 8am.

I still have to finish my grand finale review. Don't know if I can do that today. My sister comes over again for internet. :o/

When I got on the thread on Tuesday, around noon, there had been a second set of clues from Muse's Twitter:
Station Colossus #1.1: He accepted and offered Truth on the Charles River.
Station Colossus #2.1: 1973.
Station Colossus #3.1: Détente or realpolitik - they were all MAD.

The thread went faster than ever and I couldn't keep up. People still mostly discussed whether to activate or resist. And the clues had been figured out, they all lead to Kissinger.

#3: The politics of leisure deter anger
#3.1: Détente or realpolitik - they were all MAD
Détente is a French term, meaning a relaxing or easing; the term has been used in international politics since the early 1970s
Yes, Kissinger was a proponent of both - and both did little to ease tensions and we could have had mutually assured destruction.

#2: An explosive legacy beget a dove
#2.1: 1973
when I first saw this tweet I thought about a hawk/warmonger who turned into a dove but nothing jumped out. Then the Nobel solution was so elegant. I certainly wouldn't call Kissinger a "dove" - but he did get a nobel peace prize in 1973 so....
Significant in

#1.1: He accepted and offered Truth on the Charles River
#1: Charles found the square yard quite common.
This one just seems too ambiguous. Kissinger went to Harvard, it is on the Charles River and the center of campus is called Harvard Yard. Then there is the story of the Pentagon papers which ended up in the media's hands on the Charles River.

The capitalized Truth means it's proper, such as a motto. The motto of Harvard is "Veritas", or Truth. It has a double meaning, which is why we were thrown off by Oppenheimer earlier. The first meaning is he went there for classes, the second is that he literally transferred papers here. He did both.

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