• @Olhonestjim@lemmy.world
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      534 months ago

      It’s quite likely a belief that sunscreen lotion is a bad thing that harms people. Found that one out from an old high school crush from FL. She looks like leather now.

      • @grue@lemmy.world
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        It’s quite likely a belief that sunscreen lotion is a bad thing that harms people.

        I mean, it halfway is:

        • “Sunscreen” – stuff with a decently high SPF rating – is a good thing that prevents cancer.

        • “Suntan lotion” – usually glorified coconut oil with fuck-all SPF rating – is a bad thing that harms people.

        • “Sunscreen lotion” – a confused amalgamation of the previous terms – is not a thing and only misleads people by conflating good things with harmful ones.

    • @Dasus@lemmy.world
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      784 months ago

      I think it’s like the FDA having just reasonable guidelines on how much UV you can safely be exposed to. RFKJR prolly thinks sun lotion prevents all the healthiness from the sun and crystallises your amygdala or something along those lines.

      • @thanks_shakey_snake@lemmy.ca
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        164 months ago

        It’s Vitamin D. There was this whole thing during the COVID pandemic about how the FDA/CDC were SUSPICIOUSLY QUIET about how impactful Vitamin D levels were on COVID outcomes or something and how that’s how you know that… something something sinister ulterior motives.

        So like the idea was that everybody going outside and getting some sun was actually the best thing for public health, but THEY were telling you to languish inside under lockdowns, because clearly they didn’t want you to be healthy.

        • @Dasus@lemmy.world
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          74 months ago

          Yeah, I know it’s Vitamin D you get from the sun, but for instance exposing yourself to sun that requires sun lotion, you’re still getting all the vitamin D you can use.

          Idk this might be a bullshit stat, but here in Finland you here all sorts of things about vitamin D and sunshine, so iirc, I think like 15 minutes in the sun already gives you your daily dose of vitamin D.

          So it’s not exactly a good reason to lift the lockdown when people can just go out to walk their dog and have all the benefits that one can get from the sun. It’s not like sun worshipping yourself until you look like a two-day old hotdog is anything healthy. The sort of tanning RFK JR seems to have practiced. I had a friend (woman) who just loved suntanning. Like crazy much. And smokes. She wasn’t too bad looking when I worked with her, but god she’s gonna look like wrinkled leather in 10 years.

          • @Valmond@lemmy.world
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            84 months ago

            Just to chime in, vitamin D deficiency is extremely common:

            Recent large observational data have suggested that ~40% of Europeans are vitamin D deficient, and 13% are severely deficient [2]

            Study with source

            Vitamin D deficiency has also been linked to dementia and other bice diseases. I bet 15 minutes sunlight won’t cut it and sunbathing gives you skin cancer in the long run, so get some supplements people!

            • @Dasus@lemmy.world
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              54 months ago

              Yeah, it is. And even moreso here in the Nordics.

              I take a vitamin D supplement every day. Especially in the winter.

              I quickly googled and a Finnish article says that during summertime, wearing just shorts, you can get your daily amount half an hour. But that’s midsummer sun and midday.

              But in countries where it’s more intense…

              Anyway, supplementation is definitely necessary for most people, especially during winter.

              • @Valmond@lemmy.world
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                44 months ago

                Swedish here, but I live in France.

                Modern day people are often stuck inside (of the car, house, office) during daylight times.

                Also, when you get a sunburn in 20 minutes you avoid the sun when you are outside…

                So yeah, supplements FTW!

    • @GBU_28@lemm.ee
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      234 months ago

      When was the last time your big FDA doctor told you to sun your butthole? Why would they hide that from you?

  • @zephorah@lemm.ee
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    1724 months ago

    Vaccines are the laziest, lowest effort medicine we have. There is no medical treatment that is more effective for so little actual work on the part of the patient. Which is exactly the kind of medicine we need to have the greatest impact on the population base.

    • Lemminary
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      People like RFK don’t get it. Also, has anyone seen a fucking microchip in a syringe… ever?

      • @zephorah@lemm.ee
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        274 months ago

        I think it’s a large variation of a syringe needle that chips our pets, but aside from that monstrously large setup that isn’t even used on humans, no.

        Closest thing I can think of is the capsule sized camera that can be swallowed to collect data as it travels through that long tube that connect mouth to anus. Even then, I’ve never seen that setup used on anyone.

        • Lemminary
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          94 months ago

          Yeah, that’s what I mean. You can feel the microchip under the skin with the real ones. But we’re shown a clear liquid going in. Where are the 'chips?

        • @nBodyProblem@lemmy.world
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          64 months ago

          I love the idea of bio hacking. Too bad the things they do have such poor risk to utility ratio 😂

          When do I get my cyborg legs? That’s what I wanna know

    • @julietOscarEcho@sh.itjust.works
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      Even better than that. You take the medicine and it reduces everyone else’s risk of getting sick, even the ones that refuse to take the medicine. It’s the closest thing we have IRL to literal magic.

      As an immunocompromised person, thank you to everyone who gets vaccinated against communicable disease, you make my world a little less heinous to navigate.

  • @lemmylommy@lemmy.world
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    Ah yes, vitamins, the secret cure-all that has been kept from us all those years without brainworms at the helm.

    • @jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works
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      I think we should take full advantage of this opportunity. Ok, here we go.

