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The Tsuki Project AKA SYSTEMSPACE: The Online Cult Inspired by an Anime

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Foreword:  This was originally written on October 5, 2021. I know that I said that my previous post about China 🇨🇳 and North Korea 🇰🇵’s relationship was going to be my last post for November, and I was planning on it being the last post for this November, but after I finished eating breakfast, eating Thanksgiving 🦃 leftovers, and downloading more photos from DeviantART to use as wallpapers for my phone 📱 or my laptop 💻, I figured, “I can crank out one more before the month is over.” That’s why we’re here today, Friday November 29, 2024. Now, as you read from the title, this is about the Tsuki Project AKA SYSTEMSPACE, and the best way that I can really describe it is that it’s an online Internet suicide cult 🛜 that used the imagery of the cult anime series, Serial Experiments Lain . At first, I thought that the Tsuki Project was directly inspired by Serial Experiments Lain , like it was started by a fan of the series that perhaps took it a bit too seriously, and thought tha...

China 🇨🇳’s Complicated Relationship with North Korea 🇰🇵

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Foreword:    This was originally written on October 7, 2023. Same day as Hamas’s attack on Israel 🇮🇱, could you believe it? I wrote this on quite an historic day. For the record, I wrote this before I found about the attack, and I found out about it by watching those text-to-speech videos talking about military news and war news. What a way to find out about a historic event such as that. But, I guess it isn’t as bad as learning about the Russian invasion of Ukraine 🇷🇺🇺🇦 through that CNN breaking news report that was interrupted by an Applebee’s commercial 🍎. Don’t believe me? Watch this video , somebody recorded the broadcast when the breaking news story about the Russian invasion of Ukraine 🇷🇺🇺🇦 hit CNN, and was quickly interrupted by that Applebee’s ad 🍎 just at the right moment when it occurred. Preserving it for future generations to see whenever they want to see a news report about a tragedy event be interrupted by or paired up with a poorly timed happy-go-lu...