It is extremely unlikely that anyone has the time to finish any subtitles for the documentary in a week or so, before we release it. But I think it is totally fine to release the documentary together with proper english captions plus full transcriptions, so that after the release anyone can jump in to create subtitles.
We will make sure to have everything well organized in order for anyone to get involved collaboratively. Unfortunately we cannot find a proper collaborative tool for subtitling that is trade-free, so we will probably use amara.org.
We can say with certainty that the documentary will be fully released the next week. But we do not know the exact day.
We do not care if you are a good human being, all we care is if you can trade and what you can trade. Jesus, Superman, and the like, would have to have side-jobs or rely on donations if they were to survive in our trade-based society.
If you refuse to be part of the trade society, say you refuse to trade your work and you give it away for free, because you want to be a good human, you are fucked. Unless you get support from other human beings, voluntarily, you could basically die. End up in the streets, be unable to feed yourself, and survive overall.
our trade-based society doesn't care about how much value you create, they only care how much money you make. And if you don't make enough money then you're fucked, there are no good support systems for people, no safety nets. So people are forced to work a paid job under the threat of poverty, they don't have a choice. How on earth can people consider these inhumane things as normal is beyond me, and yeah volunteers like yourself are struggling because of it.
The listing of sources for the TROM II documentary is done! They are categorized into Footage, Music and Sources. And there are a lot of them. Now the only thing left is to finish the transcriptions entirely. @Sasha, @Tio and @Rokosun are working on that. The first and third part are already done. And the rest will be done in just a few days time.
@Georgi @Alexio and @Roma are already working on the translations.
We will release the documentary before the end of this month regardless if we have any subtitles ready or not.
See how someone like Peter Joseph is being kicked in the balls by the social (ad) platforms and yet he is still blind at the fact that he can move to the fediverse. I even sent him an email inviting him to our platform. No reply as usual. idk if he does not see when I contact him, or he ignores these messages.
Anyway, so stupid to complain about these platforms while still using them, when there are amazing alternatives out there.
Many of these "activists" who bitch about facebook, and twitter, and youtube and the like, keep on using them, when there are better alternatives out there. Uninformed? Lazy? Ignorant? I honestly do not know, but so far everyone I contacted to tell them about Friendica, Mastodon, Peertube and the like, never replied to me.
Yeah, there's a lot of low-hanging fruit that could re-orient the economy to be more egalitarian which is ignored.
A few months ago I saw a noted leftist politician explicitly denounce non-corporate social media. It seems many people will sacrifice principles for popularity.
Surprisingly I managed to finish the sources for the first 2 parts of the documentary today. Much much faster than I realized. The 3rd part may be more difficult tho. I am sourcing almost EVERY single piece of footage I used and music, but also the sources for the claims we claim. However these sources are mostly a few main books, so it is easy to source those. Like many many sources are from The Origin of Most Problems and The Money Game and Beyond books. So that makes it easier to source.
This weekend, maybe even tomorrow, I can finish with the sources. And by the way, they all have timestamps. So in Peertube you'll be able to jump to sources from the video description.
@Sasha works like a maniac to make all of the transcriptions as perfect as she can. This will help immensely the translators too, if they use automated translation software. Because the better it is written and the punctuations and all that, the better the translation will be. Also the gre
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Surprisingly I managed to finish the sources for the first 2 parts of the documentary today. Much much faster than I realized. The 3rd part may be more difficult tho. I am sourcing almost EVERY single piece of footage I used and music, but also the sources for the claims we claim. However these sources are mostly a few main books, so it is easy to source those. Like many many sources are from The Origin of Most Problems and The Money Game and Beyond books. So that makes it easier to source.
This weekend, maybe even tomorrow, I can finish with the sources. And by the way, they all have timestamps. So in Peertube you'll be able to jump to sources from the video description.
@Sasha works like a maniac to make all of the transcriptions as perfect as she can. This will help immensely the translators too, if they use automated translation software. Because the better it is written and the punctuations and all that, the better the translation will be. Also the great friend @Rokosun is working on the transcription for the last part.
Not to mention the few rest who are already working on the translations.
