I would figure out your environment variables first. It's likely based on what you're saying that your setting those variables only for interactive shell and not someplace where they are sourced by your WM or whatever is launching your WM.
Check out this section of the ArchWiki article. The rest of the article may also have some useful info.
Oh good, now I just need to acquire a suis vide :)
I do generally mix the cold brew half and half with filtered water. I do have to say, I love sparkling water of all kinds, but I tried this with sparkling water and was not a fan, haha.
Exactly right. In the end, we can only control the content hosted/available on our servers. Whether we do that via outright blocking entire servers or individually blocking bad actors or patterns of behavior is up to us.
Related: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3O5cGUs2OM4