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The height of the hypocrisy of holding tight to your own culture and land is the fact that ALL inventions, research and human knowledge that is at the basis of any society, all of that comes from people from all around the world.
Without the British Isaac Newton we would not understand how objects move on this planet, maybe we would be unable to build many of the infrastructure of our modern cities.
Nuclear energy, modern cosmology, or GPS technology would not be possible without the US German immigrant Albert Einstein who studied in Switzerland.
Would we have telescopes or even the modern science without the Italian Galileo Galilei? Or medicine and healthcare without the French Louis Pasteur?
The Internet, gadgets, buildings and blueprints, discoveries and experiments, are all a mush of work being done by humans from all around the world, from different tribes. So it is astonishingly hypocritical and primitive to “hold onto your own tribe, your own culture” as if you did anything for it or it belongs to a particular group of people.
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The height of the hypocrisy of holding tight to your own culture and land is the fact that ALL inventions, research and human knowledge that is at the basis of any society, all of that comes from people from all around the world.
Without the British Isaac Newton we would not understand how objects move on this planet, maybe we would be unable to build many of the infrastructure of our modern cities.
Nuclear energy, modern cosmology, or GPS technology would not be possible without the US German immigrant Albert Einstein who studied in Switzerland.
Would we have telescopes or even the modern science without the Italian Galileo Galilei? Or medicine and healthcare without the French Louis Pasteur?
The Internet, gadgets, buildings and blueprints, discoveries and experiments, are all a mush of work being done by humans from all around the world, from different tribes. So it is astonishingly hypocritical and primitive to “hold onto your own tribe, your own culture” as if you did anything for it or it belongs to a particular group of people.
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In Catalonia they provide courses for “immigrants” to learn Catalan so they can integrate into the society. We know many Moroccans who take these courses, and sometimes they can even get benefits from taking them.
But then if you look at their Muslim culture it has nothing to do with the Catalan one. So what if they know Catalan? Does that mean they are vessels of the Catalan culture? Of course not.
Don’t get me wrong is good to help people integrate, if they so wish, but don’t regard it as if these people are bending to the culture, since it can be vice-versa and they can lead to the mutation of culture. From USA to Catalonia and everywhere else.
Snippet from Culture Cancer - tromsite.com/2026/07/culture-c…
#catala #catalan #catalonia #immigrants #culture #tromarticles #trom #tromsite
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In Catalonia they provide courses for “immigrants” to learn Catalan so they can integrate into the society. We know many Moroccans who take these courses, and sometimes they can even get benefits from taking them.
But then if you look at their Muslim culture it has nothing to do with the Catalan one. So what if they know Catalan? Does that mean they are vessels of the Catalan culture? Of course not.
Don’t get me wrong is good to help people integrate, if they so wish, but don’t regard it as if these people are bending to the culture, since it can be vice-versa and they can lead to the mutation of culture. From USA to Catalonia and everywhere else.
Snippet from Culture Cancer - tromsite.com/2026/07/culture-c…
#catala #catalan #catalonia #immigrants #culture #tromarticles #trom #tromsite
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The Extreme Hypocrisy!
Everyone knows this guy unfortunately (Trump) and how he wants to make America Great “Again”… And how he is deporting so many “illegal” immigrants, and how he makes it difficult for others to come to the USA tribe.
Here is him posing proudly with the US Physics team that won five gold medals at the 2025 International Physics Olympiad:
These are all children of immigrants. As you can tell.
None is a “native” American, whatever that means.Snippet from Culture Cancer - tromsite.com/2026/07/culture-c…
#usa #migrants #immigration #culture #trom #tromsite #tromarticles #murica #trump
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The Extreme Hypocrisy!
Everyone knows this guy unfortunately (Trump) and how he wants to make America Great “Again”… And how he is deporting so many “illegal” immigrants, and how he makes it difficult for others to come to the USA tribe.
Here is him posing proudly with the US Physics team that won five gold medals at the 2025 International Physics Olympiad:
These are all children of immigrants. As you can tell.
None is a “native” American, whatever that means.Snippet from Culture Cancer - tromsite.com/2026/07/culture-c…
#usa #migrants #immigration #culture #trom #tromsite #tromarticles #murica #trump
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Is funny how a few thousand migrants, poor people, are such a scare for Europe.
