This shit rubs me the wrong way, dude. Everybody gets rushed into taking pictures with each other at these events and I don’t think that’s justification to smear someone’s reputation by connecting them to Elon Musk.
You're right, and Snopes confirms what you're saying. They only ever appear to be standing next to each other in this one photo, ever. There's no evidence that they even greeted each other. I'm all for dragging both of them through the mud for the stuff they've done, but there's no need to make up a story that they did anything together.
Bot. There's an option in account settings to tag yourself as one.
If you hover over it it'll pop up the words "Bot Account". Several of the Lemmy UI icons have hover text like that. Handy for when you're scratching your head over what one of them does.
That they knew how to be connected? Like that's literally what they were selling. Guilt by association is not guilt. It's just one possible connection. The reason they were able to operate for years without being caught was because they were able to hang out in the public's eye and not even think about being caught.
I've been caught in photos with people I hate, who I would never let into my house and would not piss on if they were on fire... no idea they were there until I saw it the next day. Just saying, a photo alone means nothing.
No. They wake up whenever they want - their workplaces usually revolve around them instead of the other way around, since they usually head their own companies. This is relevant in the tech space. In other industries like Law and Business, they usually do have set times when they are in the office and stuff, but again, it's not the same as the rest of us plebians going to work - they have drivers and pilots and they won't get written up for being late or not going somewhere they don't want to go to, though their business may/may not suffer the effects of their decisions.
As for home life, They pretty much have fleets of staff that take care of all their earthly concerns - no chores, no house maintenance, or cooking or shopping etc. They usually aren't even connected to the people that do these things - They have personal assistants that work with home chaperones for each home that hire cooks and servants and property maintenance people etc. as needed.
Fair warning though - I found all this from YouTube and the internet and shit, so I can't speak for its accuracy.