It is still an option. No more deaths, no more wasting resources building stuff that gets destroyed again. Russia can have peace anytime they want.

If Russia withdraw out of Ukraine, and stop attacking, the war will end immediately. Russia have always had the option of stopping the war, they just choose not to.

UDP is based on IP, just like TCP.

This is just block device over network, it will not allow the use cases OP is asking for. You will still need a filesystem and a file-serving service on top of that.

What makes me really curious is, is it really the skin-tone that is the significant variable, or is it a very closely related confounding variable?

It seems so very weird to me that the tone of your skin can have such a significant impact.

Foreigners here often say that they face a hard time learning Danish, because as soon as the Danes pick up that they are not fluent, they switch to speaking English.

Once upon a time Google used few and non-intrusive ads. The ads were soo well-placed and relevant, that they almost seemed like a service to the user, rather than being forced upon you. Some of us even added exceptions for Google ads in our ad blockers, so we would not miss out.

I miss those days.

Why are their mouths a hole in the side of their cheeks? It looks disturbing.

This is true. But just going from fossil to electrical vehicles will improve the air quality enormously and lower the noise a lot. It is a big improvement for city life.

Yes, the reason being they are human.