Jokes are a way I have of handling psychotic urges. I prefer to speak nicely at all times, but jokes happen. Here's one about real life. - Karl walks up onto stand up comedy stage, takes mic. "I joined a cryptography list and nobody on the list was using cryptography!" Canned uproarious laughter! "Not only that, I wasn't even sure why I got on the list, could barely control my behavior, and this was after I had been overtly brainwashed!" Canned uproarious laughter! "On the list, nobody seemed to really know about cryptography. People would talk about technologies that were a decade out of date, use systems and setups nobody on the list would use ..." A small pause. "Sorry, that was just a build-up to something, but suddenly my brainwashing kicked in and I suddenly don't remember what point about this list I was trying to make." Canned uproarious laughter! "What's crazy is that when I read the list and post to it, I actually believe it's the real thing and that the people posting to it actually know about it!" Canned uproarious laughter! "Then I keep posting to it, barely able to guide my behavior, certainly without any plan, as if nobody on it knows anything about it and needs help understanding its culture, which personally I have almost no experience with!" Canned uproarious laughter! "I looked up the history of this list and it looks like it was systematically destroyed by huge swaths of hired trolls. Maybe I subconsciously assume that everyone I'm talking to is one now." Canned chuckles, some canned groans.
"What's really crazy, is I mysteriously got into my head before starting posting, to describe _myself_ as a troll and a secret agent, which are the two most disrepute categories of people on the list!" Canned uproarious laughter! "Sometimes I imagine that I'm a secret agent from the government of schizophrenia, infiltrating the trolls on the list." Canned chuckles and groans. -- Taking a break from mostly-confirmed reality now.
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