Gen z cut off

Listening and the music cuts out like a bad connection. Usually milliseconds or less, but sometimes for two or three seconds. Had same problem with first airpods pro but thought it was just bad cell service with tmobile, or issues with spotify. But now it happens with stuff I have already downloaded.
Airpods Pro 2nd gen (bought new 1 week ago) Iphone 14 Pro with latest ios
Hoping someone has a simple explanation/solution? thx

No matter what the topic is, within 5 minutes I find that my dad will always end up talking specifically about how the government plans to kill us all. We were talking about school and my grades and he said school is designed to get us all to take vaccines so the government can easily kill us. The other day we were talking about how different life is in other countries and he reverted to how the war in Ukraine is the government's way of killing us all under the disguise of war. When we talk about anything, it will always circle around to the government killing us all. I don't know why he's so fixated on it. The whole family cut him off one by one over the years until now, he has no one as of an hour ago as I was the final person to leave because I can't stand it anymore. He spends all day, everyday "researching" it. He hasn't worked in about 30 years (my country will actually pay you benefits for a lifetime) and the house is falling apart. The cooker doesn't work, the shower recently broke and the now electricity bills aren't being paid. He said none of it matters because the only important thing is his research on how the government is trying to kill us all. Idk what to do anymore, I didn't want to walk out on him because that would mean total isolation but I couldn't live like that anymore.
Has anything similar happened to anyone else's family member? Did they stop, if so how? How did your family deal with it?

I (16f) have been dating my boyfriend (17m) for over a year now and have been friends for 3 years. I have an ex who i’m still friends with because known him for a long time (5 years) and when we dated, we were both extremely young. he’s gay now.
My boyfriend knows I have been talking to him before our relationship started and that he’s my ex so this isn’t new information to him, however he doesn’t like him cause he’s my ex and wants me to cut him off. I stopped talking to him for a while but began back talking to him again and I lied to my boyfriend about it. 2 days ago, I told him the truth about me still talking to my friend and he got upset and told me to cut him off and that i’m not putting him first. I told him I can’t cut him off cause he’s one of my really close friends and we had an argument about it.
I broke up with him cause I didn’t want him to be unhappy but he begged to get back together with me and I felt bad. I’ve been trying to make it up to him but lately he’s been so su1cidal and relapsed over me, i’m having panic attacks cause this reminds me of when he first cheated on me and I was in the same position. I feel like shit for keeping him unhappy but he wants me to stay with him & if I leave i’m scared he’ll actually hurt himself.

Off-screen: “What’s his name?”
Shiv looking down at newborn: “Logan Jr.”
Cut to black

So there have been rumors of an additional class being hidden in promotional material for the last few months. I am wondering if this class was cut from the base game in order for blizzard to make extra money off of early dlc in which this class is sold to you for a ridiculous fraction of the base game despite the fact it is already there.

So for a little backstory, my best friend and I became besties about 4 years ago when we came to college. Last summer they introduced me to their coworker who they had a crush on and her and I became friends quickly. while my bestie was in europe for a few weeks, we hung out a lot and became pretty good friends. Once my bestie came back from Europe, the two of them started dating and continued a relationship for about 3 (maybe 4) months. Eventually, they broke up but it was an amicable breakup and was caused by my bestie believing that the other person wasn’t fully ready to be in a relationship yet, so they cut it off.
Apparently when they broke up, my bestie told her to not hang out with/ talk to me anymore (which I didn’t find out until after they broke up bc bestie never told me about this). So I continued to talk to her and would hang out with her. Eventually I moved away from the college town bc I graduated so I didn’t keep in touch with her as much. Then I went down to visit bestie a few months ago and ran into the ex/my friend and was catching up with her. My bestie got really mad at me and asked me to not be friends with her which was upsetting to me because I had a friendship with this girl outside of their relationship which I voiced to my bestie. Fast forward to now and I still hang out with the girl every once in a while, and I posted a picture of her on my Instagram a few days ago which made bestie really upset and led them to unfollowing my Instagram because they didn’t want to be “bombarded” with pictures of her. Bestie is adamant about me not being friends with her which is upsetting and difficult because I think that she’s a great friend and it’s a bit confusing because it wasn’t a tumultuous breakup in which either of them did anything bad to the other.
Anyways, am I in the wrong for continuing this friendship with my besties ex?

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Seeking advice. I am 32 and make roughly $125k after taxes. I own my home ($160k left on mortgage, worth around $265k), no credit card debt, about $14k left on a car loan, $10k in fed student loan (this was approved to be forgiven contingent on SC ruling), and owe about $20k in back taxes (on a payment plan with IRS and pay more when I can).
I currently have about $25k in my business checking account, $45k in savings, $35k from in a self directed brokerage account (consists mainly of PSU’s I earn from my company that vest every 3 months), $53k in a guided brokerage account, $16.5k in a SEP, $17.5k in a traditional IRA and $32k in a solo 401k.
My question is should i just wipe away my debt and drain my guided investment accounts or sell the company shares or just hold onto investments and continue to pay off chunks when I can? The company PSU’s I earn were trading for around $35 a few months ago and now are around $20. Feel like it be stupid to sell them now or should I cut my losses, cash them out to pay down debt and use the loss as a write off?

