The height of the hypocrisy of holding tight to your own culture and land is the fact that ALL inventions, research and human knowledge that is at the basis of any society, all of that comes from people from all around the world.

Without the British Isaac Newton we would not understand how objects move on this planet, maybe we would be unable to build many of the infrastructure of our modern cities.

Nuclear energy, modern cosmology, or GPS technology would not be possible without the US German immigrant Albert Einstein who studied in Switzerland.

Would we have telescopes or even the modern science without the Italian Galileo Galilei? Or medicine and healthcare without the French Louis Pasteur?

The Internet, gadgets, buildings and blueprints, discoveries and experiments, are all a mush of work being done by humans from all around the world, from different tribes. So it is astonishingly hypocritical and primitive to “hold onto your own tribe, your own culture” as if you did anything for it or it belongs to a particular group of people.

#science #culture #tromarticles #trom #tromsite

Yaay a total solar eclipse in Spain in 2026!!! Said me in 2025. Wow. We have a motorhome now we can 100% get the best spot to observe it. My telescope is finally going to be put to good use! Let's prepare, let's dream, let's get excited.

Oh shit my father has strokes. Shit my mother is crying. We struggle. The situation is very difficult physically and mentally.

I have pain. Why I have abdominal pain for so long? Doctors can't find anything wrong with me? Is it an obscure disease? Why do I take painkillers now?! Because it hurts..

Hello! Said my sister.
What?
I have this problem and looks bad.
Ok let's go check. Now let's go wait for weeks for a result while we are stressed.

Oh my parents are better. My father is stable.

Riiinggg! My girlfriend is calling.
How are you? She said.
Not too well, but I miss you. Can't wait for you to come back from your wonderful hike in Iceland so I can take my mind off of problems.
I'm back! I cheated on you and I want to break up with you.
Whaaaat?!?!

I have less abdominal pain. Uh great.
I have a lot emotional pain. I feel like dying.
My sister is bleeding. Fuck go to the ER.
My father has another stroke.
What do we do?!

My telescope rings.
Whaaat?
I can't work. I broke.
A week before the eclipse?
Yes.
Fuck!

Riiingggg!!!
Whaaaaat??
Is Tortua, the motorhome.
What now?
I have solar panels and they need certified. I cannot drive without that.
Fuck. Ok 200 euros. Certified.
Didn't work!
Whhhhhy?
You need to send those papers somewhere else. Take weeks to solve.
But the eclipse is in a week and we planned for a year now....we drive there...
I know....

Fuuuuuuck.

You got mail.
ye..?!
We noticed you like hospitals. You have 3 medical appointments this month for your abdominal pain. And your sister has some too. You go together, is hospital fun and medical results bonanza. Good luck.
Fuck.

You got mail.
What now?
Your father may need an expensive medical procedure to not have strokes. He likes strokes, he has many. Can cost thousands of euros. Do you have energy to go to Romania to help your mom?! Do you have money?!

Well...fuck. What is this life ha?! Why so many bad things happening?

The Eclipse should have been a wonderful time I spend together with Sasha and Tortuga, meet with our best friends, observe a rare event. Now I lost Sasha, I lost Tortuga, I lost my hope and trust in people, and I hope I won't lose my father.

I swallow trying not to vomit still.

I try to find solutions. We try. We are still here.

But maybe is just a stupid dream. That would make a lot more sense.

#depression #eclipse #motorhome #health

Just a recap of the past year for me since today is a 1 year anniversary.

A year ago my father started to have serious health issues. He had 3 strokes in a matter of months. He could not talk well, lost some cognitive abilities, and some motor functions.

Same time I started to have abdominal pain that only a month ago faded away. I've been to hospitals too many times. Was on painkillers for some time.

For months I lived in terror. Terror that my father would die (every time my mother called I was answering with a lump in my throat); terror for myself because my health problems were kinda mysterious.

For months I was struggling with my motivation to continue with TROM or in life. You get to notice the shitshow this society is, so for someone like me who wants to "change this world for the better" it is the most demoralizing of things.

What kept me afloat was my life with Sasha because I knew I am not alone and together we can help each other and move on. Sasha's grandma also died this period of time and she was someone who even watched our adventure videos with the motorhome. So sad about that.

