Thanks in advance to everyone who spends their time reading through my post. I believe my situation is unique and can't find straight answers after hours of research.
Turned 65 in October 2023. Went to apply for Medicare (both Part A and Part B) the first week of January 2024 (during the initial enrollment period). Had a phone interview with the SSA office in March 2024. Medicare finally approved in mid-April 2024 EXCEPT the SSA messed it up and only approved Part B. Visited the SSA again to understand what happened - they said a mistake happened and that my Part A will become available very soon. Part A finally became available in mid- May 2024. But my Medicare card now says the following:
Part A - effective date 10/01/2023 (they used my birth month when in reality I didn't receive part A until May of 2024)
Part B - effective date 02/01/2024 (again, this is misleading as I didn't receive part B until April of 2024)
I recently worked with a local broker to enroll in Part c. I explained what happened and he said it was not an issue to have me enrolled in their plan. I now have Part c and only intend to hold it for 6 months. I am planning to switch to Original Medicare plus Part G + Part D in the fall. My questions are following:

1. The SSA is asking me to pay the Part B premium for the months in which I did NOT have access to medicare. The bill covers February through June when medicare wasn't approved until mid-April. Is this normal??
   
2. Does the trial period right under the guaranteed issue right apply for me when I try to switch to Original Medicare in December 2024? The rule says it only applies if I enrolled in Part C as a 65 year old who first became eligible for Medicare. This sounds like they are referring folks who enrolled in Part C during the initial enrollment period. I obviously couldn't enroll in Part C as early as I wanted because of the SSA messing up my case.
   
3. If the answer to my question #2 is NO, do I have to worry about any premium increase based on the medical underwriting when I try to join Part G in the fall? I am currently healthy with no underlying conditions or medications.
   
4. Do I have to pay the late enrollment penalty for Part D starting next year? The rule says I have to if I went without the drug coverage for 63 days or longer in a row post the initial enrollment period. Even if I wanted to apply for a separate Part D within that 63 day window, I wouldn't have been able to do so because the SSA didn't approve my Part B until mid-April.
   
5. Now that I look into things further, I am realizing that the broker signed me up for Part C during what's called the special enrollment period. He didn't explain anything to me but there is no other way that He was able to get me signed up for Part C outside the initial enrollment period or the annual open enrollment period. No idea what he gave as the reason to the insurance company for me enrolling during the SEP. Is this going to cause any issue down the road as far as switching to Medigap concerns?
   
6. I am planning to stick to Part C for about 6 months starting June 1st. Will the insurance comany allow me to use the dental and vision related benefits up to the annual limit during this period? I am wondering if they typically prorate the annual limit based on the number of months that the beneficiary is enrolled in their plan (when they are enrolled for less than a year).
   

Thanks so much to everyone who can share their perspective/insights on any of the questions.

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Anyway I have some goods for you today from 90% below melt to some nice premium Gov't stuff. I also priced out my ASE's for anyone looking to fill some holes. As always feel free to send offers with comps if my prices are off, but I think everything should be inline with spot where it is at.
Alright here is the proof now let's get to the sale!
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🥇Gold🥇

3x Gold Grams in assay - $85 each SOLD
FBP cheapest loose is around $88 and cheapest in Assay is $92. Will meet you in the middle at $85 and cover shipping if you buy all three.
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🥈Vintage Silver🥈

7.6oz Vintage/Mixed Lot - $250
Nice mix of stuff from the 80's and pre-2000s and a stage coach breakable bar
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🥈90% Under Melt 🥈

Melt is just over 22.8x FV on coinflation so that is my ask. $1 face value of 90% is $22.80. Buy any type/amount you like and round down to the nearest whole dollar so we end up at an even number (I will drop the cents off your total). Do me a favor and buy all the 90% and I will cover shipping (and probably throw in a few freebies)

• $12.00 FV Washington Quarters - Any Amount, UNDER MELT
• $2.00 FV JFK Half Dollars - Any Amount, UNDER MELT
• $19.50 FV Franklin Half Dollars - Any Amount, UNDER MELT
• $10.00 FV Walking Liberty Half Dollars - Any Amount, UNDER MELT

Also have some 40% and Cull 90% available, but ya got to take the lot. Don't need to buy both, but I would prefer to not split these up.

