The Grab - https://www.videoneat.com/documentaries/26145/the-grab/

Watch this documentary to see how governments and companies go after buying Earth resources from other tribes, in all sorts of terrible ways. From arable land to water. In a crazy race to get enough for their own tribe because of the impacts of climate change that will devastate vast areas on this planet.

This terrible mentality of trying to survive and thrive at the expense of the rest, as if we are not living on the same planet. Same spaceship.

Very telling documentary. Some 10 years in the making.

#documentary #nature #resources #water #agriculture #TradeRuinsEverything #climatechange #climate

trom

2024-07-07 21:09:41

Newly added documentary on VideoNeat.com:

The Grab

The film follows investigative journalists at The Center for Investigative Reporting as they uncover efforts by foreign actors to control food and water to the detriment of local populations.

Watch it here:

https://www.videoneat.com/documentaries/26145/the-grab/

Yeah I see no problem with this....

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If the "authorities" are worried that children watch too much porn and these kids then try to porn-themselves-out for pleasure, causing issues since they don't understand that most porn is fake, then for sure forcing people to verify their age when accessing some porn websites will make these kids think twice before accessing any of the millions of worldwide porn websites....

How about you make the life of kids, and people overall, more relaxing? How about you don't force the kids to go to school and parents to go to work, just to survive? Maybe if people were to be more "free" and have time to learn about the world, to have fun, to establish relationships and not worry about wtf they are going to eat tomorrow, maybe we will have saner individuals, ha?!

When the human being is busy 8 hours a day, or more, 5 days a week, or more, with mandatory tasks (school/job), in a society based on trade (consumption), then the easiest and most familiar way to get some "fun" are shallow, fast things. Fast food, fast fashion, fastly-made and dumbed-down media, fast sexual pleasure (watch some porn), and so forth. No time for anything meaningful.

#porn #spain #privacy #internet #TradeRuinsEverything

This is why we gave up Youtube officially:

YouTube will cut parts from your video now. Imagine that. In this case it is from a TROM II snippet that @Alexio shared on our "legacy" YouTube channel. Mind you the documentary is free for everyone and also educational, so in a sane world it should be fair use for whatever media we've used.

We are so thankful that @PeerTube exists! We can post all of our videos on our Peertube channel https://videos.trom.tf/c/trom/videos without being afraid that anything will be banned or cut out.

And to no surprise Facebook does the same:

Banned the same video in several countries....

Basically we are not using YouTube or Facebook anymore since 2 years ago. Only @Alexio and @Georgi post there from time to time, mirroring our Friendica or Peertube. We do that since there are still many people following TROM on those platforms unfortunately. We are always trying to bring them to the fediverse and to these sane platforms, but change is hard...

So for now at least if some of our content can be mirrored to these trade-platforms while encouraging those following us there to change their online habits and use these other trade-free alternative platforms, then so be it.

But it is another reminder of the stupidity of our world, emerged from the practice of trade where even the reproducible at no cost digital content is "owned" and traded, so that ideas like copyright are invented to protect them. Terrible.

Te digital is abundant so we should not even put restrictions in place. But you can't do that in a trade society since so many would take advantage of that for their own gain.

#TradeRuinsEverything #capitalism #copyright #facebook #youtube #tromlive

If by the end of this year we cannot get at least 70-80% of the funding we need for TROM, see https://www.tromsite.com/donate/, then we will have to shut down and limit many of our projects. This is unfortunate but there is no way we can support so many projects, let alone grow them.

If we cannot find 200 people to donate 5 Euros a month to support the many projects that we have, then perhaps it is a sign that some things have to end. In particular TROM.tf that provides a video platform with unlimited uploads for everyone, a file hosting with 10GB of diskspace for anyone who joins, a social network and a chat platform opened for the public. Plus more such services. They will have to close, or solely be available for us at TROM to host our stuff.

I will give you more details these following weeks about what projects will be shut down in case our campaign fails by the end of this year.

There will probably be a video series that I will start for TROM in a few weeks time, but unless I find enough support to help me battle this trade-based society, then I cannot do much. TROM.tf costs a lot of money and it will cost us more and more, the more people use it. We need more diskspace, more CPU power, and such.

It is unfortunate but I need to be realistic and deal with these things in a graceful way. If I am to remove many of our projects, they will be done in a smooth way, landing the plane rather than crashing it. So do not worry. You'll have enough time to move to different platforms and save your files.

In the meantime I will work this year to make these projects better, keep them updated, release new things. I will give them my best shot to hopefully get enough financial support in order to continue with them.

10 months to decide. 10 months to get the needed financial support. 10 months to try once more. 😀

Tio

#TradeRuinsEverything #Capitalism #trade #tromlive

So Facebook and Instagram do not let you see any page/profile even if they are public, without you logging in:

Now Twitter does the same (although they say it is "temporary"....like the special 3 day military operation in Ukraine. Ok):

And Reddit will basically not allow 3rd parties to access the content so you are stuck with the terrible Reddit website/app.

Now Youtube is cracking down on services like Invidious to make sure no one accesses Youtube unless they use the official website/app. And Nitter/Bibliogram/Teddit and the like, that were interfaces for the above ad networks, will probably either stop working or be a pain in the ass to keep them working.

Let's see how this evolves, but probably we will have to give up ytb.trom.tf, bird.trom.tf and rdt.trom.tf. And basically people should forget about Twitter and move to the fediverse. Forget about Reddit entirely and not even move anywhere else, do something else with their life. As for youtube the issue is that they completely own the video space, so moving to Peertube is never going to be an option in terms of finding videos to watch. So I highly recommend the amazing FreeTube https://freetubeapp.io/ - that runs locally and it seems to be a long term robust solution. It makes youtube a video platform and not an ad platform.

These companies do not provide social networks or video platforms, they may partially provide that but in truth they are ad networks. Like a Mall that has benches, fake palm trees and recreational areas. The Mall's main purpose is to sell you shit, not for you to go there and meet with your friends and relax. Therefore these companies will do all they can to restrict the content that OTHERS have created on their platforms, so that you "go to their Mall" to watch those ads, and for them to collect your data, and grab your currency.

It's all about that trade!

#TradeRuinsEverything #tromstuff

I see an increase in bot registrations tries for our Friendica. This is getting more and more of an issue. Read this article https://krebsonsecurity.com/2023/06/service-rents-email-addresses-for-account-signups/ to see how easy it is to create hundreds of fake accounts per minute and spam the fediverse...

We suddenly went from like three registrations per minute to 900 a minute,” Chaput said. “There was nothing in the Mastodon software to detect that activity, and the protocol is not designed to handle this.”

This is very worrying especially with the rise of these "AI" language models that can make it nearly impossible to detect these spambots.

Our Friendica and Peertube will still be ok since they require manual approval and everyone is forced to explain why they want to join, so I can filter out most of the bots. But our Nextcloud and Matrix are going to be flooded. I am worried about our Matrix that is perhaps already hosting a bunch of these bots and eventually we may be defederated from the greater matrix network.

I am afraid that it is going to become hellish for us who host these services because we do not have the resources and manpower to deal with this.

This looks ugly.

And it is, of course, another side effect of the trade-society we live in. Where people need to trade in order to survive, and over time that mutates into a craze of trades where people are not just struggling to survive, but want endless shit. And thus, they cut forests, and make spambots, and pollute, and deceive, and lie, and all of that.

#TradeRuinsEverything