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Are you all OK over there?

This is about as uplifting as stories about kids selling lemonade to afford their mothers insulin.

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This is an “orphan crushing machine down for maintenance” type story. Ridiculous that a law like that was even necessary.

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I wonder how often this sort of story will be posted here?

It is kinda like if eye bleach had the odd desiccated corpse pic. Not saying I am not down for it, but it was a bit of a shock.

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There was a subreddit like that. Someone should replicate it here on Lemmy.

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Why? Rage inducing subreddits made reddit insufferable.

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bruh

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Wow, I wanna die

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WE KNOW, you can stop telling everyone

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They needed a doctor’s note before? Why?

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I posted it in a comment in this post, but it’s likely because sunscreen in the US is classified and treated as an over the counter drug.

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But I don’t need a doctor’s note to buy over the counter drug…

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You do if you are a minor in school and intend on bringing it to school. You will have to store it in the nurses office as well to prevent it from being “shared.” It’s as absurd as it sounds, and this policy has been applied to inhalers and other prescription medications that should be on person as well and has caused deaths as a result. Cough drops are considered over the counter as well. It also applies to pain medication.

High school girls getting caught giving each other paracetamol/tylenol for period pain and being suspended as a result isn’t an isolated thing either.

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Its to keep idiots from making a rule against it.

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And guns, I’m assuming.

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Guns was probably okay to bring to school anyway…

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