if imperfect skills are required

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Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world · 118 pts · 120d (17 replies)

I feel like a real plumber would look at this, and just say "Now what the hell have you got going on HERE??? NO NO NO NO NO!!!! This is all wrong! Copper pipes aren't meant to be an asthetic! Why are there so many stupidly designed pipes??? And what the hell are you doing to that wrench???? Nooooo, none of this adds up! This isn't real! This has to be a simulation! I'm living in a simulation! A poorly made simulation!"

Then he takes out a gun to kill himself, but it morphs into several tangled copper pipes vaguely resembling a gun and shoots out water.

"THATS NOT HOW PIPES WORK!!! IT'S NOT EVEN CONNECTED TO ANYTHING!!! WHERE'S THE WATER SOURCE???"

GreenCrunch@piefed.blahaj.zone · 81 pts · 120d (9 replies)

love the pipe connecting the two corners of the sink, that's very useful

mrmaplebar@fedia.io · 47 pts · 120d (1 reply)

Them is load-bearing pipes!!

jim_v@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 120d

Better than lead-bearing pipes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flint_water_crisis

etherphon@piefed.world · 18 pts · 120d (3 replies)
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TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 120d (2 replies)

The van which is missing its front right wheel..

GreenCrunch@piefed.blahaj.zone · 9 pts · 120d (1 reply)

They're mechanics as well!

TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 120d

The best mechanics.. I've heard.

SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de · 7 pts · 120d (1 reply)

I'm 90% sure I've actually seen something like this in real life as a towel hanger

bampop@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 120d

Once you embrace the idea that copper pipes are meant to be an aesthetic, the possibilities are endless!

TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 120d

love the pipe

love pipe, baby love pipe

pulsewidth@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 120d (1 reply)

Real plumber:

"This needs more copper pipes, I charge by the hour and for materials and oh boy are both of those expensive."

TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 120d

“This needs more copper pipes, I charge by the hour and for materials and oh boy are both of those expensive.”

Please don't give them any ideas

mech@feddit.org · 10 pts · 120d (1 reply)

I feel like a real plumber would look at this, and just say “Now what the hell have you got going on HERE??? NO NO NO NO NO!!! This is all wrong!

To be fair, a real plumber says that every time they enter a bathroom to start a job.

Bluewing@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 120d

To be fair.......

Electricians are worse. They will loudly complain that whoever the prior work did a terrible job, and it doesn't pass code. Even if they were the elec-chicken that did it. I swear it's a legal requirement.

Dojan@pawb.social · 4 pts · 120d

Was going to mention how my company did a stupid powerpoint slide and filled it with computer generated graphics, and it struck me that the only thing I remember from this presentation is how dumb the graphics were.

You had these melty corporate "people" working on laptops with screens on the wrong side, and that's all I remember; how fucking ugly and shitty it all looked, and how annoyed I was at the waste of time. I don't recall the subject matter at all.

It felt like, if they can't be bothered to put together a proper presentation, and instead just fill it with ugly computer generated bullshit, then why should I put effort into taking that in? My take-away from the entire thing is that I miss clip art. Which is funny because clip art makes everything shit.

starik@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 120d

Resistance is futile. You will become pipes. Join us.

unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 120d
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etherphon@piefed.world · 69 pts · 120d (2 replies)
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SoupBrick@pawb.social · 20 pts · 120d

🫵🤮

bluesheep@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 120d

At least the comments are calling them out, wasn't expecting that on fb

Zier@fedia.io · 61 pts · 120d (2 replies)

Does anyone have the phone number for this company? I was hoping to find someone to install a sink in my driveway.

lividweasel@lemmy.world · 32 pts · 120d

Sorry, best they can do is drive their van into your bathroom.

hansolo@lemmy.today · 12 pts · 120d

A sink that draws water from your pocket?

Sign me up!

Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org · 47 pts · 120d (2 replies)

If we ever get sanity back in this country, can we ban the government from making faux-Soviet propaganda posters with AI?

EvilHankVenture@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 119d (1 reply)

Very well they will just use real Nazi propaganda.

Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org · 1 pts · 119d

At least that was made by humans.

wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz · 46 pts · 120d (1 reply)

What the fuck did they do to that sink?

unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz · 16 pts · 120d

Applied a fuck-ton of torque to them puny sink fasteners!

Sanctus@anarchist.nexus · 42 pts · 120d (1 reply)

What they can't even use the good image generators? They gotta use this GPT3 bullshit with the pipes all nonsensical?

NekoKoneko@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 120d

The biggest time saver of AI is its implicit permission to not care about the result.

Agent641@lemmy.world · 39 pts · 120d

They are actually stealing all the copper to pay for meth

FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world · 38 pts · 120d

Their disgusting over use of AI shows that they don't respect human workers anyway; even many of the current republican voters will understand this, and jump ship.

Their overuse of AI imagery shows that they believe in post truth leadership. Trump posted a fucking picture of himself walking with a star wars aliens and passed it off as real.

Then the official disclosure (also lies) described that species as being like 4 feet tall, rather than taller than Trump, showing he has no attention to detail and doesn't even read his own memos.

