What do the apps give you that Lemmy’s default UI doesn’t?

i want to say that Lasse Collin and Jia Tan clearly don’t spend enough time touching grass, but i hope they never do. lol

does it let you to export more than gif’s?

i suspect we’re the only ones. lol

which browser and os?

your system is blocking a public university’s website and describing it as malicious – you have more immediate problems to fix.

does the link not work for you somehow?

EDIT: maybe you’re asking for an easier to understand version and the best i can do is this ai summary:

This dissertation, completed by Benjamin Thomason at Bowling Green State University in 2024, critically examines the role of US “democracy promotion” as a tool of empire, focusing on the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).

Core Argument: Drawing on a critical Gramscian Marxist perspective, the author argues that the NED and USAID function as “engines of intellectual warfare” in US foreign intervention. They mobilize communications and organizational resources to reinforce elite hegemonic narratives, thereby facilitating neoliberal and neoconservative US foreign policy objectives abroad.

Methodology & Historical Context: The study traces how covert Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) media and civil society operations during the Cold War evolved into the institutionalized, “pseudo-overt” democracy promotion apparatus that served as a pretext and method for US interventionism after the Cold War.

Case Studies: To support its thesis, the dissertation examines several major US interventions since 1983, including:

The Contra War in 1980s Nicaragua

Operation Cyclone in 1980s Afghanistan

The 2000 overthrow of Slobodan Milošević in Yugoslavia

The 2002 coup against Hugo Chávez in Venezuela

The 2004 coup against Jean-Bertrand Aristide in Haiti

The 2014 Euromaidan events in Ukraine

Syria Focus: A dedicated chapter analyzes the US-led intervention in the Syrian Civil War from 2011. It details how USAID provided monetary, media, and civil society support to what the author characterizes as primarily sectarian, theocratic, and Salafi rebel groups opposing the Ba’athist government, demonstrating the “moderate rebel industry” and narrative-control infrastructure.

russia’s propaganda game is bush league compared to the americans. you should see the amaze-balls industrial, world-wide scale of how the americans get their propaganda laundered through ngo’s like usaid and national endowment for democracy and then doles out in tiny pieces like dog pills in a dog treats on media platforms like reddit, facebook, wikipedia, cnn, npr, fox new, cbc, abc, bbc, le monde, der speigel, etc.

here’s the stanford/bowling-green detail of it: https://etd.ohiolink.edu/acprod/odb_etd/r/etd/search/10?p10_accession_num=bgsu1711480290212777&clear=10&session=112965025945105

yes and not for me. lol

i’ve never had much success using apps – only in bottom buffets like horsemarketsf work for me :p

they corralled to it like they’re corralled to piefed, facebook, etc.

it’s karma for the rootkits from 25 years ago. lol

I think I’m good with the nineteen hundreds.

the fresh grads we just hired are giving me senior moments and it made me feel this way when they referred to it like this. lol

i haven’t used grindr since 2012 – thanks for giving me an excuse to give it a try again. lol

did you figure out the problem between grindr and graphene?

you’re right, it’s a beta version of 2.0 so you can still use the previous non beta version.

it’s all public and highly valuable if the way that the american gov’t gave grindr the tiktok treatment when the chinese bought it a while ago is any indication.

Where in the files is the kompromat thing btw?

the maxwell court case documents.

you’ll need to jump through legal hurdles to get it and it’s all just as piecemeal and difficult to understand as the epstein files themselves without the context to give you an understanding of what any of it means, so getting a copies that are still floating around online or following a social media influencer who put in the work to explain it are your best bets to see it yourself – presuming that tiktok hasn’t shut them all down by now.

I refuse to use Reddit for sexual matters.

VERY smart – the epstein people specifically mentioned reddit as a high priority platform and their “business model” is using sex-based kompromat to control you.

this is literally out in the open; in writing; and vetted by the federal government – yet people continue using reddit like it’s not true anyways… it’s SO confusing to me.

same, from a guy on a motorcycle under an suv.

i feel this – i’m in that weird state where it’s technically 3 of us, but neither my manager nor the undergraduate new hire really touch it anywhere near as much as i do so the burden of keeping track is higher than it needs to be and i sometimes don’t bother to update it as a result. (they don’t even notice when i don’t).

it’s surprising that you’re not meeting anyone from hookup platforms – all of my friends were once sniffies hookups that morphed from fuck buddies to platonic friends.

it’s version 2.0 – not beta.