David Schlaefer

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David Schlaefer

David Schlaefer

@SchlaeferDavid

Diplomat, Ukraine Defender, and Author of the Far Northern Land Saga, the new fantasy epic inspired by the Kalevala, the world of Finnish folklore and magic.

Hong Kong Katılım Nisan 2021
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U.S. Consulate General Hong Kong & Macau
U.S. Consulate General Hong Kong & Macau@USAinHKMacau·
A sincere thank you to the American Women’s Association @AWA_HK ! 🇺🇸🤝 My wife Raluca and I were delighted to host the AWA & AWA Foundation’s Volunteer Leader Appreciation event, recognizing the incredible dedication of volunteers serving local communities. As we celebrate the 250th anniversary of the United States, this year also marks the AWA’s 70th anniversary and the AWA Foundation’s 5th year as a Section 88 charitable organization. We look forward to seeing all that you will continue to accomplish together! – DCG Schlaefer #Freedom250
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David Schlaefer@SchlaeferDavid·
@TheLastFarm Absurd. Market-based economies are the primary reason the entire world was lifted out of endemic food scarcity, a dynamic existing throughout human history.
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David Schlaefer@SchlaeferDavid·
@TRHLofficial Funny that Opera became an elitist art form as it started out as a popular (for common people) form of entertainment, analogous to movies today.
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David Schlaefer@SchlaeferDavid·
@MHTruthUltra Terrible analogy, as virtually all species demonstrate 'selfish resource competition' to increase their survival odds and reproductive success. Whatever the validity of the point you're trying to make, your analogy is about as bad as it gets.
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Books Behind Borders
Books Behind Borders@MHTruthUltra·
If a monkey hoarded more bananas than it could eat, while most of the other monkeys starved, scientists would study that monkey to figure out what was wrong with it. When humans do it, we put them on the cover of Forbes.
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David Schlaefer@SchlaeferDavid·
@beyoncegarden What he described is impulsivity driven by low IQ and poor executive motor function, which is disproportionately male; absolutely true. But it's mainly limited to the extreme of the distribution curve.
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David Schlaefer@SchlaeferDavid·
@anneapplebaum Very sloppy, Anne. The US has given over $200 billion in supplemental appropriations to Ukraine, mostly direct assistance and military aid; loans in addition to that. As the US Senior Assistance Coordinator in Kyiv for years, those numbers are burned into my brain. Quite wrong.
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Charles Murray
Charles Murray@charlesmurray·
I think that's almost exactly how I categorized them (full disclosure: also using Grok).
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@charlesmurray @lilmoemusic I had Grok make the best educated guess as to which countries go into which groupings: (Dr. Murray - please correct as needed)