I (f) have 3 kids, and ever since my first was born, I have had the same issue consistently with her grandmothers. I would send her to their houses to be babysat while I worked and 7 times out of 10 would come back and they would have her in clothing that was 2 sizes too big and almost falling off of her. They claimed that the clothes I put her in were so tight that they were "cutting her in two", but that is simply false. And has continued to be a pattern with my other two children. To be clear, I dress my kids in appropriately sized clothing, none if it is form fitting after they get out of the infant stage (I have severe anxiety about sids and smothering so no loose/too tight clothes for infants is a rule in my house for fear that it will somehow creep up and cover their mouth and nose while they sleep or cut off their circulation) So, to explain, if my child is measuring 0-3 months, that is what they will wear, not 6-9 months and so on.
I tried gradually setting a boundary by noticing the clothes when I would come in, and changing them into the appropriate size right away and in front of the grandmas to get my point across. But they still continued to change them into bigger clothes when I was gone. I would also make the comment that we appreciate the clothes, how nice they were, and that we would save them, at home, for when they were able to fit into them. This has not worked to this day and I finally reached my breaking point when I came in to find my 9 month old in a 5t shirt. He isn't even chunky or large for his age. It seems to get progressively worse, as they think that each week the kids go up a full size in clothing. My kids have never done this and have always been right on track with height and weight.
I am also afraid that, since my mother likes to buy my now 8 year old girl clothes that are two sizes too big, that she is going to get a weight complex and eventually start thinking that she has a weight problem. Because that is what happened to me. I was always a little chubby and was around a 2x my whole life and still am, and when I was in high school my mother would buy me the baggiest clothes, I am talking 4x clothes, and when she buys me clothes now, its the same situation and I have to throw them away because I will never be able to use them.
I ended up having a 'meeting' with the grandmas and telling them what I felt. They knew what they were doing crossed my boundary so they immediately made me the villain stating that I am ungrateful for the clothes and that I am dressing my kids in clothes that are too small. When they are the only people out of our whole family that think this, and the rest of my family respects my boundaries. I ended up telling them that if it didn't stop, I wouldn't be able to leave my kids alone with them any more.
So, am I the asshole?

One of my earliest memories of my father was him pushing my mom out of the house and telling her to never come back and she stayed out their with me and my older brother until he let her back in. He was gone most of the year because he worked overseas but even when he was home he was always so mean and angry. I remember one time he wanted me to talk to his sister on the phone and being a 12 year old I told him I didn’t feel like it and he took off his shoe and hit me in the face so hard my ears started to ring and then he asks again “ do you want to talk to her” and I did crying. He was never supportive never said an encouraging word. When I was 17 I was really into football and I was training to try out for the school team and I was better then most kids at school but this man never told me I could do it. He always said I was weak and pathetic. That I was too skinny , not fast enough or not strong enough. There was always something wrong. Even when I managed to do good in school he would look at the report card and say where’s the real one? The most ironic thing is now that he is getting old he expects me to care about him, expects me to walk him down the stairs and take him to his doctors appointment. He has been trying to worm his way into my finances but I’ll cut him off soon enough. Thank you for reading

