SchlangDaddy - Licensed to ILL

Police in Central Park thought they were hunting down a skilled pickpocket after multiple visitors reported their phones mysteriously disappearing without anyone noticing a thing. But while officers were questioning people in the park, a raccoon suddenly ran up, grabbed a phone, and exposed itself as the real thief. After chasing it through the trees, police found a hidden stash of stolen phones tucked away in a raccoon’s hiding spot. They later announced that anyone missing a phone in Central Park could check with the station to claim it.

@SVG__Collection “I like 'em brown, yellow, Puerto Rican, or Haitian / Name is Phife Dawg from the Zulu Nation,". RIP

Remembering the great Phife Dawg, who passed away 10 years ago today.

Greatest racing performances of the 70s: 1. Secretariat at the 1973 Belmont 2. Gabe Kaplan at the 1976 Battle of the Network Stars I may have the order wrong.

Name an athlete you wish had a fully healthy career. I’ll start: Derrick Rose.

@BrickCenter_ Double gather step

There's no such thing as traveling in the NBA anymore. Jalen Green took SIX steps in a 1-point game with 25 seconds left... no call 😭

@ArbiterofCool @Super70sSports No doubt!

@SchlangDaddy @Super70sSports It was 1985. Not exactly a long shot bet. She was a real blonde, so that minimized the effect.

What’s your all-time favorite college basketball team? I’ve got 1983 NC State. If you remember the ultimate Cinderella run those kids went on, you damn sure know why. Jimmy V forever.

@PeterPrinciple9 @Super70sSports Grand Ma Ma!

@Super70sSports Running Rebels

@RyanDetrick “Sell when you can, not when you have to”

After 214 trading days, the S&P 500 closed beneath it's 200-day MA this week. Since 1950, when the S&P 500 closes above this trendline the annualized return is 21.1%. When it closes beneath? -22.2%. Proving once again that bad things tend to happen beneath this trendline.

IronCarl would have been 88 today - I bet Chuck Norris went over to say hello

OMG KENTUCKY THIS IS MARCH 🤯🤯🤯

RIP Chuck Norris ! Source: Parade share.google/RBhE6a4hwRZ3VX…

In late October 2001, a 30-year-old who had just been fired from his own company flew coach to Moscow to buy a nuclear missile. Elon Musk brought two people. Jim Cantrell, an aerospace consultant who had worked on a joint Mars balloon mission for the French Space Agency and the Soviet Union. And Adeo Ressi, his college roommate, who had spent the previous month compiling videos of rockets exploding and staging interventions with Musk’s friends to convince him to stop. The plan was to buy a refurbished intercontinental ballistic missile from a Russian company called ISC Kosmotras, gut it, fill it with seeds and nutrient gel, and land a greenhouse on Mars. The entire purpose was a publicity stunt to guilt NASA into funding a real mission. Musk had $180 million from selling PayPal and was willing to spend $20 to $30 million. The Russians quoted $8 million per missile. Musk offered $8 million for two. They laughed. One reportedly spit on him. He came back four months later, February 2002, bringing Michael Griffin, who would later become the head of NASA. Same result. The price kept climbing and the Russians wouldn’t close. On the flight home, Cantrell and Griffin called over the drink cart and started celebrating the fact that they’d made it out of Moscow in winter. Musk sat in front of them, silent, typing on his laptop. After a while he turned around and showed them a spreadsheet. He’d modeled the cost of manufacturing a rocket from scratch. Raw materials, he’d calculated, were about 3% of the typical launch price. The other 97% was margin, bureaucracy, and vertical integration that nobody had attempted. SpaceX incorporated March 14, 2002. First office: a 3,000-square-foot warehouse in El Segundo with a few cubicles. Musk put in $100 million of his own money and personally interviewed the first 3,000 employees. First rocket: Falcon 1, named after the Millennium Falcon. Target price to orbit: $6.9 million when the going rate started at $30 million. First launch, March 2006, failed 25 seconds in. Corroded fuel line nut. Second launch, March 2007, reached 180 miles altitude before the engine cut from fuel slosh. Third launch, August 2008, the first stage bumped the second stage after separation. Residual thrust. A fix that took one line of code. Three failures. Tesla hemorrhaging cash at the same time. Divorce proceedings. Musk later said he was waking from nightmares screaming. 2008 was the worst year of his life. The fourth rocket had no paying customer. Nobody wanted to fly on a vehicle that had exploded three times. The payload was a 364-pound aluminum dummy nicknamed RatSat, built from spare parts in the factory. Musk split his last $30 million between SpaceX and Tesla. If the rocket failed, both companies die. September 28, 2008. Falcon 1 reached orbit. First privately developed liquid-fuel rocket to do so. NASA called six weeks later with a $1.6 billion contract. Musk couldn’t hold the phone. He just said “I love you guys.” SpaceX is now valued at $1.25 trillion after the xAI merger, filing for an IPO targeting $1.75 trillion. It launched over 160 rockets in 2025, more than half of all orbital launches on Earth. Starlink has 9 million subscribers across 150 countries from nearly 10,000 satellites. Twenty-four years ago, his best friend made him watch compilation videos of rockets blowing up to convince him this was insane. He watched every one of them and flew to Moscow anyway.

