about_Jobs, Start-Job, and Start-ThreadJob should mention the $using scope and link to about_Remote_Variables

[mklement0]

In order to directly use variable values from the caller's scope in a job script block, you must use the $using: scope (as a more convenient alternative to passing arguments).

This fact should be mentioned in these topics, and they should link to about_Remote_Variables for further information.

Note that special considerations apply to Start-ThreadJob with $using: references whose values are instances of reference types, because the same object can potentially be modified my multiple thread jobs in a non-thread-safe way; this is more likely to occur with ForEach-Object -Parallel - where it is already documented, but it's worth mentioning in the Start-ThreadJob topic too.

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[sdwheeler]

This was addressed in #5596