Let's see what we can do for the next 2 weeks. Because I will release the documentary in about 2 weeks regardless if there will be any subtitles available or not :P. Then we can add them on the fly.
An alternative front-end for Google Translate, serving as a Free and Open Source translator with over a hundred languages available and text-to-speech.
We've tried LibreTranslate with self-hosted translation models, but it is very slow and lacks a lot of languages....for now we will stick to this Google Translate interface. This tool should be useful for those who will start to make subtitles for the TROM II documentary.
So, you know, I and Sasha try to live together on this planet. We've been trying that for the past 3 years. Documents and documents and documents, and endless documents. You have no clue how much shit we've been through. And yet, still no fix for it. I will make a big post about this when (miraculously) it will be partially solved, because there seem to be no "full fix" for it.
But, there are TWO major realizations overall, so far:
ONE.
This system is not working!
All of these bullshit jobs that we have, the paper world, are irrelevant. We went to so many institutions, to lawyers, to this and that. Sasha talks to 3 lawyers at once now. And for the past 3 years no one provided us with a clear answer as to what we can do to "stay together". We bumped our heads into so many walls.
And that's the illusion: it seems like this system works, but in fact the suffering and fuckery is dispersed to the you and the me. To everyone. We suffer, we try to fix our issues, all ourselves. The struggle is for us, the people. While these institutions that are in
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So, you know, I and Sasha try to live together on this planet. We've been trying that for the past 3 years. Documents and documents and documents, and endless documents. You have no clue how much shit we've been through. And yet, still no fix for it. I will make a big post about this when (miraculously) it will be partially solved, because there seem to be no "full fix" for it.
But, there are TWO major realizations overall, so far:
ONE.
This system is not working!
All of these bullshit jobs that we have, the paper world, are irrelevant. We went to so many institutions, to lawyers, to this and that. Sasha talks to 3 lawyers at once now. And for the past 3 years no one provided us with a clear answer as to what we can do to "stay together". We bumped our heads into so many walls.
And that's the illusion: it seems like this system works, but in fact the suffering and fuckery is dispersed to the you and the me. To everyone. We suffer, we try to fix our issues, all ourselves. The struggle is for us, the people. While these institutions that are in place dealing with the paperwork, are there mostly for the facade. Even for me who had very low expectations from this fuckery, it is quite shocking how pointless these institutions are. Trust me, several times these lawyers and paper people had to GOOGLE when we asked them some "legal advice". GOOGLE!?
TWO.
It's all about that trade!
You know how much I bitch about this trade based society and say that almost everything revolves around it...The fact that Sasha could easily get papers if I were to have a well paid job, tells you so clearly that ALL it matters in this world is for you to be a player in the trade game. That's all they care. Not love, not kindness, not smartness, not this, not that. NO. All it matters is if you can trade, be part of the trade system.
Our suffering is in fact a direct proof that trade is the origin of most problems. Go argue with me about that now! :P Because it is so in everyone's faces, that only the normal ones who adapted to the smell of shit, do not realize that they pooped themselves. And everyone else did as well.
Watta hell man. This is one fuckin prison on Earth. Decent humans must be free to go around and live wherever they want with whom they want. I was actually shocked when you said that even dancing in the marriage ritual isn't enough to get out of this paper hell. Apparently, in this society the decent human beings = those ones who can trade themselves till they die and no way around. Yeah, suuure.. huh
I feel sorry for the both of you for having to go through this much trouble, and all for just being able to stay together in one place?! What a fucked up society we live in, all these zombies seem to care about is papers, papers and papers... And also money probably.
haha that's nothing. Try to open a business by trading with another country, for example with a country outside the European Union. It's just a nightmare. many 'specialists' can't cope with the requirements, certificates, etc., hiring lawyers and special additional companies for the wholesaler to buy something abroad. Selective border checks can bury you forever. This is how a large number of companies operate - until the first inspection.😐
The transcription for the first part of the documentary is done. Thanks to @Sasha who worked so hard for these past days. She also finished the 3rd part but still needs a final check. @Tio made the transcription for the 2nd part, and @Rokosun is working on the last part.
Tomorrow the 2nd and 3rd part should be done.
We are already sending them to the translators, but we'd like to do so privately so that we do not ruin the documentary release for the rest, if we were to make them public. We plan to release the documentary later on this month, to give some time for the translators to translate.
