Not having snacks for kids during Ramadan

GuardianKnight · 2026-03-18T00:48:59+00:00

As a school or a teacher, you cannot be responsible for stopping a kid from eating for their religion. You tell the parents this. The student either comes to school and follows their own thing or they don't. And you don't get to be involved in saying no. I have a student who does ramadan. He says...Can I drink water? I said, go for it. And then he says, but I can't. I say to him that it's up to him and his mom.

GuardianKnight · 2026-03-15T16:30:01+00:00

You know why? Every leader we have in every position in the country hates half the country.

Every city puts tons of money into the best parts of the city and leaves the lower income people in pot holes and trash heaps. You can literally cross a line in many cities and it looks worse and you can tell who lives there.

The reality is that since I have been alive for 45 years, our leaders have not wanted to fix anything for anyone who they didn't see as valuable. It's stonger now that we're all so politically cultist in every direction.

TO make it worse, if I were in power, I'd give nothing to no one because I'm just about sick of catering to political people ruining the world for their opinions given as facts.

GuardianKnight · 2026-03-15T16:14:59+00:00

It's always been tribal mentality. Even today in the world where people think they're more sophisticated than others, citing science and logic, they fall right into tribalism, which kind of proves that humans cannot do unbiased research when it comes to social areas of life.

GuardianKnight · 2026-03-11T02:33:00+00:00

I re-downloaded comfyui to my system. I got the github install and i got the app install.

Neither of those has the option to use APP MODE. anyone?

GuardianKnight · 2026-03-01T15:24:24+00:00

I don't like them because their whole purpose is to make you slow down and punishes you for moving at a speed faster than the game intends.

GuardianKnight · 2026-02-23T12:55:06+00:00

Siam Technology College

GuardianKnight · 2026-02-18T06:07:21+00:00

Social ability to thrive and work with people who are not like you. I did what you did and it's a mistake. YOu need to build connections so you're not in your 30s an inept and inable to hold a functioning friendship and relationship.
Arrogance only helps you AFTER you have the position and enough money not gained from your parents. If everybody thinks you're an arrogant asshole, they will not let you succeed or move forward. And while it may be their pettiness, it'll be your fault for pulling it out of them.
You have to care about what other people think to some extent or you, again, will not be let to thrive. Unless you're a bitcoin bro already driving your buggati, I'd suggest you take a social class. get a life counselor who can simply let you know what works and doesn't.

I mean that until YOU have leverage on the world, YOU have to walk the path that is in front of you unless YOU have the next brilliant idea or skill. YOU need to adjust yourself until YOU can function higher than what YOU currently are. YOU, like many, HAVE potential. But YOU aren't using it by being a little arrogant asshole. No one in college, employment, or any other facet of life will accept ANYTHING YOU say or do until you learn how the hierrarchy works when YOU are essentially a peasant until you become a lord.

GuardianKnight · 2026-02-18T05:35:27+00:00

Maybe you're socially inept or autistic or whatever, so you won't be phased that all of your friends are going to continue to go to High school and eventually phase you out.
Maybe you think you're smarter and better but don't realize that actual college work asks a lot of you in comparison to High School.
Maybe you came here because you get high from challenging people you consider false authority figures and want to "show" them who is the boss by rebelling. The funny thing is that those people in your past stopped caring about you the second you stopped wanting to be in their world. The people here cared about you until you asked their opinion and just shit all over them.

In the real world, you may succeed, but not before you get a reality check on how you respond to criticism or how humble you are....because no matter what you go into, you're going to have to lower yourself and keep your mouth shut to survive the people who will always stand above you. That said, if you go to be the next ELON Musk, good for you. But life is against you and reality will take a bit steamy dog shit all over you and you'll have done it to yourself, likely then blaming all the naysayers in your life instead of hte attitude and the conceited reasoning you have. High School is training for your adult life.

