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#3228447 9-May-2024 19:53

Apple's protect mail privacy setting does a similar thing - loading links in the background immediatly, rather than when opened.

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#3228467 9-May-2024 20:58

Hard to know where to post this. Even though Robert F. Kennedy Jr. share some Kennedy DNA, he's the conspiracy nut of the family, and unpredictable.

So the brain-worm may all be in his head :)

New York Times: R.F.K. Jr. Says Doctors Found a Dead Worm in His Brain

In 2010, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was experiencing memory loss and mental fogginess so severe that a friend grew concerned he might have a brain tumor. Mr. Kennedy said he consulted several of the country’s top neurologists, many of whom had either treated or spoken to his uncle, Senator Edward M. Kennedy, before his death the previous year of brain cancer.

Several doctors noticed a dark spot on the younger Mr. Kennedy’s brain scans and concluded that he had a tumor, he said in a 2012 deposition reviewed by The New York Times. Mr. Kennedy was immediately scheduled for a procedure at Duke University Medical Center by the same surgeon who had operated on his uncle, he said.

While packing for the trip, he said, he received a call from a doctor at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital who had a different opinion: Mr. Kennedy, he believed, had a dead parasite in his head.

The doctor believed that the abnormality seen on his scans “was caused by a worm that got into my brain and ate a portion of it and then died,” Mr. Kennedy said in the deposition.

Now an independent presidential candidate, the 70-year-old Mr. Kennedy has portrayed his athleticism and relative youth as an advantage over the two oldest people to ever seek the White House
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#3228474 9-May-2024 21:34

Neurocysticercosis apparently a good reason to avoid pork in some places

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/pork-tapeworms-brain-parasite-infection-rfk-jr-rcna151310

Kennedy also claims to have had mercury poisoning from eating too much tuna.

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#3228502 10-May-2024 07:28

gzt: Neurocysticercosis apparently a good reason to avoid pork in some places

Specifically undercooked pork...

What drives me nuts is people who assume certain things are safe to eat and then give them to children without cooking them at all. E.g. frankfurters or cheerios, the package says "cook thoroughly before eating", but I've seen plenty of parents give their young kids the sausages straight out of the packet.

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#3228695 10-May-2024 12:33

gzt: Neurocysticercosis apparently a good reason to avoid pork in some places

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/pork-tapeworms-brain-parasite-infection-rfk-jr-rcna151310

Kennedy also claims to have had mercury poisoning from eating too much tuna.

What's Trump's excuse?

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#3228700 10-May-2024 12:38

cddt:
What drives me nuts is people who assume certain things are safe to eat and then give them to children without cooking them at all. E.g. frankfurters or cheerios

Yup, wouldn't want to be giving your kids semi cooked breakfast cereal.

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#3228705 10-May-2024 12:42

neb:
cddt:

What drives me nuts is people who assume certain things are safe to eat and then give them to children without cooking them at all. E.g. frankfurters or cheerios

Yup, wouldn't want to be giving your kids semi cooked breakfast cereal.

Different countries have different names for different things. So what?

Plesse igmore amd axxept applogies in adbance fir anu typos

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#3228816 10-May-2024 17:39

Oh RFK Jr, you so crazy!

Vanity Fair: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Claims He Could “Eat 5 More Brain Worms” and “Still” Beat Biden and Trump in a Debate

“I feel confident of the result even with a six-worm handicap.”

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#3228856 10-May-2024 19:05

kingdragonfly: Hard to know where to post this. Even though Robert F. Kennedy Jr. share some Kennedy DNA, he's the conspiracy nut of the family, and unpredictable.

So the brain-worm may all be in his head :)

New York Times: R.F.K. Jr. Says Doctors Found a Dead Worm in His Brain

In 2010, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was experiencing memory loss and mental fogginess so severe that a friend grew concerned he might have a brain tumor. Mr. Kennedy said he consulted several of the country’s top neurologists, many of whom had either treated or spoken to his uncle, Senator Edward M. Kennedy, before his death the previous year of brain cancer.

