• ThePyroPython@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Not so much a hero but I admired his work the projects he is associated with: Elon regarding Tesla & Space X.

    I had heard that he was a bit of a nightmare to work with but I just chalked that up to the usual tech CEO being a bit of an arsehole but still delivering the vision. So admired the projects but wouldn’t personally work for him.

    The first time I came across something that gave me the impression something was off with him was when he called one of the Thai cave divers a pedo after the diver rejected using an unproven single person extraction canister Elon proposed.

    It was just so uncalled for. Then the more I read and saw stories about him my opinion of him wained further down to a spoilt nepo-baby cosplaying as a design engineer who’d do best to get out of the way of the actual engineers trying to do the work.

    Now I think the world would be better off without him and I hope the talented engineers currently work for him leave to find fulfilling employment elsewhere in the space and electrification industries as soon as possible.

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      4 months ago

      Same with Musk. I was teaching engineering courses at the time of the first falcon heavy launch. I actually stopped my class so we could watch the launch. When those boosters landed in a perfect synchronous ballet, I told my class it was “engineering as poetry.”

      Why couldn’t Musk just stay the fuck out of politics?

  • VivianRixia@piefed.social
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    4 months ago

    I used to love Joss Whedon from everything he made. I grew up watching Buffy, and loved Firefly, then Marvel got him for Avengers and I was excited for him to be getting such a big break. He later Agents of Shield which I also loved. But then it came out that he was an abuser. His whole persona of championing strong women was merely a facade to hide this.

    Learning that Michelle Trachtenberg (RIP) had a clause in her contract while working in Buffy (2000-3) at age 15 that she was not to ever be in the same room as Whedon alone opened my eyes to just how bad things are. Not just how bad he was, but how well it was known that he was an abuser and no one did anything about it. That’s just how things were.

    I have a hard time watching Buffy or any of his works anymore, just knowing now that he was behind these things.

  • BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca
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    4 months ago

    I wouldn’t say horrible, but the shine definitely faded off Will Smith.

    He’s made some poor choices over the years.

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      4 months ago

      I literally learned to read so I could read Harry Potter books so I didn’t have to wait for bedtime for my dad to read them to me; even though I was a “boy” I badly wanted to be Hermione Granger when I grew up

      it’s really heart-breaking that she became so deranged and hateful, a lot of us loved her books growing up

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    4 months ago

    Schwarzi when he made his comment regarding covid but since he retracted thoses and I dont feel it s enough to abolish all his accomplishment.