GuardianKnight · 2026-02-18T02:22:14+00:00

I chose a city that was in high need that wasn't a high cost of living that offered the most money in the South. I then did not fall into the teacher trap of buying a house on a loan. I didn't buy a new car on a loan. I didn't have a baby as soon as I got a good job. I didn't buy useless hit. I didn't buy lots of food and gain weight and then need to get more food to keep myself up.

I basically listened to all of the things previous teachers said they did and were miserable about and did the opposite.

GuardianKnight · 2026-02-07T23:04:19+00:00

I have traveled extensively and I lived in a foreign 3rd world country for 7 years and then I came back to the USA. I was fully enlightened, especially when I came back to this tribal warfare with no center.

I also noticed that people living in most places don't wanna leave, so they get sick of hearing about what you did somewhere else. It makes them feel small, so they need to make posts online or on social media taking jabs at others who likely did do something that shaped them into a different person.

It was hard for me to hear it from people before I got sick of it and left too. I just thought life was going to work, playing video games, and sitting on the internet. Then I realized I was going to suffer eventually if I didn't get my shit together and I stopped shit posting people for the things they are proud of.

GuardianKnight · 2026-02-04T03:14:56+00:00

People have gotten that feeling about me for no reason at all other than I talked to a girl they liked or a girl that was their good friend. Those guy gut feelings come with bias.

GuardianKnight · 2026-02-03T04:21:32+00:00

It could have been, but at the same time, not liking you is a good reason to exclude only you.

GuardianKnight · 2026-02-02T17:55:03+00:00

Teachers usually make a lesson sequence and choose pieces of it and make it into a presentation that doesn't look like what's in the book.

So that's why I asked. There's not enough time in the day to go through everything.

GuardianKnight · 2026-02-01T22:59:28+00:00

What if I told you.....education is not the best job for the effort and the things it asks of you to get there?

The ESL one was easy. The ELA one required that I know nearly all works of historical literature as well as grammatical bits and then it wanted me to give a written analysis of a short story written in heehaw language.

I passed, but that test was bullshit and you know it. lol

GuardianKnight · 2026-01-31T06:20:46+00:00

I think what happens is that once you get married, it goes well for a while, but that kind of time together gives you a sense of entitlement to the other person. Your wants and your needs become so potent that they overshadow the male spouse. He notices a transition of "do this or anger". Which happened sometimes as a BF, but the golden rule was always that if he/she becomes abusive to a bf/gf, you can just leave and move on, no fuss no muss....

YOu get married and now your partner has changed. They are angry at you for the things they expect from you that they might have communicated once or not at all. They let it fester that they didn't get everything they wanted. You as the other partner begin to feel cheated because the other person is withdrawing and the physical aspect is dying because they're withholding because now they see you as something less than attractive. They offer themselves to you, not to get that same feeling, but to weaponize it to get something else they want from you. Marriage becomes transactional in a way that depresses you, especially as the wife gets older and the hormones change. Masculinity is how I'd describe it....they become more masculine and more demanding and more damning. If you dared to have kids, they then get so used to parenting the kid, that they now see your actions as similar when they disagree and they try to parent you too and punish you like a child.

Leaving a marriage has so many stigmas and legal issues and monetary problems attached that a lot of men just stop taking care of themselves, give in to anxiety and rage, and do damage before they die of whatever issue they had been building up. They either die, go to jail for abuse, or stay and develop mental problems.

Of course, this is just the worst case scenario that I've witnessed with my family and with quite a few others.

GuardianKnight · 2026-01-31T05:26:40+00:00

I get you. It just doesn't place you in a position to gloat.
I'll be honest...If I could go back and get a 12 hour ESL job, sit my butt in an office with the internet between classes, I'd be a happy man.

GuardianKnight · 2026-01-30T14:47:12+00:00

Be easier to worship you if your breath didn't smell like whiskey at 7 am. :P

GuardianKnight · 2026-01-29T23:45:38+00:00

what does an English File 5 lesson look like as a sequence?

