Everyone acts like we collectively only realized he was an idiot like 2 years ago. I remember when I first heard about him in college around 2016 I didn’t like him even then. His ego was clearly apparent and his “progressive persona” was obviously a persona.
I remember back in 2014-2015, working the night shift and watching a video about Elon, which gushed about him being an entrepeneur, and found it really strange to make all the claims about him being a fantastic person just because he ran a business.
This was peak hyperloop hype, which was also very odd to me, as I remember reading a pop-sci magazine a decade earlier about Swiss metro, which was the same idiotic concept, but with less cool graphics…
Stamets is named after Paul Stamet, who’s one part legit mycologist researcher, one part mushroom cure-all, woo peddler. He at least has the sense to compartmentalize his books. “The Mushroom Cultivator” remains the goto, soup-to-nuts book on cultivating mushrooms.
and this is the exact reason why trek shouldn’t use real life (living) people in its lore.
one week they’re the messiah, the next they’re a pariah.
It’s from 2017, right? It was very clear Musk was an idiot back then too.
Maybe not as comically evil as he is now, but still.
Everyone acts like we collectively only realized he was an idiot like 2 years ago. I remember when I first heard about him in college around 2016 I didn’t like him even then. His ego was clearly apparent and his “progressive persona” was obviously a persona.
I remember back in 2014-2015, working the night shift and watching a video about Elon, which gushed about him being an entrepeneur, and found it really strange to make all the claims about him being a fantastic person just because he ran a business.
This was peak hyperloop hype, which was also very odd to me, as I remember reading a pop-sci magazine a decade earlier about Swiss metro, which was the same idiotic concept, but with less cool graphics…
The cave rescue thing was 2018 and it’s often brought up as the turning point in people’s perception of musk, so fair enough I guess?
as long as the real people actually invented a device and that’s all that’s mentioned I’m fine with it, but praising real people is just a bad idea.
Stamets is named after Paul Stamet, who’s one part legit mycologist researcher, one part mushroom cure-all, woo peddler. He at least has the sense to compartmentalize his books. “The Mushroom Cultivator” remains the goto, soup-to-nuts book on cultivating mushrooms.
Or in this case, a nazi