It's starting to look as though this vote of confidence for bitcoin was the kiss of death, although the rot really set in around 3 months later.

Thanks, that article left a lot out.
Britain runs from approximately 50 degrees N to 59 degrees N with most of the population at the Southern end of that.
In N American terms, that is Winnipeg / Medicine Hat / Kelowna to Skagway / Uranium City / the southernmost tip of Greenland (yeah, but there's F-all else up there, and for a reason).

Only a couple of weeks ago I was reading about how the collapse of the Gulf Stream due to climate change is going to turn Britain into a frozen wasteland.

Either you misunderstood what they wrote or the writer - deliberately or not - misrepresented the process.
The Gulf Stream is a wind system starts some place around Florida, then heads NW across the Atlantic towards Britain and nearby countries, then onwards to Scandinavia before circling westwards and then S along the E coast of Canada and the US.
The air stream which arrives in Britain has been warmed up (winter) or cooled down (summer) on its way across the Atlantic, it has also accumulated a lot of moisture on the journey. This is where Britain's reputation for wet weather originates, although that applies more in western areas (Ireland, Wales, W England and W Scotland) than on the E side of England and Scotland. The high pressure systems affecting Britain and Western Europe are leading to more extreme weather with less precipitation. There is a high pressure system affecting the weather in the region right now and it has funnelled hot, humid air from N Africa to the region. Hot and dry, apart from the occasional thunderstorm. This is supposed to peak this coming weekend and drop away at the start of next week - it should be a lot cooler with some much needed rain.

I saw a fake advert in Germany in May 2021, posted in the name of satire.

Alle 17 Minuten ruft ein Polizist Daten von Helene Fischer ab"
Polizeiship

The advert looked like one for "Parship" which is an online dating service.
The text translates to "A policeman/woman looks up Helene Fischer's data every 17 minutes" (she is a singer) and the small print went into more detail of abusive searches by the police (of just one state) in their online database. A lawyer was getting threatening letters from self-proclaimed neo-nazis at her private address, which is not publicly available. Death threats to her and her daughter. It turned out that the data was from that police database and that the policewoman who retrieved the data held political views which tended in that direction.
To the best of my knowledge, the man who sent the threats is in jail. I don't know what happened to the policewoman, but some of her group were suspended from duty and one of them reacted by driving his car into a tree at high speed.

Flook delivers current data (if they identify people correctly) but the problem is wider than that.

At least apps are usually required to add a note to the fine print, what the app will do in the background.

Does that have to be in English? Is Chinese permissible?

Those on the Forbes list who were remotely interested in visiting the Titanic will have had people to assess the risk and they will have said "don't do it" (unless they stood to inherit).

But this is rationalizing, dude. This is you realizing that you've voted for blatant corruption and the destruction of democracy in the US, and then trying to pretend that the other side is just as bad.

But the simple truth is the other side is not even close to being just as bad.

But, but, Fox News said they were, and that it was all down to:
- Crooked Hilary (is that what he called her?)
- Obama Hussein
- Sleepy Joe
- Hunter Biden, think of the laptop.

Isn't it funny how the Republican Party always gets very concerned about spending and the reach of government when the Republican Party doesn't control government; but just as soon as they do have control they start spending like crypto bros and use government to interfere in literally everything that doesn't fit their questionable narratives?

I can think of a few recent Republican presidents where that did not apply, but The Donald is the ultimate RINO - he was affiliated with the Democrats a few years back but they showed no interest in making him president. The problem is that his hostile takeover of the party was supported by those who should have known better, only a few - Liz Cheney for one - demonstrated any sense of responsibility.

Romansch gets spoken in the valley west of Chur, essentially between Chur and Disentis. It may also be spoken in the valley S of Tamins but I've never been there so I don't know.
Speaking to a local in a small town (maybe Saas Fee) around 20 years ago, he said that the language spoken there had changed in his lifetime - it was German by then and I can't remember what it had been previously.

Are you sure?
I thought the ESR version was a Firefox version from the recent past with security updates released at the same time as the mainline Firefox gets updates. My version is 140.9.0 ESR but it may be a bit out of date, my Linux distribution has stopped providing updates for my release level and their new level pretty much bricked my test system when I tested it there.

He said Facebook, 54 minutes before your post.
That would explain why I've never seen that problem on my Android phone, one of the first things I did when configuring was a "Force Stop" on Facebook (it won't let me uninstall it).

When you consider Switzerland is 15% non-white, it's very likely that a majority of white Swiss probably voted against it.

I believe non-Swiss-nationals do not have the right to vote there.

I live in one and spend a lot of time in the other one.
Utter clueless garbage, it seems you have never been to either one or you'd know that.

German-speaking Swiss, French-speaking Swiss, Italian-speaking Swiss. I have no idea how homogenous (aka "inbred") the country's citizens are.
I was speaking to one of the first category around 15 years ago and he said that on his travels within the country, he'd been somewhere where he did not recognise the language and he asked them - presumably in German - what they were speaking. It turned out that they were speaking the (very) local dialect of Swiss German.
3-4 years ago I was in a Ski resort and went into a local restaurant at lunchtime, ordering in the local language which is German. I was asked if I spoke English - 'cos they didn't speak German. Presumably that's the kind of thing the SVP moan about.

This has nothing at all to do with Moslems.
I'm not sure when things changed, but up until around 20 years ago it was quite difficult to move to Switzerland - you had to have some job skills that Swiss nationals didn't have, at least in sufficient quantity. Then they made an agreement with the EU which granted them access to the EU market (and vice versa) with free movement of population in both directions, I knew several people - mostly in Finance - who then moved to Zürich, Brits, Germans and French. There were presumably some Italians who also headed over.
The SVP is a classic xenophobic party and they've essentially been shouting "too many Germans, and other foreigners".