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

why are they so mean what did he do

[–] dditty@lemm.ee 92 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] tsiad_mordecai_miktros@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

poor guy how will he feed his children now

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 year 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 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Oh, so that's its supervillain moto!

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

(Phew, missing punchline fixed :) )

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

His son will be lighter next year

yes thats the bright side

[–] superkret@feddit.org 13 points 1 year 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

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

[–] Fermion@feddit.nl 11 points 1 year ago

The justification given was incoherent.

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

He made someone look directly into his beam.

[–] EchoSpire@lemmy.ml 34 points 1 year ago

Lost it's job to AI

[–] Rudee@lemmy.ml 27 points 1 year ago

Supervillain origin story if I've ever heard one

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

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

[–] Nasan@sopuli.xyz 9 points 1 year 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 year 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

[–] sgbrain7@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago

I know he'll prove those guys wrong some day

[–] DragonsInARoom@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
  • Laser is fired:
  • Laser is fired in Japan: 😯😯😯😯😯😯
[–] don@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago

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

[–] psyklax@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 year ago

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

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

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

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

I'MA FIRIN' A mediocre employee

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

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

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

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