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Everything we do is 100% free and available for download. This is only possible due to wonderful people who support us financially. That’s why we make no compromise. We post what we think is relevant, when we want to, where we want to, without being influenced by anything or anyone. That’s a huge power to posses in today’s trade-based world where everyone is forced to prostitute themselves or the work they do. But this comes at a huge cost when you are not properly financed since it is impossible to do anything in this world without financial support. We are far off from what we need in terms of financial support and this causes a lot of stress and uncertainty for this project. The good news is that if most who know about TROM would donate a few bucks a month we would run this project without a problem. Every donation adds up and counts! Note: Right now all the money goes to me (Tio) - I created TROM in 2011 and currently I manage most of the project for which I work full time (no weekends, no breaks). My goal is to get enough financial support to be able to make my work sustainable and then financially help other people who are volunteering for TROM.

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Mind you, some updates may sound a bit "personal" and unrelated to TROM project, but are indirectly related to it: my struggles with the project, my work on sister projects like VideoNeat and so forth. I want to give you an insight into my work on TROM and related projects. But most updates are, of course, entirely about TROM and the work that goes behind the project. I, Tio, created this project back in 2011 and I manage most of it at the moment. In time, other volunteers will be able to post updates here. If you can help my work please donate here - it really matters.

Tio: Finally FB approved the ad for our tromsite trailer. Let's see what it will bring. I am super curious laugh

Tio: FB still didn't approve our advertising....will wait longer....and will let you know here

Tio: We aim to finish Dmitry's book (proofreading and review) until Monday. Sasha, who travels around the world for the past 10 years, also contributed to the book. Awesome!

Tio:

Tio: Facebook ad created! I am waiting for FB's approval. Here are the details: Location - Living In: Australia, Canada, United Kingdom, New Zealand, United States
Age: 18 - 40
People Who Match: Interests: Community issues, Volunteering, Gift economy, Sustainability, The Venus Project, Current events, The Zeitgeist Movement, Charity and causes, Jacque Fresco, Environmentalism, Sustainable living, Sustainable products, Charitable organization, Recycling, Zero waste, Nonprofit organization, Ethical consumerism, Social change, Equal opportunity, Sustainable development, Environmental organization, Natural environment, Social movement, Sustainable Development Goals, Social equality, Activism, Renewable energy, Environmental science, Humanitarianism or Environmentalist, Field of study: Sustainability, Human rights, Environmentalism, Sustainable development, Environmental studies, Ecology or Environmental science, Employers: ‎Human rights, Environmentalism, Humanitarian aid or ‎منظمة خيرية‎‎, Industry: Community and Social Services and the photo attached.

Tio: added language flags to tromsite.com homepage https://www.tromsite.com/ for the 3 languages that we ahve lots of materials translated: russian, german, and spanish. thank you to Aaron, Dmity, and Rafa!

Tio: Fixed some VideoNeat broken URLS, because I also manage that website on top of the TROM Project. VN, very important project too!

Tio: Today I want to pay for the FB advertising. Very excited to see the impact! Will keep you updated here.

Tio: Only 5 documentaries more to watch for the book laugh

. We will finish them in a few days time, maybe 2. We are also pretty close to finally finish up Dmitry's book proofreading. Then we need to send to Yoav who wants to help with designing TROM books.

Tio: We are still brainstorming about how to use the money Mark donated to us for advertising. We will for sure advertise the tromsite trailer on facebook but we want to know how to do that in an efficient manner. So amazing that we have this opportunity thanks to Mark!

Tio: I found a solution for Draw. As I mentioned the Libre Office update messed up the Draw project for The Origin of Most Problems book. Luckily LibreOffice comes in a few different flavors, one is "fresh" (the most updated), and one is "still" (a few months older but more stable). So I reverted to Still and it works. Although slower and still a few errors what I could quickly fix, at least it is ok. That book is so huge that it makes it look like it is Draw's fault but in fact such tiny errors can happen from one upgrade to another for any software. I reported the Draw bug to the developers like I do for all open source software. It is really effective and you help these projects. Wonderful!

