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you can brush paint with acrylic if it is well prepped, but it will come off easily if not. spray paint is slightly better, powder coating is best of all if you can afford it. if you have to brush or spray yourself, you also want to finish with an enamel sealant to prevent cracking or peeling.

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i am not a wheelchair user myself but hate to see unanswered questions so will just say a lot depends on what material the frame is. you will need to prep (usually sanding and priming) to some degree before you paint, but the prep itself also depends on material.

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... (graphing, long division, complex equations, etc.) with a quicker and more reliable version. it seems like this study, extrapolated, demonstrates that llm usage in education can short out critical thought and deskill in basically all applications. shouldn't that at least give us pause?

ian lasch @ianlasch.bsky.social · 18h

i agree that the study may not be as universally condemning of llms as some of the writeups are making it seem, but it still does seem to me like llm use in education would be the one use case where this study highlights a clear danger. a calculator replaces a few streams of doing things...

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just for curiosity's sake i looked it up and the hobbit ran less than nine hours for the extended editions on about 300 or so total pages of source material (so about 35 pages per hour), whereas this is ten hours from 223. meaning it should feel at least ~35% more tedious.

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ian lasch @ianlasch.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

the weather might be appropriate for the feast, but those songs are perhaps a bit less so

if it feels too strange you could try talking half as fast

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nikita bier is worth something like ten million dollars, an amount which i have to imagine represents at least one path to make a couple of mundane dreams a reality

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so partly i don't think the uses are so easily separable but i am thinking especially of, say, 5.17-32

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yeah they should have left gaddis in for another inning amiright

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this is tongue in cheek because of the beatitudes/woes but truly i think some parts of the sermon on the mount just *are* second use

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Dylan @dyl057.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

the second use sermon on the mount is called the sermon on the plain

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The thing about the "divorce epidemic" is that it did actually allow women to escape abusive relationships, which I'd guarantee the "estrangement epidemic" is doing for the adult children of abusive parents

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speaking as a christian, i don't think "would the Son of God being incarnate as a lion in narnia be male or female" is in fact as settled a question as the quote would lead one to believe

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i know of it, but have not actually listened, though i have heard good things

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Rev. Carson Hollis @carsonhollis.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

i unironically believe that "aren't you tired of being angry" would go hard as a campaign slogan

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Happy birthday, Walter Rauschenbusch! Born on this day in 1861, Rauschenbusch—a Baptist minister, dedicated pacifist, and self-described socialist—understood Christianity not to be about an escapist afterlife, but of discipleship and justice. His convictions led him to father the Social Gospel.

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i do not mean to sound like an old, but i genuinely could not tell from the trailer i saw what the movie was even supposed to be about other than the latest thomas cruise mapother iv vehicle

mr chait sir is it possible that perhaps the real "limits of the party's defense of a color-blind meritocracy" are that they were never the slightest bit sincere to begin with, or is it best that we just take them at their word i will hang up and listen

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the atlantic's entire business model now depends on the left hate-reposting their credulous absorption and regurgitation of the right's preferred narratives (and business is good)

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ian lasch @ianlasch.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

i will confess that i have preached a "st francis was not a hippie" sermon, but it was of the "actually he abandoned the trappings of wealth so entirely that if we want to honor his legacy we have to do more than pet our dog in our garden"

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love that we now have the medical equivalent of suggesting cutting out avocado toast in order to buy a house

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ian lasch @ianlasch.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

wow you found it-make sure to let the lovers and the dreamers know

ian lasch @ianlasch.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

but wait i have been reliably informed that using ai for charting frees doctors up to do so much more than before

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estranged parent journalists will write seventeen columns blaming everyone in the world for parents being cut off except the parents themselves instead of going to therapy

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right like i would like to ask the author what the "light side" of far right fame is

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but also let's be honest we episcopalians should be skeletal: rigid, a little dusty, and *extremely* white

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robert lowry, author of "nothing but the blood," was a baptist

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Dr Abolish ICE @pwr2dppl.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

i think the only real idea here is that the authors (and editors, etc.) have heard from their boomer friends that their kids cut them off and they don't know why, and they are offended at the very possibility

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Every time I see someone take a "well it's here" stance on "AI," I want to cry. not b/c it "isn't here" but b/c it being here never implies the next thing they say. Slavery was ("was") here and a good question was never "how to best use it."

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ian lasch @ianlasch.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

i know it is not the same group of people but it still kills me that there are people who believe that autistics lack a theory of mind while there are simultaneously headlines like "HORRORS ABOUND: the computer said 'owie'"

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ian lasch @ianlasch.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

time to take the power back by demanding a deposit from the restaurant of at least five bites in order for me to confirm my reservation

ian lasch @ianlasch.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

truly we are living in the age of wealth extraction

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the former is something like a war journal of someone who enlists in a magical war, the latter is sort of a locked room mystery about lesbian space necromancers

the daughters' war and gideon the ninth, if those qualify

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red alert was truly a masterpiece

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i guess the hard truth is that sometimes when you horace you are going to holose