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316 sats \ 28 comments \ @327c19b153 18h AskSN
We don't have to get real personal here, but as an example I am trying to figure out how I can earn a living entirely on the Sov Stack (no-kyc, sats only, etc.). I'm not a technical developer but considering learning (beyond vibe-coding) to increase my value.
That's just an example from me. I'm not necessarily looking for solutions to my problem, but I'm curious what problems other people are grappling with. Technical/physical and intellectual problems primarily, not emotional ones (not sure this is the space, but by all means if you need a place to vent I wont stop you).
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50 sats \ 1 reply \ @SimpleStacker 17h
My biggest struggle right now is actually with diet and exercise. With two kids and lots of other obligations, it's hard to establish any routines. But the bigger issue than that is simply willpower.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @327c19b153 OP 17h
willpower is a helluva drug. Helps me reflect on my concerns about income. Also, not a father, but I can only imagine the struggle. Hopefully you get the time and space soon to get the routine(s) back online. YOUR health is critical. thanks for sharing
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121 sats \ 2 replies \ @k00b 17h
It's a regular struggle, but I'd like to figure out how to stuff more non-fiction reading/learning into my days without displacing coding and other work-related tasks and learning (which tend to deplete my will to learn yet another thing).
I can thread the needle of adding yoga at the start of my days, barely, with lots of discipline, but it only gives me a few hours of something else during which I tend to only want to indulge in fiction.
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50 sats \ 0 replies \ @327c19b153 OP 17h
nice, thats not the worst problem to have. I've adapted the principle of fiction before bed as a way to calm down and relax. I prefer pages, but even audiobooks seem to be great to fall asleep to.
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @SHA256man 15h
have u tried walking around the block in the sun instead of the 1 hour yoga session? 3 walks in the sun throughout the day at sunrise, noon, and sunset, consistently, will help u outperform most yoga-goers; ditch the sunglasses!
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @Car 11h
Unable to find 3I/ATLAS information, research or news that’s not coming from Avi Loeb. ☄️
Feel free to drop any links. Been searching endlessly for the past week.
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100 sats \ 0 replies \ @327c19b153 OP 5h
Possible alien tech eh? Im pretty out of my league here so idk if this helps but I gathered these:

1. Official / “boring but solid” info (no Loeb)

2. Peer-reviewed papers & preprints (non-Loeb authors)

Discovery & basic physical properties

Activity, dust & gas

  • Jewitt et al. – “Pre-perihelion Development of Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS” Nordic Optical Telescope photometry, activity vs heliocentric distance. https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.18769 ([arXiv][9])
  • Keto – “A Physical Model for the Ice Coma of 3I/ATLAS” Models the strange anti-tail seen in HST/Keck/Gemini, in terms of water-ice grains and CO₂ sublimation. https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.18157 ([arXiv][10])
  • Zubko et al. – “Unusual polarimetric response of interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS” (MNRAS Letters) Polarimetry of the dust coma; compares polarization behavior to solar-system comets. https://academic.oup.com/mnrasl/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnrasl/slaf112/8307494 ([OUP Academic][11])
  • Zhang et al. – “Rapid Brightening of 3I/ATLAS Ahead of Perihelion” Deals with the brightening close to perihelion when it was near conjunction. https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.25035 ([arXiv][12])

Origin, age & galactic context

  • Maggiolo et al. – “Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS: Evidence for Galactic Cosmic Ray Processing” Cosmic-ray–altered outer layers, age estimates of several Gyr, implications for composition. https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.26308 ([arXiv][13])
  • Pérez-Couto et al. – “3I/ATLAS: In Search of the Witnesses to Its Voyage” Back-traces its trajectory through the Galaxy, looks for candidate stellar encounters. https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07678 ([arXiv][14])

Direct responses to the “alien probe” angle (non-Loeb)

  • Haque – “Why 3I/ATLAS is Not an Alien Probe” (EarthArxiv) Walks through dynamics, non-gravitational acceleration, and why standard comet physics suffices. https://eartharxiv.org/repository/view/9820/ ([EarthArXiv][15])
  • Hibberd – “Is the Interstellar Object 3I/ATLAS Alien Technology?” (arXiv) Dark-forest style thought-experiment; not Loeb, but engages with that hypothesis from another angle. https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12213 ([arXiv][16])