Tio: TROM torrent file updated https://www.tromsite.com/save-trom/

Tio: I decided we should go for Liberapay as our main donation option. But we won't give up on the other options so I updated a bit the donate page to reflect that https://www.tromsite.com/donate/. I also added IBAN as an option for direct deposits. I thought about it and Liberapay seems quite good. I added our main goal there too, which is 300 Euros a week - because they calculate weekly. Liberapay accepts Paypal and Stripe so they have most payment options that are usually available on any website. Soon I will try to push Patreon people to move to Liberapay, but I want to wait a bit longer until i do that. I am also going to add a donate button here on the live page so people discover it easily.

Tio: Ok so I have this great news but I was not sure if to say something about until it was confirmed. An interesting guy contacted me several days ago. His name is Mark. He was talking about a Gift Economy and how that is an antidote to trade and the problems trade creates. I agree with him and we will present such solutions in the last parts of our massive The Origin of Most Problems book. To keep this short, he offered 1.000 Euros to advertise the tromsite.com trailer, the one about trade, on Youtube. I was super skeptical because 1.000 Euros is TROM's budged for 2.5 months. A ton of money. I didn't want to make him donate so much money for advertising so I said we can start with a lower amount and he decided to donate 500 Euros. This is still a lot of money for advertising. Thank you Mark so so much! Now that we have the money let's brainstorm a bit about how we can spend it. Our idea is to promote the TROMsite trailer on Facebook for like 2 weeks to reach English speaking people that are interested in volunteering, social change, activism, and similar topics. Do you suggest something better? Tell us please and Mark you are amazing for this huge donation. I am sure something interesting will happen after we create the ad. We have a big chance of reaching a plethora of new minds.

Tio: I didnt set up a date for the live video I want to make because I am waiting to finish some stuff up before I think about such a date.

Tio: I am very unhappy with the donation options we have....I mean we have patreon, liberapay, paypal, and cryptocurrencies....too many! But what can I do? I could stick with patreon since it is the most well known and secure and stable, but they take a lot of fees...Liberapay promotes a fair way for donations and have no fees except the ones that paypal or stripe take (their payment gateways). Paypal is limited to Paypal users for recurring donations....We need something that has a monthly goal and one frickin payment gateway that can accept pretty much every method (card, paypal, whatever). Very frustrating! Plus, from any of those methods we get conversions from one currency to another at their own rates. Paypal, Stripe, Patreon, all suck in their own fees. So I don't know how to deal with this. It stresses me out a lot. I wish I could only use Liberapay but I am afraid people don't trust it or because they are not very well known at all and are underfunded as a project they will go bankrupt or something like that will happen with them and I will go bankrupt with them.

Tio: From Aaron (who deals with the German part of TROM): ". last weekend i was on a youth event about education for sustainable development and made a workshop there. Around 20 young people which were 15 to 22 years old came to my workshop and we discussed about TROM topics, which was great. We had only 1 and a half hour, so not really enough time to get deep into this new way of thinking but i hope i made them interested in reading books and watch the documentary"

Tio: Libre Office Draw got an update recently and messed up a few things when I open the latest book project with its Draw tool. Meaning now I can't do much to update this book because of this bug. I reported it...but it is very challenging for me as a "creator" of these books to deal with updates that always seem to break small parts of the design in Libre Office Draw. I completely understand that this can happen with any piece of software....it is frustrating though

Tio: A big thank you to Patreon and Liberapay supporters for the ongoing monthly and weekly donations. https://www.tromsite.com/support-us/ Without you this project would not be possible. Hopefully more people like you can support TROM.

