I got some (bad?) news for you: Most Americans are either in complete denial over this or genuinely don't care. They don't think the wealth and lifestyles they enjoy have anything to do with the US' status as a global hegemon. Some even think the relationship is inverted, believing that as the world de-Americanizes, Americans will somehow benefit from this.

Another American here, I find these self loathing kind of posts to be so sophomoric and embarrassing

That's my point, right?

We've had such a closely integrated economy and it's been a win-win for a very long time. Whether it's resources like lumber or manufacturing like Ontario/Michigan, or massive amounts of fuel refinement, we're so closely interconnected that we've needed that ease of cross-border travel for work. A consequence is that our industry hasn't evolved as much as it could have. We're sitting on an enormous amount of natural resources and technical competence that we've been feeding in to American companies forever, because we were reaping sufficient profits.

What the current regime could absolutely do is force us further from that local maxima by throwing a tantrum over TN1 visas.

I work with a lot of Americans so I know they understand deeply: changing careers out of principle is a rare luxury very few can act on. Especially when you depend on your employer for healthcare (though we don't suffer that mistake as much). I wouldn't expect people to voluntarily quit their jobs the same way they are voluntarily stopping U.S. recreational travel in record numbers [1].

[1] https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/cross-border-travel-down-dr...

Are you kinda alluding that if it was so bad in the US, people wouldn’t be asking for TN1 visas to go work there?

Unfortunately it wasn't my project so I can't speak to it with detail or authority. I was just observing.

It was things like: Where do log statements go? Via what path? Are we sure none of those routers are in the US? Can we spin up new instances of EVERYTHING in a `-ca` region? Can we force traffic for this shop to only use those instances? What about vendors? Can we disable US-only vendors of whatever? What about backups? What things are centralized (which were good to identify)? Can we region those too? Can we disable/bypass them?

And do that for every bit and packet for a very complex system. I think that it launched with a considerable number of features just disabled. Privacy trumped everything.

So is Wero going to give everyone in the world a say over its regulations or will it be a busted, provincial, EU-only concern?

Or maybe they'll have it in the great independent territory of Greenland as well.

> We do not have a say over a nuclear-armed idiocracy forcing it's profound corruption and stupidity on other sovereign entities.

That’s funny because it perfectly defines the relationship between the EU and the countries in it.