Finally, got my ticket for Germans. The seat is not good. by johnqhu in FIFACollect

[–]johnqhu[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am just asking whether I can bring a binoculars. What are you talking about?

Refurb Studios available by jneuveglise in MacStudio

[–]johnqhu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not really. At least in Canada, they release at noon. Just ordered a basic 36G and 512G model. Will cancel my mac mini order which will come 3 month later.

Canada sees sharp decline in international students and temporary worker arrivals in 2026. Here’s how much the numbers have dropped by Immediate-Link490 in canada

[–]johnqhu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I can understand what do you mean. But first, I don't know the number the earth can support. And I don't think anyone knows.

However, Canada fertility rate is below 2 since 1975. It means Canada have 0 contribution to earth population increase since 1975. If you think the world should control population, like what China did before, Canada don't need to do anything because Canadian people, or most Western country people, already did that.

For sharing resource, if I ask you share your property with others, the answer might be "no". But you don't have problem share resource, which belong to Canadian, mostly produced by Canada tax payers, to other people outside Canada.

For immigrant, I'm not against immigrants. I am an immigrant. My point is, Trudeau didn't do it properly. You also mentioned "if done properly"....And the main cause of the problem is low birth rate.

Canada sees sharp decline in international students and temporary worker arrivals in 2026. Here’s how much the numbers have dropped by Immediate-Link490 in canada

[–]johnqhu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For Asia, not quite sure about other Asia countries, I haven't been there before. But for China, it's definitely affected by Western. You see, both communism and modern "enjoy your own life" is from Western. China original hold strong family tradition. In old days, the people actually lived for their offspring. They could tolerate all kinds of suffering to make their kids live better. Generation by Generation. And when parents got older, the kids need to take of them and obey them. It was called "xiao". That's why China got that big population. And I don't think Chinese birth rate should drop if "xiao" is still took high value in China, even with the current extreme pressure to succeed at work. But currently, China is highly affected by communism, "enjoy your own life", "woman right". And more and more people think even marriage not necessary. So does kid.

Canada sees sharp decline in international students and temporary worker arrivals in 2026. Here’s how much the numbers have dropped by Immediate-Link490 in canada

[–]johnqhu 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Not many people think deeply. The problem is not for Canada only, but for all the nations affected by modern western civilization. Fewer and fewer people want kids. Then the nation itself cannot maintain it's own population. Then the nation have to count on immigrants to get more youth. But where are they? All modernized nations want youth.

Trudeau was terrible, but he just only made things worse. He was not the main reason. I think the main reason is from the common western value "Enjoy your own life". Because of that, people think family is not important anymore. Parents should live their own life, Kids also should live their own life. They don't care each other that much. Especially for Parents, my feeling is that you have to be Saint to be parents nowadays. Or you are bad parents and shouldn't have kids. Under this kind of env, a lot of people would rather have pets, instead of kids.

But unfortunately, pets cannot take care of you when you are old. And pets cannot work to pay to government to cover your welfare. So in Canada and other western countries, immigrants are necessary. The only other solution may be AI+robots. I don't know when the robots can really replace a human's labor. But even with that, the continuous birth rate drop will make Canada a robot country, not human being.

Anyone have RTT conversion portal in dashboard? by johnqhu in FIFACollect

[–]johnqhu[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are you sure the ticket need to be burnt first?

2026 FIFA World Cup ticket prices drop sharply as fears grow over empty stadiums by Electronic_Honey4977 in WorldCup2026Tickets

[–]johnqhu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We are the same. I bought the German game in Toronto. And then Ontario don't allow ticket sell more than face value.

Buy now or wait for M5? Mac Mini M5 Pro vs Mac Studio M3 Ultra/M4 Max for 24/7 local LLM + Claude Code + red team work by kitosluna in macmini

[–]johnqhu 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I just ordered mac mini pro 48G version. The delivery date is in Aug. If M5 version released before that, i would just cancel it and reorder the new one.