Trump Administration Fires Prosecutors Who Aided Jack Smith Investigations: Live Updates
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This is a gutting of the scientific research establishment which has created much of American prosperity since World War II, when the US used the promise of survival and stable funding to lure academics from Germany.

  • @nieminen
    2•2 days ago

    I keep hearing that word in the three body problem novels I’m listening to. Thanks for spelling it out so I can look it up 🤣

    • @BytemeisterEnglish
      2•1 day ago

      It’s German. Means “Dark Humor”.

      • @[email protected]
        3•1 day ago

        It is German, but it does not mean “Dark Humor”:

        https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schadenfreude

        Schadenfreude (/ˈʃɑːdənfrɔɪdə/; German: [ˈʃaːdn̩ˌfʁɔʏ̯də]; literal translation “harm-joy”) is the experience of pleasure, joy, or self-satisfaction that comes from learning of or witnessing the troubles, failures, pain, suffering, or humiliation of another.