Maybe they should go after the millionaires and billionaires who hoard all resources, consume the most power, influence politics, and enslave so many people in Europe by holding them hostage with low wages. That's a crisis, not some poor people who seek for a better life.
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Is funny how a few thousand migrants, poor people, are such a scare for Europe.
Maybe they should go after the millionaires and billionaires who hoard all resources, consume the most power, influence politics, and enslave so many people in Europe by holding them hostage with low wages. That's a crisis, not some poor people who seek for a better life.
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Of course pretty much all products in Catalonia come from abroad: food, clothes, cars, electronics. I cannot name a single product that is Catalan made. Same goes for Spain overall or any other tribe. Their phones, the apps they use, the knowledge they have, research, even media, everything either comes from outside or is remixed from outside.
So what is so unique about your tribe?
Snippet from Culture Cancer - tromsite.com/2026/07/culture-c…
#culture #tromsite #capitalism #money #trade #tradebasedsociety #profit
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Of course pretty much all products in Catalonia come from abroad: food, clothes, cars, electronics. I cannot name a single product that is Catalan made. Same goes for Spain overall or any other tribe. Their phones, the apps they use, the knowledge they have, research, even media, everything either comes from outside or is remixed from outside.
So what is so unique about your tribe?
Snippet from Culture Cancer - tromsite.com/2026/07/culture-c…
#culture #tromsite #capitalism #money #trade #tradebasedsociety #profit
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Snippet from Culture Cancer - tromsite.com/2026/07/culture-c…
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Snippet from Culture Cancer - tromsite.com/2026/07/culture-c…
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Ideas revolving around religion, family, sexual orientation, and so forth, have been changing and mutating a lot over the years. What was once prohibited in one culture has become the norm in the same culture, and vice versa. From women being allowed to vote, to gay marriage, or the separation of religion from state. In our book “Morality and Ethics” we showcase how the norms, traditions and what it was accepted as “normal” in the past, changed over millennia, from culture to culture.
Therefore any discussion about “our culture, language, traditions” should always be put under the powerful light of history in order to understand that these “things” are remixes at best, and will always be. This, I think, is crucial in order for us, humans, to be able to have relevant discussions about them, without being too emotionally entangled with them. To put everything into a historical, and realistic, perspective.
Snippet from Culture Cancer - tromsite.com/2026/07/culture-c…
#culture #culturecancer #trom #tromsite #tromarticles #traditions
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Ideas revolving around religion, family, sexual orientation, and so forth, have been changing and mutating a lot over the years. What was once prohibited in one culture has become the norm in the same culture, and vice versa. From women being allowed to vote, to gay marriage, or the separation of religion from state. In our book “Morality and Ethics” we showcase how the norms, traditions and what it was accepted as “normal” in the past, changed over millennia, from culture to culture.
Therefore any discussion about “our culture, language, traditions” should always be put under the powerful light of history in order to understand that these “things” are remixes at best, and will always be. This, I think, is crucial in order for us, humans, to be able to have relevant discussions about them, without being too emotionally entangled with them. To put everything into a historical, and realistic, perspective.
Snippet from Culture Cancer - tromsite.com/2026/07/culture-c…
#culture #culturecancer #trom #tromsite #tromarticles #traditions
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Here's something new that I learned. In Spain, and likely everywhere else:
You get sick, say you bleed abundantly from a surgery that went wrong, and you have to stay in ER for a day to have you fixed. You lose a lot of blood and need to stay at home for a few days because you cannot work.
So: stress, trauma, money spent to go to the hospital, others helping you, etc..
The hospital gives you medical leave, as is normal.
Great? No.
Guess what?
First few days you do not get paid from work. The next weeks you get 65% of the salary.
So you are fucked health wise and in this system apparently is normal to not even get paid from your job...I mean you can't fucking work even if you want to, and you can't even get any help.
I cannot work because I bleed...
Oh..ok no problem here medical leave.
Thanks. Oh wait and I also lose money because I lose blood?
Yah...if you don't work, you cannot get paid...
But...but I cannot work for a few days...I need help...
Yah. Well. That is the law. Take care!If this does not sound insane to you, you have a serious problem. You are part of the problem actually.
INSANE!
This Trade-Based Society is just that: Trade. All else does not matter. People's lives are measured in trading hours.
Go to sleep humans, you are nowhere near an intelligent society. You are the most primitive dominant form of life on any planet probably.
