We got fooled by a good looking motorhome videos.trom.tf/w/hW9ZUtWyVJg6f…
#motorhome #van #camper #europe #spain #trade
We got fooled by a good looking motorhome
Unfortunately our "perfect" motorhome is not that perfect it seems. After a mechanical inspection we decided not to buy it.videos.trom.tf
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The people are being consumed by the so called "free" entertainment.
But it is not "free". It is dumb and trade-based. TikTok, Facebook, Youtube, Twitter and so forth mandate that you give them your data and attention (watch ads) in order to use their platforms. In return they give you access to a ton of dumbed down content.
Trading stupidity is much easier than trading well made content. Therefore stupidity evolves faster in a trade-based society.
To make a good researched video can take months, to make a dumbed down one can take minutes. To write a good book about real and important things, and research for it, takes months or years. To write bullshit fictional stories takes a lot less. Music, movies, articles, they are all under the influence of trade, allowing simplistic content to thrive while good one to barely breath.
It is this trade based society to be blamed for the vast majority of the destruction, suffering and idiocy we see worldwide.
#trade #TradeRuinsEverything #capitalism #money #media #journalism
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Thank you Jarrod for donating to our TROMhome project :) tromhome.com/ that was a surprise! tromhome.com/#fundraiser
Tomorrow I will make another video about it. Unfortunately the motorhome we thought we will buy these days has too many problems so we won't buy it... :/
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> Unfortunately the motorhome we thought we will buy these days has too many problems so we won't buy it... :/
Oh sorry to hear that man..... So the mechanic you gave it for testing let you know there are issues?
It is now 2 weeks since we talked to a mechanic across the street, literally, to go pickup up the motorhome we want to buy and do an inspection. According to them it takes 1h to do the inspection. This is how "far" they are from where the motorhome is:
We called them so many times. Yesterday they finally took the motorhome for inspection. They supposed to call today morning to tell us the results. No call. They said they will take the motorhome days ago, that they will call, etc.. Nothing.
I swear Spain is the slowest country on Earth to do anything, except the healthcare system that is really great form my experience. The rest is slow as fuck and you always have 1 paper less, so you have to come next time. Appointments take forever, it is always "manana" (tomorrow), it is so unreliable.
Crazy we've spent so long to find a motorhome, to see motorhomes, to get the money for it and all that, and then we get stuck with this car inspection that takes forever.
If you ever consider moving to Spain, mind you the bureaucracy is on a different level of crazy. And do not expect to solve any issues here fast. This will never happen. That's ours and everyone we know experience.
So we are waiting and waiting....
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This Lake Looked Perfect... Then I Went Underwater... videos.trom.tf/w/jwxtZ1Tefizwz…
@Dima continues to be brave to act. Maybe he will inspire some of you! Great job Dima! And yes, shocking to see how much garbage is hidden beneath the water...
#environment #pollution #diving #plastic #waste
This Lake Looked Perfect... Then I Went Underwater...
My trip to Lithuania to explore Trakai Castle turned out unexpectedly. I was a bit shocked to see the state of the lake when I dived underwater. Thank you for Lithuanian Diving Academy https://nard...videos.trom.tf
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Blabbing.
I will probably close the gofundme campaign for TROMhome soon. It was likely not a good idea and we are getting no support anyway. We are going to buy the motorhome ourselves and manage the money situation somehow. Problem is after we buy it we will have around 900 Euros all of our money and at best 400 Euros a month from then on. It is a mystery how we will move forward with that, but we've been in a lot of financial shit over the years so we will find a way. I hope.
The best support is the 200 for TROM tromsite.com/donate/ - just 5 Euros a month max per person, to distribute the financial pressure on people and make this sustainable. It is damn hard to reach any of these goals that are stretched at the extreme low end of the needed support, but at this point I am tired of it all, so I accept whatever it is. If we cannot support ourselves financially I may shut down some of the TROM.tf services and move the project to a cheaper server. Will see...
So I am bouncing around in my head these days between extreme excitement about the motorhome, and terrible concern about what we do after we buy it.
