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
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.
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
“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.
The guys on the bottom are just weak. Can’t even handle a tiny bit of isolation inside them.
I feel tingly
Im 40% insulation.
Love 100% isolation.
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
“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 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.
Yeah fam if you haven’t already you should get your lungs screened. Asbestos and insulation can cause some really bad stuff
The time of exposure was low. Asbestos was also outside and unbroken.
Insulation was only 1 attic.
Did he also recommend smoking Kent Micronite cigarettes?
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.
You’ll be fine…also the fuck type of drill where you using that required ear pro? Were you drilling holes in sheet steel?
Hammer/rotary on a concrete. It’s fucking loud.
Yea pretty much.
Put a shower pipe through a brick wall.
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.
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) 😭😭
deleted by creator
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 can never get my hands to itch and I breath too easily. There must be a better way!
he got safety glasses tho 👍
Um… Do I need a mask everytime I go to my attic?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Fiberglass is food, isn’t it?
Of course, it’s moist and delicious
That some big ass bacon.
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 boards suck because quality has dropped significantly in the 10 years or so. This vid gets into detail as to why.
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.