#TradeRuinsEverything #money #work #capitalism #trade #trom #tromsite
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Here's something new that I learned. In Spain, and likely everywhere else:
You get sick, say you bleed abundantly from a surgery that went wrong, and you have to stay in ER for a day to have you fixed. You lose a lot of blood and need to stay at home for a few days because you cannot work.
So: stress, trauma, money spent to go to the hospital, others helping you, etc..
The hospital gives you medical leave, as is normal.
Great? No.
Guess what?
First few days you do not get paid from work. The next weeks you get 65% of the salary.
So you are fucked health wise and in this system apparently is normal to not even get paid from your job...I mean you can't fucking work even if you want to, and you can't even get any help.
I cannot work because I bleed...
Oh..ok no problem here medical leave.
Thanks. Oh wait and I also lose money because I lose blood?
Yah...if you don't work, you cannot get paid...
But...but I cannot work for a few days...I need help...
Yah. Well. That is the law. Take care!If this does not sound insane to you, you have a serious problem. You are part of the problem actually.
INSANE!
This Trade-Based Society is just that: Trade. All else does not matter. People's lives are measured in trading hours.
Go to sleep humans, you are nowhere near an intelligent society. You are the most primitive dominant form of life on any planet probably.
#TradeRuinsEverything #money #work #capitalism #trade #trom #tromsite
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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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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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Snippet from Culture Cancer:
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.
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Snippet from Culture Cancer:
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.
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Perhaps instead of #ageverfication nonsense, those who want to protect the children should look at why these platforms like Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Youtube and the like are "bad" for them and everyone else.
Here's why:
They are TRADING PLATFORMS. Not video hosting platforms, not social networks. NO. People have to trade their attention (watch ads), data, or currency to use these platforms who make over 90% or more of their profits from these trades. Is like calling a Mall a Social Gathering Event Hall. It is not!
At least they should force these platforms to be renamed/re-labeled.
And you know what else? The harm/addiction of these platforms is not solely their incentive to make people trade more (more ads, more data trading, etc.) to keep them on the platforms is the fact that in this society pretty much everyone has a shitty meaningless life. If people were to be taken care of, and not have to trade all of their lives in a boring and stupid job, with them being worth only when they consume, then smarter and relaxed humans would give 0 fucks about these platforms.
When you are out and about, with friends, are not stressed about how to pay for your life, then why do you give much of a shit to post and scroll on these silly platforms?
How come I do not give a flying fuck about these platforms and what people post on them? Because I am busy with more relevant shit!
SO.
Wanna change something?
REPLACE.
Replace these trading platforms with trade-free ones like Friendica, Peertube and the like. If you are a government, support them!
Replace the meaningless life of most people with meaningful ones. Give people their basic needs as trade-free. Via an UBI or trade-free basic services. This way you don't even have to support those trade-free platforms. People will! The same people who do it now, but who also have to struggle to have a day job in order to keep their work on these platforms going. Imagine having millions of people able to get involved and change this world!
Free people from the Trade-Society!
This way you don't even have to fight with these big corporations. Let them fade out! Let them die.
#facebook #tiktok #TradeRuinsEverything #money #tromsite #trom #capitalism #youtube #trade-free
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Perhaps instead of #ageverfication nonsense, those who want to protect the children should look at why these platforms like Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Youtube and the like are "bad" for them and everyone else.
Here's why:
They are TRADING PLATFORMS. Not video hosting platforms, not social networks. NO. People have to trade their attention (watch ads), data, or currency to use these platforms who make over 90% or more of their profits from these trades. Is like calling a Mall a Social Gathering Event Hall. It is not!
At least they should force these platforms to be renamed/re-labeled.
And you know what else? The harm/addiction of these platforms is not solely their incentive to make people trade more (more ads, more data trading, etc.) to keep them on the platforms is the fact that in this society pretty much everyone has a shitty meaningless life. If people were to be taken care of, and not have to trade all of their lives in a boring and stupid job, with them being worth only when they consume, then smarter and relaxed humans would give 0 fucks about these platforms.
When you are out and about, with friends, are not stressed about how to pay for your life, then why do you give much of a shit to post and scroll on these silly platforms?
How come I do not give a flying fuck about these platforms and what people post on them? Because I am busy with more relevant shit!
SO.
Wanna change something?
REPLACE.
Replace these trading platforms with trade-free ones like Friendica, Peertube and the like. If you are a government, support them!