I am also very eager to create more stuff for TROM, content wise, but well these next months I will be busy with the motorhome life.
I am trying to not let these failures with the gofundme campaign or 200 for TROM destroy my thin layer of motivation that has been getting thinner and thinner over the years. In a way I feel like an old man retiring after many years of work. In the sense that TROM had a lot of traction in the beginning, then I pushed a lot with TVP, I made books, articles, videos, managed many "social" networks, whatever, and now for the past few years I got tired of being fucked by these "social" networks who won't even show your posts to your followers, so I retreated myself into the fediverse. Friendica, Peertube, and the like. Losing even further the little reach we had. But I love these places, they are cozy and sane.
However I have no clue if anyone is still interested in TROM or these sort of projects. Even the few people who got to be active and involved and we became good friends because of TROM, got sucked into the system.
I have great friends now, super exciting plans with the motorhome, but I don't have TROM that much. TROM is a side dish, after it was the main meal for many years between me and the people I got to know online.
As you can see, the "old man retiring" blabbing about the past. But the thing is that TROM is as relevant as it was 10 years ago. The "trade as the origin of most problems" I think is one of the most important ideas out there. The content that we've made, the projects that are still alive, are all very relevant. It's just that this society sucks everyone in. Jobs, netflix, wars, elections, money, stress, day to day bullshit, consume, ads....hard to focus on TROM-like things.
But anyway, I will let the TROMhome project become part of my life, or vice-versa, and I am not giving up on TROM anytime soon. I have a lot more to do, but at times it helps me vent, so I let my brain share bits of my frustration into the interweb, almost like a modern prayer :D - maybe someone is listening, or cares, or doesn't. I certainly don't care, it simply helps me to write :D. I used to keep an offline journal years ago for such reasons, and this is similar, but well....public since it has a lot to do with the many public projects I am doing.
Ok.
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TROM II: What Gives me Hope - videos.trom.tf/w/3gLxDeEf9V6dv…
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TROM II: What Gives me Hope
Watch the entire documentary here - https://www.tromsite.com/documentaries/trom2/videos.trom.tf
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I mean, if an EU citizen’s initiative to tax the rich cannot get a paltry 1 million signatures (less than one quarter of one percent of the population), I guess we really must deserve this bullshit system.
You still have five days, sign this ffs:
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@dascandy “Personal data collected in the statements of support cannot be used for any other purpose”
citizens-initiative.europa.eu/…
“Both the group of organisers and the Commission must destroy all statements of support signed for a given initiative (and any copies) by whichever of these dates comes first:
1 month after the organisers submit the initiative to the Commission
21 months after the collection period starts.”
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done. ✅
I think the lack of awareness, and requirement for ID (and not being clear enough how the ID is used/destroyed after) disincentivizes participation for many.
And it would die in first part in European Commission.
Many people don't know about this. Please inform, don't condemn.
yeah. In a similar vein I reformulated #Enshittification as the extent to which we *allow* it to happen to us..
Well, taking into account that billionaires usually don't have their money in cash to lose it to inflation but in real state or other property... and that cash can be moved out of the EU very easily (while still being able to use it) while property is hard and real state is impossible...
I think is much more effective to tax property. And property is already taxed.
Not to talk about that there isn't a centralized european tax office.
Paraphrasing IT crowd "people, what a bunch of bastards"
We really have the world that we, humans as a whole, deserve...
As depressing as that sounds
**Thank you!**
We have one weekend left where this can go viral. I think it is still possible.
Heck, I guess there a million people in #greece alone who would sign this if they get to see it!
Germany and France have over 100,000 signatures each. We need visibility in Eastern and Southern Europe, Portugal and my own homeland #Ireland.
even the video games preservation initiative got as many signatures, but still has many months to reach the million
/gen /srs
I signed it (just so my passport is useful for once) but I sometimes wonder if these kind of consultations don’t act like the national lottery and friends. They calm down social movements.
