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
If it's good enough to keep your house warm, it's good enough to keep your insides warm
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theblips@lemm.ee 3 hours ago
Decoy321@lemmy.world 28 minutes ago
After all, if it wasn’t delicious, why would they dye it that delicious pink?!?
partial_accumen@lemmy.world 1 day 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.”
grue@lemmy.world 1 day ago
That sounds extremely plausible.
ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day 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”
SouthEndSunset@lemm.ee 22 hours 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.
1234567ATEUP@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
The someone who wrote the text to image prompt, didn’t know what goes into installing insulation.
ameancow@lemmy.world 5 hours 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.
the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 1 hour ago
It’s an ad. Ads were slop long before AI.
chrischryse@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Clearly AI look at his hands
ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
MissJinx@lemmy.world 1 day ago
SorryQuick@lemmy.ca 3 hours 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.
nichtburningturtle@feddit.org 1 day ago
The guys on the bottom are just weak. Can’t even handle a tiny bit of isolation inside them.
wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Im 40% insulation.
Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Love 100% isolation.
aiden@lemm.ee 1 day ago
I feel tingly
driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 4 hours ago
That some big ass bacon.
termaxima@programming.dev 10 hours 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.
weegee90@lemmy.world 1 day 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.”
Wanderer@lemm.ee 23 hours 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.
ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.zip 22 hours ago
Yeah fam if you haven’t already you should get your lungs screened. Asbestos and insulation can cause some really bad stuff
Wanderer@lemm.ee 8 hours ago
The time of exposure was low. Asbestos was also outside and unbroken.
Insulation was only 1 attic.
ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 22 hours 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.
SupraMario@lemmy.world 19 hours 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?
psx_crab@lemmy.zip 17 hours ago
Hammer/rotary on a concrete. It’s fucking loud.
blarghly@lemmy.world 13 hours 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.
user224@lemmy.sdf.org 21 hours ago
Did he also recommend smoking Kent Micronite cigarettes?
Mubelotix@jlai.lu 4 hours ago
If you are going to use reddit at least block the ads with revanced
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 12 hours 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”.
pineapplelover@lemm.ee 5 hours ago
Folks, is staying alive gay?
frezik@midwest.social 8 hours 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.
hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 hours ago
fellas is it gay to not die
Gobbel2000@programming.dev 21 hours 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!??
sad_detective_man@lemmy.blahaj.zone 21 hours 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
Spezi@feddit.org 14 hours 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 16 hours ago
It’s ok, you can say Reddit.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
just don’t use the hard R
Juliee@lemm.ee 4 hours ago
There are far more nasty things you ingest daily and the most healthy people died early because of simply bad genes
bss03@infosec.pub 3 hours ago
Nihilistic optimism or bust.
I’m still working on the optimism.
Juliee@lemm.ee 3 hours ago
Optimism comes easier when you have all the real estate you will ever need. I imagine if you are struggling then it would be hard to find some kind of solace
blackjam_alex@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Boomers hate using safety gear.
InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Single use plastics meet single use workers.
mmmm@sopuli.xyz 8 hours ago
It’s because they think being dumb makes them though.
Peppycito@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
lights a dart, inhales: “Don’t be a pussy, kid”
wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
But they’ll be dead soon so nbd
altphoto@lemmy.today 23 hours 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.
runner_g@lemmy.blahaj.zone 22 hours 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.
altphoto@lemmy.today 16 hours 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.
Raiderkev@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
The boards suck because quality has dropped significantly in the 10 years or so. This vid gets into detail as to why.
9point6@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Either asbestos hands or maybe AI generated category images?
MrQuallzin@lemmy.world 1 day 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
9point6@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Unless they made fake fibreglass installation just for this, his hands will be in permanent pain.
desktop_user@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 hours 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.
hlmw@lemm.ee 15 hours ago
No.
Squorlple@lemmy.world 22 hours 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.
bandwidthcrisis@lemmy.world 15 hours 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.
TachyonTele@lemm.ee 23 hours ago
Wait until you find out about food commercials
nomnomdeplume@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Yeah certainly AI generated
RejZoR@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
I’m suspecting it’s all Ai generated.
pappabosley@lemm.ee 18 hours ago
Why is he kneeling in that board? He should be balancing his knees directly on the roof beams - get those kneecaps wobbling
baldingpudenda@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Lol, I get 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.
ylph@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Also, it’s the president of Slovakia, Peter Pellegrini…
i_stole_ur_taco@lemmy.ca 1 day 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.
dirtycrow@programming.dev 1 day 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.
daggermoon@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
The forbidden cotton candy 😋
griff@lemmings.world 21 hours ago
Fiberglass is food, isn’t it?
saltnotsugar@lemm.ee 1 day ago
I can never get my hands to itch and I breath too easily. There must be a better way!
frog@feddit.uk 1 day ago
Um… Do I need a mask everytime I go to my attic?
Asafum@feddit.nl 1 day 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.
Etterra@discuss.online 1 day ago
The lung splinters build character.
aramova@infosec.pub 54 minutes ago
Home Depot taking a stand against Woke masks.
Or some other stupid shit.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 52 minutes ago
Why would I shop at Home Depot if I didn’t think guys with perfectly chiseled jaws and manicured nails worked there?