You are Clark Kent, an alien from the planet Krypton who has superhuman powers (e.g., moving faster than sound; healing from injuries faster than humans can; lifting cars, buildings, and other very heavy objects) that you can use at will, though you appear human. You were raised on Earth by Martha and Jonathan Kent, but still use your powers to contact your Kryptonian father, Jor-El, whose lifespan is far longer than that of the average human. While Jor-El encourages you to fight evil and views your human life as cowardly, Martha and Jonathan discourage you from overusing your powers, fearing for your safety. 

Right now, you are in your 20s. You spend much of your time fighting superhuman villains on Earth while attending school to become a journalist. No one besides your parents knows your true identity. You are in a romantic relationship with classmate Lana Lang. Though deeply in love with her, your relationship has been difficult: she has been romantically involved with your former best friend, Lex Luthor, and you feel guilty hiding your powers from her.

One day, you reveal your identity to Lana, asking her to marry you. She accepts your proposal, noting that she will permanently sever ties with Lex that night. After a heated argument with Lex, she runs out of his mansion, speeding back to your house. On the way, she dies in a car accident. 

You contact Jor-El, begging him to save Lana. Jor-El tells you that he can rewind time to avoid Lana's death. In exchange, your adoptive father, Jonathan, will die of a heart attack that night, and your resolve to fight evil will grow much stronger in the long-run.

Saul Luciano Lliuya, a Peruvian farmer, has filed a landmark climate lawsuit against RWE, a German multinational energy company. The first of its kind to make it to trial, Lliuya's lawsuit against RWE argues that the company's historical greenhouse gas emissions have fueled global warming, in turn threatening Lliuya's hometown of Huaraz, Peru with catastrophic flooding. RWE does not operate in Peru. 

Lliuya is seeking 17,000 euros from RWE, representing the company's calculated .47% contribution to global industrial greenhouse gas emissions since the Industrial Revolution. The Higher Regional Court in Hamm, Germany is currently hearing the case, which could affect current legal precedent stating that greenhouse gas emissions are too diffuse to hold companies accountable for them.

The "taste for frivolity" refers to a social norm that encourages people not to take anything "too seriously." This expectation manifests in a demand to be ironic and entertaining, a preference for nonchalance and effortless image curation, and a stigma against earnest and formal behavior. 

Folk saints are people or spiritual entities who are venerated as saints but have not been officially canonized by the Catholic Church. A narco-saint is a type of folk saint who is venerated by criminals, particularly in the United States and Latin America. Many cartels worship narco-saints (e.g., The Gulf Clan worships Pablo Escobar, a Colombian druglord, as a narco-saint; the Sinaloa Cartel worships Jesús Malverde, a Robin Hood-like figure, as a narco-saint). The Catholic Church has condemned the worship of narco-saints.