Home Depot taking a stand against Woke masks.
Or some other stupid shit.
If it's good enough to keep your house warm, it's good enough to keep your insides warm
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aramova@infosec.pub 10 months ago
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 10 months ago
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 10 months ago
Description like that, someone may think you’re looking for some Proud Boys.
theblips@lemm.ee 10 months 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
Decoy321@lemmy.world 10 months ago
After all, if it wasn’t delicious, why would they dye it that delicious pink?!?
driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 10 months ago
That some big ass bacon.
Juliee@lemm.ee 10 months 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 10 months ago
Nihilistic optimism or bust.
I’m still working on the optimism.
Juliee@lemm.ee 10 months 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
Mubelotix@jlai.lu 10 months ago
If you are going to use reddit at least block the ads with revanced
1234567ATEUP@lemmy.world 10 months ago
The someone who wrote the text to image prompt, didn’t know what goes into installing insulation.
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
What is wrong with it other than lacking mask, and probably overalls?
desktop_user@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
gloves, the part where you don’t want fibers in your hand.
ameancow@lemmy.world 10 months 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.
EightLeggedFreak@lemmy.world 10 months 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.
the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
It’s an ad. Ads were slop long before AI.
chrischryse@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Clearly AI look at his hands
termaxima@programming.dev 10 months 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.
PlaidBaron@lemmy.world 10 months ago
You ever get fiberglass in your skin? Shit sucks.
termaxima@programming.dev 10 months 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.
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 10 months 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 10 months ago
Folks, is staying alive gay?
frezik@midwest.social 10 months 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 10 months ago
fellas is it gay to not die
ylph@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Also, it’s the president of Slovakia, Peter Pellegrini…
trashgirlfriend@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Hard times in the country
daggermoon@lemmy.world 10 months ago
The forbidden cotton candy 😋
pappabosley@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Why is he kneeling in that board? He should be balancing his knees directly on the roof beams - get those kneecaps wobbling
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 10 months ago
i call em roof bananas because you gonna slip if you walk on em and not the plywood
baldingpudenda@lemmy.world 10 months 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.
griff@lemmings.world 10 months ago
Fiberglass is food, isn’t it?
Agent641@lemmy.world 10 months ago
baldingpudenda@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Practically cotton candy
Gobbel2000@programming.dev 10 months 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!??
SayJess@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
It’s ok, you can say Reddit.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 10 months ago
just don’t use the hard R
sad_detective_man@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months 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 10 months ago
In this case its more like an anti-ad once OP posted it here, as its showing the incompetence of the company.
altphoto@lemmy.today 10 months 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.
Raiderkev@lemmy.world 10 months ago
The boards suck because quality has dropped significantly in the 10 years or so. This vid gets into detail as to why.
runner_g@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months 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 10 months 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.
Wanderer@lemm.ee 10 months 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.
SupraMario@lemmy.world 10 months 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?
blarghly@lemmy.world 10 months 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.
psx_crab@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
Hammer/rotary on a concrete. It’s fucking loud.
user224@lemmy.sdf.org 10 months ago
Did he also recommend smoking Kent Micronite cigarettes?
ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 10 months 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.
ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.zip 10 months 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 10 months ago
The time of exposure was low. Asbestos was also outside and unbroken.
Insulation was only 1 attic.
dirtycrow@programming.dev 10 months 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.
shalafi@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I cannot believe people are such absolute pussies these days. “GOSH! I touched fiberglass once and I might DIE!” I fucking swam in it when I was a cable guy. Know what I did? Went home midday to shower and change clothes. It was fucking horrible.
Your sense of risk is so fucking skewed it’s pathetic.
dirtycrow@programming.dev 10 months ago
I’ve obviously never been in contact with fiber glass insulation so I don’t know the risks besides the pictures here. Nonetheless the dangers of bare fiber glass contact are still dangerous which is where I draw my source of caution.
Also get a life, you are jumping to outrage over Internet comments
Snowwomen@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
Ever since learning, as a kid, that insulation is microscopic needles of glass, I see it with the same disgust as seeing parasites. Same disgust of microscopic things invading your body and causing damage and not leaving…
blarghly@lemmy.world 10 months ago
It’s fine. Any detrimental effects are cumulative. Unless you are a serious DIYer or professional, you have nothing to worry about.
TachyonTele@lemm.ee 10 months ago
It was nice knowing you
dirtycrow@programming.dev 10 months ago
Asafum@feddit.nl 10 months 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 10 months ago
The lung splinters build character.
weegee90@lemmy.world 10 months 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.”
blackjam_alex@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Boomers hate using safety gear.
mmmm@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
It’s because they think being dumb makes them though.
wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 10 months ago
But they’ll be dead soon so nbd
InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Single use plastics meet single use workers.
Peppycito@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
lights a dart, inhales: “Don’t be a pussy, kid”
i_stole_ur_taco@lemmy.ca 10 months 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.
CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
Ugh, I resemble this comment. I need to wear more PPE around the house.
saltnotsugar@lemm.ee 10 months ago
I can never get my hands to itch and I breath too easily. There must be a better way!
9point6@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Either asbestos hands or maybe AI generated category images?
frog@feddit.uk 10 months ago
Um… Do I need a mask everytime I go to my attic?
partial_accumen@lemmy.world 10 months 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.”
ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
teije9@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months 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) 😭😭
Rin@lemm.ee 10 months 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: youtu.be/e3GYg7Y_W7s