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[–] gedhrel@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Sexually harassing his employees hit the headlines in 2016; rumours before that. Inserting himself into the Thai cave rescue and the "pedo guy" slander was 2018. Hyperloop was 2013. No Lidar on Tesla. If you've been paying attention he's been outing himself for a long time.

[–] ghen@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Hindsight is 20/20. At the time i was willing to forgive a lot to get to Mars.

[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago

That's a shame because people buying into these obvious grifts is a major part of the problem.

[–] gedhrel@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Now you mention it, the Mars thing was - and continues to be - another unscientific pipedream. The examples I gave were all plainly stupid and/or disgusting at the time.

[–] ghen@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Well now that we know that he's an idiot, I have to look back at the things that I just took for granted. I didn't talk to any rocket scientists 10 years ago so I just believed him when he owned a company that was showing results. Hindsight is 20/20