Tio: Today I want to finish up the Spanish tromsite page + watch a bunch of documentaries for the book + I will set up a date for the Live I want to do about TROM in general. I want to post it on the main TROM youtube channel where we have 3k subscribers. I want to record with OBS Studio https://obsproject.com/ - free and open source software design for this purpose. If everything goes well and I enjoy doing this I want to do it every week and start inviting people (TROM friends or anyone who wants to participate). I want in the future to start discussing important topics: from open source software and hardware, to volunteering, news from TROM News, human behavior, or any particular topic (based on TROM books or not). Let's see how this goes wink

Tio: Today was a "free documentaries" day since I watched none for the book. Been to do some yearly medical check-ups, in particular I am doing a yearly skin cancer screening, which sounds more "severe" than it is. Basically the dermatologist looks carefully at your skin (usually the skin that was most exposed to the sun) and if it sees something suspicious then we can catch cancer while it is not dangerous. I stay in the sun quite a lot in the summer and I don't usually wear sunscreen so I decided to do this since it was covered by my health insurance. Ok, now think about how this could be done in an automated way for all people as trade-free. The dermatologist only looks for patterns on the skin, that's all. It would be so easy to have an app on your phone that can do this - yes I know there are some but are profit driven and not well tested from my knowledge. Skin cancer is a serious thing and perhaps one of the easiest to prevent. We don't need 1 dermatologist for 1.000 people, we need an automated system for every one of us. You know, "IF suspicious moles detected, THEN suggest more automated tests, AND IF necessary send patient to a human doctor for further investigations." - that's how it should be. I also have this weird "canker sore" inside my mouth for the past few days that hurts like hell and I went to have it check-up (they say nothing to worry about but I need to meet with a surgeon in 12 days to have a proper look). Again, medicine should automate these things. Today I have to have a health insurance, then create an appointment, then wait, then see this doctor, then make another appointment, then see another one, and so forth. Very inefficient. Today's healthcare system is so ancient. I also have a kidney stone - f**kin hell smile

) what the heck haha. Not a huge deal but if you "pass it" then it hurts like crazy so I have to meet with an urologist this month. Jeez, I don't like to go to hospitals but this period of time I have to do several tests that I do every year due to my past issues with my digestive system and the fact that I have some gallbladder polyps that have to be checked every year (if they grow too big they may get cancerous). So, here I am doing a skin cancer screening, having a kidney stone, a canker sore (hopefully), and gallbladder polyps. hahaha. Thing is, most people may have these without knowing. If you are searching for a "problem" you'll find more problems. Like I found about the kidney stone from the ultrasound that I had for my gallbladder. And the canker sore from a routine check at the dentist (cleaning). Anyways, such little things can become stressful to anyone who has to wait for appointments and tests. I am 100% fine, these are not even issues really, but they can be a bit stressful. Will work on TROM again starting tomorrow wink

Tio: TROM German page updated https://www.tromsite.com/de/ - lots of content available into German thanks to Aaron!

Tio: I tried these days to add the text to our Draw project files for our books, for the ones that do not have text added to (the majority of the books), but I gave up because it is a lot of work and maybe not that needed. Up until recently (a few months ago) we made our TROM books using joomag.com, a paid subscription service. It was very expensive and we didn't have much control over these books. Now we make the books into LibreOffice Draw and we publish directly on tromsite.com. That's fantastic and it allows us to share the Draw Project files with anyone (public) for translation purposes. But that meant we had to convert the old books from PDF to Draw format. We did that but it is very difficult to mirror the text so most Draw files do not have a text. For translation purposes this is not a big deal, but say someone discovers a broken link or typo in one of these old books. The only way to fix that now is to use a proprietary software like Master PDF Editor and edit the PDF file directly. So far is a compromise I have to accept. Btw people should understand that what we do here at TROM goes far beyond releasing some books and videos, we created a model for a project that is quite decentralized. All of our books can be downloaded as PDF, Draw, or plain text. This anyone can translate them., use them, edit them, share them. Even our videos can be downloaded without narration (voice) so that anyone can add a voice to them in a different language, and people also have access to the script for each video. All such files, everything we have created, is available on people's computers: peer to peer (torrents). So the TROM project wants to become a "model" for how we can create a trade-free project and I will explain that in the last parts of The Origin of Most Problems book.