Since this is a massive documentary it may not be enough time to translate it into other langues before the release, but it will for sure be translated in several languages in the following weeks/months.
There is no such thing as a "short attention span" that is happening today. This is a myth. People watch/read whatever they are curious about, and mostly it is simplistic and retarded content, be it in short form like tiktok videos, or nonsense netflix series that are hours long.
So if anyone thinks that the TROM II documentary is "too long" for today's "short attention span", I think their "attention span" needs to enlarge and see that's not the case. If people would be interested in reality, they would watch that documentary even if it was 10 hours long.
Again, people watch TV series that are hundreds of episodes long and are not getting bored by them. Why? That's how they grew up, in a society where these tv series and movies are marketed, while reality is not much. So they learn that those silly shows are way more interesting than what is real.
I think the real issue is a lack of curiosity/interest in trying out new & diverse things. For example, during covid lockdown I picked up the habit of watching documentaries and listening to podcasts, I still do those things to this day and I've learned a lot from it. If I wasn't willing to try out new things then I wouldn't have known about this beautiful world of podcasting and educational documentaries. Linux, the fediverse, etc are other things that I've tried out and really loved it.
I see an increase in bot registrations tries for our Friendica. This is getting more and more of an issue. Read this article krebsonsecurity.com/2023/06/se… to see how easy it is to create hundreds of fake accounts per minute and spam the fediverse...
We suddenly went from like three registrations per minute to 900 a minute,” Chaput said. “There was nothing in the Mastodon software to detect that activity, and the protocol is not designed to handle this.”
This is very worrying especially with the rise of these "AI" language models that can make it nearly impossible to detect these spambots.
Our Friendica and Peertube will still be ok since they require manual approval and everyone is forced to explain why they want to join, so I can filter out most of the bots. But our Nextcloud and Matrix are going to be flooded. I am worried about our Matrix that is perhaps already hosting a bun
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I see an increase in bot registrations tries for our Friendica. This is getting more and more of an issue. Read this article krebsonsecurity.com/2023/06/se… to see how easy it is to create hundreds of fake accounts per minute and spam the fediverse...
We suddenly went from like three registrations per minute to 900 a minute,” Chaput said. “There was nothing in the Mastodon software to detect that activity, and the protocol is not designed to handle this.”
This is very worrying especially with the rise of these "AI" language models that can make it nearly impossible to detect these spambots.
Our Friendica and Peertube will still be ok since they require manual approval and everyone is forced to explain why they want to join, so I can filter out most of the bots. But our Nextcloud and Matrix are going to be flooded. I am worried about our Matrix that is perhaps already hosting a bunch of these bots and eventually we may be defederated from the greater matrix network.
I am afraid that it is going to become hellish for us who host these services because we do not have the resources and manpower to deal with this.
This looks ugly.
And it is, of course, another side effect of the trade-society we live in. Where people need to trade in order to survive, and over time that mutates into a craze of trades where people are not just struggling to survive, but want endless shit. And thus, they cut forests, and make spambots, and pollute, and deceive, and lie, and all of that.
One of the most expensive aspects of any cybercriminal operation is the time and effort it takes to create large numbers of new throwaway email accounts. Now a new service offers to help dramatically cut costs associated with large-scale spam…
I am helping with the transcriptions for the TROM II documentary. Finished 47 minutes from part 2. I do them "fine" not as perfect as @Sasha :) . @Rokosun said he could also help. We must finish them all this week so that we give some chances to those who want to translate to do so before the release. Speaking of that the release will be at latest at the end of this month.
I am still impressed by how good Kdenlive did the auto-transcriptions. Impressive. I also tried a bunch of subtitle editors and Kdenlive is far far better. Easy to use. Sane. Quite interesting that specialized subtitling software can be way worse than the subtitling tool of a video editor.
@Rokosun was saying that this is the most indie documentary ever haha. He is right. I filmed it (with the help of Sasha). I edited it alone with FOSS software. I and a few friends are doing the transcriptions. I made the website where it will be published, I setup the Peertube instance that will stream it. What else can I do? :))
Or how you can make a "cool" video about a nonsense product, showing people doing the same lame tasks over and over again. Browse their photo albums, playing video games, watching movies. This time with a huge thing strapped on their faces.
