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Both professor x and his sister had their powers in utero. Nightcrawler famously developed his powers pre-puberty, he was zipping around both physically mutated (from birth) and his teleportation as a young child. Generally mutants develop powers at puberty, but that's just a rule of thumb.

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They put A.I. in my truck. It warns me of everything I do wrong verbally. It reports everything to HQ. It is from a company called Solera. I take offense to this. Am I wrong? What can I do? Anything?

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Trucking is so funny. There is an adversarial relationship between the drivers and the office, which you can see in this comment.

The industry is trying to solve safety issues caused by the nature of long haul driving and maintenance of profit in logistics by companies that use their services.

Trucking used to be a way a person could provide for their family, remain independent, and feel in control. Now, trucking is an industry where you are trapped in a moving computer designed primarily to reduce the insurance rates of the company that employs them, because their business practices and demands were so dangerous, individuals truckers had to drive more hours, get paid less for those hours, and literally drive themselves, and other motorists around them when they crashed, to death.

Then they blame the truckers as they race to bottom in hiring. Don't even get me started on nafta. Your industry sucks for the employees who are necessary to keep the economy moving.

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168 children died when Trump bombed that school.

You think she cares, she strikes me as the type of person would strangle 100 brown babies with her own hands if it meant her child could get a slight advantage.

Think of if Iran had done this, or Russia, what would the news look like, or say. Or think of the sheer number of families and lives that were affected by that truly horrific act (or the sports facility that got hit by the new tungsten cluster munitions we were testing on kids). The anger that was created, the animosity that is the only thing some people have left. This isn't a thing that happened and just goes away. This was an underwater avalanche that has sent a tsunami. The damage will be impossible to avoid.

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Karl Pilkington was a mainstream “lolcow”

Karl Pilkignton is an eccentric dude, but he's not stupid. He was head of production at XFM when he met Ricky Gervais, the person he was on screen on Idiot was part of a character he developed while doing Ricky Gervais' radio show.

Yeah he's that person, the character is based on him cause Ricky and Steve Merchant found his behavior hilarious. But he was already successful when he started it, and all the shit about him not waiting to come back was for more seasons was BS. He had revenue share from the beginning, that show was stupid business for them and Sky One.

You can see his real acting right after Idiot ended on Derek. Then he came back to Sky One to do more "Karl" work on Moaning Life. Then he did a truly scripted version of his Karl character on Sick of It.

Trust me, he's is and was in on it.

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Helen O'Connell. The first person to truly get an accurate representation of the full organ (in humans), two thousand and fucking five. She started her research in the 90's. If you're ever wondering if the medical system is biased towards men, there you go. If you've seem an image of the full structure of the organ looking this:

That was Helen O'Connell. I stole that pic from here: https://tecscience.tec.mx/en/health/clitoris/

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YouTube prankster Vitaly Arrested In Philippines and currently FAFO

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This isn't even a traditional prison. This is effectively a "short-term" holding facility for immigration cases. I put short term in quotes cause the average stay is like 2 years. It's dirty, it's crowded, you sleep head to foot with thousands of other people, he gets a dollar and 30 cents of food a day, like all the other detainees.

He could not deserve it more. He got a pittance for brutally beating a woman while on mushrooms. This is the payback.