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As the crowd settles down, the commercial break currently airing, i see the previous contestant walk down the corridor. She's naked, her face and body covered in cum, shivering, make-up running down her cheeks. I met her briefly in the green room, earlier. Ashley, 21 years old, running the gauntlet to pay off her student debt. She had a pretty face, long straight copper hair brushing her shoulders, wider hips and a bigger rack than you imagined when the two of you shook hands earlier. Now, you see she avoids you entirely, still sobbing, while she's ushered away to another room. I knew this wasn't going to be easy, but seeing her in that state made you even more nervous. With a deep sigh, i look up at the countdown clock, while the assistant counts down with it.
3,2,1. Go.
Down the catwalk i go, lights flashing in my face, while i hear the "Next Contestant!" announcement ring through the studio. A busty woman in a suit is standing center stage, inviting me to stand next to her, while the audience claps politely upon my entry. The music ends, the lights focused on me and the presenter of this wicked show. She smiles, before turning to camera 4. "Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to the Gauntlet. Ashley didn't make the cut, but don't worry, we've got a fresh contestant lined up for you." She turns towards me. points towards camera 3. "Please, tell the audience who you are and why you're running the Gauntlet today?"
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My wife (25f) and I (26m) are faced with two options to weigh and decide. Our answer will shape the rest of our lives. This has been racking our brains for the last week+ because we want to leave our house asap and sell it.
We can either move back home to family in NJ, get jobs and save up to buy an expensive house that still needs work (the market is terrible rn in jersey) or stay here in Texas and move to DFW and have a significantly greater quality of life.
We’re an hour south of Houston right now and we hate it. We have so many bad memories here, from cancer diagnoses, wage theft, lost the people we originally came out here for etc. we live in a beautiful home but we’re house broke because the work opportunities here aren’t fruitful if you’re not a blue collar worker. (We moved to a town where everyone asks why the hell we would move here of all places)
We can go back to NJ but we would be living in my childhood bedroom with our 2 cats, dog, and snake. We don’t even know when we’d be able to afford a place to own anytime soon there. The rent is astronomical as are the median home prices. Atleast 2.2x the avg cost of a home here in Texas (New constructions with marble countertops and slate showers for sub 300k, non existent in nj for under 450-500k).
We are fortunate to not have to pay any property taxes in NJ or TX so that’s not a con in either state for us. We have both been living together away from friends and family for 6 years now. We left because I was active duty stationed in NC and she was already in college, by the time my service was over we came out here for some family that has since cut us off knowing we have absolutely nobody out here.
We want to sell the house we’re currently in because we are miserable and depressed here, due to us not being able to afford to go on trips or the lack of nightlife/activities for non child rearing young adults and the fact that we came here for reasons that I’ve since ceased. Kids aren’t in our future so we’d like to make a positive out of no kids by loving our lives and doing the things people with kids can’t do anymore like taking the random getaways that we wouldn’t be able to afford with kids.
I did the math and if we purchase a home in the DFW area, we would have it paid off in 5-7 years (2yr flex for emergency funding) and that’s barely budgeting at all tbh, we’re just very fortunate to have those means. So we just don’t know if its worth it to give up this massive financial potential and stability of our future here to appease the people that miss us. Their take on it is “you didn’t listen to us when we said don’t go, y’all are miserable, and you’re just not gonna listen to us again and go somewhere else?” Meanwhile not a single person we know our age is able to live on their own in a decent house let alone a place without roommates at all and the people saying this either have to break their back with 2 jobs to afford ends meat or they’re getting tremendous support from family that we wouldn’t have. We love jersey and it’s culture, you won’t find it anywhere else, and we can go visit as much as we want if we live out here, but if we live there we’d struggle to even exist and take the time for ourselves. The reason I keep harping on trips and vacations is because my wife and I didn’t have a lot growing up and since we know kids aren’t happening, we’d like treat ourselves to a nice lifestyle. It’s not about the area for us, we foster animals and stay inside watching anime or playing video games most days. It’s really more or less will be able to use our money how we want to instead of dumping most of it into the interest of a home that we may feel regret over buying knowing what we could have else where.
It just feels like we’re bad people if we say we want to have a better quality home and more financial freedom for a ourselves since we’re not having kids. We don’t want to spend 30 years and all of our money to pay off a house and it’s interest when we can do it here in a fraction of the time while still saving money for other things like trips and date nights. Especially when we’re so young and fortunate enough to have this be our difficult decision. We also feel like we didn’t really give Texas a chance due to the year of us being here being so hectic and challenging and dealing with cancer and surgery and a bad ISD that committed wage theft. We’ve been told that we moved to the armpit of the armpit of Texas (Brazoria county Freeport area) and we think it’s be a night and day difference to DFW. We have a family friend in DFW who swears by it and can set my wife up with a teaching position at a local charter school. Oh we’d also have to make the 26hour+ drive to jersey with two cats a dog and a snake. The logistics involved with that alone scare us, godforbid one our cats got out of the car somewhere in the middle of the trip.
So essentially we don’t know what the “right” decision is and are afraid everyone back home will hate us for not coming back after venting to them about how much difficulties we’ve been faced with since coming here even though it really had nothing to do with Texas itself, we just got a lot of bad news since being here that made us really depressed. My wife’s Grandparents cut her off when they heard we moved to Texas because they couldn’t use our Nc house as a stopping point for their trips to florida and they took it as her running away from them even though we lived in a completely different state. she’s afraid she’ll be cut off again if she tells her we’re moving again in Texas and not closer to “home”. This really hurt my wife because she doesn’t have a relationship with her father and her mother passed away so her grandparents are all she has on her side.
TLDR: A couple is deciding whether to move back to their home state of NJ and live with family while struggling to afford a home, or stay in Texas but move to the DFW area for better job opportunities, quality of life, and financial stability. They have had a challenging time in Texas with bad memories and limited opportunities, but feel like they didn't give it a fair chance. They are hesitant to give up their financial potential for the sake of appeasing family, and aren't planning on having kids. They also worry about the logistics and stress of moving their pets such a long distance. If they choose Texas, how can they explain it to their family without sounding insensitive or selfish. They’re terrified of making the wrong decision since they’re so drastically different and have a lot of holdback when it comes to moving to jersey regarding finances and not being established in a career yet.

Basically what the title says. I'm relatively new to competitive pokemon (started late gen 8) and every metagame I've personally tried out has porygon-z banned from a tier, but too weak in the above tier. It's a pokemon that I've really wanted to make a team with, but haven't had the opportunity to. If anyone has recommendations for metagames I'd love to hear them. I consider myself pretty open, so feel free to suggest some weirder or more obscure metagames. Thanks for taking the time to read this, have a great day :)