• dirtycrow@programming.dev
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    17 hours ago

    I went into my attic once and I shudder to think what I’d feel if the insulation up there was glass fiber. I sort of tripped up there.

    For the same reason, optic fiber terrifies me. Microscopic glass needles embedding themselves into your skin.

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      19 hours ago

      It’s fine. Any detrimental effects are cumulative. Unless you are a serious DIYer or professional, you have nothing to worry about.

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      19 hours 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…

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      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.

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        18 hours 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 optics 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