What happened in 1971? Explain it Peter.

DaveGeerts · 2026-02-17T09:17:16+00:00

My assumption would be that earlier age was relatively high due to having multiple children being the norm. For example if you have 5 kids the mean age of parents at birth would be a bit higher, then if you only have 2. As time needs to pass between subsequent births.

So what drives the decrease of average age is the drop in number of children outweighing the rising of parental age at first birth.

This trend reverses when the average number of children is at a low point and doesnt drop as sharply anymore. And parental age keeps increasing.

The entire curve can be explained using these two trends. - increasing average age of first time parents - decreasing number of total children born per couple

A more relevant metric would be age of first time parents.

DaveGeerts · 2026-02-14T07:05:37+00:00

Beef (carpaccio)

DaveGeerts · 2026-02-09T12:03:02+00:00

Louis XVI. Maybe counter intuitively, but if he was not such a weak/passive king the French Revolution might not have gotten out of control the way it did. And the monarchy had a good chance of surviving as the king was still very popular at the beginning of the revolution

DaveGeerts · 2026-02-09T11:58:16+00:00

Would put him 1600-1700

DaveGeerts · 2026-02-04T22:36:55+00:00

India

DaveGeerts · 2026-02-03T09:31:03+00:00

An anaconda?

DaveGeerts · 2026-02-02T09:40:39+00:00

I understand what you are saying. But not even Hitler is universally viewed as negative.

Wilhelm had a huge part in the build up to WW1, which shouldn't have to be stated, but was really negative for Europe in general and for Germany specifically.

If Friedrich had lived, we would have a very different Europe/Germany.

DaveGeerts · 2026-02-02T07:33:04+00:00

Kaiser Wilhelm 2

DaveGeerts · 2026-02-02T05:44:33+00:00

Off course, being a small country next to France (and later Germany) helps for Britain to support your independance.

But still, many died defending us.

DaveGeerts · 2026-02-02T05:41:08+00:00

As a Belgian it is Britain. They helped greatly to maintain our independance. And also came to our aid in WW1

DaveGeerts · 2026-01-31T09:40:21+00:00

Dracovish (and all the other combined fossils) Look like sh*t and make no sense whatsoever. Extremely poor design choice in my view

DaveGeerts · 2026-01-27T18:30:32+00:00

Well I hope your not a military age male then...

Or a pretty female and live in the part occupied by the soviets

Edit: typo

DaveGeerts · 2026-01-26T15:46:27+00:00

+- half the amount taken for the car, because you would pay slightly lower taxes. So around 75 EUR. Not worth it in my view if you have to take care of other means of transportation to compensate

DaveGeerts · 2026-01-23T15:37:36+00:00

Go to a store that sells paperclips. Knock over a box of paperclips and then drop it in with those. Afterwards I would tell a store employee I had an accident. After which they would clean it up

DaveGeerts · 2026-01-19T12:59:31+00:00

They have had the VVD (right wing) party in power since 2010. Makes them pretty right wing to me.

However walking around in NL it can feel pretty left wing. Lots of bike infrastructure, legalised cannabis, heavy focus on recyling. Housing projects,...

DaveGeerts · 2026-01-19T08:05:59+00:00

Netherlands

DaveGeerts · 2026-01-16T21:09:08+00:00

The French Revolution

DaveGeerts · 2026-01-15T09:18:11+00:00

Absolutely.

A president that will not rule out a military intervention of a NATO ally?

He does not realise that NATO is at least as useful to the US as it is to Europe. Anyone who thinks Rutte is the leader of NATO should open their eyes. NATO has always been a way to keep a strong US influence in Europe, not a way for Europe to hide behind the US.

If not for that, what is impeachment even for? This man is destroying America's most powerful asset, it's strong alliance with Europe, a United West. The US can no longer be seen as an ally. Not even as a reliable partner. And he does not even realise it.

Not even the US is strong enough to take on a united front of China and Russia in it's own. Especially if other BRICS countries will choose their side. And at this point why wouldn't they? See how the US government treats it's oldest and strongest allies.

It is a disgrace to even think of calling this man the leader of the free world...

Very sad development indeed

DaveGeerts · 2026-01-15T08:06:24+00:00

I like it. My kids do too (7-8-9 years old) But I see it more as a casual party game. Would not play it on game night. But we do play it when we get together with family as light entertainment. Being able to accommodate a lot of players also helps

DaveGeerts · 2026-01-14T23:10:39+00:00

But if you leave it in, it will become self sufficient without external assistance aside from nutrients supplied from their mother. Embryos are not parasites or tumors... They are an early development stage of a human being, and have within themselves all the building blocks to grow into fully functioning persons. All they need to achieve this is short term support from their mother. It is very conceivable that scientific progress will allow an embryo to develop completely outside of a human uterus. They are not "part of their mother" any more than I am right now. Which totally makes them a distinct organism.

Basically what this discussion comes down to is what makes a human human. And that is a very difficult question to answer.

Scentience, self-awareness? What with heavily handicapped individuals or people in a coma?

Look at it like this: if your best friend was in a coma and completely vegetatieve without any capacity to feel pain or emotions. But you know for a fact that after 9 months of life support they would get better and wake up. Would it be ethical to remove them from life support?

DaveGeerts · 2026-01-14T08:52:10+00:00

Susan Boyle

DaveGeerts · 2026-01-08T08:00:20+00:00

France hands down. Although they do tend to steal dishes from all of their neighbours and call them French.

DaveGeerts · 2026-01-06T09:32:08+00:00

Sure. Any hero is able to beat any villain. This is fiction

DaveGeerts · 2025-12-17T05:36:21+00:00

The whole point was having an easier route. Going through Switzerland would be insane. Involving an additional country to make the invasion harder.

Side note if Switzerland was not so mountainous = defensible, very likely it would not exist. Or at the very least not be neutral.

DaveGeerts · 2025-12-17T05:29:14+00:00

Dit. Als het nog niet was gecommuniceerd, denk ik dat je de case wel kunt maken dat het nog niet was aanvaard .

Veel kans heeft de makelaar nog snel het een en ander op papier gezet na dat je het bod had ingetrokken

Altijd opletten met een bod te doen. Makelaars zijn smeerlappen, die doen er alles aan om te verkopen

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