• $5 FV 40% JFK Half Dollars - $45 (or 4.5x FV)
• $2.25FV of Holey 90% - $45 (or 20x FV)

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🥈Perth Silver🥈

• 3x 2022 Kook - $36
• 3x 2023 Kook - $36
• 3x 2016 Lunar Year of the Monkey w/ Privy - $39

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🦅 Silver Eagle Hole Fillers / Album 🦅

JM BuyBack is $33ish for random year and $32ish for Culls, FBP cheapest random year $37.73. Setting my base price at $34 and premiums/quantity vary by year. While there may be more in the proof photo I am only selling at most 5 of each year at this time. Just so everything is above board here is the proof of the eagle dates

• 1986 ASE - 5 available - $54.00 (JM BuyBack)
• 1987 ASE - 5 available - $41.00
• 1988 ASE - 3 available - $41.00
• 1989 ASE - 1 available - $44.00
• 1990 ASE - 4 available - $44.00
• 1991 ASE - 4 available - $43.00
• 1992 ASE - 5 available - $44.00
• 1993 ASE - 5 available - $44.00
• 1994 ASE - 5 available - $52.00
• 1995 ASE - 5 available - $52.00
• 1996 ASE - 5 available - $57.00 (JM BuyBack)
• 1997 ASE - 4 available - $44.00
• 1998 ASE - 1 available - $44.00
• 1999 ASE - 5 available - $41.00
• 2000 ASE - 1 available - $39.00
• 2001 ASE - 5 available - $37.00
• 2002 ASE - $37.00 (only available as part of larger lot/set)
• 2003 ASE - 1 available - $37.00
• 2004 ASE - $37.00 (only available as part of larger lot/set)
• 2005 ASE - 1 available - $37.00
• 2006 ASE - $36.00 (only available as part of larger lot/set)
• 2007 ASE - 5 available - $36.00
• 2008 ASE - 5 available - $36.00
• 2009 ASE - 1 available - $36.00
• 2010 ASE - 1 available - $34.00
• 2011 ASE - 3 available - $34.00
• 2012 ASE - 3 available - $34.00
• 2013 ASE - 2 available - $34.00
• 2014 ASE - 1 available - $34.00
• 2015 ASE - 1 available - $34.00
• 2016 ASE - 3 available - $34.00
• 2017 ASE - $34.00 (only available as part of larger lot/set)
• 2018 ASE - 2 available - $35.00
• 2019 ASE - 5 available - $34.00
• 2020 ASE - 3 available - $34.00
• 2021 Type 1 ASE - 5 available - $38.00
• 2021 Type 2 ASE - 2 available - $35.00
• 2022 ASE - $34.00 (only available as part of larger lot/set)
• 2023 ASE - 3 available - $34.00
• 2024 ASE - 2 available - $34.00

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🌟 Star Wars 🌟 / ✨ Mandalorian Lots✨

Lot pics (forgot to include beskar in these pics but it is in the main proof)
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• 2oz Jedi/Rebel Lot - $79 shipped
  • 2023 Jedi Order
  • 2022 Rebel Alliance

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• 3oz Grogu Lot - $120 Shipped
  • 2023 Grogu (Din Grogu)
  • 2022 Grogu
  • 2021 Grogu (The Child)

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• 3oz PCGS First Strike TEP Lot - $125 shipped
  • PCGS First Strike 2021 Grogu (The Child)
  • PCGS First Strike 2022 IG-11
  • PCGS First Strike 2022 Rebel Alliance

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• 3oz Darth Vader Lot - $115 shipped
  • 2022 Darth Vader
  • 2020 Darth Vader
  • 2018 Darth Vader

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• 6oz Mando Lot - $235 Shipped
  • 2023 Grogu (Din Grogu)
  • 2022 Grogu
  • 2021 Grogu (The Child)
  • 2021 Mando
  • 2022 IG-11
  • 2023 Beskar Bar

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• 13oz Instant Collection -$475
  • 6oz Mando Lot
  • 3oz Darth Vader Lot
  • 2oz Jedi/Rebel Lot
  • 2021 Millennium Falcon
  • 2020 Boba Fett
  • Optional Add On 2019 Darth Vader for $35 (1 available)

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Shipping is $5 or $10 if not already included, but I have been know to make it free as part of my "No Haggle Discount". Payment by most methods but no crypto, and as always I am more than happy to use a middleman if it makes you feel more comfortable.
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Anyone remember when lifting restrictions end? I’m at 7 weeks post op robotic assisted laparoscopic RNY and relocated out of state and can’t get a new provider (they won’t see me until I’m 12 weeks out since that’s their policy on transfer patients and my last provider is basically done with me since I moved), but I have a 5 year old who’s about 50lbs ( just under) and he wants picked up sometimes. I used to love carrying him, but I’m afraid of a hernia.
Think I’m ok? I’m 36 y/o male and my recovery has been great. Very little pain, easy recovery, walking 10k steps a day almost days after surgery etc. Down 60lbs already and following my diet/wateprotein religiously, though I’ve been a bit slow with solids just out of caution.
I think I was told 6 weeks, but don’t know if I’m cleared or still need to wait a while? And I hear about people doing stuff at 5 weeks, 3 months, etc. I just don’t know and I’m just like on my own for the moment. On both sides I’m told to reach out to the other surgeon or go to ER if I have an issue.