For the past few months I was able to get myself back on track with TROM by releasing TROM Articles. My parents were ok and stable now. I supported Sasha to go do a hike by herself in Iceland because I care so much about her and want her to be happy. I thought she will get back and we are both charged up, happy, and ready to really live our lives.

While Sasha was in Iceland my sister got some bad news. She had some health problems that could have been terribly serious. Weeks of waiting for results....so much stress again for all of us in the family.

Sasha comes back she tells me she cheated on me and also wants to break up. The world fell apart for me that day. Next few weeks were the most horrible in my life.

I was getting ready for the eclipse in August when we meet with many wonderful friends - I was so sad Sasha won't be part of this but so happy to see my best friends. Prepared for this for almost 2 years now and the telescope decided to break after 10 years...just now...

Past week my sister had surgery and that went bad. She was bleeding a lot we had to go to the ER where we waited for 6 hours to have her fixed. It was horrible. Same day my father had the 4th stroke. He had more troubles speaking and was confused.

I failed to pass the car inspection with my motorhome (my home) for the first time in 2 years.

At times we had a wonderful time like when I went together with Sasha for 3 weeks with the motorhome. I feel like crying out of frustration when I think about those times and how they won't exist anymore.

But overall the world, for me, has been horrible. For my sister too. For my family too.

I feel like I lost my best friend and partner, and partially my father. And I am concerned for the future. Very.

I lost my hope and trust in humans. If Sasha, the most wonderful human on Earth from my perspective, could do this to me and abandon me like that, anyone can. At least that's how I feel.

I do not have something to cling on for the future, a hope, a desire, something that can pull me towards a better life. I have to create this for myself.

Next few months will be crucial for me, my sister, my parents.

But I discovered FRIENDS. So many people jumped in to help.

Thank you Roma and his parents, Natasha, Benji, Aaron, Lenka, Roko, Shas, Agata, Jeff, Yair, Alexio, Clara, Guil, Dani, Joan, Basti, Xantulon, Matthias, Sofie, Sasha's mom and everyone else who reached out to me/us and helped us so much.

And so to mention, Sasha was also there to help in case I needed help with my parents/sister. She helped me financially and said I can rely on her with any other help. Too ironic that the most awful for me is what she did to me...I'd prefer no help from her, just to not have done what she did.

Life goes on, but for the past month or so it feels like a stupid dark comedy for me. Too many bad things happening. It's going to be extremely tough the next months. For now the best is to take it day by day literally and deal with problems one at a time.

In a few days we will meet with some of our wonderful friends. Then we go see the eclipse. Then we all go back. And then the real reckoning will begin. To be able to help my parents, my sister, myself. To be able to find some hope again and accept that my life has to radically change. To find ways to support myself financially. To...to learn how to live a life that is happy and meaningful.

I hope in a year from now, August 2027, my future self will read this from a happy place and look back and think "wow what a shithole I was into back then". Please be so!

This is life...at times is going to be a horror show for us. And then it will pass. But the process is indeed terrible.

For now, let's focus on the Eclipse and will see about the rest after that. I hope no more bad news will strike us now....

We are atoms and always will be, in this form or another.

What’s love? - tiotrom.com/2026/07/whats-love…

Here's an article I just wrote about a word I used to hate!

#love #relationships #breakup #breakups

tio

2026-07-31 13:22:05

What’s love?

Not that song, but actual “love”. I always hated that word for some reason because I thought it is shallow. But for the past years I used it a lot and got used to it. The dictionary says this:

A strong feeling of affection and concern toward another person, as that arising from kinship or close friendship.

I made a post about my girlfriend cheating on me and dumping me, so you can read it in full. That made me think about what this “love” is, since is a word we both used in our relationship often.

When you have a kid, and you love your kid, love means a lifelong (perhaps) feeling of care and appreciation towards that creature. The kid will smell, poop, yell, be mean, but also kind, smart, funny, cute. You won’t “divorce” your kid just because he poops his pants. No? Love is when you are able to overcome challenges in order to maintain a relationship that matters to you.

