• Neato@ttrpg.network
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    8 months ago

    More people using sunscreen and lotion on the regular prevents skin damage. More people are eating healthy, working less physically demanding jobs. Also there’s a pretty huge bias with seeing pictures of older people and seeing them as older than they actually look. It has to do with seeing older styles of clothing and how people tend to keep their core styles longer. This makes people in the present see past photos as “older people” regardless of how young the faces look.

    Also the microplastics are preserving us from the inside out. We’re all deli-wrapped now.

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      8 months ago

      People also smoke way less now. See the skin of someone at 30 who started smoking at 15, to see someone who looks like 40.

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        8 months ago

        And everything around us smokes less too.

        In 1950 cars had basically no emission standards, factories didn’t either, and a LOT of people heated their homes with coal or wood.

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        8 months ago

        Specifically, top panel man is smoking, bottom panel isn’t. That’s why they look like that. Mystery solved.

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        8 months ago

        It’s very much the smoking. That V Sauce video about it being clothing wasn’t convincing. Comparing just faces negates that possible perception issue. And when constrained to only faces people in the past still look older.