Warning: very slight and extremely vaguemovie spoilers.
okay so my mom said it was my turn to pick the movie this time since my sister usually picks, and I had a few choices in my head which were, Coraline, the Addams family, the Munsters, Ghost busters 2024, Nimona, box trolls, and labyrinth. I then realized that I shouldn't pick the Addams family, the Munsters, or Coraline because my mom HATES Halloween movies and spooky stuff. So then I thought about box trolls, but then realized my mom would probably find the trolls gross, and also would probably find the creatures in labyrinth gross and the story weird in general. Then I thought about Nimona and it was pretty good but then remembered my mom is homophobic. A lot of the TV I like is spooky, weird or queer. So I tried putting on Ghost busters 2024 since I thought it was the best option but my mom left the room like 5 seconds (slightly dramatic) into the opening because she found it "too scary". So now family movie night is canceled for the 100th (being dramatic) time because we can't agree on a movie. We never can. It's so hard. :( I just wish we could like the same things and watch TV together.
tldr: my mom hates a lot of fhe movies I like and it makes family movie nights hard

It's that time of the year again! Star Citizen is having another free fly event. Until May 29th, it's free to play the game! If you sign up with my referral code and decide to get a game package, in addition to the 5,000 UEC you get to help start your journey, you'll also get access to the ships I have; provided we're on at the same time. I have over 30 ships in my hangar, and more including the loaners. This means you will be able to save money and time purchasing ships by using mine before you decide to buy anything more. Whether you want combat, hauling, mining, the choices are yours. Just shoot a friend request to "Litodrift3rboi" and I'll get you set up. I can even take you on a tour and give you some training. Depending on how much money and gear I have, I can also get you set up with some resources to make your experience easier.
Click the link below to get started:https://robertsspaceindustries.com/enlist?referral=STAR-4KS3-Q94MSTAR-4KS3-Q94M for 5,000 UEC [+More, see post]

There is context here so thank you for reading. I moved in with my bestfriend of 14 years last September when we were both tired of commuting and got new jobs (smart, I know). The day we moved in we started having some issues concerning me not feeling considered by her. These things included her changing our move in date without telling me first before we actually moved because it better suited her plan to move in slowly, her running late to our move in day appointment and expecting me to wait over an hour for her and telling me it’s okay for me to wait for her, and her telling me my opinion was irrelevant and pointless to bring up after what I thought was a simple conversation that I started after I almost got into a bad car accident and came into the apartment flustered, telling her about it. After all these instances I asked her if we could talk about it as I was feeling really hurt by her and didn’t want to start our moving in on a bad note, especially since I just signed a lease with her. She was very defensive and told me I could say the same things back to her, that nothing she says is personal, and that she’s not going to say “nothing” like I was telling her to do (I never told her that, I just said that some of the things she says to me, I would never say to her). She also said in response to me asking to talk because she hurt my feelings, that I hurt her feelings all the time too but when I asked her what she was referring to she wouldn’t say.
I started distancing myself from her at this point because I didn’t want to get hurt anymore and talking to her lead nowhere except me feeling more hurt and regret about even trying to solve things with her in the first place.
Back in November, I found out my now husband and I were expecting our first baby! We had my first appointment over zoom and the very same day my roommate asked me if I could go to the leasing office or call them concerning a sound she’d been hearing in her room for a few weeks thinking it could be rodents. I told her I normally always help her if I could but at that moment I couldn’t and it would be better if she found out who to contact herself. I could barely give her my full attention that day and also expressed that to her. Me saying no set her off in a way that I’m still in shock about. She told me she couldn’t understand why I couldn’t do it, that she knew I could do it, that she’ll do it but it’s hard for her because she’s busy and she knew I was at the apartment, that it would’ve made more sense for me to say no if she asked me to go drive somewhere and pick something up, and also mentioned that her case managetherapist told her it’s not a big deal to ask when I texted her sorry I can’t help. She also told me I was not genuinely trying to understand what she wanted me to do. All this because I said no, I’m busy. She blew up my phone over the course of 48 hours.
After this we had a blow out where I defended my not having to justify “no”. It was was pretty ugly and I was really rubbed the wrong way. She wanted to talk the next day with her or my younger sister being the mediator, (I told her I didn’t think that was a good idea). I verbalized to her that I wasn’t in a space to talk to her for a while and needed to focus on my family, but that I’d let her know when I was ready to talk. I’m in therapy and realized she went too far and I just don’t want to be friends anymore. I don’t want to be hurt anymore.
It is now May, I’m due in July, and we still haven’t spoken because I’m still so hurt by her and REALLY want to end the friendship. We talk here and there about things concerning the apartment and she even gifted me some baby clothes which I really appreciated and sent her a thank you card. I also sent her a gift for her birthday, her favorite scent. We’re still technically roommates since I’m still on the lease until September but I’ve moved out and live with my husband, I just pay the rent there. I sent her a message in March explaining why I became distant, that I was hurt and needed to focus on my baby, and that if she’s still up for being cordial or finding a resolution I am too but I understood if too much time had gone by. She told me she still has love for me but wanted to take it slow and we haven’t really talked since then. She occasionally sends me memes. It still irritates me whenever I see messages from her.
How do I stop being friends with her without coming across like a jerk? Do I need to send her a message when we’re officially not roommates anymore?

