Python (especially focused on AI and data analysis) and Javascript/Typescript are where most of the activity and interesting jobs are right now. These are also fairly easy languages to become competent in (though JS obviously has some idiosyncrasies to learn).
Go is also extremely popular right now for the interesting work that requires better performance (blockchain, network services, etc.).
C# and Java (and more recently Kotlin replacing Java) are still extremely prominent in large companies.
Mobile is kind of all over the place. Java/Kotlin on Android and Swift on iOS are the native languages of each platform, but React Native (JS using a bridge to send messages to the native side), Flutter (Dart language, using Skia to render it own controls instead of native controls), Xamarin/Maui (C# wrapping native controls), and webview solutions like Capacitor are all somewhat common. Mobile is a little harder to break into.
Lower level languages like C, C++ and Rust are all very prevalent in domains like blockchain, anything that interacts with hardware, and a number of other domains.
SQL, R, Python (already mentioned) are very popular in data analytics. If you are working with data at all, even databases for your application, at least get familiar with SQL (Postgres, MySQL, SQL Server are the big 3 database engines).
Anything outside of those mentioned above are going to be more niche, and not likely to have jobs available or open source projects to work with.
Transer is just a more generic word in this case, that encompasses all possible methods of moving an asset from one place to another. It could be a sale, a gift, or just moving an asset with a remaining loan to another entity.
In this case with Taylor Swift, they are also probably using the generic word transfer to keep it more private as to exactly where the plane is ending up.
There are tax implications with moving assets in a fashion that is neither sale nor gift, but this is not necessarily uncommon, especially when forming the business entity in the first place. The owners generally transfer some of their personal assets to the business entity and receive some share of the business, often somewhat relative to the amount of assets they provided to the business (other assets such as talent, personal networks, etc. are not as tangible but still factor into the share each person gets).
Also, just a note, when selling the plane, there are not necessarily tax implications. If you have been amortizing your expense claims based on the expected lifetime of the asset, then you have only paid taxes on the depreciated value of the asset, and the sale amount is likely the remaining value on that asset, and therefore no profit and thus no taxes on that sale. Of course, if the asset has appreciated in value since you originally purchased it, for example real estate, then that is a different story.
It's called a tax return because that is a somewhat common terminology in data collection. Information is requested by the government, and the "returns" are the delivery of that data by the various parties.
Taylor Swift does not personally own that plane. She is part of a business entity, and probably actually several different business entities, that manage the various aspects of "Taylor Swift", e.g. intellectual property rights and licensing, concerts/tours, appearances, licensing her public images for products, etc.
As a business, you do not have to pay taxes on business expenses. A plane is a business expense as it is used to transport people to and from business events (and also probably for personal use, but the primary purpose as far as reporting is concerned is for business use).
So, if the business makes $10 million per year, for example, and spends $2 million on transportation expenses, $3 million on salaries, $2 million on advertising, then there is $3 million left, and this is what can be taxed (so obviously, you want to make sure every possible business expense is reported, so the amount of taxes you must pay is minimized).
One note, generally things like planes, vehicles, computers, etc., are amortized over the expected lifetime of that item. Meaning, if a plane is expected to last 10 years, then 1/10th of the cost of the plane will be reported as a business expense each year for 10 years, even if they paid for it all at once up front. This also allows for selling these items early without then needing to pay a tax on the profits of the sale, because you are generally selling it for the remainder of the value that you have not yet claimed as expenses, and thus break even on that item.
As to "transferred ownership", the business entity transferred ownership of the plane to another business entity. It may be another business entity associated with Taylor Swift, possibly a business entity that will then use a service to "rent out" that plane to other people, and thus produce revenues using that plane.
Ah, gotcha. The "hiring" was in reference to the post you responded to a couple up about job postings (anything with a job posting is going to be H1B, which you probably know).
I agree on the big body shops (InfoSys, GGK, et al), those are largely L1, but you don't really see that kind of wholesale replacement of local IT staff with Indians anymore. Still plenty of onsite staff-aug in like DC area, but things have really shifted remote since covid, and even before that the trend in foreign staff-aug was to just outsource to WiPro, etc., with foreign resources still living in their home countries (I was seeing a lot of Kenya).
Where I'm at now they've started using Central and South America with the workers never leaving their countries (easier than India and Africa because same time zones).
Anyways, point is, it doesn't really matter the visa program, or the outsourcing method, the abuse of them all will accelerate. At this point I don't believe there is a solution in the system, it is completely captured and being pillaged and plundered before collapse.
