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   Futurist Jim Carroll (jimcarroll@futurist.info)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Apr-2023 02:04:47 JST Futurist Jim Carroll

   It's a German kind of day.

   **Schadenfreude** (/ˈʃɑːdənfrɔɪdə/; German: [ˈʃaːdn̩ˌfʁɔʏ̯də] (::listen); lit. 'harm-joy') is the experience of pleasure, joy, or self-satisfaction that comes from learning of or witnessing the troubles, failures, or humiliation of another. It is a borrowed word from German, with no direct translation, that originated in the 18th century.
   Schadenfreude has been detected in children as young as 24 months and may be an important social emotion establishing "inequity aversion".[1]

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     Futurist Jim Carroll (jimcarroll@futurist.info)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Apr-2023 02:44:05 JST Futurist Jim Carroll

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     • Kinene

     @c_merriweather My wife is first generation German-Canadian.

     So when her parents were alive, **Kaffee und Kuchen **was alwys the afternoon thing. (-;

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     Kinene (c_merriweather@social.linux.pizza)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Apr-2023 02:44:06 JST Kinene

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     @jimcarroll I love German compound nouns. (Deg. Minor in German)

     And I need to write the lyrics to "The Schadenfreude Polka" some day. (Tune: Lichtensteiner Polka)

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     Futurist Jim Carroll (jimcarroll@futurist.info)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Apr-2023 03:16:26 JST Futurist Jim Carroll

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     • Kinene

     @c_merriweather Well, with that in mind... it took two tries.

     chatGPT:

     There's a word that we know quite well
     It's Schadenfreude, hear me tell
     It means to take joy in another's pain
     But that's not what we strive to gain

     Chorus:
     So let's dance the Schadenfreude Polka
     To the tune of the Lichtensteiner Polka
     When hate speech is confronted with action
     We'll feel relieved and gain some satisfaction

     Verse 2:
     The German government is suing
     Twitter for hate speech still brewing
     We hope to see the trolls held accountable
     And the harmful speech rendered unmountable

     Chorus:
     So let's dance the Schadenfreude Polka
     To the tune of the Lichtensteiner Polka
     When hate speech is confronted with action
     We'll feel relieved and gain some satisfaction
     V
     erse 3:
     Some say it's not right to revel
     In the misfortune of the devil
     We'd rather see peace and understanding prevail
     And the hurtful speech made to fail

     Chorus:
     So let's dance the Schadenfreude Polka
     To the tune of the Lichtensteiner Polka
     When hate speech is confronted with action
     We'll feel relieved and gain some satisfaction

     Verse 4:
     Let's hope that hate speech will soon cease
     And we can all live in peace
     Until then we'll dance this polka
     And support the efforts to end the drama