Also, it’s the president of Slovakia, Peter Pellegrini…
Hard times in the country
he got safety glasses tho 👍
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.
Clearly AI look at his hands
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.
“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.
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”.
Folks, is staying alive 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
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.
If you are going to use reddit at least block the ads with revanced
“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!
The forbidden cotton candy 😋
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?
Wait… I shouldn’t eat the cotton candy in the attic?
Eating it’s fine, just hold your breath
Just a little, as a treat.
Yes. I guess that means I should. Right?
Yes. Better safe than sorry; I know it’s trite, but fiberglass be nasty.
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.
Agreed.
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.
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.
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.
Have you tried using the gloves and mask to commit burglary and/or other crimes against the systems of the rich and powerful?
Turned out pretty good. Thanks for the suggestion!
Can i answer in the morning?
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.
Lol, wtf? I’ve thrown around insulation so many times without gloves. No pain in my hands!
yeah idk where you pulled this info from, but it looks and smells like something from your bunghole
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.
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.
Wait until you find out about food commercials
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.
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!??
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.
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!!!”
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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Fiberglass is food, isn’t it?
Of course, it’s moist and delicious
Practically cotton candy
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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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