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There was pre-Covid Elon, and then there’s this Elon. I imagine this is how Scrooge started if it were set in modern day. Only there’s no ghosts and he just bec

• orwin 3y ago
  Nah, it started before. The comments on the 'pedo guy' who saved a dozen children and refused Elon's 'submarine' idea was what made me realize his ego became a hindrance to himself. Might be too much drugs (but imho it doesn't track), but in this thread someone said 'not enough sleep' and this would be a much better explanation. Or he is in a long burnout for a decade, and no one told him to calm down.
  • droopyEyelids 3y ago
    The problem with blaming it on drugs is how many people take drugs without turning into huge assholes/idiots.
    • nurettin 3y ago
      Haven't met any user who did not become deranged.
• jcranmer 3y ago
  Elon always had a smarter-than-thou attitude, it's just that when he was only using it to sell cool sci-fi projects, it didn't stick out as much. But when he started branching out into other projects, where his lack of knowledge was more apparent to most people, it became increasingly clear just how petulant he was when he found it he wasn't the smartest person in the room. For me, not that I ever gave much thought to Elon since space wasn't really my thing, it was the idiocy of the Loop proposal that turned me off of him. For other people, it might have been hyperloop, or it might have been the rejection of his submarine idea (see sibling comment for more details there). If you didn't notice it until after he was chafing at all the covid restrictions, you weren't paying enough attention.