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If it's good enough to keep your house warm, it's good enough to keep your insides warm

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  • partial_accumen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    “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.”

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    • grue@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      That sounds extremely plausible.

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    • ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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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    • SouthEndSunset@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Which is stipid, cause it’s one of those things that isn’t dangerous if you take the right precautions…like riding a bike with a helmet.

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  • ThePantser@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Image

    There’s more, this guy is a rebel.

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    • MissJinx@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      This dudes hands in the end of the day

      Image

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      • SorryQuick@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        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.

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    • nichtburningturtle@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

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

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      • wise_pancake@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Im 40% insulation.

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      • Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Love 100% isolation.

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      • aiden@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        I feel tingly

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  • weegee90@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    “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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  • Wanderer@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    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.

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    • ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      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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      • Wanderer@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        The time of exposure was low. Asbestos was also outside and unbroken.

        Insulation was only 1 attic.

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    • ryedaft@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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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    • SupraMario@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      You’ll be fine…also the fuck type of drill where you using that required ear pro? Were you drilling holes in sheet steel?

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      • psx_crab@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Hammer/rotary on a concrete. It’s fucking loud.

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      • blarghly@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        I wear ear pro when I use my impact driver, especially in confined spaces. I don’t need to make my tinnitus worse than it already is.

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    • user224@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Did he also recommend smoking Kent Micronite cigarettes?

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  • blackjam_alex@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Boomers hate using safety gear.

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    • InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Single use plastics meet single use workers.

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    • Peppycito@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      lights a dart, inhales: “Don’t be a pussy, kid”

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    • wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      But they’ll be dead soon so nbd

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    • mmmm@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      It’s because they think being dumb makes them though.

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  • Gobbel2000@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    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!??

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    • sad_detective_man@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      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

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      • Spezi@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

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

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    • SayJess@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      It’s ok, you can say Reddit.

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      • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        just don’t use the hard R

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  • termaxima@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    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.

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    • PlaidBaron@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      You ever get fiberglass in your skin? Shit sucks.

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      • termaxima@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        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.

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  • theblips@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    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

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    • Decoy321@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

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

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  • aramova@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Home Depot taking a stand against Woke masks.

    Or some other stupid shit.

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    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

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

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      • aramova@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

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

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  • altphoto@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    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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    • runner_g@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      The bunks are full on Saturday morning because they fill them up after closing on Friday/ before opening Saturday. It’s much harder to close aisles on the weekend to pull down another bundle than it is when the store is closed. Source: I worked lumber/building materials for 1.5 years.

      Now, given the economy and the cost of a 2x4, yeah less people are building.

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      • altphoto@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        I don’t know, even 7am (at some home depots only maybe? ) I remember the 2x4’s had already been picked thru. No, this Saturday was definetly a no sale type of wood pile. Maybe artificially wet to keep it from obtaining its true home depot dumbledwarf magic wand waviness.

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    • Raiderkev@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      The boards suck because quality has dropped significantly in the 10 years or so. This vid gets into detail as to why.

      youtu.be/efs5-FCVWvg

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  • 1234567ATEUP@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

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

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    • ameancow@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      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. 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.

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      • the_crotch@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

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

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      • EightLeggedFreak@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 stock photos or medical stock photography. The newer problem is that it’s happening faster; more laypeople are able to produce more incorrect stock photos.

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      • chrischryse@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Clearly AI look at his hands

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    • Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      What is wrong with it other than lacking mask, and probably overalls?

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      • desktop_user@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        gloves, the part where you don’t want fibers in your hand.

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  • ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    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”.

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    • frezik@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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.

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    • pineapplelover@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Folks, is staying alive gay?

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    • hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      fellas is it gay to not die

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  • 9point6@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Either asbestos hands or maybe AI generated category images?

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    • MrQuallzin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Some people just have big hands. Looks real to me, it’s obviously just a staged shot for promotion. Get a crew to build part of a fake attic (don’t need a whole attic for this), lay some insulation, have the talent (the guy in the photo) hold the insulation and look nice for photos. He leaves, they break it down and move on to the next project

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      • 9point6@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Unless they made fake fibreglass installation just for this, his hands will be in permanent pain.

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    • desktop_user@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      fiberglass isn’t that bad to touch without gloves. I mean you should wear gloves, but agressive washing will make the itching go away.

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      • hlmw@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        No.

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    • Squorlple@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      The hands don’t seem off to me, especially if the model has done a lot of hand-on labor. The thing that sticks out to me as an indicator of this being not AI generated is the markings on the strand board to the right of the model’s belt; I don’t think an AI would take into consideration the product info marked onto raw material, let alone be able to place three squares of that info in line. If we could find actual raw strand board with those specific product markings, especially one sold by Home Depot, that would suggest it to be an actual photograph. Identifying the model in the photo and finding photos of him outside of Home Depot’s promo shots would also indicate it’s a photo. In either case of it being a photo or AI-gen, the marketing team still could have done some photoshopping as they see fit.

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      • bandwidthcrisis@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        I think that he wore gloves, then they decided that they didn’t like it. So someone had to paint hands over the gloves and they didn’t try to re-scales them.

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    • TachyonTele@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Wait until you find out about food commercials

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    • nomnomdeplume@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Yeah certainly AI generated

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    • RejZoR@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I’m suspecting it’s all Ai generated.

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  • teije9@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    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) 😭😭

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  • pappabosley@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Why is he kneeling in that board? He should be balancing his knees directly on the roof beams - get those kneecaps wobbling

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  • i_stole_ur_taco@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Oh that’s just my dad. He’ll tell you when you should be wearing gloves or eye protection, and then exempt himself from that rule.

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  • dirtycrow@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I went into my attic once and I shudder to think that the insulation up there may have been glass fiber. I really fucking hope not because I sort of tripped up there. I’m fine, didn’t feel anything later, but to think I had no caution terrifies me.

    For the same reason, optic fiber terrifies me. Microscope glass needles embedding themselves into your skin.

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  • driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    That some big ass bacon.

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  • ylph@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Also, it’s the president of Slovakia, Peter Pellegrini…

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  • saltnotsugar@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I can never get my hands to itch and I breath too easily. There must be a better way!

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  • frog@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Um… Do I need a mask everytime I go to my attic?

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  • daggermoon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    The forbidden cotton candy 😋

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  • griff@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Fiberglass is food, isn’t it?

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  • Asafum@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    He’s wearing the safety glasses so he’s fine… You guys obviously have never done any sort of construction. Safety glasses make your whole body safe otherwise they wouldn’t call them safety glasses duhhhhh.

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  • Mubelotix@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

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

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  • Etterra@discuss.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    The lung splinters build character.

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  • Juliee@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    There are far more nasty things you ingest daily and the most healthy people died early because of simply bad genes

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