Only marginally darker than the original.

That’s the spirit! :-D

TIL that “Jetta” is now an automobile brand in China…

As a German, I approve.

Common response to “Wie geht’s?” (“How goes it?”):
“Man kann nicht genug klagen.” (“One can’t complain enough.”)

:-)

Asking questions on how to access an AI image slop generator might be considered ragebait on Lemmy ;-)

Or wrong software:
https://www.cobrasolutions.com/software/COBRALandingPage.aspx

Yes, on second thought that should not come as a surprise.
I always tend to forget that the Southern US, e.g. Texas, is on the same latitude as huge parts of Northern Africa, including regions that already are part of the Sahara desert.
But each time I realize that, it catches me by surprise again…

Ok, temperatures around 30° and even significantly above and that during the first half of September.
Ouch. I feel with you!

Where do you live?
I assumed summer to be basically over on the northern hemisphere and not yet quite started on the southern one, so interesting to see where a heatwave is still/already present at end of September.

There were things you learned at school, but not from teachers.

I think the correct German expression would be “sonst werde ich dir die Fresse polieren”, which I again have no idea on how to translate to English (what’s the English word for “Fresse”?? - Important stuff you don’t learn in language class…).

I like “knuckle sandwich”, though! :-) The word for “knuckle” would be “Knöchel”, but that usually is not used when talking about fighting.

But we interestingly also have a backery-themed expression for hitting someone: “ich semmel dir eine” (Semmel being the Southern German name for a kind of backed breakfast roll, and for some reason used as a verb here…)

EY, PASS AUF WAS DU SAGST, KOLLEGE, WIR KÖNNEN DAS SONST AUCH GERNE DRAUSSEN KLÄREN, JA?

;-)

It really is sad I had to grow up having only the boring 7353 available as a meaningful calculator prank… :-(

That sounds a bit like a fatal infinite loop scenario…

I still see a bunch of possible additional steps before the mandatory “Does it run Doom?” finally deep down at the bottom…

What do Americans gain by changing the name of Lake Ontario?

International ridicule.

I feel you. Upgraded my desktop around 2023/24 with 32GB DDR4 RAM, cost me about 70€ back then.
We didn’t know how good we had it…

Funnily, all uses of “America” for the whole continent (including the north) are misinterpretations of the original map drawn by Mr Waldseemüller, who invented the name “America” in the first and used it for Brazil.

On the same map some designation for the northern part of the continent can also be found, stating that it was a province discovered by the command of the king of Castille:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c0/Waldseemuller_map_2.jpg

So, the only logical step will be to name North-America as “New Castille” from now on, to correct for the screw-up of the post-Waldseemüller map-reading-noobs.

My first one already was a 28k one, shortly after followed by the 56k one my parents then kept using for the next 15 years, so I don’t quite share your unique experience here… :-)

They didn’t use an acoustic coupler as in the image any more, you are correct ;-)
The noise was also still emitted by the more modern variants during dialing and connection establishment, and as I was reading the meme’s text without paying much attention to the symbolic picture, I instantly thought of the standard 56k modem we still had.