Titanic & Lab-grown Chicken 🚢
This Week in Review ☕️: Elon Musk vs Mark Zuckerberg | Cultivated meat gets approved in the US | Pregnant women get protection by employers for the first time in 40 years | Climate Change experts take
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Quick Bites:
Big Tech💰: Elon Musk vs Mark Zuckerberg.
Yep, it's true. Two of the world's most powerful billionaires have agreed to fight each other in a cage match.
Umm.. They should throw in Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates and 20 more techies and do it like the Hunger Games
PS. For the past 96 hours, all people could talk about were billionaires suffocating underwater and now two madmen want to fight and we're clapping like seals 🦭
Go figure🤷🏻♀️
Facts:
💡Zuckerberg: Height: 5 ft 7 inches, Weight: 154 lbs
💡Musk: Height: 6 ft 1 inch, Weight: 187 lbs
"I have this great move that I call "The Walrus" where I just lie on top of my opponent & do nothing" -Elon via Twitter
Tbh, we're sure Elon will win unless Zuckerberg is an android. He sure don't look human to us.
Although, it's worth noting that Zucks is a jiu-jitsu champion. Musk might have the size advantage here but Zucks has skill and speed. Could CLOBBER Elon with that black belt⚔️
Background💡: Many are speculating that Meta is building a Twitter competitor.
It could allow users to follow accounts they already follow on Instagram.
The text-based social network could be a direct threat to Elon Musk's Twitter, according to BBC.
Seems like this longstanding feud is finally going to come to an end. Only way to settle it is in the cage folks🙏🏻
Our Thoughts💡:
The past week:
💡Greta Thunberg deletes tweet from 5 years ago saying the world was gonna end in 5 years
💡Everyone becomes a Titanic conspiracy theorist
💡Hunter Biden to plead guilty
💡Donald Trump tries to hijack student school-lunches
💡US approves chicken made from lab cells
💡Musk and Zuckerberg agree to a cage fight
💡Andrew Tate offers to train Elon
We are now starting to the consider the possibility that we live in a simulation…
We've decided we will quit our job here and work for the winning CEO.
Fat chance we're headed to Meta this fall, folks
Sea Tourism🚢: The Titan submarine's deadly implosion in the North Atlantic has shaken the world.
Not only has it raised concerns about the vessel's operator, OceanGate Expeditions, but deep-sea tourism has come under scrutiny as an industry as a whole.
"There are no regulations and there is no government that controls international waters" Reuters.
While a few vessels capable of diving to the Titanic are certified by third parties, the Titan was not certified- and no such requirement exists.
Research shows there has been strict oversight around marine expeditions. It's clear that the Titan was experimental and not really safe to operate at those depths.
Experts are also raising questions about the submersible's design. Many claim the materials used for manufacture "simply didn't work" and "were already red flags to people who have worked in this field."
Our Thoughts💡: The dangers of the sea- and the allure of it, is something we understand.
Humans are naturally curious- the desire for knowledge and adventure motivates modern explorers even today.
However, this unfortunate incident is a stark reminder for us to prioritize safety above all.
We aren't going to make any jokes here folks because people being trapped and dying in a tin can is a heart-wrenching event.
It's sickening to see some social media trolling rich people given the loss of life. What we need is to come together and level up in terms of marine safety and conduct an in-depth, around-the-clock investigation to avoid a catastrophe like this EVER again. 🙏🏻🙏🏻
Food🧪: The US approves chicken made from cultivated cells, the nation's first lab-grown meat.
Hell no! We like a chicken that had a blissful life hanging on the ranch eating grass and lounging under the sun 🐣
NO lab-grown chicken in our kitchen🖕🏻
Key Highlights, according to Associated Press:
💡The move launches a new era of meat production with the goal of reducing harm to animals and minimising the environmental impacts
💡Cultivated meat is grown in steel tanks, using cells that come from a living animal, a fertilised egg or a special bank of stored cells.
💡Globally, more than 150 companies are focusing on meat from cells, not only chicken but pork, lamb, fish and beef, which scientists say has the biggest impact on the environment
💡Cultivated chicken is much more expensive than meat from whole, farmed birds and cannot yet be produced on the scale of traditional meat
💡The products are meat, not substitutes like the Impossible Burger or Beyond Meat, which are made from plant proteins
💡Singapore is the first country to allow cultivated meat
The meat will be served first in upscale restaurants due to it's high cost.
The price is expected to be similar to premium, organic chicken which can go for upto $20 per pound.
Our Thoughts💡: Ugh. Our digestive system has enough gastro issues as it is. These upscale restaurants can keep their "upscale" meat 🍗
We can't afford valet there, let alone a chicken leg 😭
Culture🤰🏻: Calling all baby mamas! Pregnant women get new protection.
A new law called "The Pregnant Workers Fairness Act" takes effect today and spells the 1st major advancements of their rights in four decades.
With 2.8 million women pregnant a year on the job, the goal is to motivate more women to work by requiring employers to be more accommodating, Axios reports.
Key Highlights, reported by Axios:
💡The law was signed by President Biden at the end of 2022
💡Employers are required to provide reasonable accommodations to pregnant workers, as well as those recovering from childbirth and those who need to pump breast milk at work
💡These accommodations can include closer parking to the office, extra bathroom breaks, being excused from physical activities and more opportunities to sit or drink water
💡Women have often filed lawsuits over issues like these- often losing to companies because the 1978 Pregnancy Discrimination Act did not explicitly cover accommodations
💡This is also a step forward as the US lags behind other countries in women's labor force participation
Advocates for pregnant working women are celebrating.
"This is really a groundbreaking moment, especially for workers in low-wage industries in physically demanding jobs in male-dominated workplaces where we have seen really egregious pregnancy discrimination."
"Literally millions of people every year are going to be able to have healthy pregnancies and keep earning a pay check."
Quicker Bites:
IBM makes $4.6bn cloud deal.
First US Malaria cases diagnosed in decades in Florida and Texas.
Biden vows high-speed internet for all with $40bn investment, touts ‘Bidenomics’.
Wagner is preparing to hand over heavy weapons, Russian military says.
US pedestrian deaths reach a 40-year high.
Texas faces record heat wave.