Q And the aid organizations aren't all, aren't always good either. Some of them are, are grifting, right? And so this is a mess.
A People are going full local living amongst stuff. I mean, I, I wrote a piece for the New York Times at war blog. I went out into, uh, took six trips around the country, and I went out into kind of a Taliban area, and I met a local, uh, they had me at a local Shura council, okay, this is like their city council, and we walk into the building, which we built, your taxpayer might build the building, and there's, it's filled with furniture, and they're sitting on the ground in the courtyard, and it's in the middle of winter, and there's snow on the ground, And I asked the guy, I said, why are we sitting on the ground? It's freezing out here. And he's like, well, you know, the sun is out and, uh, you know, and I'm like, and he's like, well, you know, in the summer we like to sit out here too. I was like, well, isn't it very hot? He's like, yeah. And he's like, we just like to sit outside. And I'm like, so why'd we build you a building? And he's like, I don't know. And then he sits us on the couch that says US government on it, and turns out we bought them a, a shipping container full of laptops. And he's like, the issue is we don't read and write.
AI assessment note: “turns out we bought them a, a shipping container full of laptops”