An emergency fund for emergencies. Save up for new tires for your car when they go flat on the highway. Medical bills for when you get injured and put out of work for a week. For when your water main gets clogged from all that bacon grease you pour down the sink, and you have to pay $2,000 to get the pipes dug up and cleaned out.
Save for a better future where you can own a house and some land. Save up to travel somewhere you've never been so you can learn about a different culture and better help how you think about the world. There's an endless list of beneficial things you can do with money if you actually save it up instead of short-sightedly spending every paycheck you get right as it hits your bank account.
There's no reason to make these people pretend-soldiers. You can make them US Army contractors if they need to work with the army. You can make them DoD or CIA or NSA federal employees. There are already avenues for war mongering businessmen to take to work with the military.
I was initially confused about the source of this report, as all it says is that "The new rules, obtained by the Guardian [...]" Without sharing the new rules they obtained verbatim or linking to any VA guidance or statements or anything actually useful...
But it looks like this is more a removal of patients' protections rather than an explicit allowance of discrimination. Not that there's a practical difference between those things. Anyways if anyone is confused on how this exactly happened like I was, this yahoo article seemed to explain it better IMO:
VA hospital bylaws previously barred medical staff from discriminating against patients “on the basis of race, age, color, sex, religion, national origin, politics, marital status or disability in any employment matter,”
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But now, in response to President Donald Trump’s January executive order on “gender ideology,” “national origin,” “politics,” and “marital status” have been removed from the list
The common alternative is to just ask ChatGPT your software questions, get false information from the AI, and then try and push that horrible code to production anyway if my past two jobs are any indicator.
Stack Overflow is still useful to find old answers, but fucking sucks to ask new questions on. If you aren't getting an AI answer to your question, then you're getting your question deleted for some made up reason.
The real answer that everyone hates is: If you have a question about something, read the documentation and experiment with it to figure that something out. If the documentation seems wrong, submit an issue report to the devs (usually on GitHub) and see what they say.
The secondary answer is that almost everything FOSS has a slack channel or even sometimes discord channels. Go to the channels and ask people who use/make whatever tool you need help with.
I mean the military doesn't train you on how to cheat a polygraph, but it's also not really necessary. The polygraph is security theater and people slip by it all the time in the intelligence community without trying.
There are unclassified quarterly audits on how effective the polygraph is at catching criminals on DOD security clearance polys. The funniest audit I saw was a guy who was smuggling drugs to Texas from Mexico since the '80s, passed a dozen polygraphs during his time doing that, and then admitted to drug running during his polygraph like 35 years later because he felt like it before retiring.
There was an old beardy white fuck who was a polygraph examiner at my job. He swore the polygraph wasn't security theater and that it could tell when people were lying. I'd always ask him about the quarterly audits showing people "beating" the machine for years and get into fights with him. That dude also said his job was like "welfare for white people".
An emergency fund for emergencies. Save up for new tires for your car when they go flat on the highway. Medical bills for when you get injured and put out of work for a week. For when your water main gets clogged from all that bacon grease you pour down the sink, and you have to pay $2,000 to get the pipes dug up and cleaned out.
Save for a better future where you can own a house and some land. Save up to travel somewhere you've never been so you can learn about a different culture and better help how you think about the world. There's an endless list of beneficial things you can do with money if you actually save it up instead of short-sightedly spending every paycheck you get right as it hits your bank account.