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Treva B@divafeminist
The $1400 (max) from 2 years ago? These people aren’t serious.

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3:51 PM · Jul 6, 2022·Twitter for iPhone

Some people are really really frugal.

neonzx wrote: ↑Wed Jul 06, 2022 9:11 pm

Treva B@divafeminist
The $1400 (max) from 2 years ago? These people aren’t serious.

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· Jul 5
Mitch McConnell says the labor shortage will be solved when people run out of stimulus money because Americans are 'flush for the moment' http://businessinsider.com/mitch-mcconn ... ney-2022-7

3:51 PM · Jul 6, 2022·Twitter for iPhone

All the frugal fun I splurged on in the past two years with my $1400 one-time stimulus check:

Paid for (some)dental work.

That's it. Oh, and fuck McConnell and his ilk.

Patagoniagirl wrote: ↑Thu Jul 07, 2022 9:21 am

neonzx wrote: ↑Wed Jul 06, 2022 9:11 pm

Treva B@divafeminist
The $1400 (max) from 2 years ago? These people aren’t serious.

3:51 PM · Jul 6, 2022·Twitter for iPhone

All the frugal fun I splurged on in the past two years with my $1400 one-time stimulus check:

Paid for (some)dental work.

That's it. Oh, and fuck McConnell and his ilk.

I could afford to squirrel it away, but that’s also the reason I didn’t get one. People who got one tended to need it right away, which was kinda the point.

My brothers who both extremely wealthy got two each and dumped it in the stock market. I don't begrudge anyone getting the stimulus but for Fuck sake, it was not a windfall for most of us.

Aaron Fritschner @Fritschner wrote: Hugh Grant tweeted a request at activists protesting outside Westminster to play the Benny Hill theme on their loudspeakers; when they did it became the soundtrack for street interviews with leading Tories trying explain the situation to the British people

I last played a guitar at the Baltimore Meet Up with other FB subversives. I just picked it back up with it's old strings, tuned it. My fingers are burning but my spirit was joyful.

Its Mar-TEEN-es not Mar-tin-EZ

Its only taken about 15 years, but the Australian team working the Tour de France (SBS TV) has FINALLY learned how to pronounce the name "Martinez".

I have been complaining to SBS for YEARS. I dont tweet usually, but I have sent tweets that I hope got through. I have emailed. I have phoned, but not got through.

SBS is normally adamant about pronouncing names correctly, but they seem to have a blind spot for the name Martinez.

They could handle Martina Navratilova, but not Conchita Martinez (tennis). They could not handle the Football (soccer) coach Roberto Martinez. And until this year they have not been able to handle the bike pro Daniel Martinez.

They still have a few slip ups, but mostly they are doing good.

Yabbut … following Spanish language orthography rules, and if one hadn't heard the name pronounced correctly, Martinez would have the stress on the final syllable; it needs the accent on the í in Martínez to mark the shift of stress.

I don't know about Aussie commentators but I notice a lot of English language commentators mantle the "aa" in Norwegian and Danish names such as Wingegaard. "aa" is a digraph (two letters representing one sound) and is an alternate (older) way of writing the letter "å" which is pronounced something like the video in "bought " or "caught".

It certainly isn't a lengthened "ah" sound! Which it would be if one were reading Finnish – so I have some sympathy with commentators flipping between name from multiple nations.

And then what to do about US names? Spanish names generally hold their pronunciation because Spanish is so widely spoken. But name from northern and eastern European countries can lose their native pronunciation, mangled according to English spelling/pronunciation rules (such as they are). If a fictional Jan Nygaard is known as Djan Nigahd in the US, should a Sc Scandinavian commentator confuse his audience be saying that it use the native pronunciation, Yahn Noogawd?

Sorry, I don't know the guidelines to representing pronunciation used in the US, but I could write it in the International Phonetic Alphabet! (int-uh-nash-nul foh-net-ik al-fa-bet?)

Sam the Centipede wrote: ↑Fri Jul 08, 2022 2:38 am Yabbut … following Spanish language orthography rules, and if one hadn't heard the name pronounced correctly, Martinez would have the stress on the final syllable; it needs the accent on the í in Martínez to mark the shift of stress.

Firstly, SBS has no such excuse of not hearing the name pronounced correctly. While you cannot expect individual announcers or 'newbies' to get everything right all the time, SBS prides itself on its skills in other than English skills. Indeed, it is one of the premier movie and video translation subtitle services in the world. Getting it wrong for over 15 years is just not something they do.

