On the other hand, what bullshit is it that my stupid human body can’t survive being outdoors without medicinal cream. My ancestors would be ashamed.
But I am mighty!!
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merc@sh.itjust.works 2 hours ago
kerrigan778@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 hour ago
Your ancestors had melanin production to fit their sun exposure and seldom lived past 40
merc@sh.itjust.works 49 minutes ago
Maybe tens of thousands of years ago, but 2000ish years ago 60ish was old age. The main reason life expectancy has gone up isn’t that old people didn’t make it to 50, it’s that young people didn’t make it to 2. If a couple has 5 kids, 3 of them die as toddlers and the other two make it to 70 the average life expectancy is about 30, but that doesn’t mean living past 30 is unusual.
Also, tens of thousands of years ago there was an ice age, but for the last 10k years light-skinned Europeans still had normal summers and worked in the fields.
BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Your ancestors didn’t shave
merc@sh.itjust.works 2 hours ago
I don’t either, but my nose isn’t hairy and it would burn to a crisp outdoors.
driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 4 hours ago
The worst is when is a cloudy Sumner day and you’re like there’s no sun mf, no need to sunscreen! But you still get burned the fuck out.
phuntis@sopuli.xyz 17 hours ago
mate it’s £5-10 for a 200ml bottle I’d hardly call that cheap
Droggelbecher@lemmy.world 55 minutes ago
I have autistic sensory issues and the cheapest one I can at all tolerate to have on my skin is 15€ for 50ml. I have so many of the 5-10€ bottles at home and can’t handle any of them. Fml
LordWiggle@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
In the city of Utrecht NL they have free sunblock stations spread around the city. It shows the temp and UV rating. But buying it in store is crazy expensive and often the quality is poor. Some fancy tiny spray bottles go up to 12 euros, only good for 3 to 4 uses. wtf.
GingerGoodness@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
As a ginger- the petrol money to go shop in Germany at DM or Rossmann is cheaper than the ginger tax here.
LH0ezVT@sh.itjust.works 5 hours ago
Then don’t buy the fancy spray bottles, but the big one that lasts for a year or three?
rumschlumpel@feddit.org 16 hours ago
WTF are those prices. I’d start looking into importing from abroad …
IndiBrony@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Cost of living in the UK is up 25% since Brexit happened in 2021.
“We’ve become the first country in the history of the world to have placed economic sanctions upon itself” -James O’Brien
We’re a population of morons who will still blame anything but ourselves for the position we’re in.
BorgDrone@feddit.nl 14 hours ago
Here in the Netherlands it’s expensive as well. Like a small bottle of name-brand sunscreen is €30.
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
I buy the store brand from the local supermarket. €2,99 for a 250 ml bottle and it works great. I never get sunburn, even during multi hour bike rides in the blazing sun.
NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
>be me
>white as everliving fuck
>put on sun screen, as you should, and set a timer for an hour and a half to reapply, earlier than the recommended 2 hours
>alarm goes off, reapply
>STILL GET SUNBURNED
mfw_AutumnMoon_@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 minutes ago
I once somehow got sunburned while inside my bedroom
rhymeswithduck@sh.itjust.works 1 hour ago
I used to have that problem. I switched to 30 spf and don’t get burned anymore. I can’t really explain it, but my theory is that 50+ is marketing BS and doesn’t actually do anything. Or it could be that Banana Boat brand just really sucks and Hawaiian is more like lotion so it actually stays on my skin and also moisturizes, which probably helps because dry skin = gonna get burned.
Bongles@lemmy.zip 2 hours ago
Get 100 spf, I’ve never even tanned on that shit.
Zetta@mander.xyz 2 hours ago
The difference between SPF 60 and 100 is like 1.1% better UV blocking, anything over SPF 50 is in a practical sense nearly useless.
joyjoy@lemmy.zip 7 hours ago
Not wearing sunscreen and getting a sunburns is a psyop to get men to buy more aloe vera.
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Which, btw, might feel kind of nice, but you’ll still get skin cancer.
Denjin@lemmings.world 4 hours ago
You got to give props to the people who convinced idiots that sunscreen causes cancer.
SARGE@startrek.website 15 hours ago
RedFrank24@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
I would wear suncream more often, but:
- I’m allergic to something in most brands of suncream so if I run out I’m having to deal with rashes all over where I used it.
- I hate how it makes me feel slimy after using it
There’s this Loreal suncream spray I like that I can’t seem to find that feels like water and when it’s dry, it doesn’t feel like you have suncream on. It’s perfect for me! I’m not allergic to it either so I can actually go in the sun without turning red and blotchy!
pleasegoaway@lemm.ee 7 hours ago
Yeah, and it’s also def NOT cheap.
icelimit@lemmy.ml 8 hours ago
that feels like water and when it’s dry,
What does water feel like when it’s dry?
ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 hours ago
New question for the “water isn’t wet” fools unlocked.
