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[-] [email protected] 209 points 3 weeks 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."

[-] [email protected] 139 points 3 weeks ago

That sounds extremely plausible.

[-] [email protected] 73 points 3 weeks 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”

[-] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks 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.

[-] [email protected] 148 points 3 weeks ago

There's more, this guy is a rebel.

[-] [email protected] 57 points 3 weeks ago

This dudes hands in the end of the day

[-] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks 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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[-] [email protected] 52 points 3 weeks ago

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

[-] [email protected] 24 points 3 weeks ago

Im 40% insulation.

[-] [email protected] 18 points 3 weeks ago

Love 100% isolation.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago

I feel tingly

[-] [email protected] 78 points 3 weeks 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."

[-] [email protected] 19 points 3 weeks ago

Crematoriums hate this one trick!

[-] [email protected] 67 points 3 weeks 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.

[-] [email protected] 58 points 3 weeks 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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[-] [email protected] 29 points 3 weeks 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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[-] [email protected] 37 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Boomers hate using safety gear.

[-] [email protected] 26 points 3 weeks ago

Single use plastics meet single use workers.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 3 weeks ago

lights a dart, inhales: "Don't be a pussy, kid"

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[-] [email protected] 32 points 3 weeks 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!??

[-] [email protected] 28 points 3 weeks 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

[-] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks 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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[-] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks ago

It’s ok, you can say Reddit.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago
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[-] [email protected] 29 points 3 weeks 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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[-] [email protected] 27 points 3 weeks ago

Home Depot taking a stand against Woke masks.

Or some other stupid shit.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks 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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[-] [email protected] 25 points 3 weeks 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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[-] [email protected] 20 points 3 weeks 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.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 3 weeks 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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[-] [email protected] 15 points 3 weeks ago

Either asbestos hands or maybe AI generated category images?

[-] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks 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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[-] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks 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".

[-] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks 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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[-] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago

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

[-] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks 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. 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.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago

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

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[-] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks 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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[-] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

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

[-] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Lol, I got yelled at for wasting time cause I went back down to get a scrap piece of board and some knee pads. After really slowing down an hour in, he went down and did the same. What's the point of buying stuff that helps you work easier and faster if you're not gonna use it?

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[-] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks 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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[-] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I went into my attic once and I shudder to think what I’d feel if the insulation up there was glass fiber. I sort of tripped up there.

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

[-] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago

It's fine. Any detrimental effects are cumulative. Unless you are a serious DIYer or professional, you have nothing to worry about.

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[-] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago

he got safety glasses tho 👍

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