      “Robert F Kennedy Jr Is a 👶🗡️BABY MURDERER👶🗡️!!! He thinks people should inject 💉themselves with stem cells which is just a Demoncrat code name for little bits of 💀unborn baby💀! 👏President Trump 👏 is appointing a pro-choice Demoncrat 👹 BABY MURDERER to head up the FDA !! Pass it on and tell PRESIDENT Trump to not appoint ☠️BABY MURDER RFK JR ☠️ to run the FDA.”

      How am I doing so far?

      Edit: Facebookified it a bit.

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    154 months ago

    Look people. This is life now. We could rise up and put all these motherfuckers out of our misery, but nobody is willing to handle business

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    Wait so he is pro psychedelics?

    Huh, it would be really weird if the US legalized acid.

    If maga starts doing acid to own the libs maybe they would finally start questioning things.

    I know I’m wrong, but one can hope can’t they?

    • @Psythik@lemmy.world
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      Yeah this is actually really hopeful in a fucked up way. I really hope they legalize psychedelics. They are an extremely effective way to get people to stop voting republican. Worked for me. It woke something up in me that made me realize how selfish and self-serving that entire party is. I’m the only one in my family who no longer votes republican, and also the only one who has tried psychedelics. I think that says a lot.

      • @fossilesque@mander.xyzOPM
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        Honestly, some of these pricks could really probably benefit from getting out of their head for a bit lol.

        • The Bard in GreenA
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          I could see a world where all politicians are required to do a guided LSD trip prior to taking office being better than this one.

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      I would love for this to be true, and I believe there are many benefits to psychedelics…but then I remember the Manson family existed

      Edit: I fully support psychedelics…just saying.
      And on a friendlier, non-Manson note. Please share your favorite psych related music @ !psychedelicmusic@lemmy.world

    • @Mango@lemmy.world
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      If there’s anything psychedelics do, it’s prompting you to question your existence.

  • The Bard in GreenA
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    I actually met this mother fucker in Mexico in 1999, giving a talk on habitat preservation at Lagoona San Ignacio to a bunch of C list celebrities who were there to support the Natural Resource Defense Council and it’s efforts to stop Mitsubishi from building a salt extraction plant in the middle of a gray whale breeding sanctuary (super good cause).

    I was there with a bunch of high school students who’s rich white parents paid for them to go on an expensive ass field trip to watch whales fuck (and do eco protest activist tourism). Coincidentally, the NRDC was there too and they got really excited to invite a bunch of American highschool students to their media shindig.

    RFK Jr. got SUPER drunk and gave a sloppy, rambling, barely coherent speech, thanking people for their generosity. The kids were like “WTF is up with this dude? We’ve never seen grownups act like this!”

    We did get to hear some really cool marine biologists talk about gray whales. Then one of THEM (Roger Payne, I think) got really drunk too and told us “Whales are people damn it! But you can’t publish that! You can’t fucking publish that!”

  • Ænima
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    Start growing your own food, boil rain water for clean water, and avoid close contact with others for the next four years then? Can’t wait to hear about all the cases of preventable diseases, contaminated foods, and new, deadly viruses we get introduced to once these clowns take over…

    • @zephorah@lemm.ee
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      If they break that infrastructure the long term impact won’t be immediately evident, which means the impetus to fix it will match that of climate change.

      And last way longer than 4 yrs. Took Biden 3 yrs to fix Trumps fucked up economy.

    • @booly@sh.itjust.works
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      Oh, he knows. They took him on an airplane and made him eat food he had just called “poison” for a photo shoot.

      He couldn’t say no, because of the implication.

      • Liz
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        Obviously if he did say no, they wouldn’t make him eat it. But the thing is, he’s not gonna say no, because of the implication.

  • Todd Bonzalez
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    127TB of data. That’s almost exactly 20 LTO-6 tapes. Good for 30 years when you’ll need to transfer them to something better.

    It’ll cost you less than $300 and it’ll all fit into a shoebox.

    Become an archivist. The future depends on it.

        • Todd Bonzalez
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          God, I wish I could afford LTO-9.

          You could fit all this stuff on 5 tapes. You could just walk around with them in your cargo shorts or something.

  • @finitebanjo@lemmy.world
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    Honestly, Stem Cells becoming more available is cool. I don’t expect his christian overlords to allow it, but it’s a cool thought.

    I just hope none of his other snake oils end up in products for the general population. If it just killed off willing idiots then womp womp, they get what they voted for, but public health risks are rarely so discriminatory.

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      One the one hand, yes, I expect there to be internal pushback on this one. On the other hand, the HHS Secretary reports directly to the least Christian man in America.

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        But the supreme authority in this case is the senate. If the Trump Admin steps too out of line the senate can remove the secretaries, federal judges, and/or the president themself with 60 votes, which would be as easy as 45 DNC, 2 IND, and 13 GOP.

        In fact, Trump was forced into signing steel tariffs / sanctions against Russia when he initially refused to sign S.722 in 2017.

        Seems like a lot of the sources on that debacle have been lost to the pile of Russia and Trump ties, but I remember it very clearly.

        Christians acting evil starts to make sense if you consider god was never on any of our sides.

  • NutWrench
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    134 months ago

    “ivermectin”

    aka, the horse paste Trump pushed on us during the covid outbreak.