Apple, the Sad Vision.
How about people having real and sane relationships, enjoying the nature, not buying shit!?
This company has a fruit as the name, but is doing nothing "natural" or healthy.
Such a lame video. A failed product anyway. But scary to see that there are many people who think this is "wow so cool".
The era of spatial computing is here, where digital content blends seamlessly with your physical space. So you can do the things you love in ways never before possible. This is Apple Vision Pro.
Learn More: https://apple.
Last time I tried a VR was years ago and wearing it made me nauseated within half an hour, maybe the technology has improved now but I'm skeptical. And how can this AR thing be better than just a smart TV or your laptop or mobile phone? I bet its not as stable or comfy as they show us in their ad. But sure if you wanna watch a movie on a big screen while on an airplane than you may need it, but even then imagine if the plane goes through a turbulence and you're wearing this shit 😆
its interesting to see how what people consider "cool" or "futuristic" today is mainly influenced by the SciFi movies they watch. And the thing you should know about movies is that they often show you things based on how aesthetically pleasing or cool it is to look at, that doesn't mean its practical in real life. Technologies like AR/VR may be useful for things like 3D designing, but that's not what Apple shows on their ad because they want normal people to buy it not just some designers.
The first TROM Meeting was in 2019, in May. Some 12 people came. We rented something for 3 weeks here where I live. It was very exciting at first, to see everyone for the first time: But then I started to realize how tiring it is to have so many people around at once. So I was struggling a bit. However the worst was when I started to pee blood, mid way the meeting, and I thought am gonna die :D. It was a hellish experience for me. Read this blog post to know more about.
However looking back it was a very nice time, those first days, maybe the first 2 weeks, when I was not as sick. Memories, you know. I’ll try to keep the best and discard the worse.
Since then a bunch of things have changed. My health greatly improved, some people lost interest in TROM, new people gained interest. I created trom.tf and a bunch more stuff, plus managed to finish the TROM II documentary that should be released this month. So we decided to make another TROM Meeting, 4 years after the first one. EXCITED!
All healthy, the documentary (huge project) done and shared with the ones coming at the meeting, new excitement felt in the air. We rented a place near where we live in Spain, and invited some 14 people. Only around 10 or so could come, but then things got more complicated because now most people had jobs (unlike the first time we met) and had a hard time taking some time off for the meeting. I struggled to organize it, but we finally decided to meet for 8-10 days. Based on the first meeting, 3 weeks was way too long.
Unfortunately, again, a few could not come for health reasons or unable to get time off from their jobs, and others came later. But we were all set. I organized everything. Sasha and Georgi helped me prepare it all :). Was so excited about it. I needed a break! I wanted to laugh, to dance, to hike, to spend time with some wonderful beings. I worked too much on the documentary for the past 2-3 years. So I needed a break. It was a great timing since Sasha also finished her book and she also felt similarly.
All set. GO!
I went to the house with Sasha to organize things: She was not feeling that well. Some abdominal discomfort on and off for the past weeks. But nothing too serious. We continued. Vicky and Rafa came first, with their car. Drove for 6 hours. They are such positive creatures you will smile 90% of the time when you are with them. So kind, so organized, so friendly. Roma came the next day after the train he supposed to take here, was canceled numerous times. Roma is my brother for sure 🙂 – friendly, organized, in a good mood, helpful, so kind. We were all getting used to being with each other, but a bit tired. They were tired because they had to travel for so long, we were tired because we had to radically change our sleeping schedule to wake up earlier.
Then Alexio came. He was the only one we did not meet in person. He was so tall, and his kindness on par with that 🙂
So positive, always smiling, always friendly.
Me, Sasha, Georgi, Vicky, Rafa, Roma and Alexio. That was the team. Unfortunately Guil had a bad accident a few days before the meeting so he could not come 🙁 – he would need a few months to recover. Aaron was also unable to take any days off from his job…
We were all quite sad that that they could not come.
Ok. Let’s have some fun.
