In Formula 1 (but also in all of motorsport) different tyre colours represent different rubber compounds.

The green (wet) tyres are for rain/water on most of the track. The white (hard) tyres generally resist more laps but have lower performance compared to softs

Having the right tyres is extremely important in races where endurance is the focus (that all of F1 is)

The mugs are merging the tyres and the jokes.

I don't think being a basic working human of certain nationality makes you a war contributor or anything else.

To be fair I am stuck on these on my knowledge

And yeah, they never use past intermediate, at least never seen them. So they pretty much are the wet tyres.

The earlier NT releases, like NT 3.1, NT4 and 2000, are somehow extremely nice to run on extremely weak hardware. With this, I mean like running x86 Qemu on an ARM device without accelleration. I couldn't believe how NT4 was running via Qemu on a ASUS Zenfone 3 Laser, unlike Windows 95 and 98 that were much more sluggish