It looks like you don't understand the legalities concerning settlements. It is not the same as losing a court case.

No, that's not how dynamic range works.
Dynamic range is the distance between the loudest and the quietest part of the signal that can be conveyed.
Technically digital (these days) has a much bigger dynamic range than any analog format that existed.
But, due to loudness war, pretty much all of that dynamic range is left unused.

Vinyl on the other hand has a limited dynamic range. But it also has other limits, like the mechanical limits of the needle.
That is why it can't handle a too small dynamic range!
So on the one hand vinyl has a lower noise limit, defining its dynamic range. And on the other hand, you can't squish the dynamic range too much or else you'll run into other mechanical problems. These are separate limits.

The vinyl comeback you mention is partially due to the fact that vinyl masters couldn't have their dynamic range reduced too much. The mixes of yesteryear (like the ones on vinyl) used to have a much bigger dynamic range, despite the fact that vinyl has a lower available dynamic range compared to modern media.

The problem is in how this available dynamic range is used and not so much the availability of dynamic range in a give format.
Long story short, we have much more dynamic range available in new formats but it is being completely wasted for the purpose of commerce.

Nonsense. Vaccines never were exclusively for permanent immunity.
Some diseases mutate more often than others. That is why for some diseases one shot is enough for life while for others you'll want/need it more often.

Yeah, and guess what, genius. Those flue jabs are vaccines. These flue vaccines have been available since the 50s of the last century so unless you're older than 70 you've lived your complete life in a world where the word 'vaccine' didn't automatically mean total immunization for life.

That doesn't change the fact that these are still vaccines.

Those are two lies rolled into one. Yes, the covid shots are vaccines and yes, you will pretty much gain immunity, until the next mutated variant comes along.

You've achieved exactly the opposite. Your lack of knowledge has muddled the subject.

You're deluded with unfounded idealism if you think interplanetary expansion will somehow reduce the pressure we put on the earth. If anything it will increase the pressure.
For one, no feasible planet that we know of is going to be a better home to humans than earth. So mining (and maybe science) is just about the only interesting thing about space. And it will stay that way for quite some time. We are not suitable for interplanetary colonization.
So what is left is mining. But that will only fuck up earth even more if we can't solve this problem we are talking about here. It will enable building and consuming at a scale unprecedented in the history of humanity. And nothing about it dictates that it will be done in a sustainable way.

So what you propose is nonsense. You're treating space as a magical problem solver which it isn't. Going to space won't solve any of the problems we already have and quite likely only multiply them.

I suggest you look in an atlas (google earth, etc) to see how much of the earths land is in use by humans. You will start to understand how wrong you were before...
For instance, from a global scale zoom in on a patch of green. How big is the chance, you think, that it will be a natural forest and how big a chance it will be farm land?

Why should we be optimistic? Despite all the science and technology we are still unable to reduce the growth, never mind reversing it. Again, we are still accelerating in our growth.

Ooh, puwees. The last time we had a problem of this scale was the threat of nuclear war. And that one was enabled by science. The actual problem, and the solution to this problem, was political in nature. And we nearly didn't solve it, despite it being very very obvious that a nuclear war was very bad for the human species.

And in this case we also have a political/human nature problem that has been enabled by science and technology. I don't see science fixing it any time soon tho. It only depends on our behavior as a species, for instance how we choose to consume, which politicians we vote for, how much we protest, etc.. Sitting at home and consuming (increasingly) more stuff while waiting for science to fish our collective fat ass out of the shitpool we've created and actively maintain for ourselves is not going to solve the problem.

If you're proposing to go head-first into oblivion to satisfy your craving for experience then you are the one in a death cult...

Nah, it's not that simple.
It had a few low quality sample channels. Atari had MIDI and the software to use that.
Now, i do recognize that the sampling capabilities of the Amiga brought forth an big wave of creativity. But ultimately, with much more interesting MIDI devices entering the market (for instance samplers with cd quality audio and much higher polyphony) from the late 80s onward, the impact of the atari can't be underestimated.

Least informative article of the day.

Only if you're a dumbfuck inbred that doesn't understand the difference between weather and climate.

If taken literally the what biden said isn't true per se. It is still possible to transmit the virus when vaccinated. The chance is severely lower, but it is still possible.
Looking overall, and you'd do that as the president, he's perfectly right. Virus spread in pandemics is all about the bulk effects. If a given population has enough inoculation then the virus will stop spreading. So he's right in saying that if you're vaccinated you don't transmit the disease. Just don't read it as an effect on the level of individuals but on the level of communities and ultimately society.
Fuck, even the article you linked to calls it 'Half True' instead of 'Untrue' or 'Lie!' even tho they explained the words maximally in their advantage. They can't kill the argument.

No, that's not what people mean when they say 'backed up by'.
What this phrase means is that there is something tangible present to balance the value of the coin.
Miners don't do that for bitcoin. In fact, they consume value, namely the power needed for the calculations.
But what this service doesn't do is balance the value of the coin with some tangible economic activity. Or at least, real world economic value seldomly modulates the value of crypto.

In case of your furniture, sure, that links the value of the coin to the real economy and makes the coin 'backed' by a tiny amount.

Can you tell us how many of those SMRs are needed to fulfill current energy needs in the US?

Ooh America, you already look evil in the eyes of the rest of the world. Sometimes even in the eyes of your allies, at frighteningly close intervals.

Sorry. Nothing in that article had a serious impact on the lives of most people.
Don't get me wrong, some of those things are nice to have. But almost nothing in that list is more than luxury.