SirSamuel @ SirSamuel @lemmy.world

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So I wondered what the charges were and the penalties for giving OTC medication to minors without parental consent. It appears that the FDA considers melatonin a food supplement, not a drug. (Disclaimer, this is from 5 minutes searching online, I have no real knowledge beyond that). After reading the article, and lacking any other information, it seems like the investigation was spurred by the melatonin dosing, but the illegal part was operating an unlicensed daycare with more than 3 children in a private home. (Again, I'm very uninformed and guessing/extrapolating)

I'm actually not sure if it's illegal to give melatonin to minors without guardian consent. Unethical certainly, but if it's not a controlled substance or medication regulated by the FDA like OTC meds, is it illegal? There a some state laws prohibiting some supplements being given to minors. For example, NY has outlawed sales of dietary supplements to minors. If the supplement can be proved to harm a child, that's clearly illegal. It looks like there's not enough research to prove that's the case with melatonin though.

If anyone has a better understanding of these things, I'd love to hear it. I'm really curious about this now

Your posts, maybe. Apparently I've been shadow banned

I don't even know what the offensive post was, there's zero communication. I only post on my local city subreddit and one directly related to my trade, so whatever i guess. It was a good site for a while

I had one like that a while back. I'd heard the song on Pandora a few times and liked it, but it was just background music while i was working. The tune was catchy, but I couldn't remember the lyrics at all. I tried humming it into sound hound and stuff, but to no avail.

Finally my wife was playing Pandora when I came home from work and it was on.

Welcome Home, Son - Radical Face

Back in the late nineties I had the reverse problem. I heard a cover of Bakers Street by the Foo Fighters on an independent radio station. I knew it was from a Japanese version of The Colour and the Shape, but no one had the CD. (Actually it was the UK version of the single My Hero, but either I misheard or the DJ was wrong. No wonder I couldn't find it.) Then, Napster happened. I've still got that song somewhere on an old HDD, in all its 128 Kbps glory

TBH I didn't feel that strongly, but I could not resist channeling BLM

That analogy works for many things these days

I definitely read this in their voices

"And remember kids! Yakko spelled backwards is Okkay"

Tradies thinking about all the OT they're gonna pull on this monstrosity

The unwritten rule

There were quite a lot of unwritten rules prior to 2016

+1 for accuracy, thank you

Related to fall protection training, this might be a practical demonstration of the extension length of different types of lanyards (the "rope" that secures the body harness to the anchor point) using weighted dummies. Some lanyards will stretch a few inches, some several feet. Their use varies depending on total fall height, anchor points, work space requirements, really a lot of different factors. But use the wrong one and you'll wind up with broken legs and a wedgie instead of a safety report and buying beers for your coworkers.

I doubt that's what's being demonstrated here, but it's a possibility

Edit: turtle loving duck, just to be clear, i was mansplaining for the masses. You clearly have a firm grasp of fall protection

Yes, that's another! Love it

Completely unrelated, my favorite moment in learning non-American English expressions was discovering that an international version of "banana hammock" is "budgie pocket"

My institutional memories prevent me from buying Sony

When the PS4 came out and my old friends were clamoring over it i thought, "In 2003, we swore 'never again'. In 2013, we broke that promise."

But i NEVER DID

member digital cameras being 4 megapixel and that was amazing?

member Nokias being bullet proof?

member Nextel push to talk?

member downloading albums on limewire using the coffee shop's Wi-Fi across the street, cobbling together a Can-tenna using a coke can cut up with a utility knife for a better signal?

member waiting for Penny Arcade to load like one line at a time because everyone was using the free Wi-Fi from the coffee shop?

member file sharing using mp3 discs with everyone on your floor?

i member

Dude I went straight back to J&R on Park Row and returned that thing. I had SD cards from my camera that I planned to use, and didn't ask about storage at the store (mistakes of youth lol). I eventually got a Zen (30Gb!) a year or two later. What a tank!

And it wasn't a proprietary storage card? They didn't invent their own headphone jack that only works with Sony headphones? Amazing. It's like a whole new company!

If you can't tell, I'm still salty about aaaaaallllllllllllllllll the shit they pulled in the 90s/00s. Nothing like buying an mp3 player with money I should've been spending more responsibly and then learning I could only use Sony brand storage cards. Cards that cost twice as much for the same storage space. I bought my Xbox and dropped PlayStation solely because of those shenanigans.

If, in twenty years, HP makes the only computer that doesn't give you literal AIDS I still won't buy one. And i feel the same about Sony today

You make a fair point.

It just felt like a good place to drop a little social commentary from my favorite author

If you're ever wondering "Should I reread the entire discworld series?" The answer is Yes

To answer the questions of archeologists, obviously

This is dumb and I love it

That's the way it was. Privilege, which just means 'private law.' Two types of people laugh at the law; those that break it and those that make it.

Night Watch by Terry Pratchett

I pay for Proton and the non-free servers generally work, although some have been blocked.

Eventually I'll treat Reddit like Pinterest, either blocking it entirely from search results, or using FF add-ons to bypass all the cruft laid over the website