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Even understanding that marketing people tend to be a different breed, I cannot comprehend someone who would think "we can put you in more meetings" is this super compelling pitch.

Like even accepting the premise that this works (which I don't really), there would be any number of ads to be made about how Copilot can attend meetings for you, and you can just keep working instead and not have to be bothered with it. But no somebody made the ad thinking that increasing the meetings was the part that people are gonna get excited about.

Yeah, I mean glimpse seems fine; in general it seems completely fine if someone says "hey I think this is a problem for some percent of people who have weird priorities in life because they are corporate or weird thinking, I support the idea to solve it and make a friendly name for them"

It's just that if the response is "yeah that percent of people are not our problem, we just want to make this project and we did, thank you and good day", then you need to be able to say "ok I will make the fork to fix it then" instead of writing up a big blog post demanding that they need to obey you on what your opinion of the priorities for their own project should be.

Surely anyone who feels that it’s an urgent problem can make a fork which is fully identical in every way except for the logo and name and branding

Since the amount of effort that would be required for that would be infinitesimal compared to what was already done to make the software

And then produce all these good things which you say are being held back

Or, wait, did you mean you wanted someone else to do that because you feel that it’s super important enough to insist that someone else should do it but not important enough to do yourself?

Hm... yeah, I didn't know that; I just sort of assumed that it was for searching code etc initially, but you are correct.

BTW I just learned about pcregrep -M which can do a little more directly what you're asking for -- you can do pcregrep -M 'the(.|\n)orange(.|\n)menace' which seems to work, although you may want -A or -B to give a little more useful output also.

grep isn't really designed as a natural language search tool but perl -pe can do a pretty similar thing to what you're looking for.

perl -0777 -pe 's/\n/ /g' file.txt | perl -ne 'print "$1\n" while /(.{0,20}(the.orange.menace).{0,20})/g'

Did they go offroading to try to hide the trucks in the trees?

I am not a combat truck person but surely abandoning the truck and running is a better strategy than that. Not trying to talk shit on someone in a desperate situation, but at the same time fuck 'em.

My guy, 13,000 people dying in a single acute event localized to one city that can be mitigated with some careful foresighted thinking is not what keeps climate scientists up at night.

I am not from Ukraine so maybe you don't want my input, but:

• Wikipedia's map shows a very good up-to-date overview of the high level
• This channel I find to give good tactical updates from the Ukrainian perspective
• Metaculus seems to think that by far the most likely outcome is a continuation of the stalemate for a while, followed by some type of partition of the country. I won't say it's possible to predict the future but their predictions are the most reasonable-to-put-faith-in that I know of.

Well, the confluence of "yay GOP" and "yay Russia" isn't all that weird, no... but the exclusive focus on "Texas Texas Texas" with super detailed interest in individual battles in Ukraine, and nothing else (no election, or federal economy, or news from Arizona or over the border in Mexico, etc etc) is a little unusual.

Also, I found this channel that they like posting videos from also to be fascinating, for example with this video:

The most important updates are coming from the United States of America, where, according to information we have, Manhattan Court declares former US president Donald Trump guilty on every single one of the charges. This confirms that the clashes, the battle between Joe Biden, the current president of the United States of America, and the former president, Donald Trump, are getting more and more fierce. According to the latest polls, according to information we have, Trump wins 312 to 226 over Biden.

Biden understands that this is a vital question for him. He understands that if he loses, he's not the only one who will lose; a lot of people will suffer significant problems from Trump. Obviously, after court, after all these charges, Trump will, let's say, seek revenge, not just on Biden but on everybody who supports Biden in, let's say, the next possible presidential term of this person.

I am fascinated by OP’s posting history, which consists of:

• Russia is winning in Ukraine and it’s all the US’s fault that there’s even a war in the first place
• Texas (often with a sort of pro-GOP culture war angle)
• Almost nothing else

It is an unusual combination.

Extremely true - but even that aside, if it really was as long ago as 70 years, it wouldn’t be the pressing ongoing issue that it is.

There are Palestinians who lost their homes forever, and Israelis who ignored the UN telling them stop breaking international law, this week and last week and the week before that.