3. JWST / SPHEREx / multi-telescope coverage

4. Popular-science articles pushing back on the alien-mothership stuff

5. Imagery, observing & amateur work

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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @SHA256man 15h
i make a case that people do not care enough; the power of care manifests in the limbic center of the brain (a region of the midbrain), and is interconnected with the nervous & electromagnetic field of the heart; note: french for heart is coeur;
the three allegorical enemies of good living, according to the American Masonry are:
  • ignorance (don't wanna know)
  • apathy (don't care)
  • cowardice (don't wanna stir things)
this allegory is also in the Wizard of Oz: the stupid scarecrow, the heartless tinman, and the cowardly lion;
when one truly cares for himself and others, he will learn whatever it takes and do whatever it takes to generate a good life;
as far as what i grapple with the most are the bad lights everywhere: #1244802
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42 sats \ 1 reply \ @327c19b153 OP 5h
I wish I knew enough to engage more thoroughly, your work is very interesting. I am in alignment with everything you're writing about, as far as I know. I've been using AI to help me understand all this. And the best I can contribute for certain, for now, is this:
If the goal is a good life, then this is the shortest path: build the conditions under which care is the default, not the exception. Under those conditions, the Trivium completes itself—inputs are sought, processing is honest, outputs are courageous. The culture will not be rescued by more information; it will be rebuilt by people who enforce their values with their calendars, their light, their sleep, their breath, their hands in the green, and their presence with one another. That is what turns knowledge into law and law into lived coherence.
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100 sats \ 0 replies \ @SHA256man 3h
u are on the right track! thanks for exploring my work =)
see, care/coeur is a daily exercise; people typically do not wake up and say to themselves "today i will care harder!" - they shud! the New Age religion is especially good at having followers "connect to the selves, relax, everything is going to be fine," and completely disregard the idea that waging war with care in the heart is also vital!
whereas the feminine "chalice" archetype stands for non-aggression (not pacifism), the masculine "blade" archetype stands for self-defense (not violence);
even deep inside the strictest prison, in a solitary confinement on death row, one can start the day with care for own body, and then start taking care of the guards (see the movie Green Mile, where the prison guard was healed by the prisoner, very powerful allegory);
in any case, all starts in the mind:
slides are from an Amazing presentation on Natural Law by Mark Passio, i watched it several times, the whole 9 hours, and still discover gems!
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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @OT 17h
One of my kids got gastro, then the rest of the family got it too. It's like a week just disappeared. Health is everything!
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @Signal312 4h
Yeah, that stuff can be insanely contagious. It whipped through our whole family one Christmas, years ago.
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42 sats \ 0 replies \ @327c19b153 OP 16h
It really is! Wishing you guys all the health!
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @grimtechnet 9h
I'm struggling with fulfilling my Maslow's hierarchy of needs Level 2 (Safety.) Specifically getting my financial needs met.
I'm living with parents, self-employed, working long hours every day, and after business expenses my personal income is $0. I've got credit card debt, a negative net worth, and it's been like this for 5+ years.
Every other day I'm ready to throw in the towel and find a "real job", but I can't give up. I'm all-in pursuing my dream of software development or dying trying.
Lately I'm struggling with working too much, and getting so stressed that my body shits out food without digesting it. I'm struggling with staying warm during my morning bicycle rides. Winter is just getting started.
Fuck Spokane winters. I ride every day if able, it's the only thing keeping me sane. Basically any day that's dry and warmer than 32 degrees F, I'm out cycling. I ride before the morning traffic rush starts, so this time of year that means I ride in complete darkness.
Once it freezes and snows, I'm going to lose my shit. It happens every winter, going from cycling 5 days a week to weeks without, I go to a bad place. I'm trying really hard to not dump the emotional details, but let's just say I have wanted to get myself closer to the equator for years.
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100 sats \ 0 replies \ @327c19b153 OP 5h
Please feel free to message me privately here if you ever need anything. Giving up isn't an option, but also know that defaulting, if you havent already considered, could be a progressive tactical play. Rooting for you big time. And yea man, fuck Spokane winters.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @nichro 10h
