At least the Trump admin didn't pull the plug on this one? On the bright side. 🙄🙄🙄🙄
I would want to park near the Grayland metra station. There would be some (not valuable) stuff in the trunk; the car itself would appear empty.
Would this be reasonably safe? I have Ohio plates: would that call attention to the car? Do you all ever leave your cars for that long without moving them?
Is this the worst idea you ever heard? Or a smart way to save money?
My flights leave/arrive in the wee hours of the night/morning, and the Blue Line looks like it runs all night, so that's why I thought this might be a good idea. Thoughts, from local experts?
THANK YOU so much, in advance!
>Gateway’s leases with the teams require it to pay for certain repairs. The nonprofit already owes Dan Gilbert’s basketball team $4 million for elevator upgrades that the Cavs funded. New repair costs are coming for the ballpark, too.
>“We will pursue this project with the urgency required so Rocket Arena can continue to provide the best fan experience in sports, and will continue to collaborate with Gateway and our public partners for long-term sustainability,” Rock Entertainment Group, the company behind the Cavs, said in an emailed statement.
>Where will the money come from? No one seems to have a firm answer yet. Proposals to hike the sin tax or sales tax don’t seem to have taken hold yet.
>“As you all know, there’ve beenthat we have no money,” GiGi Benjamin, the chair of Gateway’s board, said at last Wednesday’s meeting. Then she rephrased herself: “We don’t have enough money to do what we need to do.”
>Gateway is working with the teams, Cleveland, Cuyahoga County “and anyone else that has any ideas with respect to this,” she said.
I have an idea! Dan Gilbert is a billionaire! We should ask him to pay for his own shit! 👍👍👍
I literally drove over it, saw in the rear view that it hadn't moved, and went back to get it. Didn't move a muscle when I covered it with a handkerchief to pick it up, but started to squirm a little bit after a few minutes tucked into the cupholder, in the shade.
Estaré unos días en Malinalco con mi marido y mi suegra. De regreso a la ciudad pensaba ir al Parque Nacional Cumbres de Ajusco. Nunca hemos estado. El problema es que me parece que todos los senderos allí son algo difíciles para nosotros--mi suegra tiene ya más de 70 y puede caminar, pero no puede subir un sendero difícil o peligroso. Y cuando por fin lleguemos, llevaré yo unos pocos días caminando sin esta odiada bota de yeso, como una férula pesada y durísima, las conocen.
Es decir, sí vamos a querer salir de coche y estirar las patas, sí vamos a querer ver lo que hay que ver, y nunca dejo pasar un parque nacional si ya estoy en el vecindario, pero no vamos a poder caminar kilómetros o subir montañas para disfrutarlo.
¿Alguien sabe si hay senderos sencillos, o incluso miradores o lugares que tengan una vista bonita donde podemos parar el coche? ¿O qué más nos recomendaría que nos quede de paso de regreso de Malinalco a la CDMX?
¡Muchas gracias!
I normally go barefoot or in barefoot-style shoes, and the one time I didn't, I rolled my ankle. That pulled on a little chip of bone at the base of my fibula that had been harmlessly chilling there for 40 years, ever since I broke it in elementary school. That little chip pulled on the sort of fibrous connection it had formed with the base of the intact fibula, which pulled on the fibula, and tada! Another chip of fibula!
So now I have a walking boot. I tapped out on crutches a few days ago (it's still not 100% pain-free to walk on the boot, but it's really not bad). Now that I'm walking more, my knees are starting to hurt. I think the knee of my non-injured leg hurts from doing all the stair work by its lonesome, and the knee of my injured leg hurts because the shape of the sole of the boot somehow bounces my leg back and makes my knee lock, and also that shit weighs a lot.
Does anyone have any tips for walking and/or standing in boots that maximize walking and minimize injuries/pain in the rest of my body? How do I not lock my knee like that? I have almost three weeks before I go back for a followup x-ray and, hopefully, freedom.
Also, I didn't know this subreddit existed, but I feel like I belong here. 😂😂😂😂😂😂 I've now broken two bones, twice, in the same place, plus at least four others, some in multiple places.
>Over the last few years, the city, county and private lender Cleveland Development Advisors cobbled together at least $400,000 to help the suburban grocer’s bet on downtown.
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>In what would turn out to be the final months of Heinen’s downtown grocery store, Cuyahoga County awarded $50,000 to help the company shrink its footprint at the historic Cleveland Trust rotunda on East Ninth Street.