Replace the meaningless life of most people with meaningful ones. Give people their basic needs as trade-free. Via an UBI or trade-free basic services. This way you don't even have to support those trade-free platforms. People will! The same people who do it now, but who also have to struggle to have a day job in order to keep their work on these platforms going. Imagine having millions of people able to get involved and change this world!
Free people from the Trade-Society!
This way you don't even have to fight with these big corporations. Let them fade out! Let them die.
#facebook #tiktok #TradeRuinsEverything #money #tromsite #trom #capitalism #youtube #trade-free
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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…
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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…
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Have you heard of the vulgar-latin? That’s Catalan.
In other words a “vulgar”, non Latin, or “bad” Latin language. Because, of course, all languages are mixes of previous languages. We wrote a 600 pages book about the evolution of languages where we explain in detail how there is no such thing as Spanish, Catalan, English and so forth. Languages are in a constant movement and are comprised, just like those “sarmale” food, of many kinds of flavors. Catalan, French, Romanian, Italian and so forth, are languages that have evolved from Latin. And Latin evolved from other language(s).
To my Catalans readers, to put it simply, the Catalan language (and this applies for every single language) is this:
ONE:
A “bad” version of another language that over time mutated into its own language.
By “bad” I mean people will start to speak an official language (like Latin) in different ways (accents, new words, new ways to write it, etc.) and in the beginning this is considered as “bad” since it deviates from the “rules of the current language”.
But this “bad” will become the “rule”, just as the “rule” was also “bad” at some point. That’s how languages evolve.
TWO
A language that stole words from other languages. Directly, shamelessly, and constantly.
Do you know how Catalans call the “Internet”? Well, “internet”. Inter-Net. Borrowed from the Americans.
Catalan, like all languages, is full of these stolen words, expressions, and meanings.
THREE
A language that is vastly different from its own origins.
The Catalan that was spoken hundreds of years ago is vastly different from the one spoken today.
That’s the case with every single language.
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Have you heard of the vulgar-latin? That’s Catalan.
In other words a “vulgar”, non Latin, or “bad” Latin language. Because, of course, all languages are mixes of previous languages. We wrote a 600 pages book about the evolution of languages where we explain in detail how there is no such thing as Spanish, Catalan, English and so forth. Languages are in a constant movement and are comprised, just like those “sarmale” food, of many kinds of flavors. Catalan, French, Romanian, Italian and so forth, are languages that have evolved from Latin. And Latin evolved from other language(s).
To my Catalans readers, to put it simply, the Catalan language (and this applies for every single language) is this:
ONE:
A “bad” version of another language that over time mutated into its own language.
By “bad” I mean people will start to speak an official language (like Latin) in different ways (accents, new words, new ways to write it, etc.) and in the beginning this is considered as “bad” since it deviates from the “rules of the current language”.
But this “bad” will become the “rule”, just as the “rule” was also “bad” at some point. That’s how languages evolve.
TWO
A language that stole words from other languages. Directly, shamelessly, and constantly.
Do you know how Catalans call the “Internet”? Well, “internet”. Inter-Net. Borrowed from the Americans.
Catalan, like all languages, is full of these stolen words, expressions, and meanings.
THREE
A language that is vastly different from its own origins.
The Catalan that was spoken hundreds of years ago is vastly different from the one spoken today.
That’s the case with every single language.
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I did not have pain, or much at all, for the past 1-2 weeks. I have no clue why, but wow life feels damn different. I will continue my medical investigations into this but the body can be such a mystery even now when we have so much technology and knowledge.
But well. Fantastic.
Soon I will meet with the most fantastic friends on Earth to see the eclipse on the 12th of August. I am focusing on organizing that. I want to make sure we can see it through my telescope, but we can also record it. This week am doing more tests. The Sun will be super low for the eclipse - 20:30 Madrid time is the full eclipse. And 21:00 is the sunset. We may miss it if we are not at the right location...
I am also focusing on promoting our latest TROM Article: Culture Cancer tromsite.com/2026/07/culture-c… on the fediverse. Maybe I will make a video about it soon, to discuss it.
I am also trying to work on new articles.
Worked on TROMjaro these days, and I would want to bring back TROMnews....because I miss that website a lot.
A lot to do, and doing these since 2007 or so. But is really hard...
Unfortunately I am doing really bad financially. No new supporters for the past month or so... tromsite.com/donate/ I have to pay for the servers, for food, for life...
