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Been thinking about ways to explain this to a flat earth and I think I found a good one.. because I get it, thinking intuitively. It might be confusing as to why you could have air next to space. Here’s my angle:

Imagine a planet floating in space with no atmosphere at all. Imagine then it runs into a single “air molecule”. Because of gravity, that air molecule sticks to the surface now imagine it runs into another air molecule, then another one, then another one until the surface of this planet is covered evenly with one layer of air molecules. No problems so far right? I mean, why would the air molecules have a preference towards the emptiness of space versus the surface of the planet?

Now let’s build the second layer of air molecules, and a third, and a hundred, each one slightly less densely packed than the last and continue this until there hardly any..

It’s the “preference for the emptiness of space” idea I’m trying to work around. “Vacuums don’t suck” to quote professor Dave

I’m building an app mostly for a vehicle to learn not necessarily with commercial goals, but wanted to gut check my workflow and if there’s a better way.

I’m using CoWork to directly edit the local files on my machine, then running them in XCode onto my iPhone. I find an issue, whether it be a rendering issue that I screenshot on my phone or an error in the code which I screenshot and load into the chat for CoWork to look at and fix.

This workflow of screenshotting errors and issues, is this the best way? I often get stuck in the classic loop of “Done! It’s all fixed” to which I respond “the issue persists here’s the screenshot”

Wondering if there’s a more efficient want to handle that issue/resolution cycle.

As of August I will be paying $2,850/month in spousal support for the next 6 years. As of June 15 I will have just finished paying off $38,000 in personal debt, I was paying 1,000/mo for the last 3 years and $2,000/mo for the the last few months to clear that up before I start spousal support.

I’m 38, I have no personal savings or investments to speak of and no real retirement plan since the companies I work for general don’t offer pension (advertising). My monthly financials while paying spousal support will be pretty tight, i will have enough disposable income to enjoy life but won’t really be able to build appreciable savings, or afford vacations really..

Because in Canada/Ontario spousal support is 100% tax deductible I expect to get a good refund every April.

My question is: should I invest that money, just save it as cash or use it to reimburse myself every month so I have higher monthly cash flow just for life?

Rough calculations of investing $14k/yr then continuing to contribute $2850 for two years after spousal support ends shows I could have over $200k. But I’ll be living pretty tight for that entire time.

OR do I take the first two tax refunds, save those for a rainy day, then invest the rest?

Just wanted to share this as it’s been working really well. (This is not an ad/not sponsored lol)

Been using KOHO for like 10 years now (I think it’s Canada only but I’m sure there are many US equivalents. But it’s pretty much solved the issue of shared expenses with my girlfriend.

I make a lot more than her so I think it’s fair to not split things 50/50 so we agreed on 65/35. This would usually be very annoying, asking for reimbursement, or I get this, she gets that. But I got her on to KOHO too, and they let you have a joint account. So we use this joint account for any expenses we want to share. Groceries, meals, bills, rent, you name it. And every two weeks we simply load it up according to that split. Usually keeping it simple at $650/$350

Then we both add the joint accounts virtual card to our Apple wallet. Totally removes the friction from the expense sharing process.

This is different from having a joint bank account because all our income still goes to our individual accounts, we can’t see into each others accounts, and all of these accounts are free.

Anyone else used KOHO or have any other expense splitting approaches that have worked well?

I know it’s virtually impossible to get solid advice via Reddit, just looking for a gut check.

In lieu of borrowing $25k to go to court and possibly end up paying more for longer. I agreed to pay my ex wife 26.8% of my take home pay for 6 years. We were together for 13, married for 4.5, she was diagnosed with MS, is doing fine but wouldn’t definitely play that card in court, she’s essentially never worked so income would be listed as basically 0. No kids, no house, no investments, no savings. No debt equalization.

I figure this was the smartest move since I just got a new job where I make significantly more than when we split 3 years ago, so to avoid having to disclose my new financials I’m just saying f it, pay the 27% for 6 years and be done with it. No lawyers, no court.

She gets legal rep for free via Legal Aid Ontario, so they’re drafting everything up now. Will have a pro review it before I sign.

She’s asking for the mid amount according to the spousal support calculator on the Ontario govt website.

Thoughts?

Was curious about how much energy Niagara Falls puts out theoretically. Did not expect it to be this much.