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I'm not a plumber. But I'm pretty sure that's not how sinks work.
US Department of Education Facebook post saying SKILLS THAT PAY OFF, showing an AI image of a White man and a brown-skinned woman wearing blue coveralls and tool belts. He's pointing off into the distance and she's working on a sink that has way too many exposed copper pipes in all the wrong places
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7:57 AM · May 20, 2026
I'm not a plumber. But I'm pretty sure that's not how sinks work.
— Jess Calarco (@jessicacalarco.com) 2026-05-20T11:57:06.791Z
displacedvermoter
(5,018 posts)RedWhiteBlueIsRacist
(2,272 posts)gab13by13
(32,806 posts)Should have used the shark bite conduit.😊
Must not have had a bender for the conduit.
pdxflyboy
(948 posts)n/t
C_U_L8R
(49,544 posts)Brother Buzz
(40,472 posts)awesomerwb1
(5,158 posts)I needed a laugh right now
RazorbackExpat
(966 posts)LeftinOH
(5,677 posts)..outside of an AI prompt for "plumbing tool."
haele
(15,609 posts)The hand grips are aligned in one direction, and the tool head is aligned to an offset dimension.
I've used tools like that in dreams ..
ProfessorGAC
(77,318 posts)Any wrench that use a circle of semicircle that reverses is an Eicher wrench.
An oil filter wrench, a jar lid removal wrench, a basin wrench; all forms of Eicher Wrench.
But, that contraption she has also has what appears to be a ratchet head above the jaws which would render those useless.
Also, for most applications, why would it be made of brass? Brass is usually used on wrenches to assure spark-free uses. I've seen them used on railcar domes where the contents are highly flammable as on, for instance, and ethylene oxide railcar.
Don't think a plumber needs brass which wears out sooner.
rickford66
(6,099 posts)ProfessorGAC
(77,318 posts)But, if beryllium was alloyed with copper it might look like brass., so I could have been fooled.
rickford66
(6,099 posts)In the service (1969) I had to do some work close to fuel bladders full of AV gas and was required to use a beryllium hammer. You do what Uncle Sam says. Several years later (mid 70's), I worked at a resort that had held conferences and one was KBI. One of the products they had was beryllium tools, touted as spark-free. I remember this well, because I was unhappy because the corporation was known to be poisoning the environment with their processes. Brass may be in the alloy though.
ProfessorGAC
(77,318 posts)Berrylium is, of course, a reactive metal.
So, it coordinates with copper. Making a stable alloy.
Brass is copper & zinc. If these tools are copper & berrylium, they'd look just like brass, or at least bronze.
Probably why I thought it was straight brass.
rickford66
(6,099 posts)highplainsdem
(63,149 posts)underpants
(197,246 posts)Johonny
(26,643 posts)But they're too fucking stupid to even use Ai well.
Ocelot II
(131,280 posts)Just apart from the fact that nobody's bathroom anywhere on Earth has plumbing like that, it looks like one of the copper pipes goes right into a pocket of the guy's tool belt, and another one into his butt. And what is that weird tool the woman is holding?
underpants
(197,246 posts)Are we sure that hes just in the way and one of those copper pipes connects with the nondescript windowless van? 👀
Attilatheblond
(9,268 posts)finally, it found a way to be useful
blogslug
(39,226 posts)underpants
(197,246 posts)Wuddles440
(2,132 posts)Hugin
(38,015 posts)Its modeled on MY house.
Nittersing
(8,515 posts)leftstreet
(41,266 posts)Iggo
(50,065 posts)Biophilic
(6,688 posts)lastlib
(28,655 posts)And the pipe going down to the left side of the sink looks like an optical illusion--I've never seen a connector that turns a pipe through two axes. (Pretty sure they don't sell that at Home Depot.....)
ornotna
(11,565 posts)For when you want to do a halfassed job.
gab13by13
(32,806 posts)With 1/2 of the jaw missing.
underpants
(197,246 posts)sboatcar
(871 posts)highplainsdem
(63,149 posts)sop
(19,378 posts)No more woke STEM shit, everyone has to take shop and home economics.
ColoringFool
(1,115 posts)Lines!
BaronChocula
(4,783 posts)And another one of those mystery gadgets the woman is holding. Haven't seen those at Lowe's.
Ray Bruns
(6,786 posts)Devilsun
(387 posts)Ray Bruns
(6,786 posts)Ray Bruns
(6,786 posts)maveric
(17,059 posts)😂
waterwatcher123
(549 posts)bucolic_frolic
(55,888 posts)That's what contractors do these days. Upsell.
spanone
(142,082 posts)If that was your first job, it would be your last.
underpants
(197,246 posts)Nondescript
.windowless
.van 🍭🤡 👀
Straw Man
(6,956 posts)You mean skills like making a realistic picture of plumbers at work?
Vinca
(54,352 posts)That's one weird plumbing job.
onethatcares
(17,017 posts)the flag patches?
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(137,598 posts)The more the merrier.
BlueWaveNeverEnd
(15,045 posts)SheltieLover
(81,794 posts)luv2fly
(2,718 posts)It might be my old eyes failing me, but they sure do look to be the same color.
Timewas
(2,782 posts)For 30+ years and if I saw that I would fire them immediately........ That is a joke