I actually think Starlink is a super cool project, even if I wish someone else was in charge of it. I'm grateful that Musk managed to make electric cars "cool",

I actually think Starlink is a super cool project, even if I wish someone else was in charge of it. I'm grateful that Musk managed to make electric cars "cool", and that his personality will make them more acceptable to conservatives that might otherwise have a knee-jerk resistance, and I think that Tesla actually did a lot to push the technology and the economy of electric cars. I think it's wonderful that we're investing more into space, even if, again, I would prefer someone else to be in the drivers' seat. I absolutely recognize Musk's contribution to things that I value and respect. I also think it's a little absurd how often he's brought up in completely unrelated discussions. It's a little like how whenever someone mentions that at-home electricity storage is a bit of an open question, people bring up flywheels, even though Powerwalls are a much more reasonable approach, just because they think flywheels are rad. The amount of times people try to shoehorn a Musk-related technology, (or even say "Hey let's get Elon on this, I bet his infinite money and brains could solve e.g. food distribution with um drones and Starlink and Boring Company I don't know he'll figure it out) makes it a little hard to take his biggest proponents seriously.