>Heinen’s would not have to repay the money as long as it stayed open until July 31 of this year, according to Cuyahoga County Executive Chris Ronayne’s press secretary. Late last month, Heinen’s announced its downtown store’s final day would be July 31.
Not even sure what I think of this. Downtown definitely needs a grocery store! But this investment really didn't pay off. And it's hard to think of what incentives would work to make a grocery store stay in that space or a similar one.
Speak Spanish, German, and English, and am learning Portuguese. To my mind, all of these words have very similar meanings.
Pena (Spanish/Portugues) = pain, pity, shame
Peinlich (German) = awkward, embarrassing
Pain (English) = that which hurts, or something annoying
Similar meanings, but do they share a root somewhere back there in the mists of time? Or is it a case of linguistic convergent evolution?
Thanks!
Hello, mantis lovers of Reddit! I was here a few weeks ago when a bitty praying mantis came in through the bathroom window. I was gonna put her back outside, but noticed that she (?) had only one murder arm, and so came here for help.
All you lovely people suggested that I keep her through her next molt, and then her arm would grow back. And then I could put her back in the weeds/wildflowers I call a yard.
Well, I named her Captain Hook and kept her through her second and then third molt. She's bigger now! But as I hope you can see in the photos (sorry, not the greatest quality), her right murder arm is still not all there.
I *think* it's getting bigger with each molt. Before, it was just a stump. Now, it looks more like a tiny but normal arm (with three sections and everything). She only uses her left arm to hunt and eat.
My questions for the experts:
- Have you ever seen anything like this? What happened to her? Why won't her murder arm grow back?
- Can I put her back outside, or is that certain death?
- If I can't put her back outside because it would be certain death, how long will she live? I wasn't really in the market for another pet right now!
- Is there a way to keep fruit flies alive and reproducing in her enclosure? She's in an 8x8x10 inch container with mesh sides. I'm gonna be gone for more than two weeks pretty soon. I've already got the dog and the hermit crabs covered, and I think I can ask my pet-helping folks to mist her, but I doubt they'll be wanting to handle fruit flies. Can I put a screen-covered food source in the bottom of her enclosure? She never goes down there, anyway, even though that's where the food prefers to congregate. Like a small Tupperware, with holes in the lid big enough for flies to get out but too small for her to get in?
- How often does she need to be misted? With the heat wave, the a/c is on and ambient humidity is about 50%. Normally it's higher because I don't turn the a/c on unless it doesn't get below 70 at night.
- She doesn't sway before she hunts, like some mantises I've seen in the wild, but when she snags a flightless fruit fly, she does a little happy dance as she starts to eat. Is that a thing? Is it "normal"?
- What food is next for her?
THANK YOU!!!
Sorry for all the details, but some context is necessary for this one.
Was leaving the baseball game tonight with my husband, my kid, and his friend, and this happened while we were all trapped on a corner waiting for the light to change.
Older, heavier Black man in a wheelchair with supplemental oxygen and cup for donations to tall, thin, expensively-dressed white woman futzing with her phone: "Are you taking a picture?"
Her respond? "No, only good things go on this phone."
I suddenly have one extra ticket that I can't seem to give away to friends or family, five water bottles in the freezer, and snacks. Seats are high up on the third base line (so, hopefully in the shade). I'm going with myself, my husband, and two boys in the 9-12 age range.
I'll bring snacks for everyone! You bring you, $40 cash or venmo for the seat, and a decent attitude for sitting near kids (they're not wild and crazy, but they're kids! so please don't be a Karen of any gender). We'll be going in the infield gate around 5:30.
DM me! But if you don't have a visible reddit post history, I won't respond. :-) If you want to come, please contact me by 4:55 or so, when I'll next have a chance to check Reddit. I will respond as soon as I can and delete this post once someone has taken the ticket.
Had a little run-in with them on the east side, very grateful that it was a one-off and I'm not stuck in one of the properties they "manage."
That's all.
TW, mentions self harm
My kid's friend, 12, ("Friend") tried for at least the second time to hurt or kill themselves by taking a bunch of random pills they found in their mom's house.
Friend comes from a very religious family, is queer, and has not come out to their parents.
According to Kid, Friend's mom found out and responded by hitting Friend in the chest, leaving bruises, and plans to take Friend to church instead of to a doctor.
So far, super clear. Obviously I should call.
The reasons I'm hesitating:
Kid is worried that Friend's parents will pull them from the school if child welfare services get involved. There's precedent. Then Friend would lose a good support network of friends and probably end up going to a shittier school.