If you have a pet, say a dog, and after 3 years you think “fucking shit this thing shits 3 times a day I am done with it” then you are not someone who was prepared to have dogs. If you love your dog, you will put up with these things.

In a couple love should mean the same. If you decide to have a long term relationship with someone you must understand that problems will arise, attraction will decrease, annoyance can become more common, and overall the journey is long and you have to be strong.

If you are in a relationship with someone because “I saw that big boobed girl with a great ass and I love fucking her” then this is not a great start for a long term relationship. Physical attraction is in fact a bad way to start a long term relationship for the simple fact that people get old, they fart, eat like animals, can be annoying, and so forth. You have to change and see the other as your partner, not a sex toy.

If you manage to move from being in love with someone’s looks to also be in love with his/her personality, then even better, but both change, so regardless you have to put a lot of effort to keep a relationship working. Grey hair and getting fat are part of how the cells change over time, but so is the behavior of people. That’s also cells no? So there is no way around this other that adapting, making compromises, helping each other.

Of course all relationships are complex. And if the relationship does not work perhaps is better to move to separate ways. But there is NO longterm relationship that does not have to work like 2 friends helping each other. No way. Time is too long, friendship and helping each other will be far more important to keep you together than big boobs or a 6-pack.

So when my girlfriend said that she will break up with me because she found a better life for herself (solo hiking – adventure), and she also cheated on me (found sexual “freedom”), it made me think a lot about relationships and this idea of “love”. You see when we met she was very attracted to me, both physical and mental attraction. Then physical attraction faded, and mental one idk maybe still there? She ended up wanting her old lifestyle back that made her happier. On the opposite side I did not feel any physical attraction to her in the beginning, but loved her character and her as a person. I ended up feeling physical attraction to her in time, and kept my appreciation for her as a person. She found love and lost it. I grew love and kept it. Maybe that was the difference. That’s my guess.

I hate my parents sometimes. They drove me nuts over the years. But I love them overall. I like their company sometimes. They are there for me and I am here for them. It sounds like a ridiculous idea perhaps to give up on your parents, or kids, or pets, or siblings, just because you found better and more “fun” parents, kids, or pets. But in couples relationships this is normal and people can just give up on their partner after years of being together just because they find “something else”, a better and more “fun” partner, or a better and happier life. I am unsure if anyone can understand this, but in my head this is bizarre. Because if you let this feeling dictate your life you will always have to change relationships and lifestyles, since everything “gets old” metaphorically and literally. If that lifestyle suites you, so be it. I see things differently.

I saw my relationship with my girlfriend similarly to other relationships with my family and friends. Something that needs maintenance and management in order to work. The better you do these, the better the life will be for both of you. Countless times I was not attracted to her – is normal – but I bounced back and found happiness again. Attraction engaged, we are back on track. New ideas, experiences, talks, plans, internal thoughts are part of what can bounce back your relationship. Same way that a beating heart is not only beating but resting after the beat, something easily neglected, a relationship will normally pulsate.

I would find it heartbreaking if I were to find a more “fun” life and suddenly cut ties with my best friend, or my parents, or my sister, or someone very close to me. I would try to have both if possible.

In this Trade Based Society we all grow up looking for immediate fun and rewards because of ads, supermarkets, Malls. Wow that new car is lit! That cool new phone! Clothes, holidays to exotic places, delicious foods, consume, eat, fuck, drive, rinse and repeat. But in my view the wholesome of life comes from what you do in time with the things and creatures you interact with. That “cheap” car you have, you will love it more the more you use it and take care of it. The laptop, the gadgets, the technology that allows you do to important stuff, you will love it for that and get to appreciate its true value beyond the “looks”. Holidays are not important, you enjoying your time is, regardless of the place. Food is not just about taste you realize, else you will eat all of the crap, but about keeping yourself healthy as well. The value of things and relationships comes from deeper inside of them, not the package they are wrapped into.

If you do not appreciate these then your new phone is just a more expensive device that you use to scroll the same TikTok shit daily; your new shiny car is the same box that gets you from point A to point B, and you keep it parked for 95% of the time – but now is more expensive. And if you eat the food based on how it tastes and don’t think much about your health, you end up fat and with diabetes. On top of that your holidays and happy moments will only be that on your Instagram if you chase the exotic more than you chase the good time spent with your loved ones.

