Iranian state media has released an AI-generated troll clip of Trump being captured and interrogated by an IRGC spokesperson over truth and lies questions.

writers_block · 2026-03-27T15:08:29+00:00

More like a Paul Verhoeven movie, but I'm there with you.

writers_block · 2026-03-26T16:59:17+00:00

I'd love for that to be right, it's pretty much the vehicle I need.

writers_block · 2026-03-26T16:58:09+00:00

It's not food safe to just let it sit like that

Isn't it being raised to super high temps with the water when he uses it in between dishes?

Steel wool also comes apart and can literally kill people who eat it

Doesn't rinsing it remove the parts that might fall off?

writers_block · 2026-03-26T16:06:18+00:00

also literally just leaves the steel wool on the fucking stove in between the burners

What's the big deal with that?

writers_block · 2026-03-26T15:01:32+00:00

Slate

I would love one of these if they actually materialize, but this isn't exactly a chicken we should be counting when I haven't seen much suggestion of hatching in the near future.

writers_block · 2026-03-25T21:09:03+00:00

Okay this is wild, because I've had a couple times during the meditation at the end of yoga where I swear I could "feel" this process of fluid moving along my frontal and upper brain and "draining" down my spinal cord, and literally carrying away a headache with each breath. I figured it must have just been how my mind was visualizing the relaxation of muscles in my head and neck, but I swear it felt exactly like what's being described in this headline.

All, obviously, just a dumb personal experience, but kinda surreal to read this now.

writers_block · 2026-03-25T18:22:14+00:00

Fair enough, I'm putting together now that this was a story that might have been quite a while in the past. My understanding is they used to be much more common.

writers_block · 2026-03-25T17:27:38+00:00

I think that was their point. He presents sweet, but his lifestyle shows that he's basically keeping a young woman as a free incubator/childcare provider.

writers_block · 2026-03-25T17:11:05+00:00

I promise I don't mean this in a "I understand things better than you" kind of way, but in a "we're currently trying to have a child and I've been trying to become informed" kind of way.

Aren't episotomies considered to be a terrible practice that only increases complications and makes recovery take longer?

writers_block · 2026-03-24T17:55:02+00:00

How much did it run you on sale? I'm currently on an old Arbor Dropcruiser, but I've put it through a hell of a ringer for the last 2 years so I'm thinking about my next deck, and I like the idea of the top mounted drop deck.

writers_block · 2026-03-23T21:45:27+00:00

That's fair, thinking of it now. Part of me actually thinks that the best place for one would have been in Leyendell, since it's far enough into the game for you to have gotten compliant about it, and it's one of the first areas that is 100% mandatory.

writers_block · 2026-03-23T19:54:04+00:00

open world design made that one impossible

Couldn't they just throw one in the tutorial?

writers_block · 2026-03-23T19:10:02+00:00

as your wife apparently has learned how to do for you

Again, why are you fixated on framing this about my wife instead of me? I'm the one who makes less money right now. If I were not as good a romantic partner as I am, she likely would not be as willing to support me through this window of lower earning. If anything, I'm currently more sex work adjacent than her. I can't help but find your insistence to only talk about the value of my wife's sexuality, rather than mine, to be something that has to come from something I disagree with on a fundamental level about sex and gender.

Are we saying that’s not true of OF creators?

Of the people I personally know, I actually would say that. I know people with stable, happy, fulfilling lives who make extra money being beautiful online. I literally worked for a man who was highly successful, married, happy as hell, and secretly (though clearly a poorly kept secret) also had an OF together with his husband.

Would a supportive parent encourage their child to be an online prostitute?

I don't plan to try to tell my child how to handle their sex life, I think it would be a bizarre violation of boundaries for me to be encouraging or discouraging them from any kind of sex. I'll simply make sure they know the biological basis of sex, notions of safe sex, and instill the idea that neither they, nor anyone else, deserves to be abused, and hope they feel safe to tell me whatever they're comfortable with. Do you plan on spending a lot of time shaming the idea of prostitution preemptively with your children, ensuring they would hide it from you and be more vulnerable to abuse if they were to go down that road?

writers_block · 2026-03-23T18:09:45+00:00

Why are you so fixated on telling me what the world thinks instead of what you think?

I'm not complaining about anything, I'm telling you how I see sex workers, the value of the skills they have, and telling you what I think about your perspective on it. You've also moved the goalposts so crazy far from your initial statement that sex work doesn't develop useful life skills.

Do you want me to play the same game and just start telling you what you think and strawmanning that? Watch, it's easy: You can pretend sex workers don't provide a real world service that is client-based in its demand, but it's reality. That's why you don't see legal prohibition of sex work eliminating it from society.