We went to some parks nearby: To show off our athletic skills 🙂 And coolness 🙂 We then visited the seaside: And found some alien creatures: The next day we decided to go to a nearby park in the forest and we spent some really fun time there. Laying down in the hammocks in the shade: We played “mime”, a game where someone gives you 2 words, like say “inhabitable exoplanet”, and you have to mime that without making any sounds, and the rest have to guess it. I love this game because everyone is engaged. We laughed, it was fun. I had to mime: endless time. Go figure….how do you do that? But I managed it eventually haha. I’ll let you guess what Sasha might be miming here haha. Or Georgi. Or Rafa being an octopus stripper: We had such a great time there. Was not too hot, it was calm, it was fun. I felt like a kid again 🙂 Going there, coming back, cooking food, staying in the house, were flavored with us talking about all sort of interesting things, from TROM to the universe, from computers to us. Later that day we had a barbecue. And I always end up in charge of that and smelling like a burned piece of wood at the end.
At night we could see the Moon and Venus from the backyard: Unfortunately I had no time to get the telescope from home to watch some of this stuff….You see, the food aspect of life takes so much time. Especially when you are 7 or so people, and some like me having to cook separately because of stomach issues. It is so time consuming and exhausting to buy food, deposit it, cook, eat, clean….I started to get a bit tired. Sasha kept on having those health issues and would wake up in the middle of the night because of that. I tried to keep myself engaged and positive because I had many reasons to. But it was tiring….and a bit stressful because of Sasha’s issues.
You see when these wonderful people come for these meetings they are so eager to talk. And talk. And talk about many many interesting things. And that can become very tiring. Especially for me since I just finished a 2-3 years work for the documentary and I wanted to mostly chill and relax. But I cannot ignore interesting people and discussions. I can’t :D.
Ok.
Next. We visited a medieval town nearby. Was quite nice.
And at home we reinstalled TROMjaro on Rafa’s MiniPC: But Sasha’s issues did not go away. She had them every morning. Not too painful really, just a weird discomfort in the lower part of the abdomen, as if you have an UTI. We went to the doctor and no UTI. Strange. She was sent for more tests. You see Sasha’s stomach, the digestive machine, is amazing 🙂 – she can eat anything and pretty much never has any stomach issues. But now suddenly she started to have these uncomfortable stomach issues that were on a daily basis and lasted on and off for more than a month by this time. And for the past days it was a daily occurrence.
I was like….wtf….the first TROM Meeting was ruined by my weird health issues and now Sasha has these weird health problems. This is too much….
Of course, the important bit was for her to be healthy, the meeting was secondary. But I was thinking how unlucky we are… Her health issues made us kinda stressed, tired, and cut the fun in half. At least for me for sure.
But anyway, we tried to still keep ourselves happy.
The Song.
A year or so ago we (I, Georgi and Sasha) made a song. Original lyrics and all that. So we printed it for everyone and sang it together. These are the lyrics: And here’s a bad recording of us trying it out 🙂 – bad in terms of video quality 🙂
Everyone really liked the song. Actually we had a guitar and an ukulele and we jammed a bunch of times together. I know how to play them but only a little bit :), Sasha and Rafa know a lot more. Roma knows some too :). So it was fun to play some songs together.
Two more people came the following days: Matthias and Ann. I met Matthias when he came a year or two ago to our place for a barbecue with Dima. He was volunteering with the same organization as Dima and came back with him to stay at his place for a day or so. I really liked the guy. He seemed very interested in TROM. He said he will visit us but we had to kindly refuse any visit for the past year or so in order to finish our documentary and the book. So I told him that he can come for the meeting. He is so kind, interested and interesting. Same is Ann. Very nice and calm people. Chill as fuck :).
We were more now, but Matthias and Ann had a van and a tent and they were staying near by in that nice forest where we put the hammocks. So the house was still not that crowded.
The next days we went to visit a very nice botanical garden. Another reason to talk more about interesting things. Vicky is studying the plants for some courses she takes and she knew a lot about plants and insects. Her English improved since the last meeting, by a lot, and she is so funny. She uses the word “fuck” many times, and that’s so hilarious when combined with her Spanish accent. By the way, I really like the girl from this above photo. Just saying. We spent several hours in that garden and took a million photos. Right Alexio!? 🙂
We then visited a castle that’s on a very high hill where you can see all of the surrounding areas.