To me, the fight should be about what lies on the other side of the (multi-stage, largely orchestrated) collapse. Building out parallel economies, systems and networks now makes it so they can't as easily force everyone into their "solution". Best case, that means they must compromise on the bad stuff. Worst case is at least we have something in place to survive outside of their system until they start coming after us.
Everything alright, sweetie?
I'll say again, any public job listing will be filled by an H1B, as they need to prove they cannot find a citizen.
L1 already work at the company, and they do not have the same requirement to prove they cannot fill the role with a citizen, so they would not post and fill with an L1.
None of this matters, though, as you are missing the actual issue. As you stated, these companies are multinational, and along with the banks, cartels, secret societies, intelligence agencies, military industrial complex, they control the direction in which societies move. The move now is to a global system, with nations still existing but essentially no longer sovereign.
Pointing out that there are multiple visa programs, and chimping out any time someone says something you don't like, isn't accomplishing anything.
There are many programs, they are all abused. Everyone already knows this. It's neat that you just figured this out, but settle down and work on doing something useful.
Work on building parallel economies, local networks, regional networks to connect these local networks. Help yourself and others become less dependent on this system, because that is the only way to actually challenge what is coming. If enough people do that then they will need to reel it back to something more reasonable. And if not, then at least there is an alternative system in place for those of us that are not joining the matrix.
Or just keep spouting retarded shit all day, every day and chimping out.
No, you are mistaken. Any white-collar foreigner hired from a job posting will be an H1B.
L1 must already have been working for the company for at least one year, but in a branch in another country. There are no postings for those jobs.
No, not really. Most of what people actually see are, in fact, H1Bs. I have never encountered an L1 in my 25 years in tech. I've encountered probably thousands of H1Bs.
L1 must already have worked for the same company in another country for at least one year, and are essentially transferring to the U.S. This is what the massive consulting shops like InfoSys do, and to a much smaller degree Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and some accounting firms. Since these people have already worked for the company, they are not as often displacing people when they move here (though, yes, it does happen, and also happens indirectly by outsourcing to InfoSys and laying off your staff...but that's not really different from outsourcing to India but with the people onsite).
Both programs need to be restricted to a cap of something like 1,000 per year, instead of the hundreds of thousands that come in every year in the current programs combined.
You're conflating two different things:
- thinking there is no one else out there, and
- thinking that it's silly to think they would come here to look at a distance, for thousands of years, and not make actual contact because "we're not ready".
I get it, though, I believed in that stuff very deeply from early years to mid-30s.
If you actually do think critically about it, though, you realize how silly it is to believe that other humanoids from far away planets come here to do experiments for thousands of years, and that once we are "ready" they will bring us into their interstellar family.
I'm not trying to be mean, though. Sorry if it comes off that way. Like I said, I used to believe a lot of that stuff.
I'm still open to it being demons, or another species or advanced human race on this planet that lives underground, underwater, or antarctica, and that maybe they are either at the top of the power pyramid or work through those with power. Or even that it is humans from the future. Those are all more plausible to me.
The most plausible is still that it is military and intelligence running experiments and psyops, some of which are intended to eventually culminate in a fake alien invasion.
I did 20+ years ago. It was triangular with a red light in the middle, looked basically like a lot of TR-3B renderings. It was hovering at about 200 feet, near a rural highway. I pulled over to look and it started moving back over the farm fields. I followed it for about 2 miles until the road ended in that direction and I couldn't follow it any more. It never moved fast, and even though I believed in alien UFOs at the time I didn't feel strongly that's what it was.
My dad also saw one on the interstate highway about 10 years before that (early 90s). He was driving home from 2nd shift job and said there were at least a dozen other cars pulled over looking at it. He said it had multi-colored lights and it hovered over the highway for several minutes while the people all watched it.
He woke me up to tell me about it, all excited, when he got home. Then maybe mentioned it in passing a couple other times, and then brought it up again when I told him about what I saw. Never really talked about it other than those times.
Back then I really believed in alien UFOs. Now I think they are mostly covers for experimentation, covers for experimental aircraft, and psyops to condition the population for future false flag of some kind.
A year after my dad died we cleaned out the closet of his coats. One had a plain McDonald's hamburger (just burger and bun, he used to get them for the dog). It looked exactly the same as a fresh one. No mold or deterioration of any kind, even on the bun.
Competing viewpoints below. I have never used it nor know anyone that has, so be careful.