Time Manipulation

Time Stop/Slow - You can stop time for however long you want to. You can fly and levitate as long as time is stopped, you also don't age and can survive having no oxygen during a time stop. Time Slow is just well, slowing time to how slow you want to, for how long you want to.
Age Stop/Slow - like time stop but it only affects your body's aging. You can slow it down so that 40 weeks would equal 1 hour of your lifespan or just time stop it so you don't age. You can still move and think at regular pace.
Specific Object Time Stop/Slow - you can make something or someone age faster or slower and only it would be affected, if you chose something living their perception of time alters to be super slow or super fast depending on what you set their body to, for example if they stop moving completely/move slowly it means their perception of time is super slow. You can choose if they can move in regular pace or not if you stop time.
Speeding up time for yourself is useless so it is excluded from the manipulation

Knowledge Based

Historical Omniscience - You know everything that did happen in the past since the universe started in fine detail, and all possibilities that didn't happen (and where/what future those possibilities lead to).
Future Omniscience - Same as the last one but the future. You know every possible thing that hasn't happened yet all the way to how the world would end (if it even would, the ending of the world is up to subjective opinion anyway)

Time Travel

Time Leap (Time Travel: Consciousness Type) - You basically put your current consiousness to your past self's body. You can't go past being 4 years old being to being just 2 weeks old in your mother's uterus because it's pointless as fuck so you can only leap up until your 4th birthday. This was also inspired by Steins;Gate
Past Mental Suggestion - similar to the D-Mail from Steins;Gate but instead of phone mails/messages and using a microwave and a CRT you just use your time powers to send a telepathic mental suggestion to someone in the past to change their future which is your present drastically so you don't have to time travel yourself and just have someone think they did it themselves. If you want to undo the changes you can also put a mental blocker on their brain a few minutes earlier before that mental suggestion went into their brain at the set time in the past so they wont do what you wanted them to do.
Physical Time Travel - You can go into the past or future before you were even born or after you died, you can choose where you land to too, because if you can't you could end up in space or underground because everything moves. The planets move and orbit their star, the stars move and orbit their galaxy, all the galaxies are attracted to some force and therefore move, the universe expands moving everything farther away from eachother.

Need a help for a friend who was approached by a girl on insta and then after a period of interaction on Instagram he was invited to her girlfriend's house in Pune. She is not from Pune. They had consensual sex. Marriage was out of the question as she and he were both aware of caste differences and likely objection from Girls parents. Girls belongs to a dominant caste in Maharashtra. Fast forward girl comes to Bangalore to visit him. They have sex on multiple occasions in my friends house and she visits him on a daily basis. My friend now is in love with this girl.They go out and act as a girlfriend and boyfriend. Out of nowhere girl asks for access to insta, gmail, Facebook and reads messages as old as 10 years and then goes batshit crazy accusing him of cheating on her as this guy had asked out other girls too even she was aware that they were not gonna marry and it was casual fling. Now she is threatening to file false cases of rape and she is threatening him on daily basis also telling him that she will implicate his family too. Note: she have had past history of posting obsene content of her intimate moments with her ex bf on his Instagram. Her threats revolve around - I will get you beaten, will shame you and your family and file case of rape against him.
Please help here with what should be ideal modus operandi?

I’ve had a run of what feels like bad luck in my career. I’m 15 years into the industry and I’m on company #6. My stays at companies have been 7, 1, 1, 3, 2, and about 2 years at the current place. I’ve never chased a promotion or a pay raise. I’ve changed just to try different things in the industry or because we needed to move closer to family.
I took my current job because the owner of a small firm made big promises that weren’t true. Boss is a massive micromanager and expects me to put work in front of family. It’s a tiny company so not like I can transfer or get a new boss.
I feel so stuck. I’ve done a couple interviews but I can tell everyone looks at my resume and sees a job hopper and that’s not the case at all. Our industry really seems to be full of people that are 20+ years at their firms. I’m really good at what I do and am a great addition to any team but I feel like I’ve screwed myself with my job changes.
I feel like I’m screwed no matter what. I feel forced to stay in this job because I have to show longevity even though I know the experience is bad in the short term. on the other hand, you hear how badly our industry needs people but I feel like my options are severely limited, if not completely zero.
Anyone else dealt with this? Do you have any advice?

Hey guys. So my wife and I of 9 years have been poly for almost 2 years now. She has been seeing a woman for a few months now and I'm happy she's happy. The NRE is strong though and I'm having a bit of a hard time with some jealousy and was hoping for some advice on how to combat that. I know the oldest story in the book. We have talked about it and we both say we want to make time for each other but we haven't.
I'm also having trouble with balancing my feelings? I don't know how to word it but I either feel like I'm being overly clingy and needy, or I feel like I'm basically ignoring her or pushing her to spend all her time with her in an attempt to play it cool.
I know it seems like I'm not fine with her being with her but I am. I truly am I've just always been an emotional guy and have big feelings. I do my best to control them but it's hard not to let my mind wonder.
For some context we work opposite schedules. She works 6pm-8am and I work 8am-7pm. So we hardly see each other as it is. We also currently only have one car so when she's out with her girlfriend I can't really go anywhere or do anything to keep myself busy.
Thank you all for letting me express my feelings and for any advice you can give me!

