Because someone figured out the last piece of the puzzle, didn't tell anyone, and now we all live in a post quantum world without knowing it. Reality is now subjective in the deepest sense, and the first past the post is still figuring out the controls. This "time line" everybody hates will either resonate and destroy itself, or coalesce into a peaceful long tail of "just enough"

The simulation folks almost had it, but they were to soon, and looking in the wrong direction

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