Bill Maher drops a reality bomb on Zohram Mamdani voters with a brutal history lesson on socialism. “We’ve run this experiment many times, and the results are always obvious,” Maher said. He looked straight into the camera and delivered a blunt warning about Mamdani. “Democrats must recognize that Zohran Mamdani is the future of the party. Unfortunately, it’s the Republican Party.” “Here’s capitalist South Korea at night from space,” Maher presented, showing a country lit up and thriving. “Here’s socialist North Korea,” he followed, with the map pitch dark. “Yeah. In 1990, Venezuela was wealthier than Poland. But then Poland, finally free of Soviet style economics, went all in on capitalism and now their economy is as big as Japan and people there have high wages, low inflation, cars, vacations, homes.” “Meanwhile, Venezuela traded capitalism for Hugo Chavez’s socialism for the 21st century, which turned out to be like socialism in the last century or any century, a f*cking mess.” “It turned one of Latin America’s richest countries into one of its poorest. Low wages, high inflation, shortages, outages, 8 million people fleeing. If you think New York can somehow reinvent this wheel, you’re in for a rude awokening.”

No better way to kick off St Patrick’s festivities than going to Boston’s “Running of the Gingers.” 😂

@RyanGirdusky @mirandadevine “Vital”

“Cut vital services to New Yorker” All you have to do is bring spending down to 2024 levels. NYC did not have all their essential services cut in 2024

It looks like $HOOD customers lost almost 5% in February. Total Platform Assets dropped $10.2B in the month to $314.2B, but that includes $5.6B in net deposits. So the implied loss of $15.8B was 4.9% of end-of-January Total Platform Assets of $324.4B. The S&P 500 was down 0.9%.

$LYV, owning a monopoly is fantastic until that monopoly ends.

It is hard work being short stocks! From today’s Daily Dirtnap ⁦@dailydirtnap⁩

Did you know 😏 He rubbed lemon juice on his face. Robbed two banks. Smiled at the cameras. Got caught in an hour. And changed psychology forever. In 1995, McArthur Wheeler walked into two banks in Pittsburgh and robbed them with no mask, no disguise, and lemon juice on his face. He believed that because lemon juice works as invisible ink on paper, it would make his face invisible to cameras. He smiled directly into the security cameras. Police aired the footage on the evening news and arrested him within an hour. When shown the tape, Wheeler stared at the screen and said, "But I wore the juice." He had tested the theory with a Polaroid selfie and didn't appear in the photo — because lemon juice got in his eyes and he aimed the camera at the ceiling. His case inspired Cornell psychologists David Dunning and Justin Kruger to publish their 1999 paper defining the Dunning-Kruger Effect — the cognitive bias where people with low ability drastically overestimate their own competence.

@CollinRugg NY Finest

NEW: The NYPD chief who was caught on camera chasing down the ISIS-inspired New York City bomb throwers speaks out. 46-year-old commander of Patrol Borough Manhattan North, Chief Aaron Edwards, is speaking out following the incident. “I always say, we’re all cops, right? Regardless of rank, regardless of life, regardless of position, you’re a cop first. Once a cop, always a cop,” he told the New York Post. “When you see danger, you have that cop in you. You react to it.”