Like Jacque said many times: most of our problems have an engineering nature. Too bad in the trade-based world solving them is not a Humanity's first priority..
UPD: This video should be considered as an illustration of the interesting engineering ideas and as a possibility to questionize a structure and efficiency of the existing cities, towns, villages and not in any circumstances as a project to be supported or invested in, since it might be just yet another scammy project promising "the revolution" but without any real intention to do it. See this criticizing video: ytb.trom.tf/watch?v=rB_X5ZUcZlā¦
What if we could start again? THE LINE rethinks everything we know about how people live, work and play. A 170 km-long vertical city, designed around people, rather than cars. A revolution in urban living.
hm...unfortunately I think this is quite a "scammy" thing. Sounds good in theory, except for the last part where they talk positively about trade, but I recommend you also watch this video ytb.trom.tf/watch?v=rB_X5ZUcZlā¦ :P
Unfortunately many companies are very good to lure us in, and I got sucked into a bunch of these too...impractical, money oriented, scams. I only recently found out about the above one, but sounds like many other projects I've heard of.
Anyway, if you have the time also watch the video I sent you.
I agree with what you said, but I am skeptical about this "LINE" thing.
Ah, yeah, that's true.. As any of such good looking projects might be scammy in the marketing world. Of course, it would never be possible for these ideas to come true because it implies that it is achievable in our trade-base world, but I doubt it ever is. We have seen it so many times with other good ideas around, like social medias, cloud technologies, etc., which in general very useful and helpful to people, but they turned out to become trade poisoned after all and right now - not more than just the shadows of previously great services..
I liked in that video that they are speaking about that the very essense of our cities and structures is not effective, being built too many centures ago, but we keep maintaining it - a thought, which is not told too much these days. All is focused on preserving the "cultural legacy", so those who is owning all of it can keep make money of it in different ways.
Also they speak about self-sustainability and efficiency and that in general we don't need that much space to be taken by the leaving structures - to me is a very avoidable
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Ah, yeah, that's true.. As any of such good looking projects might be scammy in the marketing world. Of course, it would never be possible for these ideas to come true because it implies that it is achievable in our trade-base world, but I doubt it ever is. We have seen it so many times with other good ideas around, like social medias, cloud technologies, etc., which in general very useful and helpful to people, but they turned out to become trade poisoned after all and right now - not more than just the shadows of previously great services..
I liked in that video that they are speaking about that the very essense of our cities and structures is not effective, being built too many centures ago, but we keep maintaining it - a thought, which is not told too much these days. All is focused on preserving the "cultural legacy", so those who is owning all of it can keep make money of it in different ways.
Also they speak about self-sustainability and efficiency and that in general we don't need that much space to be taken by the leaving structures - to me is a very avoidable discussion nowadays as well and in the same time - a very insteresting engineering task, which is very real to be solved. I still think that behind those ideas might be very good minds possibly.
Anyways, you are probably right and this project is not the best way to promote those discussions and it might be considered as that without a good explanation what I meant..
You know why it's pointless to debate "socialism" or "utopia" or whatever comparison people throw out when you criticize market capitalism? Because the system, in and of itself, without the need for comparison, is insufficient to be sustainable for the species. #systemssciencepic.twitter.com/SxDQsaKM7m
I am releasing a new project to, hopefully, make some money so that I can support our TROM project and myself. This is it -->> webape.site/
So. I provide managed instances for Mastodon, Peertube, Nextcloud, Friendica, and a few other services. On top of this I am making any kind of website in Wordpress. This is my "skill" and so I will try to make some money like this. I have to, I have no choice.
But listen.
I am not making a "business" out of this. I want to do a decent job at it, so I will only take 20-30 projects. Enough to sustain myself and have the time to focus on TROM, plus be able to properly manage these paid-for websites.
I tried to provide really cheap and very "tempting" offers, if anyone is interested, since I will only post once about this on my profile, the rest go on the Federated profile of the project -->> social.trom.tf/profile/webape
Here is what I offer:
Mastodon:
Peertube:
Nextcloud:
Wordpress:
I can setup huge instances up to 25TB of diskspace. And provide support over email or chat (Matrix).
If you think anyone may be interested, give it a share.
Absolutely nothing worse than a child in poverty. No better way to mess up human beings for their entire life than have them raised in deprivation, exposed to the characteristics we know empirically occur disproportionally in those low income environments.slate.com/news-and-politā¦
An awesome post by @TROM ! True freedom of choice is only possible with open and trade-free distribution of goods and services. Fulfill the vital needs of people communities, provide them with the time and required resources and you will be amazed at how they can overcome any capitalistic company in terms of diversity, innovation and creativity.
An awesome post by @TROM ! True freedom of choice is only possible with open and trade-free distribution of goods and services. Fulfill the vital needs of people communities, provide them with the time and required resources and you will be amazed at how they can overcome any capitalistic company in terms of diversity, innovation and creativity.
