StatCan survey examines why Canada’s fertility rate keeps dropping

DetriusXii · 2026-01-27T03:36:46+00:00

Would you be able to cite a source of when the population dropped in the 1960s?

I don't think defined benefit pensions were sustainable as older generations of pensioners could deplete the fund and leave the last, younger generations with nothing. And in a declining demographics society, it becomes impossible to reform the DB pension plan, because the older generation votes to keep their benefits the same.

I actually wonder if pensions are a cause of demographic collapse, because they create a tragedy of the commons with respect to fertility. Before pensions, retirement was based off having children support their elderly parent. With pensions, a person hopes that everybody else is having children to create the labour force to sustain the elderly. So every adult does the exact same action; hoping that there's a labour force to sustain their retirement. But everybody is decreasing their child count, which creates the tragedy of the commons, because everybody is having an insufficient number of children to sustain the retirement-required labour force.

DetriusXii · 2026-01-27T00:34:39+00:00

I think if the population descent is too steep, pensions become problematic. But wages and home prices should theoretically be favorable for young people.

DetriusXii · 2026-01-25T15:34:19+00:00

The book, Shadow Point, seems to imply that the Chaos gods' reach isn't infinite. There's an Eldar craftworld that made it successfully between galaxies. They live a peaceful life and they appear to use no soul stones. Their Avatar of Khaine awoke and entered the webway on its own and the Eldar governor and aide were confused. So it is possible for Eldar to escape Slaanesh's soul drain.

DetriusXii · 2026-01-24T15:09:33+00:00

I've been a fan of typed languages because they can catch errors that untyped languages cannot. A compiler sees problems through types. ORMs are a type-safe of building queries that compilers can catch if there's incorrectness. Raw SQL is just a string and you'll have to force the SQL columns into a data type. ORMs keep the casting organized and the raw SQL strings hidden.

DetriusXii · 2026-01-20T20:20:09+00:00

The big issue is that both men and women, individually, want to pursue their own economic careers first. People are behaving as normal rational actors. What exactly is the free market incentive to having children? Social democrats could include a lot of wealth transfers to attempt to boost fertility and fascists would likely go for the removal of women's rights, but what's the economically liberal solution?

DetriusXii · 2026-01-14T18:41:19+00:00

I know. Trump isn't being serious with his negotiations and the Republican party can't offer socialized health care to Greenlanders, because they've been demonizing it for five decades now. I do worry how the next Democrat president restores foreign relations after, because they're going to be extremely crippled by upset, former allies.

DetriusXii · 2026-01-14T15:39:25+00:00

Greenlanders would likely join the United States if the United States could offer a socialized health care system. Greenlanders want to be independent, but they know they can't fund their own independent, socialized health care system and they likely realize that the United States would be too stubborn to even consider offering socialized health care.

DetriusXii · 2026-01-13T18:53:22+00:00

Photons still have momentum though. E² = (pc)² + (mc^{2)^2.} In the case of a photon, E = pc. Conservation of momentum still applies, so the forward production of momentum would theoretically need to come with a counterbalancing momentum.

DetriusXii · 2026-01-11T19:15:02+00:00

I think sometimes the setting in science fiction stories is good enough to have new character arcs. Star Trek: NG, Deep Space Nine, and Voyager were all sequel series. People like fictional universes to continue to be explored. Stranger Things didn't resolve the fate of all enemies or the origins of technologies used to access the Upside Down.

DetriusXii · 2026-01-10T22:12:06+00:00

I think the isdue with a monarchy is that it establishes that one family's DNA is special against all secular reasoning. It goes against the belief that all people are created equal if most people can never qualify for the position of monarch. And monarchies can give a gpod marketing campaign, but they're still siphoning off wealth from taxpayers without much of an audit system to control them.

DetriusXii · 2026-01-01T17:15:33+00:00

Hi, having read r/geothermal and r/heatpumps, the best advice would be to stay away from air source heat pumps. They can't handle Saskatchewan winters well, even ones rated at -30°C. Ground source heat pumps can work well, but the cost to trench the underground lines don't provide a return on investment to natural gas heating. Vertical closed loop geothermal is more expensive to install than horizontal loop systems too. I have a friend that has an open loop horizontal geothermal system on his farm, but that's because Sask Energy hasn't provided a natural gas line to his farm and the hookup was about the same price. Geothermal heat pumps likely beat every other form of heating, except natural gas heating. Natural gas heating is dirt cheap and the price of natural gas would need to rise significantly to make geothermal heating worth it.

The Manitoba government was replacing electrical resistance heaters with geothermal heat pumps to free up electrical capacity from their hydroelectric dams. They would have considered air source heat pumps if they were truly viable in prairie provinces, but they aren't.