Kid wouldn't want Friend to know that I called. On the other hand, at least one other friend knows about this, and if I wait a day or two, the rumors will have spread and it could have been any kid's parents. I would not tell Kid.
Friend was upset that the other friend who knows about this was about to call the police, and glad that their parents were called, instead. I think Friend feels like they have to protect their family. Kid thinks this means that Friend doesn't want child welfare involved.
Black families are already overpoliced and oversurveilled by child welfare services.
But punching a kid in the chest and taking them to church instead of a mental health professional after swallowing a lot of random pills feels abusive and worth reporting, and if Friend doesn't get some help, what if they try again and succeed?
But what if instead of support and education for the parents, Friend ends up in foster care? Doesn't that put them at bigger risk for suicide/self-harm?
Anyhow, I think the right thing to do is call, but there are risks to calling. Advice, please??? Anyone with some experience here?
Went to a concert last night, sat next to my tall daughter. During the opening act, the woman directly in front of me (but whose phone was in full view of my daughter), was texting to someone not present at the concert:
"God, I'm so glad I lost some weight and am not spilling out of my seat like this c*nt next to me. She won't even let her man friend stand up to dance. She's got a death grip on his hand."
"This music is so not my dad's style. Ugh."
Some thoughts:
I was seated behind the two ladies in question. Texting lady was wider than death-grip lady, but nobody was spilling out of anything.
As a larger lady myself, this kind of self-hate is totally bizarre and awful, and also I hope people aren't sending texts like that about me everywhere I go.
Her dad was 80+, white, rail thin, with a hearing aid. He was kind of bobbing to the opening act, and then standing up, clapping, and almost dancing for the headliner. I'm always impressed when people go against type with their music choices (two group headed by younger Black artists, music was funk/rap/jazz).
Some people are so friggin' unhappy. And mean. What did death-grip lady ever do to texting lady?
A bitty praying mantis came in through my bathroom window. She has but one hunting arm, and reddit's lovely mantis nerds said to feed her and keep her safe until she molts and that arm grows back. Then it's back outdoors into my garden of wildflowers and weeds.
I need some help feeding her while the flightless fruit flies I bought at the awful Petsmart on Cedar hatch and then eat and then pupate. The wild fruit flies I've caught all move too fast despite up to an hour in the fridge, and she's so little that I've had trouble digging up right-sized bugs (except ants, but Reddit says no ants).
Does anyone have 10 or 20 flightless fruit flies i could pick up today (Tuesday)? Preferably east side or near west side, but I'll figure it out.
Thank you!
He wasn't really interested in posing in a position that would show off his one-armedness, but trust me. Looks like most of the right front "arm" is missing.
I have ready access to fruit flies and fly flies, but I think those are too big for him still.
Thanks for any and all advice! I love our local praying mantises and want this little dude to survive.
I really appreciate any and all advice! I'd like to either be able to hang a light fixture there, or cut a circle of drywall and cover it up properly, so it blends into the ceiling. Can I do either or both of those things? Or should I hire an electrician to take it down and make it safe?
Thank you in advance!
Loves honeybees, not willing to climb. ☺️☺️
>What sets Ms. Carroll apart is the profoundly personal nature of her assertions about the president. And unlike other prominent figures facing investigative scrutiny — James B. Comey, Letitia James, Adam B. Schiff, John O. Brennan — Ms. Carroll, an author and columnist, never sought a public role, political power or governmental authority.
>The investigation involves donations made by a nonprofit founded by the liberal billionaire Reid Hoffman to pay for Ms. Carroll’s legal bills, according to people with knowledge of the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss an ongoing inquiry.
>As part of that inquiry, prosecutors are examining the veracity of her responses to questions about the donation during the civil proceedings over her accusations that Mr. Trump assaulted her decades ago. But Mr. Hoffman’s nonprofit, American Future Republic — and not Ms. Carroll — is currently the subject of the criminal inquiry, although that could change, a person with direct knowledge of the situation said.
>The U.S. attorney overseeing the matter in the District of Northern Illinois, Andrew S. Boutros, said in a statement Thursday evening that his office “has never opened” a criminal investigation into Ms. Carroll.
>On Wednesday, people briefed on the investigation said that Ms. Carroll was a primary target, prompting a backlash in the hours after news of the inquiry broke.
Seems like criminal charges against Ms. Carroll proved too unpopular even for Trump to pursue?