I was getting more and more tired. And a bit stressed because of Sasha’s issues. But the “party” continued. One night we made some TROM tshirts like we did the last time. Basically all you need is some tshirts (old or buy new ones) and some normal paint. And then you can put your handprint on them. That easy! Unfortunately it was late at night and Matthias and Ann were “long gone” to their cozy forest, so we did not make any for them 🙁 .
We wanted to do one more trip before the meeting was over. To a place where we always find friendly octopuses. And so we went: It is such a beautiful place. Sasha found a grumpy old octopus a bit far, so only Rafa, Matthias and Ann adventured to see it. You may wonder….this all sounds like a fun nice vacation. What’s so TROM about it? You see, the work I/we do for TROM is happening behind the screens. I work like a maniac almost every single day. Alexio is always on the chats helping out, Roma helped the project financially so many times it is insane, plus he helps with TROMjaro and such; And so are the rest helping whenever they can. The meeting is supposed to be for creating some bonds, some relationships; to talk, to enjoy, to get to know each other better. You can’t realistically do more than that. I know a bunch of projects that have these “brainstorm” gatherings and in reality they do not do anything more than that. For TROM is the opposite. The work is done in silence, individually, by each of us. And when we meet is for the connections between us.
Sasha worked quite a bit on the transcription in that meantime is true, I tried too. But it is difficult to focus much on these things. Too many people around, doing many things.
She also cooked for everyone a bunch of times, for hours. Even thought Alexio how to cook 🙂
I think that’s by FAR the best outcome from these meetings. To know each other, get comfortable with each other, and create new relationships. After all that’s how I and Sasha ended up together. That’s how I and Aaron became best friends and how I see this happening with Roma and Alexio and me. That’s how we got to know Vicky and not only Rafa, and get so close to them. That’s how we now got to know Matthias and Ann and who knows maybe we will meet again with them, maybe they’ll get involved with the TROM project in the future….
One comment I’ve seen from Matthias and Ann was that they were expecting more talks about TROM, maybe even to watch the documentary together and such, however for one I was exhausted, and second I did not want to shove down people’s throat this project. We have so many materials online so I thought to not make it look like a “cult meeting” :). In any case, this meeting was (from the get-go) one about friends more than one about TROM. Dima and Mara came basically after the meeting was officially over, when Vicky and Rafa were already gone. Unfortunately we were all too tired by that time. I kept in touch with Dima over Signal for these past 2 years so it was nice to see him again. The last 2 days were basically all about Alexio kicking everyone’s butt at chess 🙂 – apparently he is a grand-master at chess. He was so good no one stood a single chance. And yet so funny and kind. You can’t get angry at having your ass kicked by him :).
Final days.
It was getting very hot, Sasha’s problems were still problems, we were getting only a few hours of sleep, and it was becoming more and more of a struggle for us. Oh, did I mention that all of this time Sasha was forced to deal with a lot of papers? The residency, the work, the this, the that….It was insane and endless. We still did not solve the paper situation….
We needed a break.
Everyone left except Roma who stayed 3 more days to our place and we had a more chill time together. Such a wonderful kind! Despite us being tired and all that, this guy did not bother us at all. He manages his own shit and is so friendly you can’t be bothered by him.
I wish Roko or Shas could have come too, but they live far far away and on this paper planet you need a ton of papers to go from one place to another.
The meeting was better than I expected now that I look at it in perspective. Was quite comfortable and despite tiring it was super fun many times.
Why no more TROM Meetings?
When we rented a new place I did NOT want to rent the same house because that house looks haunted to me :D. It was the place where I had to stay while having so many health issues. It felt like an awful place towards the end of that meeting. For this new meeting me and Sasha stayed in a weird room, tho comfy still. The room was partly a bathroom. Had a sink and a shower inside. The toilette was in a separate room. I mean is cozy to have your own shower and sink in the room, but because of Sasha’s health issues and waking up in the middle of the night and all that, I started to feel like being in a hospital for the last days. And that felt very strange. I mean it kinda looks like a hospital room.
