# How close can we get to the schadenfreude singularity?

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**Created:** [January 31, 2025, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-close-can-we-get-to-the-schadenfreude-singularity/1013698 "2025-01-31T23:40:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![dougrb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/76d3ee/32.png) [@dougrb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougrb)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2025, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-close-can-we-get-to-the-schadenfreude-singularity/1013698/1 "2025-01-31T23:40:44Z")

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Ie. Minimum time the board could get 10K posts?

> [@A Perfectly Reasonable Amount of Schadenfreude about Things Happening to Trump & His Enablers (Part 3)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/12):
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> Just a fun fact… Part 1 lasted 916 days Part 2 lasted 613 Extrapolating, Part 3 should last 310 (11/26/25). Extrapolating some more, Part 4 will only last 3 days after that. That’s the point when the 10K post limit is hit in zero time. The Schadenfreude singularity.

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**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\
**Post date:** [February 2, 2025, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-close-can-we-get-to-the-schadenfreude-singularity/1013698/2 "2025-02-02T15:55:28Z")

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With the ever-increasing number of Dopers who’ve chosen to opt out of the agita in public media and also out of the useless trump-wailing here I bet within a couple months it’ll be obvious that part 3 will last years, not 300ish days.

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**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\
**Post date:** [February 2, 2025, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-close-can-we-get-to-the-schadenfreude-singularity/1013698/3 "2025-02-02T19:17:28Z")

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Your math is off, Part 5 will last -300 days. Therefore, part 36 will last before the website version of the Dope was started and all its knowledge will flow into a black hole, from which no information can be retrieved. That will be - and was - an awful tragedy.

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**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\
**Post date:** [February 2, 2025, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-close-can-we-get-to-the-schadenfreude-singularity/1013698/4 "2025-02-02T22:29:43Z")

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> [@LSLGuy](#):
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> With the ever-increasing number of Dopers who’ve chosen to opt out of the agita in public media and also out of the useless trump-wailing here I bet within a couple months it’ll be obvious that part 3 will last years, not 300ish days.

I don’t disagree but believe that the reason part 3 will last longer is that the new regime will, for the most part, protect itself from any consequences of ongoing criming and general destructiveness.

Those who fail to please a Certain Someone, though, may be abandoned by the regime and thus could pay penalties for their actions. To the extent we find out about it (and we can’t count on that), posts may ensue.