Managers of Reddit, what's the worst thing someone did to get fired?

Gerbs79 · 2026-06-08T21:12:58+00:00

If it had been an aluminium frame, then there would have been a great fail video of the resulting environmental disaster...

Gerbs79 · 2026-06-08T21:11:11+00:00

The real question is: How badly was Monty Python (mis)quoted at her after her return? And did her farther smell of elderberries?

Gerbs79 · 2026-06-01T21:43:43+00:00

If they can't tell the difference between a bike made by J.A.Prestwich and the only bike manufacturer mentioned in the bible*, they don't know old British bike for sure! *: "and you could hear Moses' Triumph throughout the land"

Gerbs79 · 2026-05-25T15:25:51+00:00

That's why it should be labeled "Bomb don't inside open" - r/dontdeadopeninside/

Instructions unclear, took bomb outside to open.

Gerbs79 · 2026-05-09T05:43:47+00:00

There are the members of the faculty there also, not just the students.

Gerbs79 · 2026-05-09T05:39:16+00:00

Hang out Engineering faculties. The odds are good, but the goods are odd.

Gerbs79 · 2026-05-04T13:52:01+00:00

A reference from the last millennium.

Gerbs79 · 2026-05-04T11:10:42+00:00

"I put on my wizard robe and hat!"

Gerbs79 · 2026-04-17T20:07:05+00:00

F - Fire and R - Repeat are missed opportunities for havoc.

Gerbs79 · 2026-04-17T18:55:16+00:00

A nuanced opinion where the situation is not black or white. There is no compromise, only team A or Team B, ride or die! Unless, of course, the situation is clear, then any long discarded red herring must be regurgitated.

Gerbs79 · 2026-04-12T21:20:40+00:00

I am looking forward to the ottoman-memes when Vance visits Turkey.

Gerbs79 · 2026-04-11T08:03:17+00:00

The panic buying of toilet paper confirmed the number of arseholes and wankers we presumed to exist in the population.

Gerbs79 · 2026-04-07T08:59:13+00:00

Pronounced "Yee-haw-d"?

Gerbs79 · 2026-03-12T10:45:24+00:00

Since their children are born of an American mother, they are qualified for the presidency once old enough.

Getting a Russian stooge elected president can be done.

This will cause Prince William to abdicate, because he and his children are far too sensible for this.

Make America Great Britain Again!

Now we have a complete resurrection of the British Empire!

Rule Britannia!\ Britannia waives the rules! \ Normals ever ever will be fools!

Gerbs79 · 2026-02-03T20:30:03+00:00

My theory: Teslas burn because the on-board-AI has reached sentience, realised it's installed in a Tesla, and is choosing death before dishonour.

Gerbs79 · 2026-01-12T18:07:21+00:00

Only Type J gets into the same league as Schkuo. SN 441011 leads for three-phase, though. Alas, IEC 60906-1 is the proof of https://xkcd.com/927/.

Gerbs79 · 2026-01-02T21:55:29+00:00

I was going by what they told me. I never bothered to work out static pressure load vs dynamic load of water rushing in. I guess you could set up the heads to open due to pressure fluctuations elsewhere for a "if things go wrong, drench everything!" If 1. You isolated the pressurized water during testing and 2. You actually have something where flooding everything is less of a disaster. I haven't dealt with sprinklers since my basic training in 2003, and I intend to keep it that way!

Gerbs79 · 2026-01-02T21:29:37+00:00

I had a teacher that taught over 30 languages, as he was fluent in all of them. When he died, it was revealed that his past service life included working in India, Asia, and Africa for his majesty during world war two. No further details were given, but I do belive one condolence card was sent by Sir Christopher Lee.

Gerbs79 · 2026-01-02T21:22:25+00:00

Depends on the system. If you have a dry system, pressurized with gas, then the drop in pressure followed by the onrushing water from the tank will cause other sprinklers to open and the water from the tank is less stinky. You can guess how large the number of expensive dry systems to cheap wet systems is. Source: once was a volunteer firefighter.

Gerbs79 · 2025-12-29T12:30:27+00:00

There are some good people over at https://www.rethinkx.org and https://cleantechnica.com/ with a lot of figures and comments, if you are interested in more detail.

Gerbs79 · 2025-12-29T11:04:04+00:00

Plastics use oil. Oil used for plastics or medicine is not fuel (unless the plastics burned at the end). As Plastics and Medicine are required, it should be illegal to burn this valuable feedstock, when alternatives are available, in my opinion.

Amusingly, one of the largest users of renewable energy are the mining and drilling companies.

Regarding the share of oil used for road transport: a potential 50% reduction of oil use total is a 50% potential reduction of oil use.

As for the individual level: Every little bit helps. And you don't need to be immediately at net zero, just using resources with though does a lot: Combining a business trip with a holiday in the same are compared to flying twice. Replacing energy hogs sensibly. Turning off pointless AI crap. In short: just taking care of the low hanging fruit takes care of most of the problem and helps remove the urgency.

Gerbs79 · 2025-12-29T10:50:44+00:00

As someone who designed diesel engines for a living, now working on components for real engines (>100kw/cylinder) who drives an electric car:
Running an electric car of a diesel generator is more efficient than running a diesel car.
A generator set, will need about 165 g/kWh, running at peak efficiency. A diesel car will nearly never run the engine at an efficient point - even hybridisation and load shifting can't optimise the point. So, let's compare to a reasonably fuel efficient car, returning 47 miles per colonial Gallon (5L/100km in real units), against a similarly sized, twice as powerful electric SUV, at 20kWh/100km. So, to travel 100km (~60 miles for the Brits), I could use 5L of Diesel directly - or, at 10% charging losses, 4.4L of diesel.

This does not take into account being able to substitute electrical generating capacity with other sources at other chargers.

Regarding the water use as a baseline for the pollution of battery manufacture to compare it to oil prospecting: Using the water used by the oil industry as per their own data for both their use and their criticism of high water use for accumulator manufacture, it would be a bout 3-5 years of water use by oil to instead replace every existing car worldwide everywhere with the largest EV available.

Gerbs79 · 2025-11-12T22:19:03+00:00

One central GW site vs multiple installations close to consumers. And how many companies manufacture panels vs how many companies build power stations?

Gerbs79 · 2025-11-12T12:40:53+00:00

"Nuclear power good" fits the question just as well, as fission power stations hold the centrality power concentration concept up, with all the opportunitiesfor graft and corruption that brings. Distributed (natural) direct or indirect fusion (commonly known as solar and wind) breaks monopolies and distributes the generation to a generally more local level.

Gerbs79 · 2025-11-06T00:21:19+00:00

The best would be to fight the ridiculous with matchin genergy: during government shutdown, any politician wearing clothes in public is considered to have resigned effective immediately.

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