This is stupid and you know it. Exoplanets were discovered much later. It's Pluto that caused the autism epidemic and autistic people caused the exoplanet epidemic. Keep the causation clear.
I love the fact that it's katakana, a script only used for foreign words, including anglizisms. So in order to make it look exotic, it's a Japanese script, but one that's used by Japanese for exotic words, which is fitting because it's actually an English words. So by making it double exotic, they reveal the fact that it's not exotic at all. Meta.
I always assumed that the dropping of pieces was an influence of Go which wouldn't explain the switching loyalties. Still your explanations don't explain the change in position so it could be a combination of many influences or none of the above, who knows
Decisions are made on the lowest level possible so you don't go through all the layers normally. But not getting anything done is a common cliche about anarchist organization, including from people who've been there.
Still, closed contemporary examples are Rojava and Zapatistas. In Rojava, for example, they have councils of ethnic minorities so when the main council makes racist policies, the minority council can intervene.
Isn't treasure the comparative of trash? Or does this only work in my shtrong German accent?