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 ## I've changed my perspective pretty significantly as I've learned more about this. My views on government were naive when I said this nearly two years ago, and I'm vehemently anti-antitrust now. It is not the role of government to "do stuff" for constituents. Of course politics involves understanding how the people vote on certain issues, but it isn't within the legitimate purview of government to destroy business for the sake of the scare quotes "little guy". If the people continue to reward business practices that are bad, they can't go running to Daddy Government™ when the consequences are bad. We don't need government to slap businesses for making business decisions that are rewarded by the free market. And we especially don't need government to slap businessess for choosing to push an advantage the the government LITERALLY handed them on a silver platter moments before. We need people to agree to stop rewarding those decisions. If everyone said to Apple, we're not going to buy your shit if you don't go with the newest greatest standard that literally everyone else is using just so we're forced to purchase your specific cables, then Apple would be forced to cater to that crowd. And I don't think you need a plurality to do this, either. If just 30% of their sales declined due to this, I don't think they'd continue to put up with it. It was controversial when Apple removed the headphone jack. But their sales hardly dropped and the iPhone 7 was still successful, and in the long term, they won. If you don't want them to win with their anti-consumer practices, don't buy their damn stuff. You can see I'm in the process of coming around to this realization.
 
-## Certainly not putting effort into revamping Premiere and After Effects by changing them from largely CPU-based programs to more GPU-intensive ones. Premiere can't decode a damn H.264 without proxies if you want it to decode perfectly and efficiently, and half of the damn effects in AE are CPU-based, which means if you don't have an EPYC or some shit, you're piss out of luck if you just want to upscale, which is a feature I use all the time. Why the hell would you want to do that when AI upscaling exists right now? What the hell does anyone pay Adobe for when they aren't putting any effort into bringing their programs up to speed with the most efficient hardware? You wouldn't need a 64 core hyperthreaded Xeon processor if you just made your damn program use the command set of the highly efficient GPU I have in my system. It would be very difficult to crunch the numbers on this, but I'd wager this has lead to significant increases in carbon emissions and many billions of dollars worth of individual and corporate electrical bills. The industry needs to work on moving to more efficient command sets, because when they do, as we've seen with Apple's silicon, one of the few good steps Apple has ever taken even if they didn't launch it very well, everyone will profit immensely from it. Same concept applies to nuclear, but I digress. 
+## Certainly not putting effort into revamping Premiere and After Effects by changing them from largely CPU-based programs to more GPU-intensive ones. Premiere can't decode a damn H.264 without proxies if you want it to decode perfectly and efficiently, and half of the damn effects in AE are CPU-based, which means if you don't have an EPYC or some shit, you're piss out of luck if you just want to upscale, which is a feature I use all the time. Why the hell would you want to do that when AI upscaling exists right now? What the hell does anyone pay Adobe for when they aren't putting any effort into bringing their programs up to speed with the most efficient hardware? You wouldn't need a 64 core hyperthreaded Xeon processor if you just made your damn program use the command set of the highly efficient GPU I have in my system. It would be very difficult to crunch the numbers on this, but I'd wager this has lead to significant increases in carbon emissions and many billions of dollars worth of individual and corporate electrical bills. The industry needs to work on moving to more efficient command sets, because when they do, as we've seen with Apple's silicon, one of the few good steps Apple has ever taken even if they didn't launch it very well, everyone will profit immensely from it. Same concept applies to nuclear, but I digress.
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+## Keep in mind this was in 2023. So you could say that this aged poorly, but I'd rather pick and choose which aspects of Elon Musk I'd like to embody. Obvioulsy I'd rather be compared to Elon Musk's admirable qualities than his less admirable ones. But we've all got a bit of the admirable and a bit of the pathetic within each of us, and it's our charge to choose which wins. Point being, my therapist was making the observation that I was like Elon in that I'm intelligent, neurodivergent, and aspire towards greatness, and for those things I cannot nor will I ever be ashamed.