Here's a photo I just took 2 hours ago of the moon with Pixel 4a and some cheap binoculars:
I love this photo because it also showcases what the stages of the Moon are. Just a part of the Moon is illuminated by the Sun from our perspective, but in fact the entire Moon is visible if you are to look closely.
So amazing!
I will try to take more such photos of the moon in perspective with buildings or other "objects". It looks so cool!
In our town there are ping-pong tables for anyone to use. We play sometimes I kinda like it :D. But yah, so cool they should do more of these in public spaces.
Thank you Elias for becoming one of the 200 for TROM! We need 200 people to donate 5 Euros a month in order to support TROM forever. See https://www.tromsite.com/donate/
40 people are donating so far, and hopefully little by little we can achieve this goal. This way we put very little toll on individual donors and make TROM more sustainable, and not rich :).
Towards the end of this month we will do a livestream about our plans for the next year. Stay tuned!
Our contact@tromsite.com is being blocked by Google for no apparent reason. Meaning that we cannot send any emails to Gmail from that email address. This is very unfortunate and no easy way way to fix it. The entire tromsite.com seems to be blocked, but not the server IP....
Please stop using advertising companies for your Internet needs. We can help you out if you need an email address at trom.tf for example, or use other email providers. If you continue to use Gmail we will not be able to reach you via our Newsletter either...
We need to put all of the Facebook, Google and the like crap, into a garbage bin, and use the so many trade-free alternatives out there. Check our https://trom.tf/ where we provide alternatives for these platforms.
You need a bit of discomfort in order to do any changes in your life, and that includes some discomfort in using new, sane platforms. But once you get over that, you'll see how real social networks, video platforms, or email providers look like.
Be brave! We will help you out to migrate away from this swamp.
Hello Spain (again). So you allow people to take the driving license in English but you use automated translations and do not recommend to take it in english!?
But nevertheless anyone can take the test in English..
So Spain you cannot hire anyone to translate a standardized test into the most international language on Earth?
Pathetic!
So yeah, I am doing the driving license in Spain, in the English language. And I am astonished that they use Google Translate to translate the manual and the tests. It is unbelievable. But doing it in Spanish is tricky because yah I understand Spanish but not the so many technical terms used in these completely bullshit tests. Over 12.000 questions in Spanish and over 3.0
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Hello Spain (again). So you allow people to take the driving license in English but you use automated translations and do not recommend to take it in english!?
But nevertheless anyone can take the test in English..
So Spain you cannot hire anyone to translate a standardized test into the most international language on Earth?
Pathetic!
So yeah, I am doing the driving license in Spain, in the English language. And I am astonished that they use Google Translate to translate the manual and the tests. It is unbelievable. But doing it in Spanish is tricky because yah I understand Spanish but not the so many technical terms used in these completely bullshit tests. Over 12.000 questions in Spanish and over 3.000 questions in English. 95% of all of the questions are BS and you do not need to know the answer to.... Every single driver will fail this test I bet.
But you know....humans have to have jobs, and then have to make money, so they keep this nonsense for no reason.
Stupid shit. My head hurts by reading the most incomprehensible English text I've read in my entire life. And I am supposed to learn from it...
Our Peertube instance https://videos.trom.tf is not for advertising your company and products. Several people tried to take advantage of our instance that accepts science/tech videos in English by uploading promotional videos for their tech-company. No more! All removed!
We will have to focus a lot more on inviting proper creators that are in line with our TROM project. We need to grow our Peertube instance and the Peertube ecosystem in general. This is going to be a long journey, but how else can we move away from the giant companies that own the Internet!?
Awesome sunset. I am impressed how the Pixel 4a can capture the real colors. Phone that @Aaron gifted me :D. Even brand new it was 3 times cheaper than most high end phones when it was released.
Much respect for @Dima - videos.trom.tf/w/t6WMuqkdS5wAy… - he continues to do these really well made and important videos. It is important to highlight the so many volunteers who are trying to fix the natural world, as much as they can.
We build artificial islands for pelicans - here's why
I went to Bulgaria to join conservation project of Dalmatian pelicans. It's international effort to reduce threats and improve their habitat in Romania, Ukraine, Bulgaria & Greece.
Project website : life-pelicans.com/ Some footage of pelicans : Damyan Petkov Thumbnail picture : Maxim Yakovlev
thanks! well that bear is actually in a zoo-like enclosure where you can go with your car and see them. Not the best environment for wild animals....but I liked that photo....
Take the telescope phone mount and attach it to the binoculars, and then you can take some cool shots with your phone :). Mind you these are tiny binoculars that we got from someone, not some pro-ones.
Here's a very cool documentary videoneat.com/documentaries/25… - a massive research center on the ice. 10 years of preparations, scientists from all around the world. No competition, no bullshit. Pure science. Explorers. Thinkers.
That's how we all should be. To go explore, discover, solve problems.
Unfortunately they were there to research the impact that humans have on the climate....so this is not about exploring as much as it is about figuring out how fucked we are when it comes to the changes in climate.
Anyway, this is a great documentary to also showcase the potential that humans have to organize themselves and do a lot of important work, regardless of the tribe they were born into.
The fact that humans have weapons that are meant to kill their own kind, is a sign of primitivism. It is a sign of a failed society. Regardless if they even use them or not.
If we cannot solve conflicts within our human society without killing other humans, then we are a failure. That, in a situation in which we have more than enough resources to provide everyone with whatever they need and most of what they want.
Now fully subtitled into Spanish, making it available to many millions of people who only speak spanish. All thanks to the wonderful Rafa and Vicky, and Cesar.
The amount of work to subtitle such a documentary in a professional way is quite intense and these people are doing it without asking anything in return. That's how we all should be. To do the things we feel are important and not worry about how to survive on this planet.
If you want to help us translate the documentary in more languages please contact us. tromsite.com/contact/
Thank you Georgi for becoming one of the 200 for TROM! https://www.tromsite.com/donate/ - There are 39 people who donate 5 Euros a month to support TROM forever. In small steps we may reach the goal eventually.
Mind you we only accept 5 Euros donations and only from 200 people so that we keep it small and sustainable. Please consider becoming one of these wonderful people. Of course, if you can afford it.
This month we will do a live TROM-Cast all about the future plans for the next year. Stay tuned!
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With all due respect, I would probably run for my life if I saw that, lol 😂
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