In the end it’s always “we asked the poor if they wanted the money of the rich and they clearly said NO” 🤷🏻♂️
As a freelancer I earn enough though I would not consider myself rich. but even if this would mean higher taxes for me: I don’t care
Left Facebook at #deletefacebook time (8y ago?). Left LinkedIn when the evil empire took over. Left twitter 1.5y ago.
Leaving #evilcorp is great and all, but "we" used to have a way to spread information, and the fediverse isn't working (yet).
@ronnie_bonkers The least I could do is, after filling in the manual form, leave a "poor" rating with a comment about the eID stuff being broken.
I found an email address here:
citizens-initiative.europa.eu/…
And perhaps pinging the EU commision on Mastodon helps. Hey, @EUCommission: The European Citizen's Initiative voting website is broken.
@nextgraph
I think the tax the rich never reached a wider audience outside of Mastodon.
Like my mom can't even put it in the alt right groups to share on facebook if it is baked by e.g. Paul Magnette, they would rather rip it apart then help.
I assume since Germany already has 150% of the required votes, my vote won't make a difference anymore.
France is at 200%, Denmark at 100%.
It's the people in other countries who apparently don't care, or more likely don't know that this even exists.
Belgium is close with 90% but that's it.
Assuming that Belgium can still hit 100%, that would make 4 out of 7 countries which would be required for this to be even able to pass.
2 days to convince people of 3 more countries that this is important and have them hit the threshold, and 660.000 more votes in total.
I don't think it's going to happen.
Yes, I'd like to sign this petition
OK,
- log on with your digital ID
- take a picture of a real ID and upload it
...
Uhm. No thanks.
I've just signed. Less than 2 min required.
Do not expect that others will do that for you…
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We may have found the perfect motorhome. Plus was GoFundMe a mistake? - videos.trom.tf/w/suHmXNPUBLUUW…
We are searching for a good motorhome in Europe to buy. Second hand of course, and around 20-24 years old. It is what we can afford. Luckily we may have found one! 😃
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You seem very happy and excited talking about these plans, glad to see that 🙂 I hope everything goes well and wish for this to be a new chapter in your life :)
Also, you look good in those glasses BTW 😄
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Yeah well shocking isn't it that if you respond violence with violence, you'll get more violence....ain't it Israel? bbc.com/news/live/cg4qx62kkxxt
This world is insane....idk if we should even care anymore...
#israel #gaza #lebanon #iran #war
Israel-Iran latest: Iran launches barrage of missiles at Israel
Israel says around 180 missiles were fired from Iran, most of which were intercepted.BBC News
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TROM II: Trade-Free videos.trom.tf/w/61qnw79jdW7pR…
#trade-free #volunteering #volunteers
TROM II: Trade-Free
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The american "motorhomes" are honestly insane...
The motorhome we are looking to buy is maybe a bit bigger than that pickup truck in the photo haha. Even if someone would give me that motorhome and it won't be an issue driving or parking it, I would sell it day one and buy a "normal" motorhome.
It is simply insane to me how in US people don't look at this and laugh or be shocked. That is a fucking train.
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I think we found THE motorhome :D - maybe the perfect one for us :)
I'll give you more info but we need to deal with the buying of it these days. We negotiated it for 18.000 which is really great for us. We still dont have all the money so we have to borrow some. After we buy it we will be so broke it will be funny. .)) But yah, we will do it. TROMhome - tromhome.com/
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TROMhome and some recent thoughts tiotrom.com/2024/09/tromhome-a…
A lot more details about our TROMhome project. If anyone is curious.
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Likewise. And I can really appreciate what you mean with the different dog/wolf impulses. I have both 😅
Wishing you both the best of luck with it! 🤗
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BTW, I couldn't overlook this typo:
> I really home this new home would be a great home for us
That is one too many homes lol 😄
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in reply to Tio • • •That's probably the reason she drop 2k so easily :)
From my experience when some one ok to drop the price quite significantly that's usually a bad sign. Unless it's your friend or the person you know. Normally if the stuff you are selling is good, and your price is not too high you not onging to drop it, unless maybe you are really desperate to sell it.
Good luck for your further searches.
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