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Ilovethebomb sh.itjust.works Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works
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Right, so who is this?

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hovercat lemmy.blahaj.zone hovercat@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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Right, so who is this?

Nick Shirley, the "Minnesota Somalian daycare fraud" guy. If you watch him talk, or do much of anything, it is pretty clear he's not particularly sharp.

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Lighttrails sh.itjust.works Lighttrails@sh.itjust.works
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Nick Shirley, the "Minnesota Somalian daycare fraud" guy. If you watch him talk, or do much of anything, it is pretty clear he's not particularly sharp.

He did an interview with channel 5 and called out Andrew Callahan afterward saying they chopped the interview to make him look bad. Andrew responded and explained that they edit interviews in such a way to make them smoother without stops to clarify questions, ums and ahs. He also provided behind the scenes footage. This Nick Shirley guy isn’t very articulate or well versed in what he claims to be.

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DaMummy hilariouschaos.com DaMummy@hilariouschaos.com
Joined: 2026-01-12
#5 · (edited) Quote Reply

Right, so who is this?

He's a Mormon from Utah with family in CIA, and his job is to be an influencer that false flags the nation government into overreaction. He's the reason ICE went into Minnesota, and recently made a video about a California's UPS with apartments above it, so they share the same address, and claimed that couple dozen people use the same voting address, therefor illegally voting. So if you see an increase in ICE in California, he's why.

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unmagical lemmy.ml unmagical@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2023-10-30
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Is this the childless man who showed up to daycare centers with cameras and men in masks and then cried to the MAGA world when they like didn't let a strange childless man who showed up with cameras and masked men in to film the children?

Which somehow captured the attention of the pedophile president who also didn't realize that it's not appropriate for childless men with cameras and masks to demand to be allowed entry to a daycare to film the children thereby leading to the current ICE invasion in MN and the deaths of multiple people?

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m0nt piefed.social n4ch1sm0@piefed.social
Joined: 2025-08-05
#7 · (edited) Quote Reply

I've heard from some journalists I follow that them criticizing this chump feels like punching down; I felt validated by that because I felt exactly the same way lmao.

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Ilovethebomb sh.itjust.works Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2023-07-08
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Nick Shirley, the "Minnesota Somalian daycare fraud" guy. If you watch him talk, or do much of anything, it is pretty clear he's not particularly sharp.

Holy shit, the dude grew up in a place called Farmington.

That's the most made up sounding place name I've ever heard.

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TrackinDaKraken lemmy.world DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-02-26
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He's a Mormon from Utah with family in CIA, and his job is to be an influencer that false flags the nation government into overreaction. He's the reason ICE went into Minnesota, and recently made a video about a California's UPS with apartments above it, so they share the same address, and claimed that couple dozen people use the same voting address, therefor illegally voting. So if you see an ...

I wondered about "California’s UPS with apartments above it", so I searched. And, I found that Costco is building apartments above one of their stores.

Capitalism getting back to roots with indentured servitude just around the corner.

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DaMummy hilariouschaos.com DaMummy@hilariouschaos.com
Joined: 2026-01-12
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I wondered about "California’s UPS with apartments above it", so I searched. And, I found that Costco is building apartments above one of their stores. Capitalism getting back to roots with indentured servitude just around the corner.

Work From Home with literally extra steps.

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boeman lemmy.world boeman@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-03
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Work From Home with literally extra steps.

Unless they install elevators

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jontree255 lemmy.world jontree255@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-10
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That’s Nick Shirley. Whose antics at daycare centers in Minneapolis led to ICE invading the city and murdering two American citizens.

He should be physically removed from any space he shows up in and punched in the fucking face.

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altkey (he\him) lemmy.dbzer0.com altkey@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2025-02-26
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Holy shit, the dude grew up in a place called Farmington. That's the most made up sounding place name I've ever heard.

Welcome to Farmington. Population: this tool

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istdaslol feddit.org istdaslol@feddit.org
Joined: 2024-07-24
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Is this the childless man who showed up to daycare centers with cameras and men in masks and then cried to the MAGA world when they like didn't let a strange childless man who showed up with cameras and masked men in to film the children? Which somehow captured the attention of the pedophile president who also didn't realize that it's not appropriate for childless men with cameras and masks to ...

