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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 distracted people from facilities built on a daily basis that cause 1000x the pollution and noise of a datacenter.
You 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?
Not 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.

Well, the Cubans ain't being bombed by their neighbors.
At 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.

Empathy 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-leger...

So 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.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compassion_fatigue
So you deny the algorithm profoundly influences awareness then?
Do you think that the issues deserve the same attention, or are you perhaps making a false equivalence?

As far as I’m aware, children aren’t being shot in the head and forcibly starved by an occupying force in Cuba. But to say that folks don’t care is clearly inaccurate.

I am making the fairly obvious point that Americans don't care about the Cubans like they did the Palestinians, despite the fact that the Cubans are directly suffering under the Americans, and in the case of the Palestinians it was indirect.
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.

Ummm... 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.