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 Originally Posted by wufwugy
Even the positive things about Trump are fake news.
I didn't mean that as a negative.
FFS, I've been trying to follow this and I thought what they were saying is that it was treason to use national assets for personal gain.
It's not.
If the dots connect, and it's not 100%, then all he's done is violate election finance "law." Law is in quotes because technically election finance rules are laws, but the thing is that they're rarely enforced. They're more guidelines than laws in practice.
Pickles on the window was a colorful and apt metaphor.
Originally Posted by wufwugy
More specifically, I integrate the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect into everything I hear from people whose expertise is storytelling.
I was thinking, "Gell-Mann... as in Murray Gell-Mann? Nobel Prize winner? the physicist who named the quark? That Gell-Mann?"
Turns out, yeah... that Gell-Mann.
Funny thing is that the quote I found was by Michael Crichton. The same Michael Crichton that was a physician (no shit), novelist and director.
The quote is interesting, but it's just a cute quote from Crichton in 2002. It has no direct relation to physics or to Gell-Mann aside from Crichton saying they talked about it. I don't see any scientific study or psychological findings that support the assertion as a widespread phenomenon.
... but people are pretty dumb and anecdotally, it's apparent everywhere.
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