Secondly, the vast majority of Spanish words have the stress in the syllable before the last (called llanas). Martinez is one of those words, though it is true that it is not 'naturally' so and truely does require an accent.

The root of Martinez is "Martin" which, if it were a llana would be pronounced MAR-teen. However, it is an exception and carries a accent tilde over the "i" to make it mar-TEEN. When a suffix is added the accent always stays with the same syllable as the root word. Thus Martinez (Son of Martin) => mar-TEEN-ez. Coincidentally, since Martinez has three syllables, it makes the accent position look superficially like a standard llana except that it doesn't end in an 'n', 's', or vowel.

So yes the word should be written with an accent, but it seldom is outside of the Spanish speaking world. And people who pride themselves about correct pronunciation of all languages from Chinese to Norwegian to Portuguese to Russian to Yiddish, etc, etc, etc. should recognize the name and its pronunciation. SBS Newsreaders really bend over backwards to pronounce people's names correctly.

Especially when these are commentators that interact closely with these athletes year after year after year. How long was Conchita Martinez coming to the Australian Open and none of the Australian commenters ever learned to pronounce her last name even though they interviewed her countless times?

Accents in Spanish.

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My car isn't on the top 100, whew! There is a local shop that will engrave the VIN on the cat for free, apparently that discourages theft.

raison de arizona wrote: ↑Fri Jul 08, 2022 3:30 pm My car isn't on the top 100, whew! There is a local shop that will engrave the VIN on the cat for free, apparently that discourages theft.

Only if the state has a law that requires the purchasing scrap metal dealers to check any numbers. I have not read yet about a database that tracks thefts.

Best protection: a piece of metal under the cat and bolted to the car frame or floor. Makes it difficult to saw near impossible to retrie the cat, also time consuming, so thieves will skip the car.

ps. until everything is numbered the numbering scheme is of little use, thieves will cut the cat anyhow and later just discard trackable units.


pps. scrap metal dealers ought to be prohibit to buy off the road or from passerbys, only from established repair centers.

RTH10260 wrote: ↑Fri Jul 08, 2022 4:40 pm

raison de arizona wrote: ↑Fri Jul 08, 2022 3:30 pm My car isn't on the top 100, whew! There is a local shop that will engrave the VIN on the cat for free, apparently that discourages theft.

Only if the state has a law that requires the purchasing scrap metal dealers to check any numbers. I have not read yet about a database that tracks thefts.

Best protection: a piece of metal under the cat and bolted to the car frame or floor. Makes it difficult to saw near impossible to retrie the cat, also time consuming, so thieves will skip the car.

ps. until everything is numbered the numbering scheme is of little use, thieves will cut the cat anyhow and later just discard trackable units.


pps. scrap metal dealers ought to be prohibit to buy off the road or from passerbys, only from established repair centers.

VIN (vehicle identification numbers) are in a massive nationwide database tied to the current legal owner of the vehicle. And scrap metal dealers, the honest ones, are regulated much like pawn shops. If someone comes in with a fuckton of copper wire, the first call made is to the cops. They already don't like to take the cat converters because they know they're most likely stolen.

My Outback is #15 on that list. Luckily, it rarely sits outside for any length of time.

I made the 4.5 hour trip from the south suburbs of Indy to my dad's house outside of St. Louis in 6.5 hours today. Road construction, heavy rain and an accident between a car hauler and semi on I-70 that essentially shut the highway down for a long while. The detour for the detour in a construction zone in rural Indiana was shut down while they mowed over the guardrail on the other side. It was a long, slow trip.

I love truck drivers even though I don't like driving in heavy truck traffic. 99.5% of them are incredibly competent and safe drivers and they don't deserve having to put up with IdiotsInCars. Then there's that other half percent. Among other assorted nuts, today I was passed by a freight box doing 80+ mph in driving rain where visibility was maybe a hundred yards. A freight box. That's basically a bus with a high center of gravity, crappy suspension, weak brakes and the stability of a wet noodle. Ugh.

Shizzle Popped wrote: ↑Fri Jul 08, 2022 9:56 pm My Outback is #15 on that list. Luckily, it rarely sits outside for any length of time.

My truck is #56. All the top ten have high chassis making it easier to crawl under.

The NBC News story with list

Umm ... the number 1 on the list is Ford F Series Truck.

That's actually quite a few different trucks, yesno? I see billions of them, and there's quite a variety.