After four years full of challenges and hard work, it's time to move on.
I leave with the feeling that the mission is complete. 4 seasons, 3 championships.
I will never forget the love I received from the fans from my very first days.
Catalonia is my place on earth.
Thank you to everyone I met along the way during these beautiful four years.
A special thank you to President Laporta for giving me the chance to live the most incredible chapter of my career.
Barça is back where it belongs.
Visca el Barça. Visca Catalunya 💙❤️
@fcbarcelona
Brazilian beer Brahma have just dropped their World Cup advert featuring Ronaldo and it's NEXT LEVEL advertising. 🇧🇷👏🍻
Easily one of the best we'll see.
Since we're on the conversation of recruitment.
There's this guy you people were cooking over the weekend - who had opinions I agree with.
He pegged 500K - 1M/month to hire a video editor from Nigeria & he was called all sorts of names with rhetorics like:
"He should have hired from Canada".
Here's what I think:
1. That people are working remotely from the global south, doesn't mean they should be paid peanuts. 1M per month IS NOT peanut.
2. There's an obvious reason he didn't hire from Canada. From a business perspective, it makes sense. It is the same business perspective that a lot of web3 based companies digitally based in Virgin Islands have offsites in Nairobi, hiring a lot of Nigerians/Indians.
3. There's a reason why Spotify/ Netflix/ YouTube charge people from Vietnam, India, Nigeria differently from people in Canada or France. In fact, people in Poland and Bulgaria are charged differently from people in Switzerland. There are people who had accounts in Nigeria before moving abroad, that have refused to even migrate their accounts because they're still paying in naira. (Proudly one).
When billings and payments are structured, it is done from a geographical and economic perspective.
4. Regardless of your public tantrums, there are people who are currently begging for 1/5th of that offer, with exceptional skills. What makes this unfortunate is - it opens the portals for dubious employers to take advantage of desperate job seekers & it enforces a culture where people are actually paid less than they deserve.
This is the main reason why we need to promote a culture where we can have reasonable debates when these conversations pop.
You live in Nigeria. That 1M payment might be enough to clear out your entire annual rent (Lagos is not Nigeria). If he's to hire someone based in Canada, pay the person $3,500 - it might cater to just a month's rent.
Realities differ.
If you live in a 3rd world country earning 1st world currency, for your exceptional skills - when you're paid significantly higher than your peers who live in the same 3rd world country earning 3rd world currency, earn it and shush it.
If you want to demand finely equal pay, as a Nigerian resident with a Canadian resident - find your way to move out of Nigeria and immerse yourself in the same reality.
This nonsense in afrobeats needs to be stopped
Drake drop nwts after take care , Kendrick drop mr morale after damn , The weeknd has dropped good projects after blinding lights success, Asake isn't richer than any of them
Stop using " he has blown " to cover up bad music.
only titles yamal hasn't won at 18 is a champions league and world cup. nobody put him anywhere, he's just great. not our problem your foden's, saka's and maino's stink🤷🏽♂️
- طردنا ارنستو فالفيردي من برشلونة
- انتقادنا لـ بوسكيتس وصل اسبانيا
-انتقدنا لابورتا بهشتاق وصل له
- طالبنا بـ غارسيا ووقعنا معه
- طردنا شتيغن بـ هاشتاق
الان حملتنا وصلت لنادي و الاعبين ، احنا الجمهور
العربي الوحيد الذي يصنع قرار في نادي اوروبي ، ان
حدثت ريمونتادا فهي بسبب الجمهور الأعظم ❤️💙
The battery in your phone exists because a physicist in 1799 tried to copy a fish. That fish was the electric eel, and 80% of its body is a living power source.
An electric eel is not an eel. It is a knifefish, closer to catfish than to any real eel. And its body is built backward. All the normal organs (heart, stomach, brain) are crammed into the front 20%, right behind its head. The remaining 80% is the electric organ.
It has three separate electric organs, each doing a different job. Two of them produce high-voltage shocks for hunting and scaring off predators. The third one puts out weak 10-volt pulses that work like built-in sonar. The eel has awful eyesight and lives in dark, muddy Amazon rivers, so it uses those pulses to "see" by sensing how the electrical field bends around nearby objects.
The cells that make all of this happen are called electrocytes, tiny disc-shaped muscle cells that gave up the ability to flex and instead learned to produce a small electrical charge. Each one makes about 0.15 volts on its own. But a full-grown eel stacks around 6,000 of these cells end to end in a single column, with roughly 35 columns running side by side on each half of its body. The voltages add up. Same principle as stacking batteries in a flashlight. Until 2019, scientists thought there was only one species of electric eel. Then a team, including researchers from the Smithsonian, found there were actually three. The strongest one, Electrophorus voltai, was measured at 860 volts. Roughly seven times what comes out of a US wall socket.
Kenneth Catania, a biologist at Vanderbilt, published a paper in Science in 2014 after years of studying how eels use all that voltage. He found that the eel's high-voltage attack works almost identically to a Taser (the stun device law enforcement uses). A Taser fires 19 high-voltage pulses per second to override the nerves controlling your muscles, forcing your whole body to seize up involuntarily. The eel fires 400 pulses per second. Twenty-one times faster. It can freeze a fish solid in 3 milliseconds without even touching it. Catania also discovered the eel has a second trick: it sends paired electrical pulses that force hidden fish to twitch against their will, creating a tiny ripple that gives away their hiding spot.
The connection to the battery in your phone is not a metaphor. In the late 1790s, an Italian physicist named Alessandro Volta noticed the stacked-cell structure in electric fish and tried to replicate it with alternating discs of zinc and copper separated by cardboard soaked in salt water. It worked. He built the first battery ever made in 1799 and called it an "artificial electric organ." The unit we call the "volt" is named after him.
The strongest eel species, found 220 years later, was named Electrophorus voltai in his honor, closing a loop that started when a fish taught a physicist how to store electricity.
We beat Sevilla 5–2 and Newcastle 7–2 in the same week, yet there was zero post-match reaction, no analysis, no breakdown, nothing. But somehow, he still had the nerve to come out and clown Barcelona fans.
You’re not real and you’re not neutral