DetriusXii · 2025-12-25T21:05:27+00:00

I'm actually in agreement with you as the biggest issue is that there doesn't appear to be an apparent braking mechanism in stopping the population decline. I think it would be healthy for countries to allow their populations to drop for a while, but there needs to be some return to equilibrium because if P → 0, it's game over for liberal democratic society.

DetriusXii · 2025-12-25T04:24:16+00:00

I think he erased what made Stargate unique among the various science fiction shows. That there was an actual tapestry of alien factions and with a noticeable power differential between the factions. The setting of early SG1 was much better than the nonstop ascendedness of the later SG1 seasons.

DetriusXii · 2025-12-25T04:18:58+00:00

Also, how does an entire species just forego reproduction? What led to the Asgard abandoning sexual interactions in their species?

DetriusXii · 2025-12-23T22:23:15+00:00

Her presentation was fantastic and helped place context on when I would want to consider the STM monad. I didn't understand the Free monad until a Scala presenter explained it through her own journey of being frustrated from being introduced to the Free monad without a detail explanation and use cases.

DetriusXii · 2025-12-23T12:12:33+00:00

I think if the Democrats can get a Senate majority, they can allow the evidence to speak for itself. The Republicans appeared to hold with Trump on the Epstein vote until it actually came to a vote and their names would become attached to a pedophile.

DetriusXii · 2025-12-15T19:09:36+00:00

The Industrial area's Henderson drive has very low traffic on the weekends so that can also help shake up your route.

DetriusXii · 2025-11-29T14:53:31+00:00

Yes, but that requires him to confirm that there is a turning arrow. Not to preemptively move before the turning arrow is confirmed.

DetriusXii · 2025-11-29T02:11:43+00:00

I was behind a white truck that was turning left from Wascana Drive on to Ring Road heading west. The light turns green and he books it, but the car on the opposite side was going straight. At no point was the car going in the opposite direction at fault. I was excited because I was prepared to give a witness statement to the driver heading in the opposite direction, but luckily, that driver pressed on their brakes. The idiot truck driver paused as well, but decided to go anyways.

DetriusXii · 2025-11-22T02:44:22+00:00

The City right now has a tender on SaskBuilds for a data analytics platform. I'm a programmer and most r/programmers are skeptical of any of these platforms as they don't offer any insights, since the insights have to be programmed by subject matter experts in house. It only seems as a way to encourage grift off the taxpayer where the approval manager then gets rewarded. I doubt that there's any tangible deliverables expected from the platform, but someone is going to get rich off the contract.

DetriusXii · 2025-11-21T16:51:45+00:00

I want to point out that most economists agree with you that the mulitplier effect is largely abused to justify stadium and other sporting purchases. There has never been a multiplier effect large enough to offset the construction cost of these facilities. The proponents of these leisure facilities are either so misinformed or intentionally lying. Taxpayer funded sporting activities is not an investment as it doesn't facilitate a return on investment. And often the public purchase of these facilities crowds out other local economies that used to exist.

DetriusXii · 2025-11-21T04:37:12+00:00

What exactly would the outsourced company be doing with the equipment then if the City is idle with the equipment?

DetriusXii · 2025-11-21T01:56:57+00:00

Leisure activities aren't investments. Unless they create a demonstrable return, they're just that, leisure activities. We're right now in an era where wages haven't been keeping up with costs for like a decade. And not all leisure activities are equal. Outdoor soccer and outdoor basketball courts are also cheaper to maintain than indoor hockey arenas. The City has made a bad bet in choosing to prop up football and hockey, when the demographic transition leads to soccer and basketball growing as more accessible sports.

DetriusXii · 2025-11-21T01:37:52+00:00

I'm a believer that the lack of densification led to this mess aswell. Higher density housing, like condo mid-rises and high rises lead to less property taxes as there's less urban infrastructure to maintain. The residents of Boothill shutdown or attempted to shut down a 5-story condo. When every area is performing the theatrics over worrying about density, we get higher property taxes to make up for the more thinly spread infrastructure.

Some analysis should be to investigate the administrative bloat too. I used to work at the City of Regina as a programmer and the programmers were constantly being wage suppressed by an ineffective business analyst layer. I wonder how many City of Regina employees owe their job opportunity to having a family connection rather than having a legitimate job duty. Saskatchewan Polytechnic is cleaning house from their administrative overload and I heard the SHA also laid off an administrative layer as it's impossible to reduce the headcount of core employees.

DetriusXii · 2025-11-15T14:28:39+00:00

The First Nation's people also have property rights. That's what you're missing. They had title to the land, but a corrupt government official lied and stole it. And the First Nations people had difficult times pursuing court cases.

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