you will have to submit to 3-4 before one will take it. If the editor rejects the paper that might only take a couple of weeks per journal, if it goes out for peer review (and then gets rejected) it could be several months per journal.

Lots of potential reasons: waiting on other data to come in, one of the collaborators is slow because this isn’t an important project for them, so they have to be emailed 10 times to get anything from them, shopping around for a high impact journal. If you are targeting a top journal it’s likely

There is a switchover (at least for home backup batteries like power wall)

No. The image generation is cartoony and not great. Siri is less bad, but expectations have shifted so much due to chatgpt et al that if anything in seems more behind. Responsiveness is still meh.

A discussion of the cost of very lengthy criminal proceedings. It is crazy to me that it took >4 years to prosecute Trump and cronies, and that delay caused most of the cases to fall apart. If you are innocent or guilty, dragging things out for 4+ years seems bad! Have there been reform efforts?