The world is a stream of shit, especially online. When it takes me months to release an in-depth article about an important topic...is hard to make anyone even remember about you and your projects...
But well I am the living proof, alongside people like me, that this Trade Society is Hell on Earth and it does not matter if you do good things that hundreds or thousands of people value, or objectively your stuff is scientific and educational regardless of reach; does not matter if you try to be a good human being. You have NO VALUE in the Trade Society. You know who has value: those who trade. Sell, buy, market, compete, have a job, make money, collect data, etc..
At least that makes me feel better knowing that I am part of a lifelong experiment to prove how this Trade Society is indeed a Primitive and Harmful society.
#TradeRuinsEverything #trom #tromsite #trade #society #capitalism #consumerism
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I did not have pain, or much at all, for the past 1-2 weeks. I have no clue why, but wow life feels damn different. I will continue my medical investigations into this but the body can be such a mystery even now when we have so much technology and knowledge.
But well. Fantastic.
Soon I will meet with the most fantastic friends on Earth to see the eclipse on the 12th of August. I am focusing on organizing that. I want to make sure we can see it through my telescope, but we can also record it. This week am doing more tests. The Sun will be super low for the eclipse - 20:30 Madrid time is the full eclipse. And 21:00 is the sunset. We may miss it if we are not at the right location...
I am also focusing on promoting our latest TROM Article: Culture Cancer tromsite.com/2026/07/culture-c… on the fediverse. Maybe I will make a video about it soon, to discuss it.
I am also trying to work on new articles.
Worked on TROMjaro these days, and I would want to bring back TROMnews....because I miss that website a lot.
A lot to do, and doing these since 2007 or so. But is really hard...
Unfortunately I am doing really bad financially. No new supporters for the past month or so... tromsite.com/donate/ I have to pay for the servers, for food, for life...
The world is a stream of shit, especially online. When it takes me months to release an in-depth article about an important topic...is hard to make anyone even remember about you and your projects...
But well I am the living proof, alongside people like me, that this Trade Society is Hell on Earth and it does not matter if you do good things that hundreds of thousands of people value, or objectively your stuff is scientific and educational regardless of reach; does not matter if you try to be a good human being. You have NO VALUE in the Trade Society. You know who has value: those who trade. Sell, buy, market, compete, have a job, make money, collect data, etc..
At least that makes me feel better knowing that I am part of a lifelong experiment to prove how this Trade Society is indeed a Primitive and Harmful society.
#TradeRuinsEverything #trom #tromsite #trade #society #capitalism #consumerism
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In the same sense that there are many tribes who speak the same language but have vastly different cultures, there are tribes with totally different languages, but their cultures are very similar. I was born in Romania and my friend Roma was born in Russia. Romania and Russia look so alike culturally that it is quite eerie. The buildings, food, attitudes, even the babushkas. But the languages are vastly different.
For example we call this “traditional Romanian food” as “sarmale”:
My mother always makes it for all of the important Romanian holidays. If you search online for “Romanian national holiday” plus the word “food”, you’ll see this dish as the main one. So this is a Romanian dish!
Well that’s what I thought. Turns out that Roma knows this food very well and he calls it “Голубцы”. He says it might be Russian. But Wikipedia tells me that is a traditional food from the “Ottoman cuisine”.
But the fact is that this “sarmale” food is not a “thing”, but a “flavor of things”. Some “sarmale” are made with meat and rice, some just rice, some with cabbage leafs and some with grape leafs. Different condiments. Cooked differently. They differ today from tribe to tribe, and even within the same tribe.
So is this “sarmale” food Romanian? Russian? No. Nothing is.
Snippet from Culture Cancer - tromsite.com/2026/07/culture-c…
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In the same sense that there are many tribes who speak the same language but have vastly different cultures, there are tribes with totally different languages, but their cultures are very similar. I was born in Romania and my friend Roma was born in Russia. Romania and Russia look so alike culturally that it is quite eerie. The buildings, food, attitudes, even the babushkas. But the languages are vastly different.
For example we call this “traditional Romanian food” as “sarmale”:
My mother always makes it for all of the important Romanian holidays. If you search online for “Romanian national holiday” plus the word “food”, you’ll see this dish as the main one. So this is a Romanian dish!
Well that’s what I thought. Turns out that Roma knows this food very well and he calls it “Голубцы”. He says it might be Russian. But Wikipedia tells me that is a traditional food from the “Ottoman cuisine”.
