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gagrushenka t1_jecdy1s wrote

Reply to comment by PlowUnited in TIL in the 1920s, Coco Chanel accidentally got a tan, and helped inspire the trend of sunbathing. Soon "sunlight therapy" was prescribed for almost every ailment from fatigue to tuberculosis. Before this, tanned skin was associated with the lower classes who work outside, and fair skin was revered. by Pfeffer_Prinz

This is the fun bit about that: she tried to dupe the Jewish director out of Parfums Chanel by trying to claim sole ownership during WWII when Jews were basically not allowed to own anything. But the Wertheimers were savvy enough to have already transferred ownership to a Christian ally. After the war it was all transferred back to the Wertheimers. The family still owns the company.

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gagrushenka t1_j6bk4dy wrote

Reply to Researchers has found a link in sleep problems and suicidal thoughts and behaviors. A study found sleep disturbances were prevalent among those with lifetime suicidal ideation or a lifetime suicide attempt. by Wagamaga

I have BPD and the only medication that I'm regularly prescribed is melatonin. When my sleep is bad, I start to spiral and I get so unwell that I can't effectively engage in therapy. The worse I get, the worse I sleep. Sorting my sleep out is always the first step we (me and my doctor and shrink) take towards getting better.

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gagrushenka t1_j17zyic wrote

Reply to Physical activity before COVID-19 infection is associated with less severe outcomes. In a study of 194,191 adults with COVID-19, those who were consistently inactive were 191% more likely to be hospitalized and 391% more likely to die than those who were consistently active. by glawgii

Did this study account for those who were less active because of pre-existing conditions that then exacerbated their symptoms of covid?

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gagrushenka t1_iu7n47r wrote

Reply to comment by methnbeer in How Morality Changes in a Foreign Language - fascinating ethical shifts come with thinking in a different language by fonliahea1994

I can't speak to morality and its progression, but the fact that individuals have so many differences informing/influencing their language choices is why in linguistics we don't quite go so far as to make any assumptions of why anyone says anything or what they intend to mean. All we have is what is actually said and how it is said, and we can look for patterns and points of interest from there.

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gagrushenka t1_iu4c66a wrote

Reply to comment by FreddyDoLess in How Morality Changes in a Foreign Language - fascinating ethical shifts come with thinking in a different language by fonliahea1994

I wrote my linguistics thesis on a topic that overlapped with this, though I specifically looked at swearing/taboo. Research suggests that there's a bit of an emotional disconnect with L2 - when everyone present understands all languages in use, speakers tend to swear in their 2nd language. There's similar patterns in conversation around trauma - L2 allows people to talk about their experiences/exposure to sensitive stimuli while maintaining their composure. I think that trying to bring morality into would compromise how much the multilingual factor can be considered. We have a lot of ways to pick at language and language in use in linguistics but we can never get deeper than what we can actually see and hear. Internal factors like morality are beyond that. We can see that people tend to do this or that, and we can narrow down to key contextual features that predict when it'll happen, but reading morality into it is a step too far into subjectivity (and not the one we like in linguistics).

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