TL:DR: My fiance is messaging another woman, and i am devastated. And very pregnant. How do i navigate this?
Background: We've been together for 5 years, engaged for 2.5. We have an 18-month old together and I am currently 32 weeks pregnant. I also have a 9 yo from a previous marriage. We bought a house together 2 years ago. I lost my job in March and he has his own business.
Full disclosure: I've been in some rocky relationships. I've been cheated on, I've been the cheater. But I have never loved anyone like this, and I've never even considered cheating on my fiance. In fact, I outgrew my "wild" phase when we started getting serious, and I have never been more happy, loved, satisfied, and wanted.
Until recently. 2 weeks ago, he had to go out of town for work. He asked me to go, but we had nobody to take care of our dogs, so I stayed home with my 18-month old (my 9 yo was with other parent). We had been in a weird funk for a couple of weeks before this, and I really didn't know why. I thought the distance would maybe help, and it did. We flirted, talked dirty, said how much we missed each other, & we were both super lovey. I couldn't wait for him to get home.
However, one odd thing happened. He told me he'd like to watch me with another woman. This immediately sent up red flags, because he knows that I HAVE done that before but he's never said he wanted that to happen. All kinds of thoughts went through my head.. "Is he wanting to see someone else? Am I not good enough anymore? am I not satisfying him sexually?" But, I told him I would do that since it was his fantasy. I asked him who he had in mind, because I KNEW he had to be thinking of someone. He said he didn't know, but suggested the person I did it with before, which happens to be my best friend. We were young and experimenting, we've grown past it, and I'm not interested in that with her at this point. So, i told him as much. He said okay, then we can go on a dating app or something together, and reassured me that he would NOT go on any without me or look for anyone without me.
Nothing much more has been said about it.. he worked at home for a week, then last week our son and I joined him out of town. I thought we were good.
Last night, I was in the bathroom getting ready for a surprise congratulatory dinner I threw for him for obtaining a new license for his business, and he left his phone in the bathroom with me. His Snapchat went off, it didn't phase me, but he hurried into the bathroom and snatched his phone up. It ended up being his brother and he announced that to me like.. I care? So it was weird. Later, he ran into the store and left his phone in the car and I snooped.
There was a message thread from a lady that I don't know. His last message to her was along the lines of, "I hope I didn't freak you out last night by asking you to fool around." She hadn't yet responded. I almost threw up. I didn't dare scroll up to see the rest of the conversation because I knew I wouldn't be able to handle it. I closed Snapchat and set his phone down, and drove home like nothing happened. I got my kids to bed, then sat in my bed and cried for 3 hours. He was in the basement watching TV.
I vented to my aforementioned best friend, who confessed to me that after we had talked about his fantasy, he messaged her to ask if she would be interested.. after I told him I didn't want that. Why didn't she tell me when it happened? Because she's an awful friend and always has been, but I can tell her anything. Now, though, I don't even want to talk to her.
I had no idea what to do. I'm broken. I text him to say that I wanted to get my tubes tied after this baby (we'd been debating on having another) because if something happened to us, we'd have 4 kids with split parents. Idk why, it was the only thing I could think of that would alert him to the fact that something was wrong, without having the full-on conversation. He asked why I was thinking like that, said that he would never leave me, blah blah blah, a bunch of total horse shit in my opinion. I eventually went to "sleep" (if you can even call it that), and he came to bed and snuggled up to me. I pretended to be snoozing.
We had a big fun day planned today, so I didn't want to ruin it for my kids. Which is why I chose to not confront him last night. I held it together pretty well, except in the shower and now. But he can tell something is wrong. He asked me about 100x what's wrong, if he did something wrong, etc. He also had a very bad upset stomach today. Maybe nerves?
Anyway, I'm now getting my kids to bed and then I'm going to sit down with him. I really don't know what to expect. I don't think there is anything he could say that will make me ever feel secure again. I truly thought this was my forever, my happy ending. I could go on and live this life, where I'm constantly second guessing myself and being suspicious any time he kisses me, but I don't want that. I'm in the most vulnerable position I've ever been in, and it is fucking terrifying. I have no one. I have no job, soon to be 3 kids, and hell, maybe homeless.
Please send me good vibes, prayers, whatever you believe. And if you have a similar story and you were able to move past it and be happy again, please tell me how.

