Personally, I would go to Toronto. Decades ago I used to work for a Canadian company headquartered in Toronto and had development offices in the states. There was a project I needed to do with a distinguished engineer that required me to move to Toronto for a few months. I really liked it. TBH, there are very few cities in the US that I would say are on par with Toronto, and none are better. Now the Winters are brutal, but they're brutal where I'm from so that's not a dealbreaker for me.
Session musicians know full-well what they bring to the table. They also know the trade-off: they're not interested in the continued touring, dealing with fans, having to create new material, etc., etc., etc. They're "no drama" kind of people.
BUT - to make any money as a session musician, certainly enough to make a living, you have to be good. Damn good.
I'm an amateur musician and I've been gigging, playing, and jamming with musicians for decades. There's nothing wrong with today's song writing and compositions. The problem is the tools used to record, and mix (and to a much lesser extent, master). They "encourage" a particular workflow - a workflow that's anathema to music.
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.
Most music today is digitally recorded, digitally mixed, and digitally mastered. It's at the end they distribute it on vinyl and sell it for a fortune. They're literally fleecing people. Now I will tell you digital is far superior to analog BUT - the way music is recorded and mixed today takes all the soul out of music. Rigidly fixing to "the grid" makes it so music can't breathe. Drums are programmed. So much precision is required that session musicians are playing most of the things you hear, not the actual artists.
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.
QFT models “reality” extremely well, when defining “reality” by what is measurable or observable. It’s the metaphysics people are uncomfortable with. It’s a theory that preserves causality but doesn’t always sit well with our intuitions about locality. That has led some people to believe spacetime itself may be emergent - but that’s a story for another time.
25 cameras destroyed over the course of a year, and more than half were destroyed by a single person. This doesn't appear to be a widespread concern the headline makes it out to be.
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.