But the fact is that this “sarmale” food is not a “thing”, but a “flavor of things”. Some “sarmale” are made with meat and rice, some just rice, some with cabbage leafs and some with grape leafs. Different condiments. Cooked differently. They differ today from tribe to tribe, and even within the same tribe.
So is this “sarmale” food Romanian? Russian? No. Nothing is.
Snippet from Culture Cancer - tromsite.com/2026/07/culture-c…
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Snippet from Culture Cancer:
When Sasha had to take a course about protecting the marine environment in Catalonia, since she was working as a diver, all of the materials they were being provided were in Catalan. None in Spanish. Despite the fact that so many divers in this region are from outside of Catalonia and do not speak Catalan.
[Mind you Spanish is also an official language in Catalonia]
Actually half of the teachers for this course chose to only speak Catalan, despite a few students saying that they do not understand Catalan well, only Spanish.
One teacher asked if there is anyone who does not understand Catalan – Sasha and 3 others said they do not – and the teacher loudly, proudly and confidently said that is his right to speak Catalan and he will do so, albeit more slowly. As if you can slow-talk Korean to me, and I will get it, despite not understanding Korean.
The final exam was, of course, in Catalan only…
What is more important, enforcing your preferred language or protecting the environment? If that course was about protecting the environment, then that should be the most important, no?
I cannot imagine someone coming to Romania, where I am originally from, and I or others to refuse to speak a common language with them. To exclude and marginalize them. This is an awful situation that makes the marginalized ones hate on you and your language.
This situation in Catalonia made me think about Cancer. How cancer is basically normal cells going rogue. They work against the other cells and eventually the body. And we risk to do that among each other, which leads to a cancerous society that is going downhill.
But we cannot simply accuse some Catalans for being cunts with others. Cuntalans! Maybe we are the cunts, the outsiders?! Maybe there is a reason why they behave like that!
But the fact remains that the situation itself is cancerous. I’ve seen how “they” made me hate “them” and “their language” as a result of “their” attitude towards those who “do not speak Catalan”. And I am not the only one who feels like that. It makes us pinned against each other, just like cancerous cells damaging the body. It helps no one. If the body dies, all cells die. Even the cancer.
#catalonia #catala #catalan #spain #diving #tromsite #trom #language #discrimination
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Snippet from Culture Cancer:
When Sasha had to take a course about protecting the marine environment in Catalonia, since she was working as a diver, all of the materials they were being provided were in Catalan. None in Spanish. Despite the fact that so many divers in this region are from outside of Catalonia and do not speak Catalan.
[Mind you Spanish is also an official language in Catalonia]
Actually half of the teachers for this course chose to only speak Catalan, despite a few students saying that they do not understand Catalan well, only Spanish.
One teacher asked if there is anyone who does not understand Catalan – Sasha and 3 others said they do not – and the teacher loudly, proudly and confidently said that is his right to speak Catalan and he will do so, albeit more slowly. As if you can slow-talk Korean to me, and I will get it, despite not understanding Korean.
The final exam was, of course, in Catalan only…
What is more important, enforcing your preferred language or protecting the environment? If that course was about protecting the environment, then that should be the most important, no?
I cannot imagine someone coming to Romania, where I am originally from, and I or others to refuse to speak a common language with them. To exclude and marginalize them. This is an awful situation that makes the marginalized ones hate on you and your language.
This situation in Catalonia made me think about Cancer. How cancer is basically normal cells going rogue. They work against the other cells and eventually the body. And we risk to do that among each other, which leads to a cancerous society that is going downhill.
But we cannot simply accuse some Catalans for being cunts with others. Cuntalans! Maybe we are the cunts, the outsiders?! Maybe there is a reason why they behave like that!
#catalonia #catala #catalan #spain #diving #tromsite #trom #language #discrimination
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Snippet from Culture Cancer:
In fact I’ve been living in Catalonia for 15 years now and I noticed a concerning trend. At least from my own perspective. Despite people here knowing Spanish perfectly fine, at times they may only choose to speak Catalan with you, even when you try to speak Spanish with them.
When I was taking driving lessons and was in the car with other Catalan students, I would mention that I only understand Spanish and not Catalan. And yet they would only speak Catalan with themselves and the teacher. Marginalizing me. The teacher had to awkwardly translate from Catalan to Spanish for me, despite the fact that everyone in that car knew Spanish…So why not simply speak Spanish then!? For me is a no-brainer.
