I don’t judge but I do get annoyed…

Getting annoyed is a form of judgement.

… at US defaultism

Yes, U.S. defaultism is problematic.

Still, as long as companies, especially US-based ones like Google, are exporting their US-centric products & practices, people outside the US will be exposed to products & practices shaped by US law.

Because enforcement is rarely watertight, the above holds true even if the importing country’s laws forbid those products & practices.

Therefore, unless you wish to live in ignorance, it’s worth being aware of the laws that most strongly shape the technologies that in turn shape your society - even laws from jurisdictions outside your own.

Exactly how does it have implications in a country it’s not a law of?

Because it had, and continues to have, a significant bearing on the development of technologies that are used internationally, many of which shape the society you live in.

Not gonna dispute that.

However, someone like that not only probably wouldn’t want to submit residency evidence to Google, they probably wouldn’t have utility bills or land registry documents etc that could prove residency. Therefore, they’d be outside the scope of this post.

They might not know it.

But they would, if anyone with your name & address ever:

• Stored it on a Google server. (Maybe a business you once placed an order with uses GSuite?)
• Made a Google/GMail Contacts/Address-book entry with that info. (Maybe you invited a friend or colleague for dinner?)
• Made those details public (land registry, company officer registry, etc).
• Etc.

Fighter jets have had to be used multiple times this year, in multiple countries (Romania, Latvia, …) to intercept Russian flying bombs in NATO airspace.

NATO countries, including Canada, routinely intercept Russian military aircraft probing NATO defences.

Without interceptors, more Russian bombs would have exploded on NATO territory, and NATO defences likely wouldn’t have been merely probed…

Putin is far more aggressive than you seem to think. Look at the mortality from his pet war. A person with a conscience would call a halt immediately; instead, Putin escalates. Chauvinistic death-cult dictators like him deride humanitarian arguments. They’re only stoppable with weapons. I wish that weren’t so, but history has shown again and again that it is.

Do you really think Canada would have fewer domestic crises if Trump or Putin invaded? Or if Russia openly attacked NATO?

In a world with narcissistic psychopaths like those in charge of enormous armies, you either invest in defence or you get conquered.

For Canada to possess some F-35s would not do much.

Canada would also need to maintain them if conflict arises. Non-trivial, if the US is both the source of software updates and spare parts, and also the aggressor against which Canada needs to defend.

Re: Russia as the aggressor, F-35 is also a risk because POTUS and VP might side partly or wholly with Russia, e.g. refusing/limiting US arms to countries fighting Russia.

Gripen has none of those problems.

The clankers in the OP are from mainland China, so are ultimately under CCP control.

The CCP has indicated for decades it plans to invade Taiwan (CCP refers to this as “reunification”).

People should be concerned. Robots like these may be deployed against Taiwan in the next few years.

Hopes these white coats show up at the White House real soon.

Is the word “Donut” kryptonite to Flock?

Why wouldn’t you be concerned about VM or container escapes?

A decade and a half of recent Tory rule is the main (not the only, but the main) reason for this.

Their austerity program and educational cuts threw working class people, especially kids, into relative poverty and ignorance.

Their “hostile environment” policy entrenched xenophobia.

Their support for the far-right’s wet dreams of a Brexit referendum and a hard Brexit lent the chauvinists establishment support and a veneer of respectability.

Other reasons include constant boosting (and funding) of chauvinist social media accounts as part of Russia’s (and maybe China’s, etc) decade of hybrid warfare aimed at destabilising liberal democracies and eroding support for human rights.

Somewhat relevant: https://thebrainbin.org/m/linux@lemmy.ml/t/1858588

It would probably be a better use of time for those people to vote and lobby their legislatures for decent privacy protections in law.

Yet another example of why US citizens would benefit from GDPR-equivalent privacy laws.

Thanks for this!

I’m unfamiliar with Aquaseal. If I tried Aquaseal first without success, and it failed, what would be involved in prepping the surface afterwards for Tear-Aid or similar?

In other words, is the Aquaseal likely to interfere with subsequent membrane adhesion - and if so, how does one remove the Aquaseal from a NeoAir without worsening the existing damage.

I’ve used Tyvek for other applications, but never for repairing inflatable items. Intriguing suggestion. I’ll look into it further.

Where will you post updates?

“The iOS 26.6.1 update fixes three flaws in the iPhone Kernel and nearly 20 in WebKit.”

Feel free to message me or add a reply here after you try posting there, and I can check to see if the post is visible for me. Thanks!