School can be seen as an abusive and inefficient system that has little to nothing to do with "education".
Children are forced to wake up at a certain hour, every day, 5 days a week, for 12 years. They are categorized by ages and their "knowledge" level. School creates a competition between the kids, makes then hate science and learning in general, it is a boring and colorless place for these young minds, and overall ends up not teaching children much at all about the world we live in.
In a trade-based society the parents NEED to trade themselves in a job, so these kids need to be "livestocked" somehow. That's what school is, a place where kids can be while their parents trade to survive in this society. More to that, Universities almost exclusively prepare these young creatures to become workers, like their parents.
All in all, kids go to school to compete, memorize, get ready to be work
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School can be seen as an abusive and inefficient system that has little to nothing to do with "education".
Children are forced to wake up at a certain hour, every day, 5 days a week, for 12 years. They are categorized by ages and their "knowledge" level. School creates a competition between the kids, makes then hate science and learning in general, it is a boring and colorless place for these young minds, and overall ends up not teaching children much at all about the world we live in.
In a trade-based society the parents NEED to trade themselves in a job, so these kids need to be "livestocked" somehow. That's what school is, a place where kids can be while their parents trade to survive in this society. More to that, Universities almost exclusively prepare these young creatures to become workers, like their parents.
All in all, kids go to school to compete, memorize, get ready to be workers. NOT to be EDUCATED.
If humans could have a decent life without trading in this society, they could have the time to engage with their kids, discover, learn, enjoy. And schools could be places where kids of all ages can go because they want to. A place where experts can teach them about the world and how to do something productive.
EXAMPLES:
Tell kids: See this red dot? This is the farthest thing we can take a photo off. They call it a "star". And you show them a real photo taken by the WEBB telescope. From there on you and your class of kids will investigate what this red dot is, and in the process you'll teach kids about light, physics, maths, distances, stars, the universe.
Or show kids a real dinosaur bone and tell them: Our mission is to understand how old it is and what creature this is. And thus you can go into a journey of discovering what geology is, paleontology, rocks and fossils, and so forth.
Or tell them that our mission is to build a robot. And they will learn mechanics, programming and so forth.
We could create real schools where kids can become curious and learn so much about our world. So that they can become the next Einsteins, the next Teslas, the next ones who can discover new things.
That's the world we should have had by now....
And we wont be able to have it unless we change the trade-based society into a tradeless society. Where humans are not forced to trade in order to survive. Where humans like "teachers" can engage and develop such schools as explained above, to have time for that, not to go to school because that's their job since they have to pay their rent so they are forced to do it.
We create documentaries out of our eBooks. These documentaries are entirely based on the books themselves but they may differ here and there in terms of the script and overall presentation, but in general they are the same as the books. All sources for all of our videos are greatly detailed/sourced in the books they are based upon. These videos are also available without the narration voice so anyone can dub them into any language.
TROM Office will be removed from trom.tf/ towards the end of this year. This is a Cryptpad instance and here are the reasons:
1. We already provide a full Office Suite via TROM Files that is far better than the one provided by Cryptpad. 2. Sure, you need an account for TROM Files, but if you want a quick way to create a document we already have TROM Text. 3. We also have TROM Sketch in case you want to draw.
Therefore Cryptpad was not adding anything new. The last drop that filled the glass of decisions was that Cryptpad is offensively aggressive in the way that they inject the donate buttons in the app itself. Popups, multiple buttons, and so forth. Totally understandable that these projects need financial support but this way of asking for support is way too aggressive. On top of that they are changing the design of their service quite a lot and it is quite difficult to customize it, so every update breaks our clean TROM design.
Therefore no more Cryptpad.
Do not worry, it will be around for many months from now on, but it will not be visible from our main TROM page.
Documentary that explores the vital role that mosses played in the earth's evolution and how science is only beginning to unlock the secrets and potential of these amazing plants.
Documentary that explores the vital role that mosses played in the earth’s evolution and how science is only beginning to unlock the secrets and potential of these amazing plants.
Just so everyone knows, boobs and genitalia are not bad. They can cause a lot of pleasure. Penises too. And overall the naked human body.
Therefore we won't remove any video from our Peertube instance just because some people are too sensitive to the naked body. You know, you too heave one. Enjoy it!
Guns, poverty, wars, violent games, ads, and so forth, are the ones we should stay away from and consider unacceptable. Not the naked human body.
That was a video from @toplesstopics and its not even porn, like its just a video of her talking about a photoshoot she did which contained some artistic nudity. I don't understand why people are so afraid of human skin, no one's forcing them to watch.