When you have to deal with the hospital here, they will always send you messages or print medical results or treatments into Catalan, despite you making them aware that you do not understand Catalan. A reminder that Spanish is also an official language in Catalonia.
It is so awkward to go into a shop, open the conversation in Spanish, and only be replied in Catalan. So they understand, but refuse to speak Spanish. By “they” I do not mean all, but a good chunk of the people I have interacted with. Granted I rarely interact with people. But still, this is something well known in Catalonia.
#catalonia #language #marginalization #culture #trom #tromsite #catalunia #catala #catalan #spain
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Snippet from Culture Cancer:
In fact I’ve been living in Catalonia for 15 years now and I noticed a concerning trend. At least from my own perspective. Despite people here knowing Spanish perfectly fine, at times they may only choose to speak Catalan with you, even when you try to speak Spanish with them.
When I was taking driving lessons and was in the car with other Catalan students, I would mention that I only understand Spanish and not Catalan. And yet they would only speak Catalan with themselves and the teacher. Marginalizing me. The teacher had to awkwardly translate from Catalan to Spanish for me, despite the fact that everyone in that car knew Spanish…So why not simply speak Spanish then!? For me is a no-brainer.
When you have to deal with the hospital here, they will always send you messages or print medical results or treatments into Catalan, despite you making them aware that you do not understand Catalan. A reminder that Spanish is also an official language in Catalonia.
It is so awkward to go into a shop, open the conversation in Spanish, and only be replied in Catalan. So they understand, but refuse to speak Spanish. By “they” I do not mean all, but a good chunk of the people I have interacted with. Granted I rarely interact with people. But still, this is something well known in Catalonia.
#catalonia #language #marginalization #culture #trom #tromsite #catalunia #catala #catalan #spain
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Almost no abdominal and back pain for the past 2-3 days. WOW. This is amazing, idk why no pain suddenly, but to not feel pain for the first time in 2 months, and overall in a year, is something of a life changing event. I hope it lasts...I hope. I have more appointments with specialists, but now I feel ok.
This week for sure I will release our new TROM Articles, alongside perhaps with a new video series for TROM. Eventually I want TROMcast back, and get active, get used to live on your my again. So far so good. I am making progress it seems.
Ride With Less will need a revamp a bit since I now travel alone. But well, I was doing the videos alone for the past many months anyway.
But fuck me Spain has become an oven. In the motorhome 43 degrees today. Luckily I stay at my sister's place in the daytime. And I go back at 9-10PM to the motorhome, fireup the AC, and am able to sleep.
Will make more videos for Ride With Less too.
Lots of things to do. I will be active again. Already am.
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Almost no abdominal and back pain for the past 2-3 days. WOW. This is amazing, idk why no pain suddenly, but to not feel pain for the first time in 2 months, and overall in a year, is something of a life changing event. I hope it lasts...I hope. I have more appointments with specialists, but now I feel ok.
This week for sure I will release our new TROM Articles, alongside perhaps with a new video series for TROM. Eventually I want TROMcast back, and get active, get used to live on your my again. So far so good. I am making progress it seems.
Ride With Less will need a revamp a bit since I now travel alone. But well, I was doing the videos alone for the past many months anyway.
But fuck me Spain has become an oven. In the motorhome 43 degrees today. Luckily I stay at my sister's place in the daytime. And I go back at 9-10PM to the motorhome, fireup the AC, and am able to sleep.
Will make more videos for Ride With Less too.
Lots of things to do. I will be active again. Already am.
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Our server is struggling a bit, so our Friendica may not work properly...I am investigating. Likely some DB processes that are being done from time to time automatically. Will see, but so you know.
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Our server is struggling a bit, so our Friendica may not work properly...I am investigating. Likely some DB processes that are being done from time to time automatically. Will see, but so you know.
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Thank you Raza for becoming our new TROM supporter - tromsite.com/donate/
We should release new content for TROM very soon!
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Thank you Raza for becoming our new TROM supporter - tromsite.com/donate/
We should release new content for TROM very soon!
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Thank you Ognjen for becoming our new TROM Supporter - tromsite.com/donate/
We create a lot of trade-free stuff, and hopefully this month we will release something new. Let's see.
We need 200 people to donate €5 a month in order to support our projects long term. We only accept equal donations of €5 to spread the load and make everyone equal within this campaign.