So I honestly am sick of being sick when we do these sort of meetings. It is too much planning involved, too much responsibility for me to organize stuff for everyone, and so on. So I do not want to do this anymore. I want to relax more. If we meet we should do it somewhere else and I should not have to organize it, but all of us to.
The TROM Meeting is also more of a personal meeting so it may make no sense to call it that way.
Therefore I think this could have been the last “TROM Meeting” but for sure not the last meeting that we will have. Maybe even this year at the end of it we may meet again, at least some of us.
Sasha feels a bit better now, but we are still investigating. So far it does not seem to be anything that serious.
Conclusion.
Despite that interpretation of the bathroom/bedroom, the house was very nice: With a cozy living-room and a fireplace:
A nice backyard: And a nice terrace: And despite the tiredness, everything was wonderful and I absolutely appreciate these awesome human beings: And I hope to see each other more often, and dance, and play the guitar and ukulele, and make a new song, and go in nature, and have fun, and talk about interesting things, and live. Because life is like a domino game that has already started for all of us. And at times it is tricky and complex, at times it is smooth, but the fact is, that IT IS. And we should enjoy it while it is. The fun part of a domino game is while it is “rolling”, not when it ends.
So let’s enjoy the ride folks, as long as the ride is riding!
I appreciate you all very much, and if there is one victory I can claim in my personal life so far, it cannot be the change of this trade system that I talk about, it cannot be the popularity of the content I’ve created over the years, and it cannot be any big success with TROM. But I can claim victory when it comes to the relationships and the humans I’ve met. They are real, and they are enough for me.
A trade-free video hosting platform for science/technology/nature videos in the English language. You do not have to trade your currency, data, attention, freedom or anything else, in order to use it.
We have a little surprise, the integration of @TBlock into the system! We named it Internet Content Blocker, and it is basically an ad/tracker blocker that works system-wide. Super cool and super useful and in line with our trade-free approach.
The usual Manjaro Stable updates plus some more stuff. Fix: many apps take a long time to open Open the terminal and paste this: sudo pacman -Rdd xdg-desktop-portal-gnome - hit enter. Add your password.
The TROM Meeting is over. I will make a big blog post all about it because it cannot be condensed that easily. I am happy, and tired, and stressed, and honored, and all of these. In the next few days we have to deal with a lot of bullshit in terms of papers for Sasha, and also get some rest, I need to get back on track with the servers and updates and all. Plus a few personal issues we have to manage.
I still plan to release the documentary this month. I hope all will be ok for the release in terms of my personal life so that I can fully enjoy and focus on the release. #tromstuff
A bunch of wonderful humans who came to visit us. People who help this project, and people who are very good friends. So calm, so nice, so human.
A huge thank you to them all. Too bad we could not gather all of them for the meeting. But we will do more.
We mostly meet in order to have some good time together but also to work on some TROM stuff. We will try to work on the transcriptions for the TROM II documentary and a few other things, will see.
Looking forward to release the documentary in June. #tromlive
Just a reminder that we live in a society where nudity and sex are seen as "bad", yet violent video games, that look more and more realistic, are ok. Youtube will ban a trailer for a game that's about a girl without a bra planting flowers, but will promote a game that's about some humans slicing heads, crushing skulls, and have bloody battles. Just watch the last bits of that video.
Again, I'd not care about this if it wasn't for the outrageous contrast with nudity and sex.
This society of humans would look so weird to any alien species.
@blueberry It would be so weird if life on 2 different planets evolved the same way, let alone have similar cultures and social norms. If we find an alien species that's exactly the same as us then scientists would be so confused 😅
@futureisfoss yeah, it’s unlikely that they’d be exactly the same as us, but I just wanted to point out that aliens may not be any more reasonable or make any more sense than we expect them to be
@blueberry True, aliens may not be very smart or reasonable, we have no idea how they are. If you look at different cultures here on earth for example, you'll see that one culture may have their own myths and believes which may seem unreasonable to the other cultures and vice versa. So even tho aliens may not have the same social norms as us, its possible that they have their own equally unreasonable ones which may surprise people here on earth 🤔
We live in a world where everyone is busy, everyone is consumed, everyone seems confused. Money, social credits, ads, data collection, prices and billionaires.
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