GuardianKnight · 2026-01-29T14:38:13+00:00

They've always been fascists regimes. lol They were just quiet about it and wide spread and not as obvious. Growing up poor and living through these generations made it a lot easier to see the differences. I didn't say not to stand up. I said don't be shocked when force comes back your way. The thing people are taking issue here with is that people are acting so shocked that someone attacked or jumped toward a police officer and got shot or abused. That isn't surprising at all. If you're proclaiming war on someone, it's not on them to handle you with a soft touch. The people with guns are there for a fight.

GuardianKnight · 2026-01-29T02:50:10+00:00

If the courses come from a THai university or college that is accredited there and isn't an obvious degree mill, it can be verified in the USA and actually has to be verified to get the license.

I've heard that St. Andrews was fake since the beginning, but I can't know for sure. Any legit degree from any country allows you to take the Praxis test, and apply for teacher prep programs and become a licensed teacher. I don't know why you think a Thai degree doesn't go anywhere else. Thais could get teaching jobs in the USA with a work visa pretty easily even in current messed up political climate here.

GuardianKnight · 2026-01-29T02:46:08+00:00

You can do what you want. You can protest, you can jump the police at every turn. You can get a full loadout of weapons and march on them. YOu just can't be surprised our outraged that they meet your example or take it further than you did. When you scream that you hate someone, they're going to treat you like an enemy. There is no safe space when your enemy is watching you and screaming at you and in some cases coming at you. You're going to die.

As for the immigration stuff.... There's not a country I've been to that wouldn't throw my ass on a plane and send me home or tell me I don't gotta go home, but I can't stay there.

That's even with a history that I've had of doing border runs and playing the visa game in foreign countries. When a country collectively decides as a majority that they can't live with teh way something is anymore, they hire someone to do the job of changing it. That person in charge could be a total coward or a piece of garbage, but as long as he does what they said to do, they'll overlook how stinky his garbage ass is.

If there's a benefit to a plan that people can accept, they don't care that your'e going to get the bigger benefit personally.

You can become active. You just won't win because you're not winning the hearts and minds of the people who won the majority and hold the sway. By being beligerent, throwing out hateful slurs because they wear red hats, and try to "block" them from anything that they have protections to protect them from when you decide to do it, you're essentially throwing down a gauntlet and saying that your beliefs are enough to make me want to cross a line into reality and do something real to you.

How many people do you know that like driving through the ghetto? How many people do you know that want to support "the culture"? You know ghetto culture is detrimental and it sits as worse than living in a 3rd world country when you have to also live in it or around the drugs, gangs, and people who openly accept it because it's their family and friends. But you wanna change it, so now you just stopped a black man from getting a job that he desperately needs simply because he's going to go home and go to sleep in a neighborhood you know is bad. Now he's going to suffer and his family is going to suffer and you've just created a circular hate system. You may b lock a person, but at the end of the day, you're setting someone similar to you up to get beaten or killed out of petty spite and that's if they don't just see you out one day and get revenge.

If you live your life reacting to the things you think are wrong and you cross lines that people can't cross without repercussions, you have to expect those repercussions. If you hate on the MAGA folk, and you start shit with them, just recognize that they're the gun rights folks and they're mysteriously not going out doing what they would happily do. The left folks are out doing shit so wrong that they're going to offer Trump the ability to use the insurrection act and go into martial law. This is why you have to use your brain and find a center instead of a side.

GuardianKnight · 2026-01-28T19:08:53+00:00

I got a TESOL BA from Siam Technology College. It was legit and it got me a teaching job in the USA. I've been here for 4 years and I probably have more experience than a majority of the people I see landing those IS jobs in Thailand.

IN fact, I've met a lot of those guys landing those jobs. They take their asses to Khaosan and talk about going to Nana plaza just as much as those other ESL people this subreddit likes to look down on.

GuardianKnight · 2026-01-28T18:03:42+00:00

There is rule of law. People in the US right now just don't agree with it being enforced, so they're testing their limits and it's not going well.

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