That being said, if videos from an account is showing up even after banning then that's probably a bug that needs to be reported to #Peertube. Asking the admin of another instance to take the video out is not the way to solve this issue.
jeez. Thanks for not being a puritanical American jerk. Your peertube instance is one of the incredible minority of platforms online, big and small, that allows nonsexual nudity but NOT porn and NOT violence and hatespeech...until that someday-maybe idyllic future where major corps decide it's more profitable to support progressive causes like gender-equal anti-censorship instead of making superstars out of right-wing hatemongers, I will be forever grateful to you for giving me a "safe space" to upload my heinous nonsexual female nipples to!
BTW everyone should become a Patreon donor to help Tio keep the server running! patreon.com/trom/posts
Today I take a first look at TROMJaro, a Manjaro-based, XFCE distro that has a lot of awesome customizations.
👇 PULL IT DOWN FOR THE GOOD STUFF 👇
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Before the TROM II documentary will be released we will do a cleanup for tromsite.com. For example there are a few books that are outdated or not relevant/factual anymore and they will be removed. We will make this all public. Or our quizzes and other tools that are not relevant anymore, will be removed.
We need to keep TROM up to date and relevant. No point in dragging outdated materials/tools.
The usual Manjaro updates plus: We switched to the new kernel, 6.1 LTS - Long Time Support. This kernel brings a lot of hardware improvements. I know from experience that my new laptop had no working speakers, and a lot of other issues.
All of the "shorts" videos from our tromnews.com/videos/ are now extinct! No more shorts. These videos, the shorts, are a byproduct of a trade-insanity where humans are obsessed to do whatever it takes to grab more attention. Because they can trade that for other things. In this case the traders are hopping on a train brought by the TikTok ad company and emulated by Youtube ad company.
These "shorts" videos were ruining our entire video section. So we had to manually fix this for every source. And should be fixed from now on for good.
Well the stupid typo I always make should have been: "are now extinct!" - corrected. Changes the entire meaning of the sentence....terrible! Thanks for the heads-up.
In a trade-based society it mainly, of not entirely, matters what's the value of a trade. If you can trade it, you have the go ahead. If it is not profitable to trade it or you cannot trade it, then it does not have any value.
We should be able to design a better society where the incentive is to help others, progress, protect, discover, rather than a mindless "trade trade trade".
Harlow is diagnosed with a fatal mitochondrial disease known as Pyruvate dehydrogenase complex deficiency (PDCD). Since there are only a few cases of this disorder worldwide, there is no funding for research because "it is not profitable to cure".
Its horrifying to hear that there are 200 to 300 children suffering from this disease and still no one's trying to help find a cure for it just because its not profitable. Its so sad that our world works this way.
Nothing exciting, only the usual Manjaro Stable updates. Grab it from here. Mind you the Mouse Gesture is not working probably…the package is called easystroke. No time to fix it for now, I am very sick.
VideoNeat is up again! The theme was very old and not updated in years so it was not working properly and we were unable to update the whole website for some time now. We finally changed the theme and redesigned the entire website. It looks quite similar to how it was before, but probably a bit more functional now.
Mind you it is not optimized for mobile phones and it won't be for some time. It is not a priority for now. Only after the TROM II documentary is released we can do that. But regardless this website is not meant for such tiny screens anyway. And most mobile phones can't even properly support the Bittorrent network that VN uses.
Also we need some 50 more euros for our campaign to pay for the backups for VN and all other websites. Please help if you can tromsite.com/fundraiser/ we have to pay in less than a week.
hey guys, I spent ten minutes on your site. I have no idea what you are trying to do/say. There's no real mission statement. None of your questions have answers, just a reframe of the questions.
This seems like a parody of a free thinking website before it turns into a conspiracy based site
What are you talking about? Videoneat is an educational website where we list scientific documentaries mostly. VideoNeat is part of the TROM project. The TROM project's main website is tromsite.com.
If you want to know what TROM is about maybe you can read our main book: The Origin of Most Problems - tromsite.com/books/#flipbook-d…
If you find anything conspiratorial I'd be very curious to know what that is.
can you explain Trom in three succinct sentences? While I appreciate your offer to read your 1100?? page manifesto of all of the issues with society perhaps explain why I should care about your thoughts? And then translate that to your Home or About pages is what I'm saying. Trom seems like a conspiracy site because it doesn't seem to ever get to the point.
On the website we have both a short description and a short video introduction. We are also about to release a 5h documentary in a few months time.
