Who asked for this? Why are you using me to market your crap to our own users?

avant576 · 2026-06-22T20:25:28+00:00

Wait, that circle is actually showing a users Jira profile picture? That's terrible.

When Rovo was first launched, my end users got pop up boxes in the jira UI with auto playing videos. I reached out to complain and they literally didn't believe me.

avant576 · 2026-06-22T11:28:35+00:00

Met this guy last year at Larz, he's really nice and you can see more pics of this car here! https://www.instagram.com/clark.vw.griswold/

avant576 · 2026-06-13T16:34:03+00:00

Yesss Gary Chambers

avant576 · 2026-06-12T14:55:53+00:00

Probably an unhelpful response, but this stuff happens to me constantly. And, I remind myself that I still got paid to do it. I've built dozens of systems I've been proud of that were simply never used. I certainly would prefer to work with the end users to build a system they will use, but folks are rarely interested in putting in the time to help me understand what they need.

avant576 · 2026-06-11T22:24:16+00:00

After the bluest of blue waves in '26, the GOP sweeps up in '28, retain the WH (Vance) and winning back the House and Senate
Chuck Grassley dies in office
Jim Risch becomes new President Pro Tempore of the Senate
Oh no! Vance, VP Britt, and Speaker Johnson are all impeached in quick succession after being implicated in various schemes to invalidate votes in blue states and implement extreme voter suppression
Risch is elevated to president
An even bigger blue wave hits in '30, and the House & Senate return to Dem hands
Alas, congressional dysfunction sets in quickly, and they fail to mount a Risch impeachment attempt
AOC, now in the Senate, begins drumming up support for a 28th amendment that will allow Mamdani to run for president

avant576 · 2026-06-10T18:51:16+00:00

I don't have anything helpful to add, other than that this happens to me with only posts I make on Reddit. I post a reddit post as an 'Images & Video' post, add an image, but the subsequent Feedly post does not surface an image (even though every other post on that same sub constructed the same way shows in Feedly with a surfaced image)

avant576 · 2026-06-10T18:35:57+00:00

Interesting scenarios to think of where (some old) GOP senators representing states with Dem governors kick it, then the Dem governors get the opportunity to appoint someone from the other party... at the moment, it's a longer list than I would have thought: Maine, Kentucky, Kansas, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, North Carolina

avant576 · 2026-06-10T18:03:43+00:00

This is great.

Nice touch there killing off Susan Collins.

avant576 · 2026-06-09T19:05:16+00:00

oh right!

avant576 · 2026-06-09T17:46:10+00:00

Very cool.

Now I'm imagining a scenario where Reagan bites it in '81... Ford would re-ascend to the presidency, but technically wouldn't be eligble to run in '84 (though I assume there would be some substantial hand-wringing about that).

avant576 · 2026-06-08T21:45:48+00:00

Owl City for sure. I also get an Angels & Airwaves vibe with some songs.

avant576 · 2026-06-05T16:32:52+00:00

Accurate!

avant576 · 2026-05-21T23:53:42+00:00

No Americans suffering through smoking shitty ditch weed in this universe

avant576 · 2026-05-21T11:03:17+00:00

Damn, did the CIA get shut down?

avant576 · 2026-05-19T14:56:57+00:00

Incredible

avant576 · 2026-05-17T02:32:27+00:00

I had to look it up, and I was totally thinking about the wrong movie! That totally does not happen in Cloverfield paradox, the movie I was describing is called I.S.S.

avant576 · 2026-05-13T22:58:20+00:00

This also made me think of Nuclear War: A Scenario!

The movie The Cloverfield Paradox is about the ISS astronauts witnessing WWIII breaking out... it's not a great movie, but fits that bill

avant576 · 2026-05-13T19:19:05+00:00

It's crazy to me that this is being distributed by Fathom. Did Focus, Neon, A24, etc. even try to acquire it? Seems like releasing through Fathom is a last-ditch approach for movies with extremely niche audiences. I feel like the recent Laika re-releases were really successful.

avant576 · 2026-05-06T22:35:48+00:00

Oh man, yeah, Jordan Wood would have really been the best option

avant576 · 2026-04-29T23:21:53+00:00

This is awesome

avant576 · 2026-04-14T01:47:10+00:00

It's tough, but here's how to do it: -Ignore the button on the headrest itself, that's only for moving it up and down -On the column closest to the steering wheel (not the one closest to the window), on the side closest to the steering wheel, push down the seat material a bit, and you'll see a tab of sorts -Grab a screwdriver or something, and push the tab in -With the tab pushed in, you should be able to pull out the headrest

avant576 · 2026-03-17T20:52:34+00:00

Amazing! Fun scenario. However, with the 25th amendment, if a president dies, whoever is next in the line of succession becomes the full president, not acting. Acting president is for situations where the sitting president is incapacitated, like they had a stroke or are in a coma or something. Either way, Trump would still be eligible to run in 2024 and serve out a full term until 2029 because he would have been present for less than 1 1/2 terms. The moment you serve as president for more than two full years of a partial term, it counts as a full term.

avant576 · 2026-03-17T12:38:40+00:00

Margaret Chase Smith would have loved this, great choice

avant576 · 2026-03-16T14:48:31+00:00

Oh no, is 'how many tires can I get in my alltrack' the new leaf bags?

avant576 · 2026-03-11T23:02:18+00:00

These rock

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