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David Schlaefer@SchlaeferDavid·
@herandrews Having been a diplomat in Ukraine and elsewhere in the former Soviet world for years, the family stories that every man and woman in that part of the world have are an endless source of fascination to me and channel a melancholy, tragic resolve.
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Helen Andrews
Helen Andrews@herandrews·
This is a book of interviews that an oral historian did with ordinary Russians in Moscow in 1990. He found this “babushka” sitting on a bench outside her apartment building. She was born in 1912 in a small rural village. Her life spanned the full arc of the Soviet Union.
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U.S. Consulate General Hong Kong & Macau
U.S. Consulate General Hong Kong & Macau@USAinHKMacau·
Great conversation with Cotton USA leaders and mill partners at the Cotton USA Outlook forum in Hong Kong. Proud to recognize supporters of the U.S. Cotton Trust Protocol and sustainable sourcing and development of the U.S. cotton industry. – DCG David
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U.S. Consulate General Hong Kong & Macau
U.S. Consulate General Hong Kong & Macau@USAinHKMacau·
Great to visit the USA Pavilion at Asia Pacific Leather Fair. Thanks to Kerry Brozyna and the Leather and Hide Council of America for supporting U.S. exports of hides and skins at this important global trade event. – DCG David #Freedom250
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David Schlaefer@SchlaeferDavid·
@Matt_Pinner Yep. Pretty much went anywhere on your bike. And when you were in HS, pretty much went out anytime with only the vaguest restrictions.
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David Schlaefer@SchlaeferDavid·
@fw_naetoblaq People didn't fly as much, for one thing. You could purchase tickets over the phone, at ubiquitous travel agents who were very helpful, or directly at the ticket counter at the airport. Online booking is easier, albeit marginally so. Overall, flying today is abysmal in comparison
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♰ 𝙽𝚊𝚎𝚝𝚘@fw_naetoblaq·
Serious question. how tf did people book flights before the internet???
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David Schlaefer@SchlaeferDavid·
@TaraBull Almost wholly a function of technology and social media. Far less human interaction. And appreciation for better wine or spirits typically comes later in life when experience demands quality.
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David Schlaefer@SchlaeferDavid·
@cremieuxrecueil Isn't that largely reflective of most studies? Greater male variability manifesting itself as disproportionate male representation at the extreme ends of the curve?
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Crémieux
Crémieux@cremieuxrecueil·
The advantage of within-family tests is that it's much less likely to exclude anyone systematically. When a family takes the tests, they're likely to include all of their kids! The result? Two-fold: 1. No mean differences in intelligence 2. Greater male variability
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Crémieux@cremieuxrecueil·
One of the issues in figuring out if males are smarter than females or vice-versa is sampling: Dull people are disproportionately male and unlikely to make it into the samples tasking IQ tests! To address this, I've done three large, within-family tests. Look at my results:
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David Schlaefer@SchlaeferDavid·
@cremieuxrecueil @Joyousmud These percentages are admissions only, right? Absent data on application percentages by race? I would think that's very relevant. I also wonder how many Asian admittees are actually half-Asian, half-white.
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Crémieux
Crémieux@cremieuxrecueil·
@Joyousmud Due to cross-subsidization, not as different as your comment suggests!
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Crémieux
Crémieux@cremieuxrecueil·
Let's put this to bed. This is what Harvard said about their admissions in SFFA v. Harvard: Without any preferences, they would've admitted 51% Whites. If they just admitted the top 10% of applicants by academic qualifications, the White share goes to 37% and Asians to ~52%.
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David Schlaefer@SchlaeferDavid·
@hell_line0 You're seriously suggesting that modern contraception--the most revolutionary means of giving women power and choice over reproduction in human history--is a patriarchal attempt to 'control' women's bodies?
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Maryam@hell_line0·
well,a single man can impregnate 9 women everyday for nine months. Those will be 2,400 pregnancies and woman can only get pregnant once within nine months, even if she sleeps w 9 men everyday within 9 months. so, birth control should be for MEN, Science is busy making pills, nd birth control for the WRONG PERSON all this time if we’re being honest.
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David Schlaefer@SchlaeferDavid·
@RareImagery I dont think the "smallest, weakest" had anything to do with it, but it was indeed a thing. Kill the Man with the Ball was the same game, different name.
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Rare 🇺🇸
Rare 🇺🇸@RareImagery·
Gen X had a game called ‘smear the queer’. We would throw the ball to the smallest/weakest person and then go beat the shit out of them until they threw it to someone else. That was recess
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David Schlaefer@SchlaeferDavid·
@sunkissed1221 @mrmikeMTL And the funny thing is, now I would never want a pool given the hassle, and when looking at houses, immediately exclude anything with pool or hot tub. :)
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Amber W
Amber W@sunkissed1221·
@SchlaeferDavid @mrmikeMTL I grew up in IL so an in-ground pool was a true luxury only be to enjoyed 4-5 months out of the year.
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Mr. Mike
Mr. Mike@mrmikeMTL·
For those who didn't grow up privileged, name something you thought was a luxury when you were a kid
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David Schlaefer@SchlaeferDavid·
@mrmikeMTL I thought two-story houses with stairs were "mansions" that rich people had. :)
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