Can someone actually fucking deal with this deranged despot? The most expensive thing we can do to the Zionist regime in Israel is force them to buy another president. Get Trump out of the oval office.

arctanthrope@lemmy.world · 35 pts · 120d (1 reply)

guess being an artist or photographer isn't a skill that pays off

BonsaiBoo@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 120d

Not until you're rich enough to launder your wealth with it

Furbag@pawb.social · 33 pts · 120d

INSUFFICIENT PATRIOTISM DETECTED. GENERATE ADDITIONAL AMERICAN FLAGS.

Amberskin@europe.pub · 31 pts · 120d (3 replies)

So they have to use an AI to get a picture of a damn sink???

TimeNaan@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 119d

Yeah, they could've just used this one

AceOnTrack@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 119d

No, they had to use AI because they would absolutely rather not be seen in the same room as a working person.

rumba@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 119d

If you just pull a sink from a photo or stock photo, you have to Photoshop it. That takes skill.

Also, putting slip on social media will always get you attention.

CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de · 31 pts · 120d (4 replies)

Can’t even get the flag right.

when the flag patch is worn on the right sleeve, it appears reversed so that the blue union (the stars) faces forward.

What the fuck kinda tool is she supposedly using?

slothrop@lemmy.ca · 11 pts · 120d (1 reply)

A pipe wrench, natch!
She's got a half-crescent wrench in her swanky tool belt too!

CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de · 9 pts · 120d

A pipe wrench, made of pipe! But of course.

captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 120d (1 reply)

I think it's a MIG wrench.

SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 120d

It's a cutting torch wrench, for skillz.

grumpo_potamus@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 120d (3 replies)

"You see the problem here is that there's just far too many pipes. You brought your good tools, right?"

bampop@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 120d (2 replies)

"Conventional methods won't be enough here. Time to unveil the new experimental tool"

pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 120d

"This job is going to earn us enough to pay for corrective surgery for...whatever is going on with my hands."

UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 119d

Its wornchin time!

Kolanaki@pawb.social · 23 pts · 120d (2 replies)

Pretty sure a pipe wrench isn't supposed to be a wrench made of pipes.

BlackJerseyGiant@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 120d (1 reply)

Betty, I got no idea how you F up a pipe wrench that bad, but go throw that thing away, and stand in the corner while I rip out these expensive pipes you've installed everywhere pipes don't go.

Kolanaki@pawb.social · 7 pts · 120d

Is this what they mean by a pipe dream? 🤔

baggachipz@sh.itjust.works · 21 pts · 120d

Always disappointed, never surprised.

bss03@infosec.pub · 21 pts · 120d (2 replies)

The pipes and tools are crazy, but I also think we've got some sort of half-hover van in the back? I swear there's a wheel missing, and I don't think the frame is square / straight / structurally sound.

dimjim@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 120d

Glad I'm not the only one who noticed lol

matengor@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 120d

Looks more like a US postal service van anyway.

Adulated_Aspersion@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 119d (3 replies)
  • plumbing is not on the front of a sink (obviously)
  • why the fuck would he need a pipe wrench that big when all of the pipes in the view appear to be soldered copper?
  • what tool is she actually using?
  • what purpose would the wrench on her right hip serve in a closed loop system like this?
LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 119d

Why is the sink outside?

Why is there a big truck in the background?

Why are there so many pipes?

Sasquatch@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 119d (1 reply)

The tool she's using is Wireless Acetylene™️

ohshit604@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 119d

This was my exact thought as well, got the monkey wrench handle with a torch head. The future is here.

0/10 on safety, rolled up sleeves with no gloves and no shade 5 glasses, no respirators in sight.

urandom@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 120d (4 replies)

Where's the front tire guys? WHERE IS IT?!?!

ICastFist@programming.dev · 16 pts · 120d

Our totally real pipeman is pointing at where it went off to

SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 8 pts · 120d

You don't need front wheels if you have skills.

samus12345@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 120d

If one object partially obstructs another one, the obstructed one loses details! Every AI knows that!

NottaLottaOcelot@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 119d

It’s a van that can only make left turns. Totally legit.

FiniteBanjo@feddit.online · 19 pts · 120d (6 replies)

The Trump admin really fucking does try to butcher everything I consider sacred.

TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 120d (4 replies)

I'm sorry for what happened to your sink.

FiniteBanjo@feddit.online · 11 pts · 120d (2 replies)

Higher Education

TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 120d (1 reply)

doesn't get much higher than this.. in fact last time I saw shit like this irl I was high af.

SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 120d

This is what you get when you deport skilled trades and hire from the Kid Rock memorial trailer park.

StillAlive@piefed.world · 1 pts · 120d

Plumbing?

Rivermoonwolf@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 120d (2 replies)

What the hell is a van doing in the loo, anyway?

_stranger_@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 120d

hovering

PartyAt15thAndSummit@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 120d

"Quick, get a prompt engineer on it to fix it."

- Said nobody ever.

SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 120d

Ummm, I'm not sure about those pipes...

umbraroze@slrpnk.net · 18 pts · 120d

...Nnnot that I want to defend the Soviet Union, but their propaganda poster artists did stuff just like this, except they didn't put absolutely cursed piping things in the illustrations, and this despite the fact the artists were probably hella drunk or something.

Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 120d

Oh god.....I know I commented earlier on this thread, but I didn't notice the toolbelt! The wrench is only half a wrench!!!

BradleyUffner@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 120d (8 replies)

You would think a federal department would at least check to make sure the flag patch isn't on backwards. The blue field should be leading in the direction of forward movement, dipshits.

Bloomcole@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 120d (2 replies)

americans are obsessed with their nazi rag.
Have to slap it on everything.
Imagine not having one on your plumber uniform or karate kimono.

BradleyUffner@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 120d (1 reply)

Apparently not obsessed enough to make sure it isn't backwards.

Bloomcole@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 120d

They can be obsessed and stupid at the same time.
Certainly not uncommon

zoloftt@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 120d (2 replies)

I've seen it either way. That's the least problematic part of this whole thing.

BradleyUffner@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 120d (1 reply)

It's in the actual Flag Code, which the federal government should care about. A lot of pop-culture gets it wrong because it looks bad to people that don't really know any better. Of course that's why the AI got it wrong, because it was trained on TV shows instead of the actual regs.

zoloftt@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 120d

I actually can't find anything in the flag code about that. I find a lot of other organizations citing the flag code, and purporting that same point though.

I'm in the military. In the uniform regs it dictates what you're saying. But that's not the flag code.

This doesn't look like it's depicting the military though... Also, pop culture influence doesn't make it a bad thing IMO. Being lazy and avoiding paying artists to produce slop is. Especially when this is supposedly the party of "hard work" and "bootstraps"

Bytemeister@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 120d (1 reply)

You can wear the flag any way you want, assuming you aren't in the military and in uniform.

BradleyUffner@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 120d

Sure, you can, but that doesn't make it respectful.

Hayduke@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 120d (1 reply)

“See that over there? It’s the end of America.”

Bloomcole@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 120d

Insjallah

melsaskca@lemmy.ca · 16 pts · 120d

Billionaires: "The best thing we can do for you is to have you manage our flow of shit and piss."

rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 120d

Not shown: the invasive government-mandated genital inspections these slop-generated plumbers had to undergo before they were allowed in the same slop-generated bathroom together.

Danarchy@lemmy.nz · 11 pts · 120d

Slopportunity knocks

ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org · 11 pts · 120d

Right now, some MAGAt is replicating this plumbing to own the libs

SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 120d

Looks like the old socialist realist posters

Asafum@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 120d

"See that guy over there, he knows what he's doing. Fuck if I know what we're building. Anyway... your tool looks cooler than mine, can I try it?"

altphoto@lemmy.today · 10 pts · 120d (6 replies)

altphoto@lemmy.today · 22 pts · 120d (3 replies)

Me...

Agent641@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 120d

Showing off the goods

ivanafterall@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 120d (1 reply)

Not sure this would register as a seduction attempt. I'd just assume that guy always walks around like that.

altphoto@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 120d

He is ready to help the single mom next door.

bluesheep@sh.itjust.works · 20 pts · 120d (1 reply)

Hate it when my electric oven's plumbing fails so hard I need two plumbers to fix it

altphoto@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 120d

My oven is clogged! I need a plumber to pump it open!

Ariselas@piefed.ca · 10 pts · 120d

And not a bucket of steam or left handed hammer in sight.

Ravenheart@lemmy.zip · 10 pts · 119d

Yet no skills went into making this poster. No real artist. No real actors. No real plumbers. No real photographer. They say they care about skills but show that they don't.

Kynsey@lemmy.ml · 9 pts · 119d
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FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 119d

That poster is shit.

billnyethescienceguy@piefed.world · 7 pts · 120d (4 replies)

what are they soldering??? whys there solder wire???

bunnyBoy@pawb.social · 8 pts · 120d (2 replies)

Solder isn't just used for electronics, it's also used in plumbing. Search 'sweating a joint' if you're interested

billnyethescienceguy@piefed.world · 5 pts · 120d (1 reply)

that doesnt look like plumbing solder nor do they have a solder tool lol

pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 120d

that doesnt look like plumbing solder nor do they have a solder tool lol

They forgot to take it out of the hover van. In fairness, I would also forget, after crashing through the bathroom wall and having the van tires fly off out of sight.

__Lost__@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 120d

? They are soldering the ton of copper pipe behind them

RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 120d

Ironically exactly what trump is doing to the government and the right wing to education.

WhyDoYouThinkThat@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 120d

what's wrong with her hands

WHAT'S WRONG WITH HER HANDS

halfapage@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 120d
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DarkCloud@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 120d

Feels like the cover of a murder mystery... Like he's going to whack her with the wrench.

MithranArkanere@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 119d

They want kids out of universities because it's the sharing of ideas that pushes bad ideas out.

Once the entire workforce is uneducated menial workers, they'll just replace them with robots.

solidheron@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 119d

You know it's so when the van is backwards. Clearly those copper pipes should be attached to the car's exhaust

unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 120d