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Teenagers today were born in the aftermath of a global financial crisis, are seeing war after war after war, grow up with the knowledge that the world is going to shit and the older generations aren't willing to do anything about it. They see everyone pull up the ladder behind them, the 'fuck you I got mine' mentality is everywhere.

Not just teenagers (Alpha generation), but also GenZ and part of Millennials. I'm personally a Zennial (microgeneration between both GenZ and Millennials) and I feel the same as described in your comment: things are going worse everyday, most of the older generations (Gen X and Boomers) seems deadpanned about climate change, wars, economic crisis, and I'd also add broken dreams (lots of plans were destroyed because of things such as COVID pandemics, for example). It's depressing to know that living will be worse and worse as the time passes.

What if the patient opting for euthanasia is a tetraplegic (therefore, a person that lost their ability to press buttons) whose condition emerged from an underlying disease/condition that has no cure for the foreseeable future and that's why they chose euthanasia instead of suffering? How such person is even supposed to "press the button"? In this hypothetical example, I'm considering that such person is capable of explicit consent through speech before several witnesses and some judge or their lawful representative, saying something like "I, John Doe, as an exertion of my human right imbued free will, I hereby authorize my euthanasia because such-and-such and whatsoever... being done by M.D. Luke Doe as an anesthesiologist professional authorized by me to do so".

I mean, the very purpose of the right of euthanasia is to consider this right especially for people who're painfully suffering from irreversible conditions, such as terminal diseases, conditions that bring such unbearable suffering for those who have them, although I'm more inclined to the thought that "Life should be a right to everyone, but shouldn't be an obligation nor a duty to anyone" independent of any underlying conditions. In any case (be it euthanasia only for terminal diseases or euthanasia for anyone who wants it), of course explicit consent is a must, be it verbal or handwritten, and I think that the long bureaucracy is enough for the patient to authorize any assisted euthanasia.

From my own experience as an ex-christian and now a "pagan" person (syncretic demonolater), I'd point many factors that converged to a general understanding of how demons aren't so evil as we thought before (and how angels and God himself aren't so good as we thought before), while also leading to the understanding and reevaluating of the concepts good and evil, light and darkness.

Starting by the technological progress that allowed us to connect in realtime. Social networks, online communities that gathered people once unbeknownst to each other. Online platforms that connected people from different backgrounds, sharing once unknown knowledge. Books once distant from our reaches are now easily accessible through online libraries. Knowledge was never been so easy to reach (albeit there are many people that prefer ignorance).

This leads us to another important factor: the silent rediscovery and rising of ancient beliefs. The cyberspace brought us knowledge about the Sumerian faith, Hellenism beliefs and many, many others. Everyone can now know in detail about ancient deities and concepts in just a few clicks. Entities and deities such as The Mother Goddess (once extensively worshipped by our ancestors) is being rediscovered. We can easily know a Wiccan nowadays, or a Luciferian, or a neo-hellenist, or a Gnostic, or syncretic people like me, thanks to the internet connection and community. There's also the gnosis (i.e. knowledge through spiritual channelling) becoming available as soon as we have the basic openness to all this great knowledge and wisdom.

These two factors lead to a last factor: the weakening of Christiancracy (the former theocratic West where State and Christianity were intertwined as one) and the strengthening of both secularism (atheists, yet to understand how metaphysical aspects converge with the modern scientific inquiry; as an example, the modern chemistry began from the ancient alchemy) and syncretic ancient beliefs (once "pagan" and "forbidden" knowledge and both sacred and/or profane ritualistic practices, now openly available to be learnt and to be known).

In this way, movies and cinema are just echoes of these phenomena, echoes of the human awakening, becoming part of the culture, extending how the knowledge can reach and teach the masses, even though movies and TV series always have some degree of poetic freedom so they don't always represent things as precisely/concisely as a book/grimoire/oral knowledge. Media knowledge is far from perfect, but their esoteric and occult references spark the curiosity on part of the audience, people that will begin to really know what it's all about. As a personal example, I got to know some esoteric concepts through Supernatural TV series (although it demanded my own research that led me to Luciferianism and then to Lilith).

In summary, I'd call it the Aquarian Era, the Kali Yuga, the Revelation, the new Aeon. Some would call it "evil", while humanity as a whole can now rediscover what "evilness" really is: it's not the demons. It's a part of the Cosmos, it's a part of the Nature, it's a part of ourselves, as above so below. Our spiritual awakening is important to lead us to understand our own shadows through the wisdom of ancient, ambivalent forces, and reintegrating ourselves in Oneness with them.

