2010 was the greatest year in the history of music and nothing else comes close.

This sounds like a burn, but remember that the only French literature that anyone knows is Proust. Six books of internal monologue about a biscuit. I think it's because the French language is no good at describing subjective experiences.

I feel like there's weirdly little *religious* eschatological chatter about AI.

I looked deep into Yemen’s Khat addiction, and the scale of devastation is insane. Data shows Yemeni citizens spend HALF of their total income on Khat. Khat also uses 40% of their total water supply for no nutritional value while lack of water and starvation is extremely prevalent in Yemen. Starvation in Yemen is beyond alarming. Over 18 million people, just over half of the country's population face acute hunger. There is an estimated 50,000+ child deaths annually in Yemen from extreme hunger and secondary infections. About 130-144 children die per day of starvation in Yemen. The estimate for adults is 20-50 per day, so for some reason they allow children to bare the brunt of death by starvation while tending to Khat crop production and chewing addiction. Why would there be no humanitarian aid to stop that? Because of The Jihadist militants that also own The Khat business in Yemen. International aid funding to Yemen dropped due to The Houthis complete operational theft. They also launched a massive crackdown on humanitarian workers, carrying out abductions and detaining United Nations and NGO employees for ransom. The Houthis essentially have a monopoly on the Khat business in Yemen. Because they control the vast majority of Yemen's mountain ranges, where the country's khat is cultivated, the crop falls directly under Houthi territorial administration, the militant group has successfully monopolized the trade. They profit heavily from the national addiction of Khat by enforcing fees at militia checkpoint fees and taxation. Cultivating khat requires an immense amount of water and the Houthis have seized all key water tables across western and northern Yemen, the Houthis effectively function as landlords to the farming networks. Farmers are dependent on the group for access to the fuel required to run irrigation pumps, allowing Houthi leadership to control the entire industry. Yemen used to be the number one exporter of Coffee in the world and they ripped out almost every single Coffee farm for to produce Khat. Estimates indicate that up to 80% of Yemen's arable land was systematically converted to cultivate Khat. Khat uses four times the amounts of water that coffee does. Yemen is in severe drought conditions and the country is locked in a catastrophic environmental crisis driven by lack of rivers, rainfall and their addiction to Khat. Khat is now so deeply embedded in Yemeni culture, so much so that it transcends the frontlines of the ongoing conflict. The trade is so vital that opposing military forces in Yemen often observe an unwritten daily ceasefire between noon to 4:00 PM allowing both sides to break combat, safely distribute the shipments, and gather to chew the leaf. So to wrap this up, Jihadist Terrorists, that Hasan Piker says are awesome (The Houthis) were stealing all the international aid and holding it hostage to finance terror operations while continuing to be the main drivers behind Yemens Khat industry and addiction. All while hundreds of thousands of Yemenis continue to die of starvation. I would like to say there is a change coming, but almost the entire population seem too focused on chewing Khat to do anything about it.