Despite that I will summarize what TROM is about, for you:
The society we live in, from China to USA, Europe to Russia, from communism to socialism, capitalism, and so forth, is simply a society of trade. From cryptocurrencies to ads, to money or data collection, pretty much everything in our society is driven and based on trade. A simple practice that made sense hundreds of years ago, but today it drives more destruction than anything else. It makes us all put profit over anything else. And thus, we argue, trade is what drives humans to create most of the problems we see in the world today: climate change, waste, slavery, corruption, data collection, you name it.
That being said, we argue that you simply cannot make this game fair, we should move beyond it. So, what if we start to create trade-free goods and services to push aside the trade-based ones, killing the bad incentives that push humans to create so many pro
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On the website we have both a short description and a short video introduction. We are also about to release a 5h documentary in a few months time.
Despite that I will summarize what TROM is about, for you:
The society we live in, from China to USA, Europe to Russia, from communism to socialism, capitalism, and so forth, is simply a society of trade. From cryptocurrencies to ads, to money or data collection, pretty much everything in our society is driven and based on trade. A simple practice that made sense hundreds of years ago, but today it drives more destruction than anything else. It makes us all put profit over anything else. And thus, we argue, trade is what drives humans to create most of the problems we see in the world today: climate change, waste, slavery, corruption, data collection, you name it.
That being said, we argue that you simply cannot make this game fair, we should move beyond it. So, what if we start to create trade-free goods and services to push aside the trade-based ones, killing the bad incentives that push humans to create so many problems.
You seem super smart, but even your explanations leave questions. From your FAQ tromsite IF I want to know what Trade Free even is I get a question about what email to use?? Can you see the problem here?? I fully support change to the system that isn't and hasn't been working for a long assed time but you can't even clearly get across what you are all about. If your website can't answer a basic question about a basic principle of your organization how will it grow?!
As said we have a video presentation on the homepage plus a pretty detailed book about it. And a new documentary coming. We will improve the FAQ after the documentary is released. There is a lot of work going on now with this new documentary. Working for the past 2-3 years on it. And it is almost done. So things will improve in regards to our FAQ or other parts of the website.
Your intro is broken just FYI. Your "like Monopoly" video still doesn't explain what you are about? Is Trade Free a version of socialism? Until you can say "The world is broken and we need to do 1: 2: 3: to even have a chance" you won't broaden your audienc. Nothing you are advocating for is so complex it cannot be simply stated, and you seem married to complexity for complexities sake. You want to reach a global audience? Make your message simple, like me
You have complex questions and expect for very simplistic answers. I don't think it can work like that. We argue that the most important part is to understand "the problem" not to come up with any solutions. Like the only way to, for example, cure cancer, is to understand what cancer is. We give this example with the germs. Before discovering these microscopic organisms many hundreds of millions of humans died since they had 0 solutions for those infections. The moment they understood where these infections come from (little tiny organisms, germs) they came up with a lot of solutions: vaccines, washing their hands, some pills, boiling the water before consumption, you name it.
So we want to make sure people understand that "trade is the origin of most problems".
For example when you ask "Is Trade Free a version of socialism?" then what do you mean by socialism? What Robert Owen started in the 18hundreds as "socialism"? What some tribes proclaim today to be socialism?
Trade-Free means we should create goods and services that ask nothing in return. Like Wikipedia,
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You have complex questions and expect for very simplistic answers. I don't think it can work like that. We argue that the most important part is to understand "the problem" not to come up with any solutions. Like the only way to, for example, cure cancer, is to understand what cancer is. We give this example with the germs. Before discovering these microscopic organisms many hundreds of millions of humans died since they had 0 solutions for those infections. The moment they understood where these infections come from (little tiny organisms, germs) they came up with a lot of solutions: vaccines, washing their hands, some pills, boiling the water before consumption, you name it.
So we want to make sure people understand that "trade is the origin of most problems".
For example when you ask "Is Trade Free a version of socialism?" then what do you mean by socialism? What Robert Owen started in the 18hundreds as "socialism"? What some tribes proclaim today to be socialism?
Trade-Free means we should create goods and services that ask nothing in return. Like Wikipedia, Doctors Without Borders, Open Source software, and so forth. No ideology behind really, just a "humane and humanitarian" practice.
So we want to make sure people understand that "trade is the origin of most problems".
Verbatim, pulled from your response. This is perfect. I asked you to sum up your views in a way simple to understand. I spent half an hour on your site and another half hour talking to you directly to get this! Why isn't that or some variation more accessible on your site?
To take a step back, Respect for the sheer volume of work you've dedicated to this intellectual exercise.