RedFrank24@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Key word being “and”.
grepe@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
only one way to find out
affenlehrer@feddit.org 20 hours ago
Cheap is not the case everywhere. In Germany it’s cheap, in the Netherlands it’s much more expensive and in Croatia a bottle is like 25 Euro
BlueLineBae@midwest.social 19 hours ago
In the US it’s cheap but unregulated and full of shit that’s terrible for you. Or you can pay an arm and a leg for stuff that’s better but still not up to the standards of most other countries. I learned this by getting a chemical burn in my eye from sunscreen… meant for my face.
BorgDrone@feddit.nl 14 hours ago
In the US it’s cheap but unregulated
It’s the exact opposite actually.
US sunscreen is way worse than sunscreen in other parts of the world like the EU. It doesn’t block the harmful radiation as well as the sunscreen as well. The reason is that it’s more strictly regulated in the US. IIRC it’s not considered a cosmetic product but instead it’s a medical product.
As such it’s subject to much stricter regulation and requires much more (expensive) testing before being allowed on the market. Due to this it’s considered too expensive to introduce the newer, more advanced sunscreen products in the US so you’re stuck with the older, crappier sunscreen.
WolfmanEightySix@piefed.social 15 hours ago
The USA is the Wild West when it comes to safety standards of any product.
affenlehrer@feddit.org 18 hours ago
Oh, that’s bad. Made me think of this sunscreen and in Robocop 2.
sCrUM_MASTER@sh.itjust.works 3 hours ago
I was in Berlin last month and spent €16.50 for a 50ml bottle
saltesc@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
“ball of fire”
Haha, no no. You threw down with a gigantic source of cell destroying radiation. The fire did no harm.
Chrobin@discuss.tchncs.de 16 hours ago
NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
A ball of constant unending nuclear explosion
xavier666@lemm.ee 17 hours ago
Hypothetically speaking, will you get sunburnt if you sit near a fire all day?
krashmo@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
The heat could dry out your skin, which, if I’m not mistaken, is essentially what a burn is. However, as the other person noted, a sunburn is damage from radiation, not heat. So I think you could stretch the common definition of a burn to call heat induced dry skin a burn but calling it a sunburn would not be accurate.
twice_hatch@midwest.social 15 hours ago
AES_Enjoyer@reddthat.com 15 hours ago
Why exactly do you think there is UV radiation coming from the sun?
NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
The nuclear reactions occurring within the sun emit a wide spectrum of radiation, everything from sub-visible thermal radiation to high energy gamma rays. Thankfully, the Earth’s own electromagnetic field and ozone protects us from all but a tiny sliver of ionizing radiation or we wouldn’t be here to talk about it.
LH0ezVT@sh.itjust.works 5 hours ago
Because the spectrometer says so, mainly. Why?
burgerpocalyse@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
i get burnt with multiple layers of sun lotion
Mac@mander.xyz 13 hours ago
If the cream wasn’t such a goddamn sensory nightmare…
UPF clothes FTWNoite_Etion@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Every English tourist in Australia.
wjrii@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
…and Florida, and Jamaica, and Mexico, and (I presume) Spain. There is no corner of the earth in which the English will not challenge the mighty Helios until they are as red as the cross of St. George.
Railcar8095@lemm.ee 16 hours ago
*Me in Vitoria, Spain: “You guys get sun?”
Large parts of the north of Spain are basically UK in terms of weather.
Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 18 hours ago
Australia is a different beast though. I went out for like 10 minutes without a hat or sunscreen on a particularly hot december noon and my nose damn near fell off the day after 😅 Not because I thought I’m too tough to get sunburnt but if you live your entire life in Europe you just can’t imagine the sunshine being this potent. Never happened again after that incident 😄
alchemist2023@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
In New Zealand the sun feels like it’s stabbing you after 10min in summer. I can feel my skin prickling like tiny fire ants.It doesn’t take long to burn here. serious respect for the sun and upper atmosphere
there’s a hole in my ozone dear lyza, dear lyza…
MadPsyentist@lemmy.nz 9 hours ago
Its not the ozon hole (well its a little bit the fault of the ozon hole) but its because due to the eleptical orbit of the earth around the sun the southern hemisphere is closer to the sun in summer than the north hemisphere.
synae@lemmy.sdf.org 18 hours ago
I’m just stayin inside
Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 18 hours ago
Ok Bo Burnham
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 13 hours ago
but they’re specifically avoiding burning their hams
reev@sh.itjust.works 15 hours ago
Went out to look for a reason to hide again
grrgyle@slrpnk.net 11 hours ago
Pour one out for the back of my calves. Every summer I forget.
LanguageIsCool@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Incredibly, my legs somehow never get burnt
grrgyle@slrpnk.net 10 hours ago
Same until I got a bicycle
jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works 12 hours ago
My wife can spend all day in the sun and turn a nice shade of brown.