I sincerely do not know as I'm currently unemployed to try and imagine a 4-day work week. I mean, it would be a good thing, more time to dedicate for things you like the most (such as a hobby and/or family and/or pets and/or entertainment and/or spirituality/beliefs/religion and/or education/courses). But it'd only work if there's any job. With the ongoing situation with AI replacement, profit-eagerness culture of businesses, I don't really have optimistic views on the future of employment, with or without 4-day work week.

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Laws in the rich Alpine country permit assisted suicide so long as the person takes his or her life with no “external assistance”

So it's not "assisted". By "assisted", I understand a kind of euthanasia where, for example, an anesthesiologist administer a cocktail composed by both an IV sedative then a lethal injection of something that'll make heart to stop beating, obviously after a long bureaucracy needed to ensure patient's will and consent.

I'm a "pagan" demonolater, therefore, I do not worship the christian god neither Christ as a "savior" (I'm actually a Lilith's worshipper) but, it's needed to be mentioned that the existence of Christ as a Nazarethian man is well-proven even by the religion-free science and history. While I agree that it doesn't prove any of his "holiness" nor his affiliation to "God himself", he truly existed as a man. One doesn't need to worship Christ to know his historical existence as a human being.

For example, as from Wikipedia's article regarding Publius Cornelius Tacitus, a Roman historian:

The Annals is one of the earliest secular historical records to mention Jesus of Nazareth, which Tacitus does in connection with Nero's persecution of the Christians.

Also from the article regarding Yosef ben Mattityahu, a Jewish historian:

Josephus's works are the chief source next to the Bible for the history and antiquity of ancient Israel, and provide a significant and independent extra-biblical account of such figures as Pontius Pilate, Herod the Great, John the Baptist, James, brother of Jesus, and Jesus of Nazareth

It's worth mentioning that the latter is Jewish and Jewish beliefs do not worship Jesus (because the arrival of a "Mashiach" is a promise yet to be fulfilled by "HaShem", according to Orthodox Jewish tradition), so I bet his work is even more valuable in proving Christ as a man than the bible's new testament itself.

they trap damp (Florida is extremely humid, unlike Switzerland), grow mold, don't breathe, and cause sickness

Hi. Brazilian here. A very humid country where I live. Here, almost all houses are made of brick and concrete, even near the seashore. There are even entire concrete buildings near Brazilian beaches (such as Rio de Janeiro, Santos, Salvador, Recife, Porto Alegre, Florianópolis and so on) as well as near rivers (such as Manaus and even at the capital, Brasília). Indeed, mold is a thing, a thing that needs constant cleaning. Wall painting does a role in protecting from mold buildup.

We don't exactly have hurricanes (because it's scientifically a thing from the northern hemisphere) but we do have tornadoes and strong winds very often. We have hailstorms. However, there are very old houses and buildings still standing since 1800, centennial houses.

The problem here is not just Chrome (as in Google Chrome) but Chromium, the web engine behind many browsers out there (such as Opera, Vivaldi, Edge, among many many others). For now there are two main web engines available, those being Chromium and Gecko (Firefox, Palemoon and many other Firefox forks). The deprecation of Manifest v2 is a Chromium change that includes (and focuses on) Chrome.

While I can't see any usefulness for AI bias, I see a practical use for another AI common aspect, the AI hallucination: poetry (especially surrealist). The more random, the better for stochastic basis for making art and poetry. I'm used to write surrealist and stream-of-consciousness poetry and sometimes I use LLMs to suggest me tokens related to other tokens: the stochastic output feeds my own subconscious mind, then I write a piece based on the thoughts these tokens sparked inside my mind, then I use LLMs again to "comment and analyze" it, sometimes giving me valuable insights about what I wrote.

Just out of curiosity: why is nobody recommending Tox?

Somehow it reminded me of The Angel Problem:

The Angel-Devil game is played on an infinite chess board. In each turn the Angel jumps from his current position to a square at distance at most k. He tries to escape his opponent, the Devil, who blocks one square in each move. It is an open question whether an Angel of some power k can escape forever.

The mechanics are obviously different from it, but the theory kinda of still applies: if we limit the pieces to the maximum of K squares, could it lead to a checkmate?