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[–] tsiad_mordecai_miktros@lemmy.world 60 points 1 month ago (6 children)

why are they so mean what did he do

[–] dditty@lemm.ee 93 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] tsiad_mordecai_miktros@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

poor guy how will he feed his children now

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It’ll be OK, look on the bright side!

yea at least he wont have to pay taxes

[–] marcos@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Oh, so that's its supervillain moto!

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago

(Phew, missing punchline fixed :) )

[–] superkret@feddit.org 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

His son will be lighter next year

yes thats the bright side

[–] smeg@feddit.uk 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

well that's not acceptable in this economy

[–] superkret@feddit.org 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

poor guy we have to dismantle the deep state systems that allow this type of stuff to happen i dont know what its called

[–] Fermion@feddit.nl 12 points 1 month ago

The justification given was incoherent.

[–] Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] tsiad_mordecai_miktros@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

this is so sad i will make a post on !chadmctruthstruth@lemmy.world raising awareness

https://lemmy.world/post/25273084 i hope we can get his job back

[–] madjo@feddit.nl 2 points 1 month ago

He made someone look directly into his beam.

[–] EchoSpire@lemmy.ml 42 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] MoonElf@hexbear.net 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Sabata11792@ani.social 1 points 1 month ago

Artificial Immolation

[–] Rudee@lemmy.ml 33 points 1 month ago

Supervillain origin story if I've ever heard one

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Sounds like it was a 2 petawatt pulsed laser, with picosecond pulses, so 2kJ/pulse. Staggering amount of power and energy for a pulsed laser!

Note that it's not CW, so the average power will be much, much, much less than the pulsed power. Too lazy to find the rep rate to see average power.

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Gets angry and lies himself on top of a high powered sniper rifle

[–] Nasan@sopuli.xyz 9 points 1 month ago

That's a pretty niche role, a position as part of the laser grid at a museum is much more steady

[–] shoulderoforion@fedia.io 11 points 1 month ago

just look at the guy, all he wanted to do was an honest days lazing for an honest days pay, was that too much to ask

[–] don@lemm.ee 11 points 1 month ago

The amount of cannons that have had to get in the unemployment line is stratospheric.

[–] sgbrain7@lemm.ee 10 points 1 month ago

I know he'll prove those guys wrong some day

[–] DragonsInARoom@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)
  • Laser is fired:
  • Laser is fired in Japan: 😯😯😯😯😯😯
[–] psyklax@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 month ago

Skillset too specialized. He'll never get another job in that field.

[–] friendly_ghost@beehaw.org 4 points 1 month ago
[–] lugal@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 month ago

Can't be that powerful if they just like that got fired

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago

Well yeah, clearly because all this time he's been a massive fraud! He's clearly a tampon in disguise

[–] theOneTrueSpoon@feddit.uk 3 points 1 month ago

I'MA FIRIN' A mediocre employee

[–] kewko@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

Is it because all the labs kept chasing the laser pointer?