• Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
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    … Why though? Was it the big suntan bed conglomerate that got to him and paid him to make that legal?

    I’m kidding of course but … Why do this? I don’t get it. We all know sun tan beds are bad, why allow kids?

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        Maybe they just like the ability to make them dark enough to be “exotic”, but not so dark it feels like their racism would get in the way.

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        It’s not so much that they like them tanned, they don’t like tan lines. It suggests they’ve been out in the sun, and not enslaved in a dark room, waiting for them.

  • TrackinDaKraken@lemmy.world
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    In the same way that most tattoo artists won’t do kids, even in states where it’s legal with parental consent, most salons won’t let kids tan--at least I hope.

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    This guy is the kind of cartoon villain that gets left out of the newer “dark” iterations of a franchise for being too fucking ridiculous

  • Samuelbanks@thelemmy.club
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    4 days ago

    I put a smile on people’s faces by helping them pay off their bills or blessing them with a couple of bucks to cover the week’s groceries. Message me saying “NEED HELP”’ to get yours

  • wolfeh@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    So… kids shouldn’t have the right to their own personal expression, but they should have the right to give themselves cancer. Got it. Makes perfect sense.

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      What’s completely the wrong use of error code 451 as well. It’s supposed to be when information is taken down at governmental request, this is them not being prepared to follow minimal safety laws.

      Even people who can access this site probably shouldn’t because it means they’re almost certainly selling your data to 15,000 data partners, the CIA and local police departments.

      Edit: also VPNs exist.

      Days before the 2024 presidential election, future Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. posted a statement on X promising to end the US Food and Drug Administration’s “aggressive suppression” of such alternative therapies as raw milk, ivermectin, psychedelics and, somewhat perplexingly, “sunshine.”

      While the post did not explain how the FDA was limiting Americans’ access to the sun, many dermatologists were dismayed when Kennedy abruptly withdrew a proposed FDA rule that would have banned minors from using devices that mimic sunlight — indoor tanning lamps.

      The rule, which was withdrawn March 16, would have also required indoor tanning facility users to sign a form acknowledging the risk of cancer, early skin aging and other health effects.

      Kennedy’s action comes at a time when many adherents of his Make America Healthy Again movement have adopted regular sun exposure as a core principle of wellness, with social media influencers encouraging followers to abandon sunscreen and build up their “solar callus,” or sun tolerance, instead.

      The trend has frustrated many dermatologists, who warn that the damage of frequent sunburns and tans accumulates over a lifetime, and those acquired early in life appear to play a disproportionate role in later risk of skin cancer. The Skin Cancer Foundation notes also that you cannot build up a tolerance to sun exposure and “there is no such thing as a ‘solar callus.’ ”

      Dermatologists have long cautioned that indoor tanning lamps are no less dangerous, since they expose users to ultraviolet light at concentrations far above natural sunlight. Like sunlight, the lamps emit two different types of ultraviolet wavelengths: UVA, which are longer and penetrate more deeply into the skin, and UVB, which are shorter and more easily burn the outer layers.

      Both light sources darken skin through the same biological process: UV rays change the structure and chemical profile of DNA in the skin, which then produces more melanin in order to prevent further damage.

      A tanning bed session exposes users to UVB rays akin to those at noon at the equator — an intense experience, but at least one with a terrestrial equivalent, said Hunter Shain, an associate professor of dermatology at UC San Francisco. The UVA radiation in a tanning bed is roughly 15 times that found anywhere on the surface of the planet.

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    4 days ago

    Wait. Does this fuck actually think UV doesn’t cause cancer?

    Or is he just, like, people have a right to give themselves cancer?

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      These idiots are going to poison themselves with e coli, while mainlining horse dewormer (which won’t do anything for the e coli), all while high on psychedelics and cooking themselves in a sunbed. I’m sure that will leave a lovely corpse although I wouldn’t want to be the one that has to clean that up.

      Though by the sound of it it sounds like they’re going to render themselves extinct within a generation.

      Plague doctors would have laughed at them for being so unscientific.

  • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca
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    withdrew a proposed FDA rule

    The rule, which was withdrawn March 16, would have also required indoor tanning facility users to sign a form acknowledging the risk of cancer, early skin aging and other health effects.

    Misleading title.

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    Why would anyone listen to a person who looks like they got trapped in an air fryer?