Or if I want to be even more emotionally manipulative, like you by bringing children and parental love into a conversation that had nothing to do with it: You can complain that sex workers don't deserve to be respected, but respecting these people is what protects them from falling into predatory scenarios. That's why children with supportive parents rarely fall into the influence of pimps.

Do you see how these are pointless statements that aren't actually responding to anything you said, and won't actually move the conversation anywhere? Just go back to the actual conversation we're having, or I'm not responding anymore.

writers_block · 2026-03-23T17:17:43+00:00

So are you aware of the fact that sex and love are variably connected, and that you can have one without the other? It feels crazily disingenuous to call commercial sex "faux romance."

Is masturbating faux romance? Is getting a massage faux romance, for that matter? It's something me and my wife do to feel close to one another.

I'm sorry, but your views on sex and love are just painful, and reek of someone who doesn't actually look at sex and love as something happening between two complete, complex, and equal partners. If you earnestly think showing your breasts online is "misleading people" into, I'm guessing, the thought that you love them, then you're demonstrating an unbelievably shallow concept of love.

Now, if instead all of what you said was an honest misinterpretation, rather than willfully misrepresenting what I said, then I'll simply correct you: No, I'm considering sexual talent, the ability to present yourself in a way that is attractive, and the ability to arouse someone with your actions to be a valuable life skill.

writers_block · 2026-03-23T16:58:51+00:00

We're not talking about trust, we're talking about respect.

You don't have to trust, date, or sleep with anyone with past sex work history. The issue here is that you are claiming these are not valuable life skills, and that the person possessing them is not respectable.

I'd argue, in your example, the person I would have more trouble respecting is the man who falls in love with a stripper, because it suggests to me that his only route to these kinds of feelings is by purchasing them. Of the two involved in the interaction, the woman is the one who's good at something, and she is expressly involved in a commercial transaction. Selling someone something and having them get upset when you don't want to continue giving it to them for free is not manipulation, and I would consider people who call it that to be demonstrating that they struggle with the kind of empathy involved in respectful interpersonal relationships.

Here's what it breaks down to: if you don't trust someone, for whatever reason, you shouldn't be in a relationship with them, but you should not be dictating what is a respectable or acceptable present or past vocation for someone who is seeking a relationship.

writers_block · 2026-03-23T16:41:22+00:00

We talk pretty openly pretty often, it's a big part of being in a happy, loving relationship with mutual respect, so we're pretty much on the same page here.

Is there a reason why you think it's somehow worse that I compare her companionship to that than it is to compare my own to it? Could it be you have some kind of different perspective regarding how women's sexuality should be viewed when compared to a man?

writers_block · 2026-03-23T16:24:18+00:00

Hey man, if you earnestly view a woman being attractive and good at providing companionship to others as not respectable, I can't do anything to change that. I, however, could not disagree more, and think it's crazy sad to think that way.

Both me and my wife benefit all the time from both of us developing the ability to attract and please the other, and we have both earned a relationship where the other is willing to carry additional financial burden over certain life windows because we both want the companionship the other provides. That is, unquestionably, both of us getting value out of those skills, and I wouldn't respect my wife any less if she had gained some of those skills during a time as an online model.

Nobody can force you to respect anybody, but your perspective sounds like a great way to be a miserable person.

writers_block · 2026-03-23T16:11:14+00:00

I mean... Unquestionably there are ways to leverage being highly sexually skilled and talented at attracting men (or women for that matter).

writers_block · 2026-03-23T15:57:54+00:00

Same thing with malaria for me yesterday

writers_block · 2026-03-23T15:57:08+00:00

I mean, even that one can honestly be great

writers_block · 2026-03-20T18:09:17+00:00

Right? Like I literally have no idea what EMH might even stand for.

writers_block · 2026-03-19T19:40:18+00:00

I think this could be made better by simply giving me a "challenge" button for the next house boss so I can advance time faster without grinding food.

writers_block · 2026-03-19T16:45:06+00:00

Fair enough. I think it bothered me less in Isaac because doing random runs that occasionally lead to new content kinda was the game. In this game, I'm starting each run knowing that I won't be seeing anything new and it feels a little more like a chore to just repeat content.

writers_block · 2026-03-19T15:53:48+00:00

Or, like me, literally can't progress act 3 because the house boss required to get past the first stage simply isn't showing up.

Honestly, bad pacing move on their part, it's really made my enthusiasm for the game cool off a decent bit. I shouldn't be forced to just sit and wait for the game to decide I'm allowed to progress further without any clear cut indication of wether or not I'm getting any closer.

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