I'm quite new, but I upgraded my old desktop's CPU, GPU, and RAM, and everything went well after some short troubleshooting; now my computer is better than ever! Except for that, when my GPU starts working hard (Medium-heavy games, stress tests, even watching a high-res Discord stream once), my computer will shut down and automatically begin rebooting. I've used DDU and made sure the drivers I reinstalled were up-to-date, that my wiring is correct, and that the BIOS settings are all on optimized defaults, but the problem persists.
Looking online for solutions led me to believe I have a PSU issue. Some estimates for my build say I'm well over the wattage required, and some say I'm well under it. Is my problem the PSU? If not, what's your theory? If so, what wattage should I upgrade to, and any recommendations for brand? I can give more information if needed.
Specs are as follows: CPU: Ryzen 5 5600X (w/ stock fan) GPU: Radeon RX 6600 (w/ two fans) Motherboard: B350M Bazooka RAM: 2x16GB DDR4 3200 PSU: Channel Well Technology 500W If you want to do power calculations, I also have a 1TB 7.2K RPM HDD, four 120mm case fans w/ LEDs, and a few peripherals.

Hi, this may be a long post, but I'm trying to figure myself out and I want to see what you all have to say. For context, I am a 16 year old probably closeted trans girl and I live in one of the worst places for trans people in the US. So my story starts off when I was pretty young. I remember one time, when I was like 4, my parents were expecting a baby and when the gender was revealed to be a boy, I was pretty upset. I thought that being a girl was so much more superior and I was disappointed that he would live as a boy. Later, when I was like 6 or 7 I remember being very "depressed" (for lack of a better word) that I was a boy. I hated my genitals and I would do anything to be a girl. For the next several years, I think I repressed those feelings. But a pretty important thing happened when I was like 11. I think I just learned about trans people and I was talking to my very conservative friend about why I didn't understand that lgbt people were so frowned upon. He went on about how God is never wrong and all that BS. At first, I didn't really care but as time progressed, I really started disliking LGBT. I was a big transphobe and somewhat of a homophobe, but I mostly targeted my hate to trans people. I was the stereotypical GC person, I engaged in all of their discourse and saw trans people as just their birth gender etc. But even with that, there was a small part of me that didn't hate trans people. So back in like November ish, I finally started accepting trans people (I already stopped being homophobic well before this point.
So back to current day. I have been questioning my gender for about 6 months now. I've looked up gender dysphoria symptoms and everything and I fall somewhat into those categories. This twitter thread I relate to heavily https://twitter.com/nightlingbug/status/1215716433210105856 and it seems like this applies true to many trans people. I've done the famous "would you press a button to turn you female forever" test and I absolutely would press the button. But even with this, I still feel doubt. I'm worried that if I'm trans, it wouldn't be worth losing my friends, business opportunities, legal rights, etc just to be myself. I've been thinking of names and such, but nothing really works for me. I hear she/her and it just sounds weird, probably because I've used he/him my whole life. There's probably more details I'm missing, but that concludes pretty much my whole experience. If anyone has any advice please let me know.

The song is actually mildly catchy but the video (especially viewed today) is cheese-factor 10.0. I don't know what language they are singing in but it's most likely a European language as all of the people in it are white.
The male singer has big beautiful blond-ish hair and is wearing a shirt that is unbuttoned down to at least half way to his belly button. The female is many years his junior in age and is wearing (from what I remember) a skirt with a poodle on it.
They are clearly mimicing the musical/film Grease (1978) but are on what appears to be some kind of space station. There are about a dozen male and female dancers that perform a highly choreographed routine. At the end of the video, the couple departs the space station in some sort of 50's convertable (in space ... yeah it's weird) and can be seen waving goodbye to the people on the space station who are watching them depart .
The duo had other songs together (I did some online research at the time but I don't remember much of anything that I learned). There was controversy because of the large age gap and as it turns out the two were romantically involved even though the guy was already married.
I remember in my research seeing a picture of the guy at the gravesite of the woman as she died young. The guy apparently made promises to her about leaving his marriage and being with her but never did. It's a sad ending to what I thought was just a mildly catchy but cheesy video.
I don't think it will be too difficult to solve if the right person reads this. I believe that it somehow came up on one of my social media feeds because it was re-discovered and went viral.

About two weeks ago my Fortnite started acting weird. Where it would crash 90% of the time on startup, and then on rare occasions it would let me get through to the menu where I could change skins etc, but soon as I found a match it would crash. There was one rare instance after a restart where I went on and played two matches before it crashed too.
I've researched a bunch and tried a ton of fixes similar to another post a user did a year ago I followed each step he did too. Copying what I did from his thread.
"Complete reinstall of Nvidia drivers

1. Verified game files more times than I can count
2. Reinstalled both the launcher and fortnite itself
3. DNS flush
4. IP release and renew
5. Deleted all temp files
6. Ran launcher and .exe as admin
7. Ran the shipping.exe in compatibility mode for windows 8
8. Disabled full screen optimizations
9. Repaired C++ both x64 and x86
10. Restart my computer a bunch
11. Used d3d11 (DirectX 11) in the launcher
12. Reinstalled both the battle eye and easy anti cheat client
13. Disabled background and startup apps
14. Reset WINSOCK and IP stack
15. I have renamed and deleted the UserSettings.ini (it did not create a new one on launch so that could be part of it)
16. Log in and out of your account"

And the game still crashes. Not sure why it's doing this as I have a pretty powerful pc. Also I've tried different games with direct X11 and X12 and no issues there.
My pc specs are
4090
32gb ram
i9-13900k
windows 11
Gigabyte Technology Co. Ltd. Z790 UD AC
Game is also on an SSD with about 200gb of free space available out of 1tb
Any solutions? Really prefer not to fresh install my PC just for Fortnite but not really sure what else could be causing it to instantly crash and then on rare occasions get to the menu or even the game. Talking to support too but they keep giving me recommendations that I've done above lol.

