Volleyball and Soccer is Life. Chemical engineer with 30+ years experience after schooling at Colo State & Purdue. https://teapaw.org/t.co/0tUdOBNzwe
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After joining Twitter 14 yrs ago it's good to see it getting better under new leadership! #MyTwitterAnniversary #TownSquare #FreeSpeechMatters
Good to see a principled democrat put her state and country ahead of her party. She's brave to stand up to the political hacks accusing her of being a sore loser when millions of us understand why she had to draw the line at Abdul's antisemitism. Here are additional issues to consider before voting. normanjansen.substack.com/p/…
Wonderful news from preseason All-American @KennaWollard that she's on the road to remission from her bout with Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma. Hope her recovery continues. instagram.com/p/DfF52_Bjyh-/…
Good to see volleyball excellence in the Big Ten conference continue with ten B1G teams ranked in the top 25, including this one. @PurdueVB @PurdueSports youtube.com/watch?v=_6DMAvs2…
Preseason hoops is almost here and the B1G has lots of young talent.
“We’ve been the most successful non-conference team in the country the last five years, but yet I got three exhibition losses—well, those are beautiful.”
HC Matt Painter talks the importance of exhibition games for @BoilerBall's preparation 👇
For the NCAA outdoor volleyball at Wrigley Field why did they not anticipate that DEW FORMS ON SURFACES after dark and have radiative heat lamps pointed at the court to warm the Taraflex surface above the dew point of the humid Chicago air? Very dangerous for top players to be sliding around on that floor. As soon as you wipe up the dew, it re-forms unless the surface is warmed up. #HeatLamps needed cornhuskerswire.usatoday.com…
Affordability is a serious challenge yet why don't we consider the value of preventing Iran ("death to America") from having nuclear weapons compared to the cost of defeating hitler and nazi Germany decades ago. To put things in perspective, here's the cost of gasoline today compared to four years ago when Biden promised to end fossil fuels.
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With the primary victory of Abdul in Michigan, is it time for someone to add a fourth row at the bottom of this graphic to show @DemSocialists pulling the left toward purer socialism? I miss the days of JFK. @BillMaher @SenFettermanPA
The "Invisible Hand" shouldn't be ignored just because we can't see it. Its benefits are greatly misunderstood by the DSA. Read this.
One of the most dangerous ideas in politics is that good intentions create prosperous societies.
Bernard Mandeville, in one of the most scandalous and important books in intellectual history, argued almost exactly the opposite.
In his 1714 book The Fable of the Bees: or, Private Vices, Public Benefits, Bernard Mandeville told the story of a prosperous beehive where every bee was driven by vanity, greed, luxury and self-interest. The hive flourished with industry, trade, innovation and wealth precisely because of these private vices. Then, one day, the bees suddenly became virtuous and frugal. Demand collapsed, workers lost their jobs, and the once-thriving society descended into poverty and stagnation.
Mandeville’s provocative thesis was that what was often thought of as private vices often produce public benefits. Self-interested behaviour - when channelled through markets - creates far more prosperity and social cooperation than deliberate attempts at collective virtue or moral perfection.
This insight was revolutionary. It showed that the pursuit of personal gain does not lead to chaos, but to order and abundance. People working to satisfy their own desires end up producing goods and services that benefit others. Greed for profit drives innovation. Vanity fuels demand for quality and beauty. Self-interest, not altruism, powers the division of labour and economic progress.
Adam Smith would later refine this idea into the famous “invisible hand”. But Mandeville stated the uncomfortable truth more boldly: a society that tries to suppress self-interest in the name of virtue usually ends up poorer and less civilised.
The Fable of the Bees is a powerful defence of commercial society which reminds us that what left-wing moralists condemn as vice is frequently the engine of human flourishing.
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Good to see healthy patriotism and the MNT play an excellent game as a unified team last night in LA.
Norway is amped too. teapaw.org/AndyDorothy1/status/20…
Here's a similar link that the owner's agreed to share. teapaw.org/Steve2d/status/2065776…
Heads up: @FairNotKind will engage in discussion (in this case regarding trans athletes and Riley Gaines), then when losing the debate, spam you and then delete the evidence of her loss. 45,000 posts she has. Don't waste your time… normanjansen.substack.com/p/…