Many people believe a fat myth of today's world, that capitalism (this trade-based system) is creating diversity. Look at how many chocolates there are, cars, gadgets, software, etc.. But this is a myth. The diversity is in the package/wrapper and not the product itself. Most phones are the same, nothing new for "new releases". Cars brought almost no advantage to transportation overall for the past decades. Products in the supermarket taste quite the same between brands, and clothes are recycled fashion trends. Movies and books are remakes or copy cats of whatever sells best. And so on.
Anyway, here is a search engine we made to showcase how 175 companies own pretty much everything in this world https://www.tromsite.com/tbf/
But I want to focus on 1 particular domain: software.
Youtube, Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, TikTok, VK, and maybe 3-4 more, are the ones that are the most used in the world. They do not communicate with each other and are very limited in terms of functionality. It means you choose one or another, or a bunch of them and manage them separately. They are trade-based platforms (you trade your data, currency, attention to them). Full of ads, full of censorship, full of crap overall.
On the other hand the Fediverse is a network of such platforms: Friendica, Mastodon, Peertube, Pixelfed, Funkwhale, and so forth. Look at the diversity here https://fediverse.party/en/miscellaneous/ - these are made by different organizations and enabled by different people. A ton of diversity in terms of options.
These are video platforms, blog platforms, photo sharing platforms, platforms for musicians, live streaming, events, you name it. And all communicate with each other. If some organization has an account with Peertube (video platform) I can follow and interact with them from my social platform Friendica. How amazing! If I have a Peertube account and a Friendica one, I can easily setup so that when I post on Peertube a video, it goes on my Friendica too, as a post. The options are very diverse.
This "fediverse" is created not to be traded but to be shared. You will not find ads on these platforms (at least not on the vast majority of them), or data collection or any of that crap.
The MacOS and Windows vs Linux is yet another example of how diversity is actually achieved when humans do not sell their stuff and themselves, when you have a community of people who share their work and ideas. Linux comes in so many flavors for so many needs and wants. Look at this:
So if you look at software overall, the "capitalism" world, which is the trade-based world in which people make software to trade it (for data, attention, currency, etc.) is like a handful of options. But when the software is created for the sake of creating it and is shared and anyone can copy these, modify, redistribute, as trade-free, then real diversity is created and a better environment emerges overall.
We should take the software example and try to provide other goods/services in the same manner. But to do that we have to decouple humans from the trade-based society. At least when it comes to their basic needs. Else no one can have the time to engage in such things. Software is easy to create and maintain from the comfort of your home and in your space time, but is difficult when it comes to food or other goods and services. In any case there is still and abundance of such trade-free goods/services out there as we showcase here directory.trade-free.org/. But this is not enough.
So. If we want to create a wonderful society, we first have to decouple humans from this trade-based society by at least providing them with their basic needs as trade-free. That creates a good soil for the emergence of lots of trade-free goods/services, in a positive feedback loop. Imagine how much good we can create in this world. Imagine how much real diversity. Imagine how wonderful this could be.
This is exact thing I was talking about these days. You cannot be "nice" in this system, you need to make a profit to go on. You can say a thousand of words how you support peace, but when it comes to the profit, you keep selling the weapons, helping others to kill.
Our latest TROMcast about War can be watched here - https://link.trom.tf/ZB441 . Very nice to see new faces. We will try to make more TROMcasts in the future. Busy with the TROM II documentary for now, but after that we should make more. #tromlive
Tomorrow we will have a live. TROMcast is back. We will discuss "war" as the topic, with the focus on the current events. We will stream at https://www.tromsite.com/live/ where we will also have a live chat.
As someone who traveled around the world for many years, I do not consider myself to be āRussianā or āAmericanā or Asian or European or whatever. I like to think of myself as a human being. Just that. Just like you.
I love different people and different cultures all over the world, but I hate politics, politicians, and patriotism. Politicians lie, cheat, and hurt people- all over the world. Politics and patriotism divide people.
Some people have been asking me, āas a āRussianā and āAmericanāā, what I think about the war in Ukraine.
I donāt have much to say other than itās an atrocity. I think war, in general, is an atrocity.
War is the absolute most wasteful use of human lives and resources- ever. It shows that we, humans, are incapable of solving problems on a global scale. It shows that we resort to the most primitive measures: fighting. Exactly what we teach our children not to do.
