Yeah, it's kinda like how you can go years without hearing any stories about someone winning a medal at the Olympics then suddenly the news is full of stories about people winning Olympic medals. Clearly it's a conspiracy.
I've used Hostpro in the past. The VPS I used was hosted in the Netherlands but they're a Ukrainian company IIRC and they have Kyiv as an option. I recall them being fine, nothing special, and fairly cheap.
This guy reminds me of an asshole I used to work for. The company was called ABC, say, so he set everyone up with ABC-Alice@gmail.com, ABC-Bob@gmail.com, and so on. He got really, really pissed off when ABC-NewStarter wasn't available to the extent that he wrote non-stop emails to the person who registered it, Google, his solicitor, even the police demanding it be relinquished and moaned non-stop that the world wasn't bending to his whim.
I'm not supporting Google - it's annoying that they're revoking a feature - but this is a real XKCD 1150 situation.
I'm from the North of England and we say "aye! t'was onna night most un'nartual, when good folk did pull down the shutters and bring their children reet close and 'uddle themselves away, for they couldn't rightly say if they wus hearing the howling of t'wind, the shrieking orra newborn, or the wailin of the beast, in this very valley [x] years/moons ago" and I think that's beautiful.
Another song by The Killers has the line "I've got soul but I'm not a soldier" repeated over and over again with increasing intensity. It's hard to imagine a less meaningful lyric without actually resorting to nonsensicalness.
Headphones. I have my commuting headphones, walking headphones, working headphones, video game headphones, music headphones... I also have two pairs of earphones.
I could get down to two pairs of headphones and one pair of earphones.
The author of the article seems to be jumping through hoops to make Apple sound good and avoid mentioning the crux of the problem: users have to be informed of what tracking they're agreeing to - or denying - and once someone gives/refuses consent you're not allowed to keep badgering them about it, but because Apple's prompt is so fucking vague and generic it fails at the 'informed' point, so the app has to ask again. Apple's prompt isn't about empowering users or respecting GDPR: it's just an interruption that tried to manipulate users into thinking that Apple is on their side.
See also: Dubai chocolate, affogato, "two best buds running a burger shack" tall burgers... all were amazing, until they became a marketable meme, as you said. And now they're shit.
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When I was, I guess, about ten I saw some demented old fart drive straight into a level railway crossing. The barriers were down, the lights were flashing, the sirens were wailing. I know this, because I'd just had to walk over the footbridge to avoid the crossing. His car got caught and couldn't move. A passer-by literally had to drag him out of his car and he was livid - fucking incandescent - that the whole world was conspiring against him like this. I was the one who called 999 from an adjacent payphone and the train was stopped before it could make the situation worse. I left before the emergency services arrived but I seriously hope he was on the receiving end of some of that police brutality I hear so much about.
Actually, while I'm here - and at no additional cost to you - here's a similar story I posted in another thread where the question was about assholes on public transit:
I bumped into a friend who is cop in the British Transport Police at a station while he was working. While I was there somehow a happy-drunk guy fell between a train and the platform and got stuck. That's not the crazy part.
The crazy part is the four separate people who all ended up getting arrested because they attacked my friend and the other responders trying to free the stuck man - physically kicking and trying to drag them away - because he/they wouldn't order the train to leave the station and it was making them late. Four separate people, all apparently sober, all absolute psychopaths who would happily see someone mangled by a train so they wouldn't be inconvenienced, and so utterly convinced of their righteousness that they were prepared to physically attack police officers and paramedics.
I was later told this is pretty normal when there's a "one under": aside from the person who fell getting injured or dying, the biggest immediate problem is a handful of narcissistic cunts who interpret the whole thing as some kind of personal insult. It really shook me that anyone could be like that.
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Yeah, that's not a straw, though. It's like a redwood. A forest of redwoods.