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[–] aramova@infosec.pub 26 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Home Depot taking a stand against Woke masks.

Or some other stupid shit.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Why would I shop at Home Depot if I didn't think guys with perfectly chiseled jaws and manicured nails worked there?

[–] aramova@infosec.pub 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Description like that, someone may think you're looking for some Proud Boys.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

His neck isn't nearly beardy enough.

[–] theblips@lemm.ee 27 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Stop the liberal anti wallcandy propaganda. It feels so good to eat the wall candy. It tastes exactly like cotton candy but it's available in my walls and my mattress

[–] Decoy321@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

After all, if it wasn't delicious, why would they dye it that delicious pink?!?

[–] teije9@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I remember often playing in construction sites as a kid, and we once found a roll of fiberglass. we just decided to sit on it and play with it (I found it funny how it tickled my skin) 😭😭

[–] Rin@lemm.ee 2 points 13 hours ago

Man, this sounds like those russians who found a steaming (nuclear) rtg and decided to sit next to it for warmth and got radiation sickness.

src: https://youtu.be/e3GYg7Y_W7s

[–] 1234567ATEUP@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago (4 children)

The someone who wrote the text to image prompt, didn't know what goes into installing insulation.

[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

Can't tell if the pic is AI or not, but your point stands and applies to a much larger issue with the slop being generated at a death-spiral pace across the internet.

Most of the people trying to replicate "stock photos" on the cheap have no clue what the subject is about or how it should look, so if some South Tanzanian family decide to make a few bucks pumping out content with help of their local internet cafe, they can generate the most professional pictures of people doing all kinds of activities. Pictures which get picked up by someone else somewhere else who is trying to make a guide or informational content, again for a few fast bucks. And this story repeats at all levels of human society at all levels because of capitalism. Every time, something is lost, some detail missed, some cultural context glossed over, and this is how we lose human history.

And eventually, inevitably, one way or another, humans.

[–] EightLeggedFreak@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

Stock photo creation has always had the problem of not knowing what the subject matter is supposed to look like. Take a look at desktop computer assembly/maintenance or medical stock photography. The newer problem is that it's happening faster; more laypeople are able to produce more incorrect stock photos.

[–] the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 day ago

It's an ad. Ads were slop long before AI.

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[–] termaxima@programming.dev 26 points 1 day ago (1 children)

While this definitely is bad, I think people tend to be a bit unreasonable about this stuff.

Fiberglass is not asbestos, and by the way, asbestos is not uranium.

Do wear the proper PPE, yes, but also don’t be neurotic about it. Even full-time asbestos miners don’t always get related cancers. If you removed some without knowing, studies show you’ll be fine. Your body can and does eliminate asbestos, albeit very slowly.

And again, fiberglass is not asbestos, and doesn’t cause mesothelioma. It’s still not recommended to breathe it in, especially not on the regular, but you don’t need to live in fear of it.

[–] PlaidBaron@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You ever get fiberglass in your skin? Shit sucks.

[–] termaxima@programming.dev 3 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Thankfully no, I do wear gloves and a mask when I’m handling this stuff ! Im just saying it’s not going to kill you.

[–] OhNoMoreLemmy@lemmy.ml 3 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

How have you managed not to get fibreglass on your skin when handling it?

I used to install it professionally, and even with goggles, a mask, and overalls tucked into your socks and gloves, that shit gets everywhere.

[–] termaxima@programming.dev 3 points 14 hours ago

I’m pretty sure I just haven’t handled large enough quantities of it for that to happen. I’ve never installed it myself, I’ve only had to take it down for minor roof repairs, and put it back if afterwards.

[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 206 points 2 days ago (3 children)

"Hmm, our focus group revealed that showing the 'home owner' having to wear PPE made them think the work was dangerous. So lose the PPE for the ads."

[–] grue@lemmy.world 138 points 2 days ago

That sounds extremely plausible.

[–] ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 71 points 2 days ago

More like the focus group thought the masks were “super gay fauci shit” so home depot went with “guy wearing $2 safety glasses that don’t even have a dust seal”

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[–] ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 146 points 2 days ago (2 children)

There's more, this guy is a rebel.

