There really isn't any. It's just a huge nitpick. * is commonly used for multiplication, especially in online contexts in order to avoid confusing multiplication with the letter x when wider symbols aren't available.
WhatsTheHoldup
I don't think that's true. Half of his kids have disowned him. He has a trans child he says was "killed by wokeness" who hates his guts.
Do people read this and fail to realize that the "calling everyone I disagree with is a Nazi" rhetoric is the exact same thing?
Like how Elon can do a full Nazi salute multiple times but then throw out some rhetoric about how "they call everyone Nazis" and everyone just buys it?
Yeah I can see how they're similar.
Then again, isn't that what people used to do with StackOverflow?
Yes, one of the major issues with StackOverflow that answerers complained about a lot was the "XY problem.".
https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/66377/what-is-the-xy-problem
Where you're trying to do X, but because you're inexperienced you erroneously decide Y must be the solution even though it is a dead end, and then ask people how to do Y instead of X.
ChatGPT drives that problem up to 11 because it has no problems enabling you to focusing on Y far longer than you should be.
We're in no shortage of those signs