McDonald’s also employs a lot of people in Europe and uses local ingredients to prepare their food. But we still avoid it.

They’ve been drafting this amount of conscripts twice a year for the last several decades: nothing unusual here, not related to the war - would’ve happened anyway

They draft this amount of conscripts twice a year for the last several decades - nothing unusual here and absolutely not related to the war.

In 2011 the draft was for 218000: http://www.kremlin.ru/acts/bank/32869/

Do we currently have any card-based European payment solutions?

Yes: Russia, a European country, has their own system

Nah, time tracking is often needed for tax purposes: companies can write off R&D expenses

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I don’t see Belarusian as well

“Russian” is a language, not a country

Yes, do that! And note that on a number of email service providers you can add both domains to the same mailbox.

Just don’t use a domain name containing your surname - register a different one.

how to deal with whois lookup privacy?

Any decent domain registrar provides WHOIS privacy for free (just note that that might not be available for .eu domain names). Additionally you can always use fake data on your account, but in this case you might lose your domain if they decide to check it.

other issues I may run into if I chose my own domain

When registering a domain, always look at the renewal price: often the first year costs relatively low, but after that there’s a steep price increase.

As for an email hosting service, in addition to the ones you specified in your post, I suggest you to look at migadu.com.

Yes! Another big deal in Japan is (yes, still is) translation devices. While some people there move over to Google Translate, many old-fashioned ones still rock those gadgets that look like voice recorders but with a screen, and translate your dialogue. Japan, as a country in general, is known for not so good English skills among the population: as I understand many people don’t really see a need to learn that language. Especially given that those devices to deal with foreigners are available.

There are many gadgets (including specialized ones) in Japan that have been produced for the domestic market only.

Fight Club, The Matrix, The Terminator and Star Wars

Yes, and you can find perfect exact copies of all versions of these movies if you look in the right places

They do give you an option to customize OS components. But this feature isn’t targeted to home users but to enterprises and OEM manufacturera

This isn’t a Windows issue - this is an Office issue

Ah, I used the regular Boost (not patched - moderators could do that). So it seems they just began blocking particular user-agents

Well, Reddit just killed their API for non-paying 3rd party clients completely (up to this day moderators still could use it), so that might have some effect