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What hills are you dying on? (lemmy.ml)

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

            
              Mental illness or/and a disability aren't excuses for shitty/abusive behavior.
No, having certain skintones doesn't magically make you immune to skin cancer, wear your fucking sunscreen.
Boiled eggs > fried eggs.
If people need it to survive, then it should be free.
Littering should be punishable with jail time.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Honestly good points overall, but I will die on the other egg hill

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

No, having certain skintones doesn't magically make you immune to skin cancer, wear your fucking sunscreen.

Complete protection? Certainly not, but melanin does provide some protection from UV radiation. Still important to wear sunscreen because if a melanated individual where to get skin cancer it usually has a higher mortality rate because they're often caught late.

Epidemiological data strongly support the photoprotective role of melanin as there exists an inverse correlation between skin pigmentation and the incidence of sun-induced skin cancers (1) and subjects with White skin are approximately 70 times more likely to develop skin cancer than subjects with Black skin (67). The shielding effect of melanin, especially eumelanin, is achieved by its ability to serve as a physical barrier that scatters UVR, and as an absorbent filter that reduces the penetration of UV through the epidermis (68). The efficacy of melanin as a sunscreen was assumed to be about 1.5-2.0 sun protective factors (SPF);

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2671032/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

Yep, however my friends and family who have darker skin tend to believe that it makes them immune to it, which isn't the case, if anything they can get away with using sunscreen with lower fps and/or reapply less often, but everyone should protect their skin regardless.