If you are part of the federation you wear a uniform, sure. If you are not, you don’t. So what?

I think you meant to say starfleet instead of federation…

The American Civil War was arguably not actually a civil war, but a war of secession.

Is the “Fire Storm” Emblem on the front of the car on the billboard making the whole thing look AI generated, or am I getting paranoid? Or maybe both?

Buddhism is also much younger than 8500 years, and its arrival in Japan much more recent again.

The Jōmon period lasted longer than stated here. According to Wikipedia, it lasted from 14000 BCE (so 16000 years ago) to around 300 BCE (i.e. ~2300 years ago).

Is OpenBSD seriously still using CVS for development?

The sentences are 5 years in one case and 4 in the others.

Anyone got a non-paywalled version?

Does that thing have a big turntable under there somewhere? Because from the photo, it looks like it can shoot in exactly or almost exactly the direction the rails happen to be pointing, and if you need to shoot somewhere more than two or three degrees to either side, you’re SOL…

After googling around for a bit, and then switching to duckduckgo instead (Google becomes aggressively unhelpful as soon as you have words like “ejaculated” in your query. Duckduckgo does the same thing, just not quite so much.), it seems the book in question might be “The tenant of Wildfell Hall” by Emily Brontë.

I think those fairies are called “black market organ dealers”.

About 20 years ago, Microsoft was found guilty and convicted, because they forced their browser on their users, driving out competitors by abusing their de facto monopoly on PC operating systems. These days, they are doing the exact same thing again, just on an even broader base. I don’t even understand how this verdict took so long.