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Brent Bowers @bbowers22

Passionate. Dreamer. Grateful. Ohio Joined August 2010
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Niko @0xNiko1

a week ago

An MIT professor offered his class a coin flip: win $125 or lose $100. Most students said no. Then he proved refusing was the smart move, and it explains why you're bad with money. The bet is a steal on paper. Flip a coin, win $125 or lose $100. Do the math and you come out $12.50 ahead on average. It's what economists call a more than fair bet. Most of the room still turned it down. They weren't being dumb. They were being human. Here's the idea underneath it. You don't actually care about dollars, you care about how much each dollar changes your life. And the dollars you already have are worth more to you than the ones you might win. So losing $100 stings harder than winning $125 feels good. Then he pushed it further. He told the class he'd force them into that winning bet unless they paid to walk away. How much would they pay? The answer, with their standard math, was $43. People will hand over almost half their money to dodge a bet that's tilted in their favor. That's not weakness. That's a law of how the mind values risk, and it has a name: risk aversion. And it's the whole reason insurance exists. Being uninsured is just this coin flip in disguise. You quietly pay to never be the person who gets wiped out, even when the math says the odds are on your side. Once you see it, you notice it everywhere. Every warranty, every premium, every bet you've refused. You weren't being irrational. You were pricing the fear.

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Zynex @0xzynex

2 weeks ago

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Anand Nanduri @NanduriNFL

3 weeks ago

Can confirm the field turf looks much improved from up here @OhioStateFB 🤝

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BrickCenter @BrickCenter_

4 weeks ago

WNBA 2026 ALL-STAR HIGHLIGHTS 🔥

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Brent Bowers @bbowers22

2 months ago

@BoCamaro Like a lot of what you post, but you need to stop thinking 401ks are inherently bad. This isn't a reflection of the vehicle, but the driver(s).

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Brent Bowers @bbowers22

2 months ago

@SamQuinnCBS Is this comparable to the Brooklyn team with KG & PP

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Brent Bowers @bbowers22

2 months ago

@BoCamaro @WajahatAli Electric cars to save the planet, laughable.

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Brent Bowers @bbowers22

2 months ago

@SamQuinnCBS It is 1 chip - this is absurd

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Brent Bowers @bbowers22

2 months ago

@Mike_kim714 @Titleist GTS2!

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Brent Bowers @bbowers22

3 months ago

@NBAOfficial you really need to do something about the off arm push off by offensive players. Awful to watch in the playoffs.

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Mike Greenberg @Espngreeny

3 months ago

What he said.

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Ohio State Football @OhioStateFB

3 months ago

Back in Black

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Woody @woodyVSworld

4 months ago

@BuckeyeBat Ohio State would have to lose 41 straight games against ranked opponents to have the same winning % in the CFP era against ranked teams as Michigan

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The Buckeye Nut @TheBuckeyeNut

4 months ago

Ryan Day: "I think the first thing that surprised me, when Caleb came to Ohio State was that he was a mess. I don't know what they were doing at Alabama." 🤣🤣🤣

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Brent Bowers @bbowers22

5 months ago

@On3 @PeteNakos Government overreach at it's finest

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abymael @abymaelx

5 months ago

ele fez uma pegadinha com a namorada e contou que a irmã era surda. No dia em que as apresentou, botou uma câmera no seu carro e deixou a magia acontecer.

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Brent Bowers @bbowers22

7 months ago

@cpstalions How are vacuum sales?

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Brent Bowers @bbowers22

7 months ago

@pat_ricktv A US sport, played in the US, where 90%+ of people speak English. The ignorance is with that halftime show. All love brother, but bad take.

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Brent Bowers @bbowers22

7 months ago

@pat_ricktv Ignorance of what?

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Brent Bowers @bbowers22

7 months ago

This halftime show is stupid

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Brent Bowers @bbowers22

7 months ago

@pat_ricktv Cool, tell me what he said

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Brent Bowers @bbowers22

7 months ago

@pat_ricktv Can't tell if you are serious....

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