Fenbendazole, on the other hand, I do know people that have cured colon cancer with it, and have heard second hand of pancreatic cancer from a couple of people.
Black Salve links:
https://www.naturalnews.com/039803_Indian_black_salve_cancer_cure_herb.html
https://www.westonaprice.org/health-topics/modern-diseases/adventures-black-salve/
Fenbendazole for colon cancer, pancreatic cancer, potentially lung cancer and others.
Black salve for skin cancer.
Extended fasting in general for many cancers, and seems to be good combine with Fenbendazole.
Ivermectin also has a lot of anecdotes, but not as much study data as fenbendazole.
It's for the greater good.
Looks to me like this is just early phases of conditioning the public to travel and movement being banned at any given time for any "emergency" they decide to declare.
Yeah, that's why I don't think either way is really a viable option. Need to participate locally though.
And more importantly, the actual viable path is to build community and networks that can survive and exist outside of this system, and grow that. Hoping for someone in the controlled system to come save us is doing it wrong. We have to put in the actual work ourselves.
It's a threshold thing. The specific number I don't know, but if say only 10% of people participate and they try to pretend that 50% are participating, then it becomes obvious to everyone that it is fake.
The facade needs to be kept up until they have the control grid fully in place, otherwise you risk waking too many people up and either revolution or total noncompliance.
As you indicate, there is also a threshold in the other direction where they can't rig it enough to cheat enough and still make it appear realistic.
I'm not really advocating either direction at the state and federal levels, I'm just saying the one place you really should participate is locally.
However, something to keep in mind, they added 25 million more votes in 2020 than had ever been cast previously. They've still got another 15 they can pull from for registered voters and can even register as many as they need to on election day in many states now, giving them up to 100 million more (or, as many as they need).
Yes, it gets harder and harder to keep it looking realistic, but the population will believe what they are told to believe if they have to. You would need such massive numbers to really overcome that.
You'd need big numbers in either direction really (either massive numbers stop voting or massive numbers come in and actually vote), so I don't think either way is realistic, so that's why I always just say do what you want at the state and federal levels, but make sure you participate locally.
The other side of that is it validates the system, and if it is entirely rigged then participating perpetuates the system because it makes it appear valid.
They could just report large number even if they don't get them, but people will know locally that nobody is participating and eventually would catch on that it is all fake.
That said, I still generally advocate participating as much as you possibly can locally. That is the place that both matters the most and is hardest to corrupt (though they are close to having localities compromised enough as well).
Do whatever you feel like at the state and federal levels.
The same thing would happen if you did carnivore. You'd likely lose a lot of weight, and gain it back when you started adding the vegan carbs back.
Yeah, they add a bunch of toxic crap to mass-produced grain-fed meat, but it's even worse what they add to fruits, vegetables, grains (not to mention all of the natural toxic, carcinogenic pesticides that vegetables contain).
I've never felt better than when on carnivore eating only local, grass-fed beef, some organ meat, eggs, fish and that's it. It is incredibly hard to stay on that diet though in the modern world.
Vegan is much easier to stay on because the system has decided that's what they want the slaves eating, so it is everywhere. Yes, eating raw, natural vegan is better than the processed carbs, but the data is undeniable that we evolved to eat primarily meat.
That said, if what you're doing is working for you, there's no reason to change. If you're having problems (auto-immune, inflammation, weight), I'd really suggest carnivore for 3-6 months as an elimination diet and slowly add back minimal raw unprocessed carbs after that until you notice the problems coming back.
Doable if you want to live in the country and live poor most of the time. But most people arent willing to give up all their creature comforts, like starbucks.
And there it is. I get tired of trying to explain this to people who try that "who can even do that? it's not possible unless you're rich" BS.
Yes, it's absolutely possible for anyone, but sometimes you need to downsize and sacrifice a bit. Most people cannot even begin to wrap their heads around that reality. To them, downsizing a bit is the equivalent of living on the streets and fighting off other homeless people over the dead squirrel you found for dinner.
They have zero ability to comprehend that they are choosing conveniences for themselves over the freedom of their kids.
These are the same people that just took the jabs when they were threatened. They think some hero should come save them, and that is the only way they can ever live free again.
There's always a way. The difference is between those who will sacrifice to get there, and those that will fold once faced with the slightest inconvenience. TPTB know that 80% of people are in that latter group.
Because it isn't just about people who eat deer, if you ever paid attention. It is part of an overarching strategy of keeping people scared of life outside the grid.
