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1. Chikara (chikara@qoto.org)'s status on Monday, 02-Dec-2019 20:11:32 UTC Chikara

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   @freemo The shifting POV in your words is a fresh twist -- a potentially useful restatement with consequences we cannot parse easily.

   Rough translation?
   Conditioning also
   conditions the
   conditioner = hoc mutat
   ex assuetudine operum
   intervenor

   When I read your words, my knee-jerk reaction was in Latin -- thinking about ways in which your words suggest new insight into a couple of Latin

   1. Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
   • Who will guard the guards themselves?
   • Who watches the watchers? • Who will watch the watchmen?

   2. Qui tacet consentire videtur
   • He who is silent is taken to agree
   • Silence implies/means consent