It’s probably more interesting to them than watching their kids. I’ve known people that would work late all the time and sometimes on weekends, or always trying to travel for work to avoid their families.

Not a Republican. I assume Trump is making backroom personal deals to get the world’s politicians and businesses to bribe him in some way. Aligns with how he seems to operate with everything else.

IDK, ketamine is kinda similar to alcohol; more psychedelic. As someone who has always struggled with depression and has done ketamine, it does seem like it would be a good fast-acting, but short half-life anti-depressant (the afterglow lasts well after the buzz). Never knew anyone who abused it habitually, long term. Heard it messes up your bladder.

Ever since I switched to GrapheneOS, Vanadium has been working well. Never had a problem with Firefox + ublock, or Librewolf (except with a corporate intranet webapp that specifically required users to use Chrome).

I’ve never noticed idolizing of Texas or Arizona for their weather. I hear Hawaii has mild summers compared to those states.

I’ve lived in both cold climates and hot climates. It’s pretty much the same, but the seasons are reversed. I.e. it’s very uncomfortable to spend too much time outdoors in winter in cold climates, and very uncomfortable in summer in hot climates.

Also, it’s more energy intensive to heat than it is to cool (at least with the most common HVAC systems). And warmer climates are more productive for food.

Yeah, those were the problematic cases they highlighted. Image/video generation usually involves generating many permutations, perhaps adjusting prompts, and just keeping/editing the parts they want. The Trump video is likely made up of many edited clips from many different prompts, after discarding many more, not just one prompt. The song may be one prompt; haven’t played around with music generation myself.

OpenAI released much more impressive demo videos last year, and I think Sora is available to the public now. I don’t think most proprietary models/systems allow you to use public figures though, so it’s probably an open-source system.