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[–] [email protected] 210 points 1 year ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (7 children)

Reminds me of a story a friend told me when I was traveling through South America.

My friend was walking home late at night and a guy from another country (forgot which, but it was obvious from his accent) asked him for money. This exchange of course happened in Spanish:

"I have an iron" "what does iron means in your country?" "by iron I mean knife" and pulls out a knife "oh, because here iron means this" and pulls out a gun.

Then the robber just ran away.

Pornstars: "yes we agree" in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Hentai is the only ethical form of porn consumption

[discussion] The generation that complains about "participation trophy kids" is the same generation that made it impossible for kids to walk or bike to school in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

participation trophies are like a 100 years old concept, they also got them when they were kids

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Got a semi-new ThinkPad E14 for less than €200 (lemmy.ml)

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Hi ThinkPad community, I just wanted to share this amazing amazing thing that brigthened my day. I hope this feel-good story also brightens your day too

I recently started a new job for a company that gives ThinkPads to all their employees. But since I started in Q4 last year I was given the "old" E14 gen4 model and the head of IT told me it was a shame I started before they got the new gen5 in stock so I had to stick with the old gen4 for at least 2 years before applying for a new laptop.

I told him it was alright, I really had no need for the newest hardware to do my job, but he told me that if they had some new spares by February he could put some strings and get me upgraded to a new one. I thanked him and told him not to worry about it.

Fast forward to this month and he let me know there were some brand new E14 gen5 in stock if I wanted to upgrade, I replied it wasn't really necessary but he insisted I "really really" wanted it. I decided to agree with him and submited a ticket requesting the new laptop.

Next day I got the new gen5 laptop and signed the paperwork for the handover of the old gen4.

"Now, since this is old stock it will be sent for recycling, however, since you were the last user you have first priority on buying it from the company

wink wink

How much would that be?

Well, after depreciation, tax deductions and (some finance gibberish I don't understand) ... about €200

I sent the request to the finance department as fast as I could and yesterday I got the confirmation that the amount would be deducted from my next paycheck.

edit: here are the specs

Intel i7-1255U / Iris Xe / 40 Gb RAM / 500 Gb SSD

X begins charging new users $1 a year in New Zealand, Philippines in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago

NZ is usually used as a Guinea pig by tech companies, small population, English speaking, etc.

However I think it might be that the Alll Blacks might face off the Springboks in the Rugby World Cup Final and Elon wants to minimise the shitposting on Twitter. /s

Telltale Games has reportedly laid off most of their staff in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

After the revival they just re-released the Batman games, announced a sequel to The Wolf Among Us and then nothing for 4 years? It is sad to see Telltale gone, but at the same time I am not surprised.