Oh You will have trouble getting your outbound mail delivered

Sooo… where will be your email server then? On your home computer?

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/

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

Easy: iDEAL (which is a shitty system, but still…)

Sometimes you can

And Visa too

"…Google isn’t changing the speed at which these new builds arrive. Rather, this will potentially streamline the process and prevent conflicts when merging the branches.

This does not mean that Google is making Android a closed-source platform, but rather that the open-source aspect will only be released when a new branch is released to AOSP with those changes, including when new full versions or maintenance releases are finished."

LinkedIn says that while most of their personnel are of Russian origin, they are mostly based in Cyprus too. Less than 10% works from Russia as far as I can tell

There IS a European (as in designed in geographical Europe) CPU that’s binary compatible with x86 and even can run Windows: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elbrus-8S

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.

That’s literally my experience every time I drive in the Netherlands: so many lanes!

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