You forgot to mention, that his ground breaking investigation is about something public known for years and people were convicted for these crimes already.
So basically he was like „dude did you know about this Epstein guy, my source told me he really really likes underage girls“

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Jack slrpnk.net JustJack23@slrpnk.net
Joined: 2023-06-15
#15 · (edited) Quote Reply

He looks like his favorite childhood snack was lead paint

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Tollana1234567 lemmy.today Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
Joined: 2025-06-04
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Is this the childless man who showed up to daycare centers with cameras and men in masks and then cried to the MAGA world when they like didn't let a strange childless man who showed up with cameras and masked men in to film the children? Which somehow captured the attention of the pedophile president who also didn't realize that it's not appropriate for childless men with cameras and masks to ...

thats nick shirly, and yes the guy in the pic is HIM apparently.

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Deacon lemmy.world deacon@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-13
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He looks like his favorite childhood snack was lead paint

I know he’s from an LDS family, and they are nominally teetotal, but I’m pretty sure this dude’s mom was on the hard sauce for all nine. I’m just a dude and not a doctor but that looks like FAS to me.

Which absolves him of nothing. Whatever his limitations he knows right from wrong and he’s a bigoted lying asshole who got folks killed. So I don’t really feel bad if his mommy marinated him in her secret schnapps stash.

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Rivalarrival lemmy.today Rivalarrival@lemmy.today
Joined: 2023-06-11
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He looks like his favorite childhood snack was lead paint

He ate his paint chips with salsa.

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gmtom lemmy.world gmtom@lemmy.world
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As a person with a a learning disability I approve of anyone using it as an insult against maga

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D_C sh.itjust.works D_C@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2025-06-04
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thats nick shirly, and yes the guy in the pic is HIM apparently.

In that case not only are people allowed to make fun of him but I am also declaring, yes DECLARING, that anyone and everyone can physically attack him in whatever way they see fit.

It has been DECLARED, no takesiebacksies.

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This is fine🔥🐶☕🔥 lemmy.world TheBat@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-30
#21 · Quote Reply

Nick Shirley, the "Minnesota Somalian daycare fraud" guy. If you watch him talk, or do much of anything, it is pretty clear he's not particularly sharp.
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watermelonpaloma lemmy.sdf.org watermelonpaloma@lemmy.sdf.org
Joined: 2023-08-22
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I know he’s from an LDS family, and they are nominally teetotal, but I’m pretty sure this dude’s mom was on the hard sauce for all nine. I’m just a dude and not a doctor but that looks like FAS to me. Which absolves him of nothing. Whatever his limitations he knows right from wrong and he’s a bigoted lying asshole who got folks killed. So I don’t really feel bad if his mommy marinated him in he...

That is Bru-tal 😂

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Firoaren sh.itjust.works Firoaren@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2024-06-24
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Holy shit, the dude grew up in a place called Farmington. That's the most made up sounding place name I've ever heard.

As someone who grew up in a nearby school district, absolutely checks out lmao

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realitista lemmus.org realitista@lemmus.org
Joined: 2025-07-19
#24 · (edited) Quote Reply

I mean if we are talking about lack of mental acuity, we are talking about most of MAGA, no? The rest being criminals and sociopaths/psychopaths?

Overall, the model predicts that almost 73% of respondents who missed all 10 questions would vote for Trump (remember, that is controlling for education and the other factors), while about 51% who were average on the exam are expected to vote for Trump. Only 35% of people who had a perfect score on the exam are predicted to be Trump supporters.

Notably, this very strong, significant effect of verbal ability can be identified within educational groups. While non-college whites certainly turned out more heavily for Trump, the smart ones did not — only 38% of those with perfect scores are expected to go for Trump, and only 46% of non-college graduates who scored a standard deviation above the mean. The same is true for college graduates — low cognition college graduates were more likely to vote for Trump. …

https://www.salon.com/2022/03/23/new-research-on-voters-theyre-not-the-sharpest-tools-in-the-box/

“Specifically, non-gifted men scored higher on conservatism than gifted men,” reports PsyPost. “The non-gifted men were more likely to endorse values related to tradition and strict social order. Gifted men were less likely to hold these traditional conservative views.”

https://www.alternet.org/republican-party-maga-men/

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rustydrd sh.itjust.works rustydrd@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2023-07-07
#25 · (edited) Quote Reply

He did an interview with channel 5 and called out Andrew Callahan afterward saying they chopped the interview to make him look bad. Andrew responded and explained that they edit interviews in such a way to make them smoother without stops to clarify questions, ums and ahs. He also provided behind the scenes footage. This Nick Shirley guy isn’t very articulate or well versed in what he claims to be.

