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Folks I am aware our Friendica instance does not work very well lately. Loads super slow or not at all at times. I know and I will try to fix it. But for the past days, on top of my issues with being dumped by my best friend, my father had the 4th stroke in 8 months and my sister had some serious health issues we stayed in ER for 10 hours yesterday.

I am very tired, very depressed, very consumed by life.

As soon as I can look into this issue with Friendica I will.

#friendica #fedi #fediverse #trom #tromsocial

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

How many people celebrate the holy-days today in the same way that people celebrated them 50-100 years ago?

I know that for us, coming from a very religious tribe called Romania, Christmas was more about the Christmas tree, presents, food and Coca-Cola. Oh and watching Home Alone on repeat. Nothing to do with the original Christmas “holy” day. Or anything Romanian specific either.

And so it was the case for everyone I knew. And that’s one of the many “holy” days that today have become mostly about consuming.

The forces of our trade-based society with its marketing tentacles, are transforming the culture more than any dictators and philosophers do. That you should keep in mind.

#culture #culturecancer #trom #tromsite #holiday #holidays #romania #homealone #christmas #cocacola #money #TradeRuinsEverything

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THE PEACEFUL WEAPON


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For the past few releases our TROMjaro ISO would not boot into the live environment on real hardware. It was a Manjaro ISO that they finally fixed. So we just released a working ISO. Grab it from here forum.tromjaro.com/t/tromjaro-…

TROMjaro is already 6-7 years old. Stable, fast, based on #xfce and #manjarostable. With unique features - see the website www.tromjaro.com/

#linux #foss #opensource #trade-free #manjaro #arch

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I am quite happy that some of our roots in Europe, like those from the Ottoman empire, are long gone because I would not want to wear this fashionable-onion-hat.

And most likely very few in Europe would probably listen to the Ottoman music today, or understand their contemporary poetry and art. Not to mention their buildings and many traditions that are not at all compatible with today’s standards, morally and structurally.

But these are our “roots”, right? Or if we go back our roots in Europe were the Roman empire. Should we go way back? Why do we regard “our culture” as the “happenings” that have happened only for the past hundreds of years? Isn’t that an arbitrary line to draw and call it “our culture”? Especially since we know we cannot freeze that culture in time and hope to take it with us intact into the distant future.

#culture #europe #empire #trom #tromsite

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Catalonia and the people speaking the catalan language reside mostly here:

And this is how they ended up here:


What was there before?

Some Muslims it seems with their own language and culture.

To quote Wikipedia: “From the 8th century onwards the Catalan counts extended their territory southwards and westwards at the expense of the Muslims, bringing their language with them.”

The classic way of grabbing land, kicking off the “native” people (who very likely did the same thing to others who where there before them), put fences and borders and called it their land with their own language. The story of every tribe. Spain, France, USA … Every single one.

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

#catalonia #catala #catalan #culture #trom #tromsite

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Well planned obsolescence is not like they plan it for X years after which the product breaks...they add shitty parts as a normal thing and then when the products do not work, or do not work well, people are inclined to buy new ones. And ye sis 10 years but I didnt use this telescope nowhere near as much as most people probably would...

In any case is an absolute terrible design.

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Re-Release TROMjaro 2026.03.26 - IMPORTANT! - forum.tromjaro.com/t/re-releas…

#linux #tromjaro #manjaro #arch #xfce

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So true man.... I'm not really a big sports person but I did watch the recent world cup and this is something you can notice in every team. Is not so much about the country as it is about the team, I'm not sure why they even attach nationality into this.

Also that story of Nico's parents having to cross the Sahara desert is truly insane man. Such things still happen today when it comes to human trafficking!

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The french fries probably originated from Spain some 400 years ago.
Fish and chips are a kind of food that was introduced in England by immigrants.
And the Spanish paella emerged from the Muslims who began rice cultivation in what is today called as “Spain”.

Look at the evolution of the popular Chicken Tikka Masala (Wikipedia):

Evolution of chicken tikka masala as a multicultural British dish.[41][4] Chicken tikka was created in Mughal India using Persian marinading of meat in yoghurt and Central Asian tandoor roasting with Indian spices.[42] In 20th century Britain, a sauce was added to meet the British liking for gravy with meat.[12] The dish has evolved further to a taco filling in the US,[36] and to a pizza topping in India.[39] Tacos originated from Mexico.[43] Pizzas originated from Italy.[44]

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

#culture #society #food #spain #india

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We are being attacked by the trolls on the fediverse. Is ok, we will block a lot of these black hole instances. It is truly sad to see this astonishing degradation of humanity. Tagged in posts that show people killing other people, or pornography, or insulting us.

Interesting how some people can lower themselves so much is nothing humane in them.

We at TROM provide trade-free services and materials for anyone. Hosting instances, file hosting, and so much more. As a service for other humans. And now this...

Quite disgusting...

For sure more will leave insane comments to this post too. And we will keep on blocking them and their instances.

#fediblock #fediverse

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The reason we use "trade" to describe the global society is because all of these "isms" are making it all very confusing and everyone understands whatever they want from them. Lots of words, but I think it takes some time to detach from these "isms" and see what is behind the global force of consumerism.

The force of trade indeed makes people behave like total cunts, to put it simply. Be it in groups like companies, or governments, or individuals, etc..

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Another instance that we blocked globally: parcero.casa

Hard do believe some people are such absolute garbage. Likely lonely people who are hurt. They too are victims. But we cannot accept such troll and garbage instances that harass people to federate with us. I recommend others block it too and if you know more such instances please let us know so we block them.

#fediblock

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