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Nope. I don't believe this for one second.
They started dating in 2018. I was telling you *exactly* who this dude was since before 2016.
She saw what she wanted to see.
A lot of y'all did.
If we could see it from way over here, she could definitely see it from inside a relationship with him.
https://futurism.com/the-byte/grimes-elon-musk-unrecognizable
Elon was dog whistling his political views as early as 2014. So no, Grimes' "I didn't see it! He's changed!" is rejected.
@mekkaokereke I want to be a hipster and say I was in the hatedom starting 2013, but it was specific to Hyperloop and then the Boring Company and I don't expect everyone to be enough of a public transport nerd to have known how he was blowing smoke even back then.
@Alon @mekkaokereke Open secret in the space biz by 2010 or so as the early waves of SpaceX people cashed out, worked elsewhere, and told stories.
@malderi @mekkaokereke Oh? The space nerds I knew in the mid-2010s thought SpaceX was doing good things; Clem Tillier, with his astro and railfan backgrounds, contrasted the good Musk of SpaceX and the bad one of Hyperloop and Boring.
@Alon @mekkaokereke If you worked in the space biz in the early 2010's, and you had a beer with someone from early SpaceX, the stories were pretty clear. The company did, and still does, amazing things. But the Elon stories were... colorful, and consistent.
@Alon @mekkaokereke Of course, there's an unavoidable selection bias on that - mostly hearing from people who left. Plenty stayed, and did great things.
@malderi @Alon @mekkaokereke I had heard (in 2016) that Gwynne Shotwell was the leader who made SpaceX a success. Musk’s review was… let’s say “lukewarm.” But that was nothing political, just about management effectiveness.
@jakemiller @malderi @Alon @mekkaokereke The consensus I’ve heard is that SpaceX is successful(ish) because they have people dedicated to managing him, in part because launching stuff is incredibly resistant to your beliefs about it, and the folks on the NASA side are still largely evidence-driven.
The companies where they don’t have an insulating layer—where he can control things directly—are where you get wildly unsafe products and hypeware.