Here's Callaghan's response with the behind-the-scenes stuff for anyone who's interested:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlyNHpEe_k4

The "bevenolent" bits are truly hilarious.

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Pommes_für_dein_Balg feddit.org mech@feddit.org
Joined: 2025-10-06
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Holy shit, the dude grew up in a place called Farmington. That's the most made up sounding place name I've ever heard.

The town I lived in in the US was literally called "Barnes".
The town center consisted of a shop called "Jim's Bait".

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CarrierLost infosec.pub CarrierLost@infosec.pub
Joined: 2023-07-02
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Lighten up, Francis.

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HeyJoe lemmy.world HeyJoe@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-05
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Here's Callaghan's response with the behind-the-scenes stuff for anyone who's interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlyNHpEe_k4 The "bevenolent" bits are truly hilarious.

This is fantastic. Just goes to show what kind of people that Shirley guy surrounds himself with already. He probably believes that being interviewed should only reflect the views he agrees with and not be a fair nuetral ground where if you fuck up then you fucked up. The people he surrounds himself with all edit those parts out which is half the problem on it's own. I always liked Andrew for that reason, he definitely never seemed to take 1 side and has no problem showing captured footage of you making yourself look bad.

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GreyEyedGhost piefed.ca GreyEyedGhost@piefed.ca
Joined: 2025-11-30
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Holy shit, the dude grew up in a place called Farmington. That's the most made up sounding place name I've ever heard.

To be fair, all names are made up, and not just for places. But yes, Farmington is a little more simplistic than say Louisiana.

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OldGrayDog fedinsfw.app OldGrayDog@fedinsfw.app
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Holy shit, the dude grew up in a place called Farmington. That's the most made up sounding place name I've ever heard.

Not defending this piece of shit, but I grew up next to a town named Farmington, just saying.

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AngryCommieKender lemmy.world AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-08-02
#31 · (edited) Quote Reply

I know he’s from an LDS family, and they are nominally teetotal, but I’m pretty sure this dude’s mom was on the hard sauce for all nine. I’m just a dude and not a doctor but that looks like FAS to me. Which absolves him of nothing. Whatever his limitations he knows right from wrong and he’s a bigoted lying asshole who got folks killed. So I don’t really feel bad if his mommy marinated him in he...

Who is he?

Edit: NM found out down thread.

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MissJinx lemmy.world MissJinx@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-14
#32 · Quote Reply

As a person with a a learning disability I approve of anyone using it as an insult against maga

Well if you're not Maga you are learning faster then them!

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ButtermilkBiscuit feddit.nl ButtermilkBiscuit@feddit.nl
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tetris11 feddit.uk tetris11@feddit.uk
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#34 · (edited) Quote Reply

Not defending this piece of shit, but I grew up next to a town named Farmington, just saying.

I bet you've got some fake-ass cowboy name like "Billy West."

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PolarKraken lemmy.dbzer0.com PolarKraken@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2025-03-31
#35 · (edited) Quote Reply

Here's Callaghan's response with the behind-the-scenes stuff for anyone who's interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlyNHpEe_k4 The "bevenolent" bits are truly hilarious.

I tried to watch that interview (not this well-deserved rebuttal, the original) and just couldn't force my way through about half, wherever the (dumbass) Brazilian favela story ends. Despite Callaghan and team's sincere efforts, Nick just comes off like the fucking moron he is.

Ignorant about the things he himself has chosen to squawk about, while also truly lacking the mental "equipment" to engage with the topics in any complexity.

Like, any complexity, he seemed completely unable to manage the difference between the ideas "95% of Somali immigrants are law-abiding" and (his claim) "89% of fraud in Minnesota is committed by Somalis". Those can actually both be true and they aren't even very complicated but it was too much for him.

To be clear I'm not weighing in on those stats whatsoever, just the fact that he could not navigate the nuances between them at all.

He's not just wrong and hateful, he's fully incapable of understanding the exact phenomena that he somehow feels called to scrutinize and then scream about. He doesn't realize that "real" conversation on the topic would go completely over his head, he's so foolish that he can't even see how out of his own depth he is.

I'd love to just call him a clown and move on but his flavor of horseshit is SO dangerous these days, as we see!

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a_non_monotonic_function lemmy.world a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-10-22
#36 · Quote Reply

Is this the childless man who showed up to daycare centers with cameras and men in masks and then cried to the MAGA world when they like didn't let a strange childless man who showed up with cameras and masked men in to film the children? Which somehow captured the attention of the pedophile president who also didn't realize that it's not appropriate for childless men with cameras and masks to ...

