“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.”
Crematoriums hate this one trick!
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.
Ugh, I resemble this comment. I need to wear more PPE around the house.
Also, it’s the president of Slovakia, Peter Pellegrini…
Hard times in the country
The forbidden cotton candy 😋
Why is he kneeling on that board? He should be balancing his knees directly on the roof beams - get those kneecaps wobbling
i call em roof bananas because you gonna slip if you walk on em and not the plywood
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?
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.
You ever get fiberglass in your skin? Shit sucks.
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.
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.
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.
The someone who wrote the text to image prompt, didn’t know what goes into installing insulation.
What is wrong with it other than lacking mask, and probably overalls?
gloves, the part where you don’t want fibers in your hand.
It’s kinda itchy, but modern glass-wool might irritate your skin and lungs, but afaik there aren’t any know health risks in handling it.
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.
It’s an ad. Ads were slop long before AI.
Clearly AI look at his hands
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.
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!??
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
In this case its more like an anti-ad once OP posted it here, as its showing the incompetence of the company.
It’s ok, you can say Reddit.
just don’t use the hard R
Can’t figure out if that would we ahddit or weddit.
That some big ass bacon.
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
After all, if it wasn’t delicious, why would they dye it that delicious pink?!?
There are more nasty things you ingest daily. the most healthy people die early because of simply bad genes while some smoking couch potatoes rapists live to 100 years old
We need some cope though and semblance of control hence existence of religion, nutrition ‘science’ and rumba. People brains ain’t made to handle the raw reality
So you can feel good and safe doing bullshit exercises up until the last day before random heart failure
There is no scorn or contempt here don’t get me wrong it’s all fine as long as we feel good in my opinion. I wouldn’t think of anyone who doesn’t raw dog reality as a lesser being it’s simply impossible to function without some kind of copium mechanism for fragile existence whether it is wellbeing coaching, technobrosing, mysticism or Christianity all fulfills same purpose
It’s even better for you to adopt one of them and not handicap yourself with existential crisises every evening
Nihilistic optimism or bust.
I’m still working on the optimism.
Optimism comes easier when you have all the real estate you will ever need. I imagine if you are struggling it would be hard to find some kind of solace
he got safety glasses tho 👍
“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.”
That sounds extremely plausible.
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.
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”
Um… Do I need a mask everytime I go to my attic?
I’m in no way an expert, but I would think that your insulation won’t be shedding much into the air once it’s in place.
I’d wear a mask, gloves, and long clothes if I were going to touch or move it around though.
Is there loose or exposed insulation up there?
Yes. I guess that means I should. Right?
Yes. Better safe than sorry; I know it’s trite, but fiberglass be nasty.
Wait… I shouldn’t eat the cotton candy in the attic?
Just a little, as a treat.
Eating it’s fine, just hold your breath
I see .uk
Based on my experience as someone who has lived in several British houses, yes they probably should.
And in the house in general also. The mould is everywhere unless it’s a modern apartment block from last decade.
Well, yes, british people do tend to infest houses in britain.
If you are a professional who is installing insulation all the time? You absolutely need that mask.
If you’re a flipper who buys a new house every year or two and usually replaces the insulation? You should wear a mask.
A homeowner who installs it once, maybe twice in their lifetime? Eh. A lot of PPE mandates are about doing it often and professionally where you can get a lot of exposure. Or if you already are at risk. If you have respiratory issues then if course you should wear a mask. If you have healthy lungs and plan to do this task just once in your lifetime, just having decent ventilation and not shoving your face in it is fine.
I’d wear gloves, but more because the rafters probably have splinters and rusted old nails or staples or whatever. The skin irritation from fiberglass lasts like a day or two and doesn’t have any long-term impacts, but I also find gloves aren’t as inconvenient as masks.
Eye protection is a must. I don’t mess with that.
Or you can just pay the extra money for Rock Wool and get all the other benefits that come with that too.
You know how sand on the beach is fine, but sand in a super windy dust storm stings like hell? Insulation is fine so long as nobody is actively touching it and spewing out bits. Probably shouldn’t be able to see it but it won’t kill ya.
Thanks. Makes sense to me.
There’s more, this guy is a rebel.
This dudes hands in the end of the day
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.
there’s also a massive difference in mineral wool and fiberglass. i’ll take working with mineral wool/rock wool over fiberglass any day
The guys on the bottom are just weak. Can’t even handle a tiny bit of isolation inside them.
Love 100% isolation.
I feel tingly
Im 40% insulation.