The deer have mad cow, the fish are loaded with mercury, lyme disease is spreading out of control, chickens are all dying from the bird flu, the climate is spiraling out of control, raw milk will kill you, you can't survive without your vaccines.
It's possible that mad-deer and lyme are legit, and possible they are not. It's possible that if legit they are organic, and possible that they have been created and inserted intentionally.
No matter what, though, it is impossible to deny that it is all being weaved into an overarching narrative: stay within the safety of the 15-minute cities and eat the safe synthetic lab-grown meat. Only far-right white nationalists would do anything else.
Probably because they understand all of the other books are being removed as a political show to say "see, the oppressive regime forced us to remove all of these classics. this is censorship equivalent to nazi book burning!"
When in reality, no, none of these books need to be removed. It's so they can play the victim while trying to expose kids to lgbtqxyz porn.
There is no way that isn't obvious.
Yeah, that's all accurate.
The only point I would highlight is that the current round actually has also been a series of incremental improvements, and is real tech, and is a legit, standard hype cycle curve.
The difference is they are also using this as one of the cornerstones of their magic "show".
When I was in college in the late 90s (computer science), it was generally accepted that AI Winter was due to the previous AI paths hitting a brick wall and there were no other viable paths (so, of course, there was no interest).
That round of AI hype died down in the 70s, and at the time it mainly consisted of various Prolog systems and AST manipulation in lisp. Once they reached the limits of their capabilities the hype could no longer continue.
Every hype cycle is like that, including this most recent hype cycle with AI (outside of the fact that they are using it to essentially permanently enslave humanity under technocracy).
Same with virtual reality. Remember the hype in the 90s? Then that hit its limit and died for 20 years until Oculus, Vive, Magic Leap, etc. The latest iteration is light years ahead of the 90s tech, but still also not going to meet the hype.
AI hype started back up in the mid 2000s when big data became a thing, and then machine learning naturally followed on when all of that data was now available. I feel like there are a few iterations left in this cycle before it also hits its limit.
However, as I think we are both saying, before it does hit its limit it will be used to convince humanity of its superiority and all of humanity must submit to its guidance (and thus, the fact that there is no real advancement after that point won't matter).
AI is real in the same sense as robotics is real, and will have roughly the same magnitude of impact in the knowledge work fields as robotics has in manufacturing.
Self-driving cars, sure. 80% of what doctors, lawyers and accountants do, sure. Maybe 50-70% of what software devs currently do, sure. Writing ("journalism", movies, songs, other content creation etc.) will heavily utilize it also, but it will just accelerate the homogenization and degradation in quality that has already been happening.
AI cannot do anything that humans can't, given enough time. It can only do specific tasks faster and more efficiently. That is all it will ever be able to do.
Can you assemble and integrate various special purpose AIs and call that AGI? If you want to, sure. That doesn't make it meaningful or anything other than incremental improvement over what we had before. It still cannot do anything that humans cannot, given enough time.
They like to throw out the claim that it can already write better than the majority of humans, but what they don't do is acknowledge that 80% of humans are mostly mindless drones that aren't actually capable of logic, reason, or anything exceptional.
All that matters is can it do better than the best humans in a given domain, and that answer will always be no.
Yes, as stated, it can do specific things faster, but it cannot surpass the intellectual ceiling of humanity.
That said, yes, SkyNet is possible because humans can program it, train it, guide it, direct it. It doesn't need to have superior intellect, it just has to convince the masses that it does.
Anyways, long way of saying that I have come to a similar conclusion over the last year. This is all an operation to convince people of its superiority so they will agree to submit to its authority, not realizing it is all controlled by those already at the top and is just a means of maintaining their power (along with the rest of the control grid: digital ID, CBDC, vaccine passports, 15-minute cities, disintegration of property rights, green energy/carbon economy, hate speech laws, anti-gun laws).
Anywhere power exists, it will eventually be exploited. That's how human nature works.
That's why morons who say the government should be the ones to crack down on corruption are especially stupid. The only way you can facilitate that is to give up more of your own power to the central authority, making them yet more powerful.
That guarantees that the central authority will become more corrupt, because evil will gravitate towards the power and take control.
Decentralization is the only way to resolve this, but it will always be temporary. The trend will always be towards centralization and consolidation of power, with occasional resets/decentralizations.
Put your energy towards helping to decentralize, not towards politicians and heroes. Decentralize communications, how you get and grow your food. Create local networks of people doing the same thing. Create regional networks between the local networks for trade and safe passage.