• Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
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    2 days ago

    … 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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        8 hours ago

        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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      2 days ago

      Because UV rays make vitamin D, and that’s probably as far as he thought about it. Anything else is big scary science man talk with risks about something as “healthy” as unlimited concentrated artificial sunlight.

      Next up: let’s outlaw soap so that we can all have really good, well practiced immune systems.

      Actually maybe I shouldn’t give them ideas. They might try that.