To drive a Lamborghini, fuck a supermodel, get your hands on the latest tech, go to exotic places, have expensive clothes and branded watches, feels enticing especially in our shallow consuming driven society, but in time you realize these things are momentary fun experiences and many times empty ones for that matter. Almost like a magic trick. I think sexual temptation is a hell of a feeling and is created by our consuming society in part or a lot (sex sells and that changes values), but so is the temptation for other exciting things, and we know very well that if you do not have control over this temptation, you may end up a sort of junkie that gets to tastes from all and each, something that gets tasteless quite fast. We all try to put our temptations on a leash, else our lives would be a mess. Some are better at this than others. It all matters “what gives”. Is it worth fucking a random guy and get the thrill of it at the expense of a long term relationship with another human? Is it worth eating fast food because is fast and tasty, at the expenses of your health? Is it worth spending so much money on an expensive car at the expense of using that money to have more stability in life? For some people is worth it. For some is not.

And so is with long term relationships when people decide to find more attractive and fun lives/partners somewhere else (the new), instead of finding that excitement and happiness in their long term relationship.

So to me love is this deep feeling of care and respect for someone, that survives the test of time and problems. And when you have love you can also achieve fun. But when you have fun, is going to be a lot of work to achieve love. Because love comes with time and a lot of challenges.

So the word love is shallow the way is used by many people (I think), unless it stands for something deep that keeps a relationship working and thriving.

Now that song 🙂

youtube.com/watch?v=oGpFcHTxjZ…

Tina Turner - What's Love Got To Do With It (Official Video) [HD]

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Why We Wake Up at 4 AM to Save Baby Deer - videos.trom.tf/w/es6g22HRN8c9D…

That's how real mission of saving baby deer in Austria look like.

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#conservation #nature #volunteering #naturerestauration #austria #deer

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2026-07-29 08:31:18

Why We Wake Up at 4 AM to Save Baby Deer

That's how real mission of saving baby deer in Austria look like.

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Ideas revolving around religion, family, sexual orientation, and so forth, have been changing and mutating a lot over the years. What was once prohibited in one culture has become the norm in the same culture, and vice versa. From women being allowed to vote, to gay marriage, or the separation of religion from state. In our book “Morality and Ethics” we showcase how the norms, traditions and what it was accepted as “normal” in the past, changed over millennia, from culture to culture.

Therefore any discussion about “our culture, language, traditions” should always be put under the powerful light of history in order to understand that these “things” are remixes at best, and will always be. This, I think, is crucial in order for us, humans, to be able to have relevant discussions about them, without being too emotionally entangled with them. To put everything into a historical, and realistic, perspective.

Snippet from Culture Cancer - tromsite.com/2026/07/culture-c…

#culture #culturecancer #trom #tromsite #tromarticles #traditions

Here's something new that I learned. In Spain, and likely everywhere else:

You get sick, say you bleed abundantly from a surgery that went wrong, and you have to stay in ER for a day to have you fixed. You lose a lot of blood and need to stay at home for a few days because you cannot work.

So: stress, trauma, money spent to go to the hospital, others helping you, etc..

The hospital gives you medical leave, as is normal.

Great? No.

Guess what?

First few days you do not get paid from work. The next weeks you get 65% of the salary.

So you are fucked health wise and in this system apparently is normal to not even get paid from your job...I mean you can't fucking work even if you want to, and you can't even get any help.

I cannot work because I bleed...
Oh..ok no problem here medical leave.
Thanks. Oh wait and I also lose money because I lose blood?
Yah...if you don't work, you cannot get paid...
But...but I cannot work for a few days...I need help...
Yah. Well. That is the law. Take care!

If this does not sound insane to you, you have a serious problem. You are part of the problem actually.

INSANE!

This Trade-Based Society is just that: Trade. All else does not matter. People's lives are measured in trading hours.

Go to sleep humans, you are nowhere near an intelligent society. You are the most primitive dominant form of life on any planet probably.

#TradeRuinsEverything #money #work #capitalism #trade #trom #tromsite