[–] MissJinx@lemmy.world 56 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This dudes hands in the end of the day

[–] SorryQuick@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Modern mineral wool is actually way better than that. I recently bought and installed some that was advertised as “really soft” and without gloves or masks, at the end of the day I couldn’t feel an itch. Of course good airflow during installation always makes a huge difference. I would 100% wear a mask in an attic though.

[–] atlas@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 day ago

there's also a massive difference in mineral wool and fiberglass. i'll take working with mineral wool/rock wool over fiberglass any day

[–] nichtburningturtle@feddit.org 53 points 2 days ago (3 children)

The guys on the bottom are just weak. Can't even handle a tiny bit of isolation inside them.

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[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 7 points 1 day ago

That some big ass bacon.

[–] Wanderer@lemm.ee 67 points 2 days ago (7 children)

Oh for fuck sake is this another thing you have to wear a mask for?

My fucking dad I swear to god. He knows I got asthma. He had me install insulation as a kid and remove asbestos. I got fucking tinnitus from him giving me a drill and neither of us wearing hearing protection.

[–] ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.zip 57 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yeah fam if you haven't already you should get your lungs screened. Asbestos and insulation can cause some really bad stuff

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[–] ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 28 points 2 days ago

Mineral wool is quite safe. Some of the old stuff (pre-1960s) had asbestos or problems with being flammable but the new stuff gets checked for size and how much fiber goes into the air and so on (the answer is very little). Like paint it is one of the things that harmed people and science and regulation got us better products.

That dude's hands are gonna itch though.

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[–] weegee90@lemmy.world 76 points 2 days ago (1 children)

"Well, it seems his lungs are completely filled with Owens Corning fiberglass insulation. One third of his body weight is Owens Corning fiberglass insulation. But don't worry, he won't burn in hell... thanks to all that Owens Corning fiberglass insulation."

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[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago (3 children)

It's not that they don't want to sell it to you, it's just they don't want to force you to wear protective equipment, so your employer can cheap out on it.

Also isn't Home Depot one of those very christian corpos in the US? If yes, then there's also a non-zero chance they think wearing protective equipment is "gay".

[–] frezik@midwest.social 9 points 1 day ago

One of the founders is a hardcore Trump guy, but he's not part of the company anymore. The company itself splits its donations between Democrats and Republicans. (That's one of the tricks of a two party system. You can split your donation in half and win either way.)

They're not overly Christian the way Jimmy Johns or Chick-fil-A are.

[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 6 points 1 day ago

Folks, is staying alive gay?

fellas is it gay to not die

[–] Gobbel2000@programming.dev 31 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Ads disguising themselves as regular posts (e.g. the "LPT") is bad. It gets worse when someone screenshots and reposts the ad, presumably even for free. But why does the R****t ad make it all the way to Lemmy!??

[–] sad_detective_man@lemmy.blahaj.zone 27 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'm glad people are talking about what a bullshit trash hole of an ad platform that site is. but it definitely would be funny if OP blacked out the brands in the image just out of spite

[–] Spezi@feddit.org 8 points 1 day ago

In this case its more like an anti-ad once OP posted it here, as its showing the incompetence of the company.

[–] SayJess@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It’s ok, you can say Reddit.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Can't figure out if that would be ahddit or weddit.

[–] blackjam_alex@lemmy.world 36 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

Boomers hate using safety gear.

[–] InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 25 points 2 days ago

Single use plastics meet single use workers.

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[–] Mubelotix@jlai.lu 3 points 1 day ago

If you are going to use reddit at least block the ads with revanced

[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 20 points 2 days ago (3 children)

A little unrelated but still related... I went to the JohnDepo this weekend to get some 2X4...yeah they still look good from far away but every single stick is warped, wet, splintered and such. But this time what really stroke me was that it was Saturday morning 9am and all shelves with the 2x4x10' and 8' were full to the top.

You know what that means if you know what it means. But let me say it: Nobody's buying! Nobody's working on a weekend project or house extensions or improvements. My 500k house now sits a few streets away from a 2mil dollar house. Like there's absolutely nobody who would want a house in my neighborhood for 2million. C'mon! There's just no way, no how. It boggles the mind that they even finished the stupid thing and put that price on it.

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