🥊 Elon Fights With Trump Admin; Stunning Drop in Maternal Mortality Rate; Map of Antarctica Without Ice
PLUS nine peculiar numbers often used to make silly jokes around Europe.
We have the beef. 🥩
Peter Navarro went on TV and took a shot at Elon when he said Tesla is more of an assembler than a manufacturer. This is apparently the gravest of insults when you’re talking about a automotive company. Elon fired back and now appears to be openly beefing with the Trump admin.
From Sheel Mohnot:
Peter Navarro on Elon Musk:
“We all understand in the White House (and the American people understand) that Elon's a car manufacturer. But he's not a car manufacturer — He's a car assembler.
In many cases, if you go to his Texas plant, a good part of the engines that he gets (which in the EV case are the batteries) come from Japan and come from China. The electronics come from Taiwan.
The difference is in our thinking and Elon's on this — is that we want the tires made in Akron. We want the transmissions made in Indianapolis. We want the engines made in Flint and Saginaw. And we want the cars manufactured here.”
Full video from CNBC:
Elon replied on twitter:
Stunning Drop in UK’s Maternal Mortality Rate (1847-2020)
From Our World in Data via Alec Stapp:
Love this.
Onwards and upwards 🚀
Numbers Often Used To Make Silly Jokes Around Europe
From Everything About Maps:
Map of Antarctica Without Ice
From u/LuckyTraveler88:
RANKED: Real GDP Per Capita Growth By Country (2014-2024)
From Visual Capitalist:
🎶 Banger of the Day
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One of their guys was a computer science student and while in college he made a computer program that they used to help write songs. Also, their use of the trombone is elite.
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