wolfe but sad @wolfgang@awoo.space

i should not have come back to this terrible country

i made a sign that says "can hear, can't speak, i know a little sign language" with some symbols and stuff

but a LOT of people in israel just respond to it by saying "i don't know any sign language" and just walking away

just now at the bookstore, i showed the sign and the person behind the counter immediately yelled at me "i don't have any!!!" and i was like "???" so he repeated "don't have any!!!!!!" and i was terribly confused and showed the sign again

so he said "yeah! i know. i just don't know any sign language" then turned to look at his computer and ignore me completely

like...... dude............. i have a smartphone....... you're surrounded by papers and pens all around your desk.................... what the actual fuck?

shirts that cost $60 here but are so low quality that even primark would have thrown them away

MAN i should have bought more clothes in the us cause they're all twice the price and half the quality in israel :|

omg i love this so much

https://vt.tiktok.com/ZSd974Jvy

can i change my username on the instance? or do i have to register a new user and then do the weird redirect thing?

uhhh actually w's name does contain a w

double yew

@anarchiv maybe it's part of the primary key for the users table

it's my neurodivergence and i'll call myself broken if i want to!!!!

aaaaAAAAAAAAaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAA

i got sick of my fitbit because it doesn't really function very well as a watch sometimes, so i switched back to my analog watch that i bought in 2017

and i really like it as a watch! simple, clear, always-on,,

but,,,,,

it

ticks!!

literally!

every!

single!

second!!!

😵‍💫

the line between constructed and natural languages can be really blurry sometimes, like modern hebrew for example

a LOT of different forms of classical hebrew came and went and sometimes coexisted, in the 3000 or so years of judaism before zionism began; but one person in the 1800s, Eliezer Ben Yehuda, pretty much Created(tm) the modern iteration of hebrew.

He not only standardized the grammar, and not only chose which synonyms to keep or drop, but he also just plain created hundreds of new words for things that a, well, mostly-written liturgical language, didn't quite have. (for example: omelette, immigration, restaurant, train, and ice cream)

But while he was creating that kinda-sorta-conlang, people all around israel/palestine and europe started to use it! So they had all these new words and standardized grammar PRESCRIBED to them from above, but THEN brought in their own language backgrounds, accents, preferences, and personalities when they actually spoke and wrote.

in fact to this day, the Academy For The Hebrew Language (*supervillain riff plays*) still prescribes us various artificial words that sometimes catch on and integrate really well (like ageism /gila'nut/ <גילנות>, solidarity /ax'va/ <אחווה>), but mostly everyone just kinda ignores (like sexism /mina'nut/ <מיננות>, app /yesu'mon/ <יישומון>)

and i think that in a way, emoji kinda do this too. we're all given these shiny, brand new emojis every year, with some prescribed meaning or interpretation that the unicode consortium decides on -- and then we...... sometimes use it that way, and sometimes ignore that completely and create our own meanings.

a good example of this is the contrast between 😂 with its prescribed meaning being the one we use, vs 🍆 with the meaning we all collectively agreed upon after the fact

i wonder if there's a population size (let's mark it as p) such that:

ALL european cities with population greater than or equal to p, that DONT currently have a tram system,

have had an older tram system replaced with diesel buses in the name of progress during the 1900s

@else actually id say that 😶‍🌫️ fits perfectly, at least according to what unicode originally intended

@else i know right??? and yet the judge wasn't convinced at all when i said that

why is there still a 10°C difference (~20°F difference) between day and night temperatures this time of year??? where are my disgusting way too humid 30°C (85°F) tel avivi nights?????

i can give no rational explanation of why that happened other than "sitcoms in the 00s and 10s"