Not me. There is no “tan” for me. It’s either pasty white or lobster with no middle ground whatsoever.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
I turn a lovely tan. It just happens after two weeks of bright red and screamy and a few days of pale and peeling.
Hikermick@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
I put on sun screen every morning to ward off basal cell skin cancer. It sucks but it’s cheaper than going to the dermatologist to have basal cell skin cancer removed. The worst part is getting it in my eyes. On the plus side, the splotchy age spots on my temples have disappeared
stupidcasey@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
as a man I have the primal urge to pick a fight with the giant ball of fire in the sky, I lost this time but one day.
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 18 hours ago
Let out in on a little secret…you gotta attack at night.
stupidcasey@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Unfortunately I’ve already committed to it happening one DAY.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 7 hours ago
I get a little pink from being outside for like ~20 minutes. That’s not really hubris lol.
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 18 hours ago
If you spend 8 hours in the sun, the sunscreen doesn’t seem like it helps entirely.
WhiteOakBayou@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Reapply q2 hours and every time you use a towel. I don’t think most sunscreen is advertising all day Protection.
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 17 hours ago
I mean of course, I’m saying even adding more periodically. Just feels like always some gets through
Treczoks@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
My excuse is that the weather was predicted as “cloudy” when we left in the morning. When we were on the trip, though, the sun was burning down to extinct humanity instead.
RecallMadness@lemmy.nz 14 hours ago
You should be putting sunscreen on regardless, and reapplying every 3 hours.
Mediocre_Bard@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
This is my exact situation right now.
Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone 18 hours ago
If you hate the feel of sunscreen like I do, check out UPF clothing 👍
rumschlumpel@feddit.org 20 hours ago
But it’s gross :C
(summer sunshine is also gross even without sunburns, though, so I never get sunburns anyway)
cows_are_underrated@feddit.org 10 hours ago
And then theres me who does not go outside that often, never uses suncream and doesnt get a sunburn when I decide to go outside for longer times.
LordWiggle@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Baking in the sun risks skin cancer. But people like to be tanned, so cancer is worth it for a good look.
eager_eagle@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
I don’t remember it being cheap
Mr_Fish@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
Mate. I’m a ginger living in New Zealand. Sunburn is an inevitability.
MadPsyentist@lemmy.nz 9 hours ago
Me too. Get burnt from a sunny day at the movies
Railcar8095@lemm.ee 16 hours ago
You choose new Zeeland over Australia due to the lack of venomous animals, but forgot to check for unprotected astronomical nuclear reactor in the sky
Mr_Fish@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Melanoma is the New Zealand flavor of poison damage
nanook@friendica.eskimo.com 19 hours ago
@bees Actually the UV creams have shown to be themselves carcinogenic, so it's not about to have cancer or not, but how to get it. All things in moderation, including sun, your body does need vitamin d3 which it produces in the presence of UV.Railcar8095@lemm.ee 14 hours ago
Actually the UV creams have shown to be themselves carcinogenic
And vaccines cause autism \s
nanook@friendica.eskimo.com 12 hours ago
@Railcar8095 With respect to vaccines and autism, there is a correlation but as the old saying goes casuality is not causality until it is. In my view it warrants research. And I've got no doubt that the number of vaccines they are giving toddlers and children these days is overloading their immune systems.
GingerGoodness@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Oh FFS this isn’t the benzene thing again, is it? Benzene is a trace contaminant in everything from the air you breathe to the water you drink. The highest number Valisure came up with was 6 ppm in a sunscreen sample, that’s 0.0006%. Even if you decided to inject the whole bottle of sunscreen directly into your veins it would be a fraction of your total exposure for the day.
Using people’s fear of cancer to scare them away from effective cancer prevention measures is fucking shameful, do better.
nanook@friendica.eskimo.com 2 hours ago
@GingerGoodness Benzene in trace amount is an issue, but also Oxybenzone: Some studies suggest it may be an endocrine disruptor, meaning it could interfere with hormones, and research in animals has raised questions about potential cancer risk, but it's important to note these were high-dose studies not directly relevant to typical human use. Other UV Filters: Ingredients like octinoxate and homosalate have also raised concerns about potential endocrine disruption, and some are banned in certain regions due to their impact on marine life
Look, if you want to smear yourself with chemicals, inject yourself with artificial DNA, etc, go for it, just don't require it of me and my offspring.
mr_satan@lemmy.zip 17 hours ago
One day I’ll win, you all will see!
yogurtwrong@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
It’s actually irritating to me that the sun is bombarding us with ionizing radiation
(I know, not the same intensity) but think about the amount of precautions we take before turning on a UV lamp. Or before turning on a very bright LED which you are not supposed to look directly at. Well, neither you should look directly at the sun, but you get the idea
In a perspective, sun is so radioactive it can even decay paint and plastic! It can literally cook you alive and make your skin fall in pieces. This just seems usual to us because we were born with it, people would freak the hell out if a medical procedure had the same side effects