Ok, long story short....rental house in San Diego, California, so we are under SDG&E and rates are very high. Minimum electric and gas bill is $380 per month, even with no one home. Max bill is about $1100 during the summer with the AC on (set at 78 degrees). I know something is wrong, but after years of trying to find out what, I still don't have the answer. I even called SDGE a couple times, and even they were amazed that the bills were so high. Landlord says these bills are 'normal', but neighbors say theirs are not that high ever.
So I bought an ammeter to try and find high current circuits and rooms. However, the installation in the electrical box is very tight and I cannot get the ammeter clamp around the hot wires to test. Is there a good ammeter anyone can recommend to be able to get into the tight spots so I can finally try to narrow down where all this power is going?
Note: no pool, no electric vehicles, can't do solar without installing in the yard and paying for it myself (landlord won't allow a roof install), TV hardly ever on, lights are mostly LED in the house.

My baby is 6.5 months old. She has trouble with naps during the day and sometimes only takes a couple 30 minute naps the whole day/ we’ve tried a lot of things but since she has always slept well at night, my pediatrician said some babies just don’t need that much sleep and that my baby is just fine with longer wake windows and a few short naps. Anyways thats not exactly my problem- just some context.
At around 6:30 every night, My partner and I would rock her to sleep and she would be fully asleep when we would put her down (i know now this was a mistake for us) and she would usually stay asleep until the morning (6 am). We were thrilled obviously. Then, she started rolling around a lot and so we stopped using The Merlin Sleepsack and put her in a dreamland weighted sleepsack with her arms out and we also wanted to stop rocking her (she is getting heavy!). We tried doing our whole bedtime routine and then just putting her down in her crib drowsy. She would cry and cry and cry. Sometimes even for 1 hour straight. We were committed. We would come in but not hold her- just tell her we are here and maybe put our hand on her stomach. She was hysterical. We didn’t give in. We were hopeful it would get better each night we did it. But now its been like 2 weeks, and she still cries hysterically every time- sometimes 30 minutes, sometimes 40 minutes. I literally feel like my body is on being held over a cliff for the entire time she cries- my husband is way more disciplined than me but we have managed to not give in to hold her but just check on her to make sure she is fine/didn’t poop or isn’t uncomfortable or something.
I am feeling hopeless like this will never end. I feel sad for putting her through this every night but I also want her to be able to go to sleep more independently.
Any advice?

