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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.
Never stop being you man! 🙂 You may not have a million followers or anything but at least the videos you post and the blogs you write are honest and down to earth - some of us need to hear that voice and it's hard to find genuine content like that on the internet these days.
Thank you friend! And thank you for sticking around and helping with stuff.
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Tried to sign it. It failed. Everything is broken these days, technology, society, whatever, Will try again later.
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it errors after authenticating in my browser. That doesn’t help 😅
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@ronnie_bonkers I use SMS authentication for DigID, which isn't even accepted for this site. So they're blocking me from actually logging in.
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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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I was wondering, why it didn't take off, considering that it's in favour of the large majority... Guess is drowned in the attention economy where only those who pay are seen 
Just like our US brothers and sisters in christ, Europeans think that they are just temporarily embarrassed multi-millionaires too
Right, the one where you have to fully dox yourself, or sign by logging in to your country's online registration system that fully doxes yourself.
@dascandy Well you also have to fully dox yourself to vote in an election. It would be good to know, however, whether your signature is linked to you or, like a vote, used only for authentication.
@dascandy “Personal data collected in the statements of support cannot be used for any other purpose”
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“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:
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Added my signature. Though at (currently) 14 and a bit % there's a long way to go to reach the threshold in my country.
this is literally the first time I heard of it, so maybe the problem is less about what the population wants or deserves and more about the lack of visibility of the initiative
btw. isn't this proposition against EU law? Income tax, wealth tax, corporate tax - those are reserved for countries. EU has only control on minimal and maximal VAT rate.I think extending EU control would be possible only if European Commission would propose special regulation here, European Parliament voted it and finally countries 'put it to their tax systems.
And it would die in first part in European Commission.
And it would die in first part in European Commission.
@aral@mastodon.ar.modify to "tax the rich immigrants" & you'll get at least 10x more signatures. as in everywhere else, voters are afraid of imaginary, not the actual, boogeymen :)
Don't suppose you know about sugar and vinegar?
Many people don't know about this. Please inform, don't condemn.
Many people don't know about this. Please inform, don't condemn.
@grumpydad My goodness, to go one day without getting tone policed… now that would be amazing.
thanks to Brexit I can't even sign this 🤬
@COMPU73E :( I’m sorry; we left the country because of it so I hear you.
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@Herman there you go
you have a point. And yet, ECIs are considered to be a failure IN GENERAL. Maybe there is not enough of a European demos yet, despite all efforts.
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O sistema non funciona. E para sabver iso non fan falta iniciativas como tax the rich, senón só mirar arredor...
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I simply wasn't aware of it.
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wish I could sign this, unfortunately I'm in the UK 😔
Looking at this, I need to stop procrastinating and get EU citizenship. Unfortunately, just living here and paying taxes here doesn't get my views counted.
The pleebs sure do love their chains.
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
not an eu citizen, but hey, TAX THE RICH!
**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.
ik probeerde het verschillende keren op mijn Android telefoon, maar het lukte niet. Steeds identificatieproblemen. Nu op iPad lukt het wel.
I have already signed, and boosted the appeal multiple times, so I now balk at being shamed for "us" not signing enough. What more can I do, go round the neighbourhood trying to get people to sign? (That will greatly improve my relations with the neighbours (not). Also, I'm too introverted and don't think I can do a believable pitch.) I'll gladly boost a different message (though of course that will go to my own followers again who have already seen it), but not this shaming message.
It is not publicized well. I mean I just stumbled on your toot. It is also visible on the main social networks. Nevertheless I would like to have a taxation on capital gains that come from speculation and not merely production..
you’ve got a branding problem. It does not look serious. Change the image for a different demographic and you might get more
It needs to be shared and linked to everywhere on social media so people know about it.
signed and boosted.
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
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
Guys, you can use your eID to sign it. I didn't have to enter anything.
Sadly I'm not allowed to sign, bcs my idiot government appear to believe we're 'better off' outside the EU.
Wish I could, but I don't live in the EU. Anything important for non-EU citizens to do?
Thanks Brexiteers
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Tried to sign it. It failed. Everything is broken these days, technology, society, whatever, Will try again later.
Yeah well, heard about this a week ago.
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).
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).
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it errors after authenticating in my browser. That doesn’t help 😅
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@guido Same here.
@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.
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@ronnie_bonkers I use SMS authentication for DigID, which isn't even accepted for this site. So they're blocking me from actually logging in.
...or the message hasn't been made broadly visible enough to be well known.
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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.
forgotten i already did it form was mad at me for trying to do it twice 😅
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.
Saying that somebody who didn't see the petition deserves to be abused by the system is like saying someone who wasn't told there are bears in the forest deserves to be killed by bears.
I've just signed. Less than 2 min required.
Do not expect that others will do that for you…
The server seems down now, maybe people are rushing to sign
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A huge thank you to the anonymous 300 Euros donation! Much much appreciated! It helps a lot this period of time! tromsite.com/donate/
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Thank you for your words! When I get such support, be it financially or very nice messages, it gives me a lot of fuel to continue!
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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! 😃
Goodluck guys, hopefully engine is fine and there are not too many parts which needs to be exchanged.
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Thanks Dima! Yah it is an old car but we will have some savings specifically for these kind of issues since there will be issues with the engine or other parts.
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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Thanks a lot friend! :) Yes I am super happy and excited about all of this! :)
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This world is insane....idk if we should even care anymore...
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Thank you so much Jurgen for becoming our new 200 for TROM supporter! tromsite.com/donate/
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This is still one of the best photos we took with the night sky and the phone. Georgi is the "actress" haha. She had to stay still for 4 minutes for this photo. No editing required, straight out of the Pixel 4a. #astrophotpgraphy #nightsky
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This is still one of the best photos we took with the night sky and the phone. Georgi is the "actress" haha. She had to stay still for 4 minutes for this photo. No editing required, straight out of the Pixel 4a. #astrophotpgraphy #nightsky
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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/
yup we love it and the people selling it are sooo nice :)
you'll be our first passenger as you already know haha. so buckle the fuck up!
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Thank you David for becoming our 86st supporter of 200 for TROM - tromsite.com/donate/
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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.
Man this is gonna be a really big change for you guys, I hope everything goes well for you my friend, wishing you the best 🙂👍
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Thanks man! Yah I hope it would be ok....let's see...
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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Happy to be able to provide a platform for the Software Freedom Day streaming videos.trom.tf/w/jV6fPKd9jR4ce…
Check it out, they have some interesting presentations!
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The wonderful Moon tonight. Minimal editing. Taken with a Pixel 4a that Aaron gave me for free and has CalyxOS :D. Of course the photo is taken through a telescope. #moon #fullmoon #moonrise #astrophotpgraphy
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The wonderful Moon tonight. Minimal editing. Taken with a Pixel 4a that Aaron gave me for free and has CalyxOS :D. Of course the photo is taken through a telescope. #moon #fullmoon #moonrise #astrophotpgraphy
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If you want you can subscribe to our new Peertube channel for our new project TROMhome - videos.trom.tf/c/tromhome/vide…
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Likely I will post there a lot more often than on the other channels.
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