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 The software that civilization runs on has a lot of bugs and incompatibilities. 
 They're called 'humans' Jimmy. 🤣  
 Is this why divorce rates are so high? 🤔 
 The software should be irreducibly complex.  Anything more is a distortion. 
 The word "glitch" is thought to come from the Yiddish word glitsh, which means "slippery place" or "to slide". 
 Because power corrupts absolutely. They are provably correlated. Your mayors are corrupt, but your senators make them look like amateurs. 
 Been so since the garden of Eden.   Good thing Jesus offers a fix and will finish the reboot when the time comes.