in the context of the lawsuit, 14.5m is minor, but you don't mention who is paying who

after Tesla AI day here Tesla unveiled a chip that seems at least as big and powerful as Cerebras it seems they are doing a big PR push to make people think they are ahead.They may be aheas as Tesla only has the first DOJO in it's lab and the article implies that Cerebras is running in several labs But I do find it interesting that none of the Cerebras articles seem to give it's actual specs so it could be compared (apparently both are about 12" (wafer size) and both consume about 15Kw of power, but has anyone seen more specs that could be compared?)

Lawyers can provide a middleman service where they know how to contact the seller, and customers can contact them and have the communication relayed. If there is a court case, they provide the information to the court (and possibly to the opposing legal team, with some protection against lawsuits being filed just to dox people) There is far too much going on in terms of attacking people for minor reasons to make it reasonable to provide people's addresses and phone numbers to the public.

you also need an ID to get welfare or other government handouts.

why don't you take a look at what party runs the counties where there are long lines and few polling locations (hint, they aren't Republicans)

note that you require id to get into federal buildings, to buy alcohol, to rent a motel room to buy cough medicine ... and the same people who are claiming that people can't get ID are pushing the idea that to go into a store you should have to have a vaccine passport if the problem really was the lack of ability to get IDs, then a charity drive would easily fund getting people IDs. but one party seems to assume that people with a specific skin color are not smart enough to get an ID

if everything is controlled by the Federal government, then you only have to compromise (either via people or technology) one organization to control the election outcome. Remember, this is the same Federal government that has been attempting (and failing) to upgrade the IRS computer system for decades. Federalism (lots of different systems in the states) is a feature, not a bug

16:9 screens are used because that's the ratio for HD TV, so there are a lot of them being made, driving the cost down other formats are going to be significantly more expensive as a result.

the current versions have their tanks pressurized by running the methane/oxygen past the engines to vaporize it and then put the vapor back into the tanks. This lets them eliminate helium tanks and a requirement to supply helium (not readily available on Mars) SN5/SN6 had helium tanks on the outside to pressurize the main tanks.

it presents the most surface area to maximize aerodynamic braking. The fins wiggle to adjust the drag in that corner to keep it in the right orientation (an angle of attack of ~70 degrees. It's falling like a skydiver, not flying. Those are aerobraking flaps, not wings (they do not have an airfoil shape) transitioning into the sideways fall, being stable in that fall, and transitioning quickly out of it to land were major achievements to check off. for what it's worth, I think they did have engine problems. Musk said that they had low pressure for the landing burn, so that could account for the problems there. but it does seem odd that they would shut off the engines the way they did during assent, but the tweets indicate that it may have been planned. They did have the FAA limit their altitude more than planned, so they didn't need to get max performance out of the craft, just get it high enough to test the belly flop. It will be very interesting to see how quickly they move on SN-9 (move it to the pad, pressure test it, mount engines, static fire, launch, probably at least a week but could be significantly longer) It's also notable that these were Raptors in the 32-42 serial number range, and they did have some problems with them ahead of time. How much better are the newer Raptors going to be?

I've been saying for years that if I could pay what the insurance companies pay, I wouldn't need insurance (except for extremely severe events) so we need a law that says that if you pay at the time of service (or as you are discharged), they cannot bill you more than say 1.5-2x the lowest that they would accept from an insurance company I've seen a lot of bills where the combined payment from me and the insurance company is ~10% of the 'list price'

sorry to inform you but the people who wrote the Constitution had a smallpox epidemic just a few years earlier (a virus with a 30% mortality rather than the Wu Flu 1% mortality) any rule that sets occupancy limits as fixed numbers no matter what the building size are not scientific. Allowing more people in an area if they are having a business meeting or gambling than if they are praying is not scientific. If the rules had been similar to other purposes, that would be one thing, but singling out churches for especially restrictive limits is not reasonable.

the cost of NASA launching on a Russian rocket is more like $80m per seat. On SpaceX it is $56m per seat On Boeing it will be $96m per seat

sending absentee ballots to those who request them (with a good signature on file) is vastly different than sending ballots out to everybody on the voter rolls, especially in states that have refused to keep their voter rolls cleaned up as required by law. Nobody is objecting to normal absentee ballots (in part, because they are typically low volume enough that the increased fraud risk is extremely unlikely to affect the election. But even with traditional absentee ballots, do a little research about how many are ruled invalid in a typical election. I think that you will be horrified at what a large percentage of the absentee ballots are normally rejected.

read the stories about what's been happening over the last week, your imagination about how things work is not matching the reality on the ground. You have Election officials issuing 'guidence' that signatures not matching is not a valid reason to reject the ballot for example.