Several doctors noticed a dark spot on the younger Mr. Kennedy’s brain scans and concluded that he had a tumor, he said in a 2012 deposition reviewed by The New York Times. Mr. Kennedy was immediately scheduled for a procedure at Duke University Medical Center by the same surgeon who had operated on his uncle, he said.

While packing for the trip, he said, he received a call from a doctor at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital who had a different opinion: Mr. Kennedy, he believed, had a dead parasite in his head.

The doctor believed that the abnormality seen on his scans “was caused by a worm that got into my brain and ate a portion of it and then died,” Mr. Kennedy said in the deposition.

Now an independent presidential candidate, the 70-year-old Mr. Kennedy has portrayed his athleticism and relative youth as an advantage over the two oldest people to ever seek the White House
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RFK Jr is a Kennedy, but he's certainly not a Kennedyite.

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#3228874 10-May-2024 20:56

Jetstar flight sale used by Wellington man in bid to get $5000 - NZ Herald

In my opinion, this guy is behaving like an idiot.

On March 12, 2020, Tyrone Barugh, director of small law firm Spilt Milk, booked an Auckland-to-Sydney return ticket with Jetstar for travel from March 25 to May 7.

Like many people, he was reacting to Jetstar’s promotional “Return for free” sale. Unlike many people, however, Barugh proceeded to cancel and book 57 more return flights to take advantage of what he saw as a loophole.

Now, he is taking Jetstar to the Disputes Tribunal to get back $4965 in fees he claims he’s entitled to under a combination of Australian legislation and Jetstar’s policies.

His "hack" about booking, cancelling for a credit, booking again with that credit, cancel, repeat 55 times.

Then claim for an Australian government levy back for each flight - but he's already got the refund.

To me, this is childish, attention-seeking behaviour.

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#3228880 10-May-2024 21:19

The Law Society should tap him on the shoulder and tell him to just stop. Become an MP if he wants to drag the profession into disrepute.

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#3228882 10-May-2024 22:00

It will be interesting to see the result.

There is a live by the sword, die by the sword element. Jetstar are not the slowest to point to their fine print in any dispute, and have been in trouble for anti-competitive and misleading practices several times before. If the letter of the law and their contracts say that the refunds are owed, it will be hard to argue that the judge should throw them out as unreasonable/unconscionable when they've just argued that the text should be treated as gospel.

Their parent company just got fined $120m for selling tickets on flights they had already cancelled.

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#3228887 10-May-2024 22:20

I accidently came across this story.

Baseball-sized hail is higher in certain regions, particularly in the American Midwest. States such as Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska tend to experience large-scale storms several times per year.

This is also prime "tornado alley" territory.

But even golfball size hail is rare.

Hailstorms tend to happen more in spring (which is now in Texas), and sometimes in autumn.

In my American travels, I've never seen any hail larger than golfball size. Anything above 2cm do a lot of damage, may break car windshields.

No wonder insurers try to convince climate deniers that climate change is real.

CBS: 13,000 without power in San Marcos, baseball-size hail hits Central Texas

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#3228904 11-May-2024 00:45

freitasm: To me, this is childish, attention-seeking behaviour.

In other words a well known marketing technique.

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#3228905 11-May-2024 00:49

SomeoneSomewhere:

It will be interesting to see the result.

There is a live by the sword, die by the sword element. Jetstar are not the slowest to point to their fine print in any dispute, and have been in trouble for anti-competitive and misleading practices several times before. If the letter of the law and their contracts say that the refunds are owed, it will be hard to argue that the judge should throw them out as unreasonable/unconscionable when they've just argued that the text should be treated as gospel.

Their parent company just got fined $120m for selling tickets on flights they had already cancelled.

I'm inclined to agree. Providing he didn't lie or engage in deceptive practice he's just following the terms and conditions the sale was offered under.

As the guy who training me in project management liked to say "I'm not trying to take your children, just follow the contract we signed."

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