It's super easy to do and it's something I'm very guilty of, I so often assume the background knowledge I have on a subject is something everyone has and as a result I'll "begin" a conversation at a level that often means I have to take several steps back. I hope this brought some value to your day, do you have a goal for the new documentary being up? And any plans for cliff notes of the manuscript?
The documentary is almost done. It will be posted for free of course, on tromsite.com. I am not sure I understand this question "And any plans for cliff notes of the manuscript?"
sorry for the delay. I'm paraphrasing but your magnum opus Most of the Problem is very weighty, and unless it involves sex most of the population isn't going to read it. Even if it involves sex many won't . My last book was fiction and 450 pages, personally your giant tome and huge imposing documentary seem to reflect the grandiose behaviors of the church keeping the message inaccessible to the common man. Your message is clear when you speak from the heart so do that more!
It looks at a cursory glance to be 15 years and countless hours of time. I've really enjoyed this conversation, I fully agree the system is broken so please don't feel I'm saying anything bad about your site views etc. What I'm doing is showing you my perspective. You've been submerged in this subject matter for so long you assume so much knowledge of visitors. We (I) don't have your entrenched background. If I can't grasp your views quickly imma pass and move on, see?
This is very useful indeed and it helps us make the information more easy to grasp. We will make sure the website will be more straight-forward in regards to what TROM is about. This should be something that we will fix before May when the documentary is scheduled for release.
Trade-Free means we should create goods and services that ask nothing in return. Like Wikipedia, Doctors Without Borders, Open Source software, and so forth. No ideology behind really, just a "humane and humanitarian" practice.
I mean I feel like the site takes up more vertical space now. videoneat.com/category/documen… Look at the screenshot attached, just 2 documentaries are taking up all my screen and I still can't fully read the description of the first one. Would be nice if it were more compact, having to scroll a lot is bad UX.
And of course there's no hurry, you can fix this when you're free from all the TROM II work.
Oh well I suspect your screen has a very small resolution. This is not how it looks on my full hd screen.
I did not test it much for other resolutions but will try to improve it a bit the following months. Am too sick now and also need to focus on TROM II. In the meantime try to zoom out a bit ;)
@tio Wow that's such a big difference between your screenshot and mine, if you look carefully you'll notice that in mine the pictures look almost square instead of being rectangle shaped. I tried zooming out and it worked, so for now I can use this trick.
Also did you get COVID from going to the dentist? wishing you a quick recovery
The usual Manjaro updates PLUS: Added CatFish back. We used this as our main search tool when Thunar did not have any. Now that Thunar has a built-in search feature I thought we need no extra tool.
Here's a cool thing: make an account at files.trom.tf (our trade-free nextcloud instance). You get 5GB of space. If you need more you can ask us and we can expand to 20GB. You get access to a powerful document editor (onlyoffice), Notes, Music and Photos app.
You can manage you files with this, for free.
Now you can easily sync your files using the Nextcloud Desktop app or even integrate your TROM FIles into your file manager in TROMjaro, in seconds. See this.
Thus, a free and open source way to manage your files, your photos, your documents, your videos, your music. And to integrate it with your desktop.
We provide all of these as trade-free, in a reactionary move to this bullshit trade-based society that pushes us all to be cunts. We want to be the opposite. And that's just 1 o
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Here's a cool thing: make an account at files.trom.tf (our trade-free nextcloud instance). You get 5GB of space. If you need more you can ask us and we can expand to 20GB. You get access to a powerful document editor (onlyoffice), Notes, Music and Photos app.
You can manage you files with this, for free.
Now you can easily sync your files using the Nextcloud Desktop app or even integrate your TROM FIles into your file manager in TROMjaro, in seconds. See this.
Thus, a free and open source way to manage your files, your photos, your documents, your videos, your music. And to integrate it with your desktop.
We provide all of these as trade-free, in a reactionary move to this bullshit trade-based society that pushes us all to be cunts. We want to be the opposite. And that's just 1 out of the many such services that we provide via TROM.tf.
And by the way, please help if you can here tromsite.com/fundraiser/ so that we don't ever become cunts.
The usual Manjaro Stable updates plus: Added support for fingerprint readers. To set it up follow this guide. Added support for WebDAV. See this for more info. Removed the autostart of Emote when the system first boots up. And that’s all.
Big thanks to @Roma again for donating 100€ for our backups donation campaign. Since he did it directly we changed the goal from 250 to 150 Euros. Please if anyone can, help us out to pay for the backups. We have 3 more weeks to raise the funds. This amount covers a full year of backups.
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