Woah woah woah let’s not give megachurches extra points for things they didn’t lead in. Tax breaks yes, more dishonestly, no.
If you don’t think every business that makes it, and even more so for those that make it big, don’t have shady dealings to thank for getting them there, you should join one of these megachurches.
Also, Amazon isn’t a church with tax exempt status but I remember headlines a few years back something along the lines of they paid a whopping 0 dollars in federal tax or something just as unbelievable yet actually true.
If anything, churches are looked at harder because they have the tax exempt status, so people are looking for abuses of that, yet we have corporate entities that can sway the global economy skirting taxes in the open and even legally, somehow.
But I get taxed when I make my money, and then again when I spend that money, which was already taxed.
There’s no difference between a FANG and a megachurch. They are both for profit machines that bleed people dry. When the church pamphlet has bar charts on the back with quarterly projections, and the pastor/whomever lets everyone know that they are a few million behind their target, before discussing the scripture, their priorities are very clear.
The screens, coffee bars, childcare, and well produced music and video, are all there to make you feel special, part of something, relaxed, and wanting to come back, next week, after you get paid again.
The same way in Mad Man the account execs would take clients out to dinner and then to strip clubs to make them feel special and relaxed, so they’d later associate good feelings when asked to hand over their wallets, megachurches have what I listed above. If bowls of cocaine could be legally laid out, you’d be handed one while walking in.
Gotta spend money to make money, but they know the high rollers and if you pay attention, they don’t pay any attention to anyone not forking over cash.
Edit: if you want more signal that megachurches are not about God, look at how many of the 7 deadly sins they proudly embody. Greed. Gluttony. Pride. Those are obvious. Sloth probably also obvious. That’s gotta mean something right? These complexes are tiny cities that sit vacant most of the week.
You aren’t being downvoted for telling people to have full control over the OS. You can do that with SIP enabled, or boot to recovery, disable, modify, enable, and have full control over your OS. How often are you needing to modify low level OS config that you’d rather make your entire machine vulnerable to root exploits than dance around SIP a couple times a year if that? That’s why you’re being downvoted, for advocating folks make their machine way less secure to save 3 minutes worth of reboot time a year, if that. Bump the hard limit once and you never need to touch it again.
Ever heard of Guantanamo bay? Ask those people (those alive) if our country’s government has the ability to illegally arrest and detain people, torture them, kill them. They straight up said all this shit is illegal so we can’t do it in the US, we have to break our laws in some place we can’t be held accountable to them. That’s our government. Want more examples of illegally detaining, beating, and letting people die? Ask the folks locked up in cages when they come here seeking asylum, some of them kids, who die of starvation while being held against their will for showing up at the door and knocking. I’ll stop there but we should knock off the “them bad, us good” bullshit because all of the governments are shit that do horrible things, and america is world famous for drone striking entire families just to get one dude we labeled terrorist (our free pass to do whatever the fuck we want to someone), and dropping nuclear bombs on cities filled with innocent civilians, twice, when intel suggested a surrender was imminent without having yet dropped one.
When you point your finger at someone, you have 4 pointing back at yourself.
So they are asking for security through obscurity and actually thinking that is going to last.
The article mentions a training video that demos the product, yet didn’t include it as far as I can tell. Why is that not being published? I don’t want a transcription of a company telling cops to protect their property, I want to see what this company is able to access when they illegally access my property.
Pretty sure if I access a computer system that I’m not authorized to, aka, hacking, I just committed a federal offense, yet a company is legally selling the ability to do that very thing, at scale, to law enforcement and telling them to keep it a secret. Last I checked, a law was a law, and it applied to everybody, not just us common folk.
Also, “certainly mention premium” is rich. So don’t disclose the illegal hacking internals, but do give a shout-out and free marketing for our premium product, so others in gov and law enforcement will see what you got from them and go signup. Shit, do they have a referral bonus to? Get on the stand and mention premium and the referral code WHOWATCHESTHEWATCHERS for 60% off your first month.
What the fuck? How are these companies allowed to do this? Oh right, because their customers are the ones who would normally be arresting them, so it’s fine to break the law.