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (KCTV) - A woman bitten by a dog in KCK’s Strawberry Hill neighborhood calls roaming dogs a growing problem and is raising her voice to city leaders.
On the evening of Sunday, May 5, Jesse Molina was taking a walk with her husband and her dog Lucy. They saw another dog wandering the street unsupervised. In her three years living there, she’s seen numerous dogs roaming free. She kept a watchful eye but the dog seemed to be minding its own business. Then suddenly, the dog darted at her and Lucy. The dog, which she described as a pit bull and police described as a pit mix, gave them no warning. No bared teeth, no growling. Just attacked out of the blue, unprovoked.
“It took all three of us fighting this dog off and I’ve never, I’ve seen dog fights and this is this was not, this was, it was a monster,” Molina said, clearly still so distraught that she had trouble finding words to describe the moment.
THE ATTACK
She said the dog lunged at Lucy’s throat. Lucy has stitches and staples in various places. Molina has a bandage on her wrist. I photo she took in the hospital shows a deep, gaping puncture wound. She began crying as she described the day and her fear for others.
“It just fluctuates between grief, sadness, profound depression,” Molina said of her emotional state. “And I think gratitude because we’re still alive.” She’s been writing to elected officials. She wants something done to prevent this from happening to anyone else. She thanked her Strawberry Hill community of neighbors with intervening to help. She praised the police department’s animal services unit officer who responded and started an investigation. And she wondered what the solution could be. More officers for enforcement? Stricter laws? More education?
WHAT’S BEING DONE
KCK police said they are already being aggressive with enforcement and education. Police Department spokeswoman Nancy Chartrand researched data on complaints and citations in 2022 and 2023, the most recent years available for year-end reports. Chartrand said the department had a 26% increase in calls about dogs off-leash in 2023 than the previous year. In that same time, they had a 62% increase in the number of citations issued.
A municipal court judge makes the final call, Chartrand said, on what fines and orders to give for violations of several ordinances already on the books.
Ordinances require dogs to be registered, spayed or neutered, vaccinated and kept on a leash. There is an ordinance related to allowing a dog to reasonably place a person in fear for their safety. All are misdemeanors. There is a process for having a dog declared dangerous and requiring additional measures from the dog’s owner.
What they don’t include is automatically euthanizing a dog after a bite. The current steps involve a 10-day quarantine. If someone admits to being the dog’s owner, they get the dog back pending court. In court, a judge decides on fines and restrictions. If no one admits to owning the dog, the dog is put down because the shelter can’t responsibly adopt out a dog with a bite history.
BREED BANS Molina said it’s not the fact that she and Lucy were attacked by a dog in general but the extreme nature of the attack, which she attributes to the breed.
Bans on specific breeds have fallen out of favor in recent years under pressure from residents who consider them arbitrary, discriminatory, and ineffective. Animal rescue groups have argued against them. The ASPCA has said, “Breed-specific legislation, or BSL, is the blanket term for laws that either restrict or ban certain dog breeds in a misguided effort to decrease dog attacks on humans and other animals.” Wyandotte County had a pit bull ban on the books for nearly 30 years and repealed it 5 years ago. Nearly every other city in the metro has repealed breed-specific bans, moving instead to dangerous dog ordinances that focus on the behavior of a dog rather than deeming particular breeds, typically pit bulls, as dangerous.
MOVING FORWARD Molina now plans to move to the suburbs where she hopes she, her husband and Lucy will be safer.
“I’m not going to stay in the city, but I’m going to make as much noise as possible before I leave,” Molina said. “And hopefully it will do something because I don’t know what else to do.”
Chartrand said the police department has been focused on both enforcement and education because, while some are willfully ignoring the rules, others simply grew up with a different perspective on what’s okay. She said the department partners with three outreach groups that hit neighborhoods daily to explain why such rules exist and direct them to free spay/neuter clinics. There are many responsible pet owners in the city, Chartrand emphasized, but those who ignore local ordinances are causing a disproportionate amount of problems.
Chartrand said the number of reported dog bites is down slightly in the past 12 months: 35 versus 42. She added that not everyone is willing to seek charges as a bite victim, and that is an essential step to holding dog owners accountable. She praised Molina for standing firm and encouraged others to show as much conviction.

Forgive my rather pointed question - I'm having trouble really understanding this and would love advice. For some reason this aspect of travel has given me quite a bit of stress lately!
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I have a reservation for an automatic car class (Clio Aut. or similar) at SIXT at the Ponta Delgada airport for next month. I can't drive manual transmission, so it needs to be automatic. I've scoured this subreddit, tripadvisor, and other forums to try to understand the automatic/manual situation in the Azores, and I'm still quite worried I'll show up and they will force me into a manual car when I've clearly reserved an automatic. I live in the US and am used to rental car companies scamming me and giving me the incorrect type of car all the time here. I have read many awful reviews of this SIXT location.
I got the SIXT reservation about eight months ago, with plenty of time in advance, and the price was not too bad. Can I TRUST the reservation? Should I be making a backup reservation somewhere else?
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I don't know of a way to contact the SIXT location to try to confirm it verbally or by email. The location has horrid reviews on google, yelp, etc., but so do most other rental locations in Sao Miguel. Reddit threads abound recommending various companies, after which I'll find horror stories for every single company listed. If anyone can give some really good comprehensive advice, I'd greatly appreciate it!

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As stated in the title, no matter what i do i get hit with "This device is not working properly because Windows cannot load the drivers required for this device. (Code 31)" I've reinstalled every driver i can think of being even remotely related to bluetooth, restored my pc to an old point, bought a new bluetooth dongle, expanded the allocated space on my pc for bluetooth, but still no dice.
If i disable the generic bluetooth radio i can still connect things such as my controller but ill get over 5 second delay, stick drift and more, or it just wont connect at all.
I'm honestly just stumped at this point so im now reaching out to you kind people of the internet.
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Hi everyone! I'm a 25M working in tech as a Data Scientist, I wanted to find someone with similar interests or hobbies.
I'm primarily interested in all things related to tech, I game a lot as well (I love Sekiro and Lies of P, along with other FPS games like Apex Legends and Destiny2 - I did download FFXIV too) and also watch anime (a LOT)
Office commute usually drains me of all my energy so I don't have enough social battery to socialize IRL and I don't want to involve my IRL work connections with my personal life so I'm hoping to meet people over here instead.
Other stuff about me:

1. I enjoy listening to others' rants and sometimes giving my inputs as well
2. Love pets! Bonus if you have pets (though I haven't adopted one as I plan to travel far soon)
3. South Asian
4. Bit socially anxious IRL, but online I can communicate just fine with people having shared interests
5. Additional hobby I had years ago was as an amateur astronomer at a dept of science funded observatory

If these connect with you, shoot a chat/dm about yourself! (Please just don't say hi/hey and go silent)