LET ME SEE. THE. CHILDREN.

He shouted, his veins full of freedom.

No, they said in an evil, immigrant chuckle.

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SkyezOpen lemmy.world SkyezOpen@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-08-03
#37 · Quote Reply

I bet you've got some fake-ass cowboy name like "Billy West."

Sleve McDichael

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Fedizen lemmy.world Fedizen@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-04
#38 · Quote Reply

I mean if we are talking about lack of mental acuity, we are talking about most of MAGA, no? The rest being criminals and sociopaths/psychopaths? Overall, the model predicts that almost 73% of respondents who missed all 10 questions would vote for Trump (remember, that is controlling for education and the other factors), while about 51% who were average on the exam are expected to vote for Trum...

"Smart people don't like me"

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Fedizen lemmy.world Fedizen@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-04
#39 · Quote Reply

As a person with a a learning disability I approve of anyone using it as an insult against maga

Yeah it seems its not just a learning disability they have but a thinking disability.

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tetris11 feddit.uk tetris11@feddit.uk
Joined: 2025-02-17
#40 · (edited) Quote Reply

Sleve McDichael

That's a name I haven't heard in a very long time.

I met my first love in that world. We lived in the wilderness and made a humble living fishing for crabs. One day I came back from the bank and found her missing, her items in a bundle, signs of a struggle, no replies in her PM. I searched the wastes for days, taking on multiple PvPs for any info about her. Finally, giving in to my grief, I set sail for Teardrop island to begin my fishing career anew, and when I stepped off that boat: - lo - there she was, garbed in fishwife attire, macking on that wretched curr McDichel as he enticed her with promises of boats and cider.

I haven't logged in since.

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SoleInvictus lemmy.blahaj.zone SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone
Joined: 2024-03-28
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LET ME SEE. THE. CHILDREN. He shouted, his veins full of freedom. No, they said in an evil, immigrant chuckle.

I can smell both this comment and the people that would seriously say something like this.

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Jax sh.itjust.works Jax@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2023-08-22
#42 · Quote Reply

Yeah it seems its not just a learning disability they have but a thinking disability.

I think of it as specs in a video game, they just specialized into being disabled.

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CADmonkey lemmy.world CADmonkey@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-13
#43 · Quote Reply

I think of it as specs in a video game, they just specialized into being disabled.

Like the "dumb" option in Outer Worlds

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Jax sh.itjust.works Jax@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2023-08-22
#44 · (edited) Quote Reply

Like the "dumb" option in Outer Worlds

Yes, low int, low wis, low agi, pretty much a 1 in every field except for possibly strength. Mainly because you need to be strong to carry that much excess weight.

Edit: I mean physical strength, we're keeping things video game simple — obviously they are weakminded trogolodytes.

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bitchkat lemmy.world bitchkat@lemmy.world
Joined: 2024-02-29
#45 · Quote Reply

Holy shit, the dude grew up in a place called Farmington. That's the most made up sounding place name I've ever heard.

It's a exurb on the outskirts of Minneapolis. Mostly oil refineries but has a private high school with a really good hockey team.

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JuliaSuraez lemmy.world JuliaSuraez@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-12-10
#46 · Quote Reply

True strength isn't about having no emotions, it's about the discipline to not let them drive the car. This is a lesson that takes a lifetime to master but brings the most peace.

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GalacticGrapefruit lemmy.world GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-01-30
#47 · (edited) Quote Reply

I know he’s from an LDS family, and they are nominally teetotal, but I’m pretty sure this dude’s mom was on the hard sauce for all nine. I’m just a dude and not a doctor but that looks like FAS to me. Which absolves him of nothing. Whatever his limitations he knows right from wrong and he’s a bigoted lying asshole who got folks killed. So I don’t really feel bad if his mommy marinated him in he...

Ex-Mormon here.

Mormons like to brag that their kids are healthier and smarter because their mothers are guaranteed to have had no exposure to alcohol or secondhand smoke.

Because of this, there is such a deep culture of shame around even drinking coffee or tea, because it breaks the health code of the religion. It's treated with the same severity as eating pork if you're Jewish or Muslim. No, not everyone does it. But the few who do will go to every length possible to hide it. I met a dude who used to call out sick and wear sunglasses and a wig when he bought caffeine pills at the grocery store, and then swap them out for ibuprofen in the glovebox in his car. His wife divorced him over that.

If he does have FAS, I would bet you $100 right now that the only one who would know would be his mom, and she'll take that shit to her grave.

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