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OT: American Politics

zeke said:
If you can get a nice tan with sunscreen i'm jealous.
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As the super-pasty descendant of a gaggle of other pasty English, Irish & Scots and the son of a redhead on top of that, I’m jealous of people who are capable of tanning at all!

Meanwhile you’re just out here flaunting your swarthy Mediterranean privilege.
 
axlsalinger said:
Yup, this is where charlatans distort the facts to scare people. There are "toxic' compounds everywhere, there's cyanide in apples and almonds for example, but the dose makes the poison. These trace amounts aren't enough to harm humans. It's like giving massive amounts of aspartame to mice can give them cancer, so yeah, if you're drinking 2000 Diet Cokes a day you may be in trouble.

But it's also fair to say that almost everyone is suffering from symptoms likely caused by our environment, so many autoimmune diseases out there and something is causing it.

Very difficult problem to solve, unfortunately. Gotta thank heroes like Aaron Rodgers for trying to get to the bottom of all this.
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I will say that we're slowly finding out that the main culprit of many autoimmune diseases are viruses like EBV that we likely thought nothing of when we got them. And now we have clear factual evidence that covid increases the risks of autoimmune diseases as well. Surely there are other factors out there but I find it funny how people are so focused on stuff like wearing Lululemon pants and consuming a granola bar because we are afraid of things with more than 5 ingredients, when we have clear evidence of what drastically increases the risks for these illnesses.

And of course those are the same people who are antivaxxers usually. So it's just funny to see how they evaluate data and make decisions based off it.
 
anyway...if you eat a shit ton of arugula, all your little ills go away
 
not really arguable to me. we can literally see the skin damage on people who have years in the sun with no sunscreen. it's right in front of us.

i've had many occasions where i'm having an awesome as fuck day and forget to apply and get burned to shit so i'm not gonna get all high and mighty about people who forget but it's obvious to me i should be.
 
LeafGm said:
As the super-pasty descendant of a gaggle of other pasty English, Irish & Scots and the son of a redhead on top of that, I’m jealous of people who are capable of tanning at all!

Meanwhile you’re just out here flaunting your swarthy Mediterranean privilege.
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Tbh i was the palest italian in existence because i burnt so easily and needed sunscreen so bad. And then i figured out how to get a decent tan and now i don't burn anymore and am no longer a pasty fuck even in the winter.
 
Many/most Japanese folks (especially in Okinawa, but everywhere really) wear susnscreen daily and that country has one of the highest life expectancies in the world #DEBUNKED

AND they have lovely skin and look youthful till the very end. Double whammy of goodness.
 
zeke said:
Tanning is the body's natural adjustment to sunlight.
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A bit more accurately, it's the body's defence against UV radiation. Yeah.

The body has all sorts of defence mechanisms that do an okay but not total job at protecting us from harm. Ribs are a defence mechanism from falling on the ground and having your organs try to exit the fucking body but that doesn't mean your ribs taking impact is a good and natural thing.

zeke said:
It's not scar tissue.
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Ehhh...pigmentation problems (which can be and regularly are generated from tanning) is also just melanin that is permanently fucked (without intervention).

So while it's not "scar tissue", it's absolutely permanent or semi permanent and disfiguring.
 
@Mindz since you are closely linked to Big Sunscreen, what brand do you recommend? especially for the face (I'm heading south in a few days)
 
CH1 said:
@Mindz since you are closely linked to Big Sunscreen, what brand do you recommend? especially for the face (I'm heading south in a few days)
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Next time you're in Japan be like Mrs. Presto and load up! They have one (I don't know which one since I only pretend to listen to her) that certain individuals go nuts for and they wear it daily.
 
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