See the donation page for a detail look at what TROM does ;)
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Thank you Ognjen for becoming our new TROM Supporter - tromsite.com/donate/
We create a lot of trade-free stuff, and hopefully this month we will release something new. Let's see.
We need 200 people to donate €5 a month in order to support our projects long term. We only accept equal donations of €5 to spread the load and make everyone equal within this campaign.
See the donation page for a detail look at what TROM does ;)
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Louis Theroux: Inside The Manosphere - videoneat.com/documentaries/26…
Awful world out there full of idiots. But if you pay close attention to this documentary even these absurdities like the "manosphere" and "how to be a man" are under the direct influence of trade. Trade your bullshit online for views, likes, reactions, to in return get money, stuff, influence. It is so clear.
Trade really ruins everything.
#videoneat #documentary #manosphere #looksmaxxing #tromsite #TradeRuinsEverything
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Louis Theroux: Inside The Manosphere - videoneat.com/documentaries/26…
Awful world out there full of idiots. But if you pay close attention to this documentary even these absurdities like the "manosphere" and "how to be a man" are under the direct influence of trade. Trade your bullshit online for views, likes, reactions, to in return get money, stuff, influence. It is so clear.
Trade really ruins everything.
#videoneat #documentary #manosphere #looksmaxxing #tromsite #TradeRuinsEverything
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Thank you Uwe for becoming our new 5€ TROM supporter! tromsite.com/donate/
It is uplifting to see people supporting TROM and all of our projects!
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Thank you Uwe for becoming our new 5€ TROM supporter! tromsite.com/donate/
It is uplifting to see people supporting TROM and all of our projects!
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We have a new TROM supporter! Thank you Olivier! tromsite.com/donate/
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We have a new TROM supporter! Thank you Olivier! tromsite.com/donate/
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Thank you Gabriel for becoming our new TROM supporter tromsite.com/donate/
And thank you for your wonderful comment here - tiotrom.com/2026/03/just-some-…
It is so important to read such messages and know that there are people out there who find a lot of value in what I (we) do!
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Thank you Gabriel for becoming our new TROM supporter tromsite.com/donate/
And thank you for your wonderful comment here - tiotrom.com/2026/03/just-some-…
It is so important to read such messages and know that there are people out there who find a lot of value in what I (we) do!
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Many thanks to everyone to is still supporting TROM financially - tromsite.com/donate/
We ask for 5€ donations if anyone can help, to distribute the financial burden and not rely on a few individuals. There are 83 people supporting us monthly. If anyone thinks this project is worth supporting please see the donation page and help. There we explain all what we do.
Thank you very much!
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Many thanks to everyone to is still supporting TROM financially - tromsite.com/donate/
We ask for 5€ donations if anyone can help, to distribute the financial burden and not rely on a few individuals. There are 83 people supporting us monthly. If anyone thinks this project is worth supporting please see the donation page and help. There we explain all what we do.
Thank you very much!
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Thank you Nerijus for becoming our new 5€ a month supporter! tromsite.com/donate/
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Thank you Nerijus for becoming our new 5€ a month supporter! tromsite.com/donate/
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Thank you Ondine for becoming our new TROM supporter tromsite.com/donate/ - it is so motivating to see new people supporting TROM. Makes you want to put more effort into it, create new things, etc.!
If we get 12 more people to donate 5€ a month we can do these:
We will start a video series for TROM, similar to the books' content.
We will bring back TROMnews because the world needs a good news website.
We will increase the TROM Files storage space to 20GB for all.That would be fantastic!
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Thank you Ondine for becoming our new TROM supporter tromsite.com/donate/ - it is so motivating to see new people supporting TROM. Makes you want to put more effort into it, create new things, etc.!
If we get 12 more people to donate 5€ a month we can do these:
We will start a video series for TROM, similar to the books' content.
We will bring back TROMnews because the world needs a good news website.
We will increase the TROM Files storage space to 20GB for all.That would be fantastic!
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We have to increase a bit the fundraiser due to some "sales taxes"... gofundme.com/f/yearly-fundrais…
Apparently we had to pay that too...
Thank you so much everyone! We are 83% there!
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We have to increase a bit the fundraiser due to some "sales taxes"... gofundme.com/f/yearly-fundrais…
Apparently we had to pay that too...
Thank you so much everyone! We are 83% there!