"Nonlinear" doesn't mean "curved." It means "everything else left after you take out the linear". That's a huge inifinity of possibilities.
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yes but they want to add some faux-precision to that thought. Otherwise other metaphors/words are more evocative
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precisely. I think those without visualize Jeff Goldblum saying "nonlinear" in an ominous tone