Tio: I am so excited that we are going to organize a TROM meeting (in person) very soon - in a few months time. Can't wait to meet all of the people that are part of TROM, who wrote books, helped with proofreading, videos, whatever. Amazing group of people. And I am super excited because by them we will publish The Origin of Most Problems full book + I will work on the script for the new documentary so when we meet I can share it with them and get help and perhaps will film some stuff and "do some interviews". I didn't feel as excited since I started TROM in 2011. So, the following months I have a ton of work to do so that when we meet we have the big book published (alongside perhaps a few other smaller books) + the documentary script done. I will also publish photos and thoughts from the meeting, here in the live section of tromsite.com.

Tio: My head feels so heavy....I am watching too many documentaries for the book....but not many left. Only 22! I hope that in less than a week I will devour them all, and after that I can't wait to get back to write the last parts of the book and then focus on positive stuff like solutions. The beginning of these last pages will still be "negative" and then the rest will be positive. As much as I understand that we have to know in detail what creates today's problems (this trade game) it has become very depressive to focus so much on the problems lately. I've seen only negative stuff...so it is time to focus on the positive side more and more. That will do! Not sure if I will add those doco to VN as I said, maybe I will wait until I am done with the docos from my list and then add them all. Btw I love this LIVE update better than on my personal website since I am on tromsite.com non-stop anyways, reading the curated news and videos, so it is so easy for me to post updates: click the trom logo and post it wink

Tio: I created a template for translated tormsite pages for the pages we currently have: spanish, german, and russian. As soon as we translate these pages properly I am going to add the flags for these languages on the main tromsite page for easy access wink

- so awesome to have tromsite and its materials (part of them at leas) translated into 3 languages. Thank you Rafa, Aaron, and Dmitry!

Tio: I removed madeinamerica from TROM Curated News - I was never very happy to add them to the news source - they did have some good pieces on criticizing psychology and psychiatry but I feel they are more and more pseudoscientific. They criticize that psychology and psychiatry are blaming chemical imbalance or genes to psychiatric disorders, which is a correct and deserved criticism, but then they proclaim certain meds are creating depression or diet or the "microbiome". Jeez. You can't even say that this or that food creates cancer, let alone a mood disorder. Then they also started to focus on "meditation" as a cure for mood disorders, which is not entirely untrue but they go to extremes and instead of being moderate and say: "meditation, or relaxation, is shown to improve mood in some people" they go and say "meditation can 'solve' some mood disorders". Anyways, they are not moderate at all and that smells like bad science. Just look at NHS UK how scientific they present such news - break down the studies, properly mention if there is any causation or only correlation, etc.. There should be more people criticizing the unscientific way psychology and psychiatry look at mental disorders as if they are diseases, but we need proper science in the mix not emotionally driven assumptions and correlations. Bye bye madinamerica!

Tio: cleaned up the CSS for the curated videos and news for a bit. continuing to watch documentaries for the book silly

Tio: I think tomorrow will add a lot of documentaries to VN. I watch documentaries for the current book and I already watched like 40 that I need to add to VN so better add them these days than wait until I am done with them all and add 100 documentaries at once. Very sad and eye opening documentaries that need to be kept as a reference somewhere and that's where VN comes in handy. Also, please when you use VN magnets, SEED! We need more and more seeders to spread these important documentaries and decentralize them.

Tio: been talking with the closest people to TROM project and we want to do a meetup in person for all of us, to both know each other better, but also because for the new documentary i want to make we need to unite our forces and do a great job at it, plus i want to film them (us). you'll see, we may be cooking something. we'll keep everyone posted here about all of these wink

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