This comment and the one above it glossed right past the second quote where 11 peer reviewed studies were examined and it was concluded that 10 years of cell phone use results in you being twice as likely to develop brain tumors on whichever side you hold the phone against. That doesn’t seem “possibly carcinogenic” to me but maybe I have brain cancer and don’t understand what those words meant.
Look I’m the last one that will bang the capitalism, consume, spend, drum, but nothing is ever free. You want a free nat box? Your managed database cluster just got a fraction of a fraction of a cent more expensive every hour. You would never get it for free even if they billed it as such. They wouldn’t be the biggest company in the world if they were in the habit of using their profits for your bills instead of the shareholder’s dividends. This is a business, not a family style steak house.
Companies already want us working an amount of hours well beyond what our salaries should cover, being on-call, and often working well into the night for deadlines, and sometimes the entire night into the next work day when incidents arise.
Then, when we need a job, we need to custom write a compelling “cover letter” that sucks the dick of some corporate entity in order to “tell us why you’d love to work for us” in a unique way that gets someone’s eyeballs in the 5 seconds of time your resume has to get attention or shredded.
Why do I want to work for your company? Because I need to eat to survive and you’re hiring. That’s why. There may be more about your company I like, but at the end of the day I wouldn’t apply to work there if I didn’t need to in order to survive.
Now, we need to be spending all of our time off, which if you work for a startup isn’t as much as you’d think, developing a blog with highly technical and relevant posts in an industry where all tech is a moving target with fads that move fast, Maintain open source projects that should not be “simple” in nature, speak at conferences, etc. That’s in addition to the never ending time commitment to continued learning we already have to do in order to stay somewhat relevant, while also trying to focus on specific tech enough to become a senior level expert or industry leader.
No. Enough. Corporate America gets enough of our lives. The interview process from applying to offer is already a shit show circus of having to market yourself hoping you get picked to not become homeless, all while dealing with multiple rounds of lengthy calls with people on power trips who can often actually be threatened by an impressive portfolio and not recommend you for hire in order to secure their own role and status.
If I work on open source it will be for me and not for a potential job (that won’t look at it or care anyway unless they can use you for it).
You know what gets people offer letters? Word of mouth referrals coming from highly revered coworkers. If you have solid connections out there that are badass engineers who can vouch to their eng managers that you too are a badass engineer, the interview is essentially a formality.
Curious if you tried the devcontainer cli [1] to build your devcontainer.json?
DevPod is another implementation of the devcontainer spec, the most used one being the aforementioned devcontainer cli which vscode uses, or supplies, via its integration.
If you’re having problems with DevPod while they iron out the kinks you might want to try the devcontainer cli, which can build the images, and run them.
If you don’t think every business that makes it, and even more so for those that make it big, don’t have shady dealings to thank for getting them there, you should join one of these megachurches.
Also, Amazon isn’t a church with tax exempt status but I remember headlines a few years back something along the lines of they paid a whopping 0 dollars in federal tax or something just as unbelievable yet actually true.
If anything, churches are looked at harder because they have the tax exempt status, so people are looking for abuses of that, yet we have corporate entities that can sway the global economy skirting taxes in the open and even legally, somehow.
But I get taxed when I make my money, and then again when I spend that money, which was already taxed.
There’s no difference between a FANG and a megachurch. They are both for profit machines that bleed people dry. When the church pamphlet has bar charts on the back with quarterly projections, and the pastor/whomever lets everyone know that they are a few million behind their target, before discussing the scripture, their priorities are very clear.
The screens, coffee bars, childcare, and well produced music and video, are all there to make you feel special, part of something, relaxed, and wanting to come back, next week, after you get paid again.
The same way in Mad Man the account execs would take clients out to dinner and then to strip clubs to make them feel special and relaxed, so they’d later associate good feelings when asked to hand over their wallets, megachurches have what I listed above. If bowls of cocaine could be legally laid out, you’d be handed one while walking in.
Gotta spend money to make money, but they know the high rollers and if you pay attention, they don’t pay any attention to anyone not forking over cash.
Edit: if you want more signal that megachurches are not about God, look at how many of the 7 deadly sins they proudly embody. Greed. Gluttony. Pride. Those are obvious. Sloth probably also obvious. That’s gotta mean something right? These complexes are tiny cities that sit vacant most of the week.