Depends on the Hearts of Iron. If it were 2 there'd have to be some phoney war going on to bypass the limitations of peacetime industrial capacity... So, uh...
For 3 we'd have to be deeply engaged in smear campaigns with foreign powers to manufacture consent for war. Hm.
And I didn't really get into 4 but from what I understand it'd just be a matter of slamming down a tech tree that makes the USA right wing fascist... like...
One chinese restaurant out here still does it I since they had a fleet of cars. But the local pizza joints and all the chains just contract through a delivery service app. It isn't usually doordash or ubereats, but the driver almost always is anyway.
So these days even the delivery apps are middlemen between the restaurant and the drivers. (They provide the menus and the transaction service and coordinate with all available driver delivery apps.)
While I understand the compulsion to ignore and distract oneself from the ever growing list of atrocities around the world, I find it to be a personal responsibility to maintain rather than a public obligation to protect.
I spent chunks of 2023 and 2024 investigating and testing image gen models after a cryptobro coworker kept talking about it.
I rigged up an old system and ran it locally to see wtf these things are doing. Honestly producing slop at 5 seconds per image v 5 minutes is meaningless in terms of value if 0% of the slop can be salvaged. And still, a human has to figure out what to so with the best candidates.
In fact at a certain speed it begins to work against itself as no one can realistically analyze AI gen output as fast as it is produced.
Conclusion: AI is mostly worthless. It just forces you to accept that human effort is the only thing with intrinsic value. And it's as tough to get out of AI as it is to put any in.
And that's looking past all the other gargantuan problems with AI models.
The far right are enjoying the opportunity to smear unions since they're the most prominent and functional face of resisting ICE. These folks are actively discussing how immigration efforts can and should be directed politically. Flooding the zone is the tactic being used.
But essentially a small portion of the profit landlords enjoy everyday was used by a union for purposes that benefitted the union, which may or may not have included things like rent control, and lobbying and campaigning on issues that would affect housing.
The intentional hit piece you can expect from a 'nonpartisan nonprofit' within the techCEO ecosystem, in this case Google.
Isn't it though? You may be onto something.