So far, here are a few things that piss me off about this war:
ā¢ Thousands of humans have been killed. ā¢ Millions of humans have been displaced; their cities, homes, and lives have been ruined. ā¢ Bombs continue to be thrown in residential areas, even at hospitals, schools, theaters, airports, and places where civilians are seeking shelter. ā¢ As always, normal people that gain absolutely nothing from this power struggle are the ones who suffer the most. Those who gain anything (-if there is anything to gain from this) will hardly suffer at all. ā¢ Men between the ages of 18 and 60 are not allowed to leave Ukraine- this should be as much a human rights violation as throwing bombs at civilians. No one should ever be forced to risk their own lives to fight for this or that nation. If they choose to fight, fine. If not, let them leave. ā¢ Speaking of that, in Russia, 18-year-old boys are forced to serve in the army- forced against their own will. And now they are forced to kill and die for some douchebag politicians. ā¢ People in Russia are getting arrested for protesting against the war. ā¢ People in Russia are getting arrested just for saying āwarā or for holding a blank sign that says nothing. ā¢ Russia does not even call this a war, but a āspecial military interventionā and its media shows no pictures of the reality of this war, almost nothing about the millions of refugees that have fled Ukraine, and almost nothing about the death and destruction theyāve caused. Russian media and schools have been banned from referring to the war as an āinvasionā, āattackā, or āwarā and those who spread āfake newsā about the war can get up to 15 years in prison. ā¢ People in Russia are fleeing because they are scared of their own government. ā¢ People in Ukraine are terrified because they are getting bombed. ā¢ Poor people around the world will suffer because of this war. Many developing countries depend on Russia and Ukraine for wheat imports (among other imports). Rising prices of food, fuel, and fertilizer can devastate countries that are already struggling.
This is the reality of war. It is barbaric and inhumane. It is the most inefficient and stupid way to solve problems. No sane ordinary humans want war. Not Ukrainians, nor the Russians. The only people that ever benefit from wars are the few rich and powerful motherfuckers at the top. And thatās what ordinary people die for.
To me, that is a sure sign of a flawed system.
War, Iād say, is a consequence of the structure of our society. Billions of humans are divided into many different tribes and are taught that they are different from one another; some tribes are friends, some are enemies. They are also taught that they should aim to get more and more- more stuff, more money, more power. This trade-based society gives a handful of powerful people the means to do that. They gain more and more wealth and power, then they exploit this power, using ordinary people as pawns to get what they want.
This trade-based society also pushes people to create and sell more weapons, rather than to look for a peaceful solution to problem solving. As a species, we should be ashamed that we have enough nuclear weapons to bring our own selves to extinction. What an idiocracyā¦
If we ever want a peaceful, intelligent society, we have to see ourselves as one human species. We have to organize ourselves in a way that puts humans (all humans) and the environment first. Not profit, not selling weapons, not taking territories, not trading this for that, not gaining power.
I know that weāll probably never get there, but that doesnāt mean we shouldnāt talk about it.
Tio
in reply to Roma • •hm...unfortunately I think this is quite a "scammy" thing. Sounds good in theory, except for the last part where they talk positively about trade, but I recommend you also watch this video ytb.trom.tf/watch?v=rB_X5ZUcZlā¦ :P
Unfortunately many companies are very good to lure us in, and I got sucked into a bunch of these too...impractical, money oriented, scams. I only recently found out about the above one, but sounds like many other projects I've heard of.
Anyway, if you have the time also watch the video I sent you.
I agree with what you said, but I am skeptical about this "LINE" thing.
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in reply to Roma • •Ah, yeah, that's true.. As any of such good looking projects might be scammy in the marketing world. Of course, it would never be possible for these ideas to come true because it implies that it is achievable in our trade-base world, but I doubt it ever is. We have seen it so many times with other good ideas around, like social medias, cloud technologies, etc., which in general very useful and helpful to people, but they turned out to become trade poisoned after all and right now - not more than just the shadows of previously great services..
I liked in that video that they are speaking about that the very essense of our cities and structures is not effective, being built too many centures ago, but we keep maintaining it - a thought, which is not told too much these days. All is focused on preserving the "cultural legacy", so those who is owning all of it can keep make money of it in different ways.
Also they speak about self-sustainability and efficiency and that in general we don't need that much space to be taken by the leaving structures - to me is a very avoidable
... Show more...Ah, yeah, that's true.. As any of such good looking projects might be scammy in the marketing world. Of course, it would never be possible for these ideas to come true because it implies that it is achievable in our trade-base world, but I doubt it ever is. We have seen it so many times with other good ideas around, like social medias, cloud technologies, etc., which in general very useful and helpful to people, but they turned out to become trade poisoned after all and right now - not more than just the shadows of previously great services..
I liked in that video that they are speaking about that the very essense of our cities and structures is not effective, being built too many centures ago, but we keep maintaining it - a thought, which is not told too much these days. All is focused on preserving the "cultural legacy", so those who is owning all of it can keep make money of it in different ways.
Also they speak about self-sustainability and efficiency and that in general we don't need that much space to be taken by the leaving structures - to me is a very avoidable discussion nowadays as well and in the same time - a very insteresting engineering task, which is very real to be solved. I still think that behind those ideas might be very good minds possibly.
Anyways, you are probably right and this project is not the best way to promote those discussions and it might be considered as that without a good explanation what I meant..