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Side note: Now's a fantastic time get into industrial processes or oil & gas since all of the fake propaganda against buildings with computers in them has distr
by oceanplexian 2mo ago
Side note: Now's a fantastic time get into industrial processes or oil & gas since all of the fake propaganda against buildings with computers in them has distracted people from facilities built on a daily basis that cause 1000x the pollution and noise of a datacenter.
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- skywhopper 2mo agoYou think the folks who are successfully organizing against datacenters can’t use the same techniques and support networks to do the same thing against other nuisance uses?
- qarl2 2mo agoNot really - China doesn't care about other nuisance issues. Look at how the TikTok kids (who went nuts for the Palestinians) don't give a crud about the Cubans.
- boston_clone 2mo agoEmpathy is not a Chinese psyop. Anyway, here's actual evidence of elected officials contradicting your anecdotal narrative: https://apnews.com/article/cuba-embargo-congress-pocan-legerfernandez-dexter-ramirez-e369a23097dcf104d424af88cdc2134a https://apnews.com/article/cuba-embargo-congress-pocan-leger...
- qarl2 2mo agoSo where are the street protests for Cuba then? I marched for Gaza three times. I haven't seen a single one for Cuba. I'm not saying empathy is a Chinese psyop. The empathy is real. But empathy requires awareness - and awareness IS controlled by the algorithm.
- toomuchtodo 2mo agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compassion_fatigue https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compassion_fatigue
- qarl2 2mo agoSo you deny the algorithm profoundly influences awareness then?
- toomuchtodo 2mo agoI take no position on the algorithm, I don't have enough context or subject matter expertise to speak authoritatively on the topic. My point is a single person can only care about so much, and can exhaust their compassion reserve. Can't be a passionate, engaged activist about everything.
- qarl2 2mo agoGood. Because it seems pretty obvious that the algorithm profoundly influences awareness.
- toomuchtodo 2mo agoYou say obvious but provide no citations or data. “Some people say” or “it’s obvious” is not a sufficient foundation for an assertion.
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- boston_clone 2mo agoi guess we’re seeing why your first account was nuked. if you’re failing to make a convincing point, you have to do better than replying with “LOL.”
- epolanski 2mo agoAt least many are aware of the viciousness shown by the current US administration against Cuban population. At the same time, full blown humanitarian disasters, like the one that hit the Rohingya in Myanmar, people that were being thrown in pit and burned alive in the thousands, are completely unknown to the average adult in the west.
- snypher 2mo agoWell, the Cubans ain't being bombed by their neighbors.
- toomuchtodo 2mo agohttps://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-08-14/oklahoma-4-billion-aluminum-smelter-imperiled-by-trump-supporters https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-08-14/oklahoma-... > “Protect Our Farms. #StopTheInolaSmelter,” reads the text below the image, splashed across a billboard towering over one of the main highways to this prairie town (population: 1,890.) The smelter in question: a $4 billion aluminum processing plant touted by President Donald Trump as part of his push to revive the industry in the US. > In a June 29 letter, Trump urged the town’s council to approve the project “without delay, so that together we may strengthen our national security, supercharge our economy, and lead our Nation boldly into a new Golden Age of American greatness.” > Instead, the five-person board of trustees for Inola, located just east of Tulsa, voted unanimously that day to impose a moratorium on the project. The smelter, a joint venture between the United Arab Emirates’ state-owned Emirates Global Aluminium PJSC and Chicago-based Century Aluminum Co., would be the first new US plant in nearly 50 years to process aluminum that’s derived from raw material rather than recycled. > Opponents of the plant say they’re afraid toxic emissions from the facility will damage agricultural land in Inola, which has dubbed itself the “Hay Capital the World” in a nod to the prized Bluestem prairie grass that grows there. There’s also concern that the plant’s intensive power needs will drive up electricity prices. The controversy has surfaced in the Oklahoma governor’s race, with one candidate in the upcoming Republican primary supporting the project and the other opposing it.
- qarl2 2mo agoUmmm... this seems entirely irrelevant to our discussion. Our discussion was almost a week ago, is lying dormant, and is completely unrelated to what you just posted. I'm having a hard time understanding how you could have made such an error.
- qarl2 2mo agoAnd now someone is upvoting it? A message on the wrong thread that is a week old and abandoned? I daresay - am I witnessing astroturfing? Oh my!