BUT - to make any money as a session musician, certainly enough to make a living, you have to be good. Damn good.

Analog is crap - that analog "warmth" is snake oil - but the old analog workflow of recording and mixing yields music that resonates with people. The best of all worlds would be to capture that analog workflow using digital tools.

In short, today's music is just another corporate product and vinyl distribution is just a means to extract more profit from that product.

Relative sea level rise = actual sea level rise + land subsidence

Cities like New Orleans are suffering a double whammy: not only are they subsiding (sinking), but the sea levels are also rising and so between the two they're in grave trouble.

Disagreement about “what quantum mechanics means” is a philosophical problem, not a physics problem.

The job of physics is to build predictive models of natural phenomena, not to settle metaphysical debates about the “true nature of reality.”

And on that front, Quantum Field Theory - which superseded old‑school quantum mechanics decades ago - does its job extraordinarily well.

QFT predicts particle interactions with absurd precision, matches experiment to many decimal places, and underpins everything from semiconductors to MRI machines.

Whether philosophers (or physicists wearing philosopher hats) can agree on an “interpretation” doesn’t change the fact that the Standard Model works.