“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.
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”
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.
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.
Im 40% insulation.
Love 100% isolation.
I feel tingly
“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!
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.
“noooooo!! all pr is good pr!!!”
It’s ok, you can say Reddit.
just don’t use the hard R
Can’t figure out if that would be ahddit or weddit.
Boomers hate using safety gear.
Single use plastics meet single use workers.
lights a dart, inhales: “Don’t be a pussy, kid”
But they’ll be dead soon so nbd
It’s because they think being dumb makes them tough.
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You ever get fiberglass in your skin? Shit sucks.
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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.
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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?!?
Home Depot taking a stand against Woke masks.
Or some other stupid shit.
Why would I shop at Home Depot if I didn’t think guys with perfectly chiseled jaws and manicured nails worked there?
Description like that, someone may think you’re looking for some Proud Boys.
His neck isn’t nearly beardy enough.
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.
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.
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.
Either asbestos hands or maybe AI generated category images?
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
Unless they made fake fibreglass insulation just for this, his hands will be in permanent pain.
You’re supposed to wear gloves and a mask to stop millions of tiny strands of glass embedding themselves under your skin and in your lungs
Edit: typo
Not sure if you guys haven’t ever actually worked with fiberglass, or are trying to make it sound significantly worse than it is to prove a point…
No, you wash your hands after touching fiberglass, have a shower, and by the morning you won’t even realize your mistake. Itll be an itchy few hours, but its not gonna shred your hands, and it won’t cause permanent damage either.
Your lungs will be a bit worse for wear, and you should wear gloves/respirator, but for a couple minutes or photo op or even to move around your own attic you’ll be fine.
Life is permanent pain. Gloves and a mask has never helped me recover from life.
I touched a load of fiberglass over the years from DIY and helping friends out. It never bothered my hands at all, it didn’t even make me itchy.
yeah idk where you pulled this info from, but it looks and smells like something from your bunghole
Yeah certainly AI generated
I’m suspecting it’s all Ai generated.
fiberglass isn’t that bad to touch without gloves. I mean you should wear gloves, but agressive washing will make the itching go away.
No.
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”.
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.
fellas is it gay to not die
The someone who wrote the text to image prompt, didn’t know what goes into installing insulation.
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.
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.
Clearly AI look at his hands
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.
Why is he kneeling on that board? He should be balancing his knees directly on the roof beams - get those kneecaps wobbling
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?
i call em roof bananas because you gonna slip if you walk on em and not the plywood
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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he got safety glasses tho 👍
