My own two cents: The root of this is “western civilization” itself. Our whole society is a collective delusion, an unsustainable fantasy world founded on lies. We’re incessantly encouraged to play along, always primed to be the ultimate marks. We’ll believe anything to avoid reality.

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“The school, which is federally funded, by the way, doesn’t like me saying certain slurs,” Gaines said. “But this is the United States of fucking America and we have a First Amendment here, so I’m gonna continue to use whichever slur I fucking want to use in this discourse.”

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It's bananas that it is now state policy that universities can't teach or discuss systemic racism, and gender studies is being outlawed, but they are *obligated* to host people denigrating their students...in the name of free speech.

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"The debate was his fourth stop in his “Toxic Masculinity” tour with Uncensored America, an organization that believes “universities should be spaces where all ideas — especially those that are unpopular or debated — can be expressed and critically examined without censorship,”

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rfc: i've started naming the various verbose labels that models like to add "decorative text" and asking for a reduction in it seems to actually do so. anyone else found useful shorthand?

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