u/CrowRoutine9631

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!

>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!

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:

1. I was seated behind the two ladies in question. Texting lady was wider than death-grip lady, but nobody was spilling out of anything.

2. 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.

3. 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).

4. Some people are so friggin' unhappy. And mean. What did death-grip lady ever do to texting lady?

>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?

I'm embarrassed to admit that I sort of assumed this wasn't happening anymore. I thought we broke international and military law in the lead-up to invading Venezuela and arresting Maduro, because drugs are now WMD, apparently 🙄, and once we declare that WMD exists, we can invade any country. But then it wasn't really in the headlines, and I thought it had come to an unceremonious end once it wasn't needed to "justify" the buildup to a mini invasion.

Nope. There have been 58 strikes since September of last year, and

>The strike on Tuesday, the first in nearly three weeks after the military accelerated its recent pace of attacks, brought the death toll to at least 194 since September.

Is there any possibility of accountability for this nonsense? What will the blowback be for this blatant disregard of international and military law? Did anyone else lose track of this story for the past few months?

Apparently, the "we're above the rules" crowd ain't great at following rules...

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But under President Trump, the Justice Department has had serious difficulties presenting cases to grand juries, running into problems that would have seemed unthinkable a year ago.

>In the past several months, prosecutors have repeatedly failed to persuade grand juries that the cases they have brought warrant criminal charges. And if it were not unusual enough, they have also been admonished at least three times since last November by federal judges who have accused them of misconduct.

Turns out you can indict a ham sandwich on specious charges, but you can't make a judge ignore that you had to break rules for how to communicate with the grand jury in order to secure the indictment.