Holy wow, rewatching that final lap from Leclerc, if he had pulled that off without the snap/tap it was WAY pole position. What a madman, he had 0 cares, pole or bin it, no aiming for anyone or anything else ๐คฃ
Gotta love that.
Iโm still super impressed with this Mercedes chassis. The Canada update established their superiority. Ferrari must respond in Barcelona, as Red Bull are also knocking on their door in the chassis department with their last update package.
The New York Knicks are four wins away from their first championship in 53 years and the only thing standing in their way is a 9-foot-tall French Shaolin alien.
This Chelsea fan flew all the way from Kenya to Budapest to HATE WATCH Arsenal in the UCL final ๐ญ
Pre-match coverage of the UCL Final live from Budapest starts 10am ET streaming free on CBS Sports Golazo Network, and continues 11am on CBS, or catch it all on @paramountplus ๐บ
Pick up one of these ants in Kenya and it costs about 77 cents. Carry that same ant to Europe and a collector will pay around $200 for it. The same bug, marked up more than 250 times. That gap is the whole reason this trade exists.
The $200 buys something much bigger than one insect. The ants worth that kind of money are queens of the giant African harvester ant. One queen that has already mated can start a whole colony by herself and keep it going for as long as 25 years. Pay for her once, and she turns out thousands of workers over the next two decades with no help at all. Collectors keep her in a clear tank made for watching the colony build and feed itself. The buyer is really paying for twenty years of colony from a single ant in a test tube.
The bag in this case held 2,238 of them, about $1,700 worth at Kenyan prices. Get that same bag to Europe and it sells for hundreds of thousands of dollars. A bigger bust last year carried 5,440 queens. Kenyan prosecutors valued them at $9,300 at home, and around $1.27 million once they reached buyers overseas. That works out to $233 a head.
The fines have not come anywhere close to those numbers. The man caught here was told to pay 1 million shillings, about $7,700, or spend a year in jail. Four others caught the year before paid the same $7,700 each, and the ones from abroad just flew home. One bag that makes it through is worth many times that. For the people running this, the fine is just the cost of losing a bag now and then.
This is the same business that used to mean ivory and rhino horn, shrunk down to something that fits in a test tube. One 2023 study counted nearly 59,000 ant colonies sold online in China alone. Every queen in that luggage would have spent the next twenty years building a colony worth far more than the 77 cents she sold for.
Declan Rice in the premier league
36 games -4 goals , 5 assists
Enzo Fernandez in the premier league
35 games - 10 goals , 5 assists
Casemiro - 34 games - 9 goals , 2 assists
You donโt even need to bring Bruno Fernandes to make an argument . Rice didnโt even have a better season than the names above
Player of the season lmao