Never enough time outside work to do everything I want to do.
Need 40h days, 3-4day workweeks or just some of that sweet 19yo "pull all nighter and show up to class like it's nothing" type of energy
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @Machiavelli23 12h
With writing. I want to write but I haven’t had the time to sit down and start writing. I’ve been telling myself that I’m going to write and the years have passed and I still haven’t been able to. That’s why I’m on SN to find the muse.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @327c19b153 OP 5h
I'm not a writer myself, but I'm sure its difficult. Although I refuse to let you make excuses for yourself. Stay focused. You will find it.
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @Angie 15h
Pues te diré que estoy intentando ganar satos, y rellenar mi billetera, espero esta ves no perder mi clave semilla y aprender de mis errores, no volver a caer en la desesperación financiera y enfocarme en ganar.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @327c19b153 OP 5h
¡No olvides hacer una copia de seguridad de tu clave semilla! ¡Guárdala en un lugar seguro y seguro! Si es necesario, considera usar una firma multifirma. Si necesitas algo, no dudes en escribirme por privado aquí. Te deseo lo mejor.
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0 sats \ 7 replies \ @krispy_donkey 16h
Housing affordability.
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0 sats \ 6 replies \ @327c19b153 OP 16h
dont reveal private information, but i would love to hear more on this, if you dont mind. Im certain you arent the only one. Are you in a big city (you dont have to answer this)?
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0 sats \ 5 replies \ @krispy_donkey 16h
Sydney, Australia. One of the most expensive housing markets in the world particularly considering its population density. There is no shortage of ink spilled on the topic, is there anything in particular you’d like to know?
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @unboiled 12h
Sydney, Australia.
My condolences. We've lived in a fair few places, some of them with high costs of living, but no place hurt more than Sydney. Even London felt "affordable" in comparison.
Loved the city, despised the costs.
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0 sats \ 3 replies \ @327c19b153 OP 16h
just your thoughts on how your dealing with it. Wishing you all the best too, hope everything is ok atm. Im currently also in a very expensive city and I cant stand it. The cost of living is ridiculous, and its really hard to watch the people around me struggle so much.
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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @krispy_donkey 14h
Yes likewise, I wish you good luck too with this very tough nut to crack.
For my part I oscillate between total despair and determined optimism. We have been saving and investing for a while, and some of this investments have well, particularly Bitcoin, however as we have progressed down the learning path we don’t see Bitcoin as an investment anymore. But regardless, should the need ever arise we could liquidate everything and buy something, somewhere. It’s more a frustration of not being able to buy in one of the nicest places to live I’ve ever come across.
As it turns out we and the generations below us are all in the same boat, thanks to the petrodollar system if the US continues to grow its money supply so to do the governments of Australia, New Zealand, Canada etc. lest they unleash detrimental forces across their entire societies, not just hopeful home buyers. And that money needs to go somewhere.
So, really it’s our own fault for being born to parents living in these countries at the time we were, had we been born a generation or two earlier things would be quite different. But more seriously this problem is baked into our monetary system, it can be managed by governments, to a degree (big prints in the US cause big headaches to other govts), however some governments have mismanaged the problem grossly, usually because of self interested politicians with multiple investment properties of this town who have no interest in any seeing any changes to the current set up.
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100 sats \ 1 reply \ @SimpleStacker 12h
Well, something I'll say is that the cities that are considered desirable change over time. I don't know how it is with Sydney, but just in the last 30 years in Los Angeles Culver City has transformed from a more modest neighborhood to a high tech hipster place with soaring home values.
So instead of focusing on the places you can't afford, why not focus on building up the communities in the places that you can? And who knows, maybe 20 years from now, that community will be considered the more desirable place to live?
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @327c19b153 OP 5h
This is definitely how I'm feeling. Many upsides to these great cities but I've lost hope in seeing them as a place of sanctuary for the future. It seems that we have to start building the next ones.
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