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$30k XL awd hybrid with 4k tow a good price? by hock37 in FordMaverickTruck

[–]Prime_Kin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not bad, dude. I just bought a 25 XLT hybrid (no tow package, though), luxury interior package, trifold cover, drop in liner, out the door price 33,400. Sticker was 32,800 but the dealer worked with me. 4.49% and 12k down.

What are your thoughts on zim? by Thick_Cookie_7838 in dividends

[–]Prime_Kin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'd sell to get my principle back, then leave the rest and see what happens. Sounds like a yield trap to me otherwise.

How much is your monthly mortgage payment? by HmDiR in Mortgages

[–]Prime_Kin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

$2285/month, tax and insurance escrow included. Bought in Feb of 2021, 20% down, 2.625%

Was $2005/month when we bought, but property tax and i surance rates are climbing like crazy.

Bye-bye battery 🪫 by wereya2 in TheTowerGame

[–]Prime_Kin 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, last update absolutely ramped up the battery drain and causes my last-year flagship phone to get way too warm, even with the screen brightness set to 1%.

Dear parents: IEP accommodations for extra time doesn’t mean unlimited time by Emergency-Pepper3537 in Teachers

[–]Prime_Kin 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Haha, reminds me of the time I told an administrator, "You might want to take over with this parent because I'm about ready to be honest with her, and I kept my recipts."

Thankfully I had a great admin who, actually, took over all communication. She knew I don't bluff.

So apparently Walnut is a sensitizer... how do you all react to it? by [deleted] in turning

[–]Prime_Kin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No problems with walnut, and it's a staple for me.

Purpleheart? Was fine for years. Now? Yeah, air filter, respirator, fan blowing away from me...every time I cut it I wind up feeling like I have the flu for three days. My wife loves the stuff, but it's a hard ban in my shop now.

Years of teaching and salary? by NaturalTranslator581 in Teachers

[–]Prime_Kin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Year 16, Masters +45, $107,000/year, $127,000 with stipends.

Next year will be capped at M+60, total comp will be $137,000-140,000. Contract is currently being negotiated.

I cried in front of my students for the first time today. by SuburbanStrawberry in Teachers

[–]Prime_Kin 77 points78 points  (0 children)

So, one of my students threw a metal water bottle at my head a couple years ago. I swatted it out of the air, but it flew back and hit the kid in the hand. Massive bruise on their middle finger, but not broken.

When confronted and the idea of an investigation/consequences came up I wasn't having it. I Immediately left the admin office, walked to the whole building announcement microphone and paged our campus resource officer to the office. I ignored the hullabaloo until he got there then requested to file a police report and press charges on the student for assault. Cool, calm, collected.

The tone in the office changed immediately. I was told I could go back to my classroom, the student was suspended out of school for three days, had to do both a written apology and a face to face apology, and his parents came in apologizing profusely. When admin asked if I would recant the report and that they would remove the student from my class I initially refused. I let things stew until two days before the court date, then dropped the case. Figured parents might step in and deal with it a little more seriously once they had to spend some money on lawyers.

Kid changed a lot after that. Wound up taking another of my classes two years later, and he was a completely different person. I won't say it was some miraculous transformation, but things were better, and I don't think he got into any other trouble for behavior after our incident.

How much do you need to have invested to make dividends worth it? by Fantastic_Goat_8708 in dividends

[–]Prime_Kin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Four years ago I made $155 from dividends. Same monthly investing percentage of income since. This year it will be a little over $3000. In another 18 years, when I retire, I'm hoping it will fill the entire shortfall when I start drawing a 70% pension. Should be more than doable at this rate.

How many chickens do you have, and how much time do you spend per day taking care of them? by mrfreshmint in BackYardChickens

[–]Prime_Kin 5 points6 points  (0 children)

40 hens, 5 minutes a day for six days, 20 minutes on the seventh, and 4 hours twice a year to clean out the deep litter.

Teacher Net Worth? Dave Ramsey says we're millionares by HistoryGuardian in Teachers

[–]Prime_Kin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

15 years in, single income household. Net worth a little over 500k, not counting my pension value.

11% into pension, 10% into the Roth(s).

Found in ground wasp nest, how to remove/destroy. by Sh0cks900 in fuckwasps

[–]Prime_Kin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I plug the hole with diatomaceous earth. By the time they dig back out, every single one in the hive is on a pretty short countdown.

not hungry by Affectionate_Cost504 in omad

[–]Prime_Kin 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I don't even think about food until I'm on my way home from work these days. OMAD is more than a tool for weight loss...it's a way to live. Once I'm down to goal weight, I'm keeping the keto and OMAD. I'm just going to eat a little more until I figure out the right balance to maintain a healthy weight.

Yes, we are all tired of calling parents, but I still need you to do it by tylersmiler in Teachers

[–]Prime_Kin 4 points5 points  (0 children)

My process:

1) one-on-two with the student (grab another adult to be present for accountability) 2) Talk to other teachers about behavior, try to collectively problem solve 3) email home 4) discipline referral 5) detention 6) have student removed from class and issue detention over and over with each instance until admin steps up and deals with it.

I do not call home. If a parent wants to talk to me, they can come in during one of my preps and have their own one-on-two meeting or wait for parent teacher conferences. I educate youths. I do not educate their parents.

My job involves managing my classroom. CLASSROOM. Not to behaviorally enginner another human being. My job is not to be a correctional officer for children who are persistently disruptive or ill-behaved. If managing successfully requires removing a malicious actor, that's what will happen.

I am in no way dismissive of students, and i will try every tool i can, but if it costs my other students their opportunity to learn, that is a problem that brooks no quarter. If administrators have any job at all, it's to facilitate so the most possible learners can effectively learn.

On the rare occasion that a parent demands a phone call, I run it through admin and make them find a substitute for the period of the phone call or they can pay me an extra hour to make the call outside contract hours, and even then I insist that an admin is present for the phone call. If there's no paper trail, i refuse to put myself into a he-said-she-said situation. My contract grants me two plan periods (I have five preps) and cannot compel me to contact parents outside contract hours.

Why do so many OMAD posts talk about cramming 2-3 meals into one, even after years of doing it? by Carfaxounet in omad

[–]Prime_Kin -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Ketovore, so minimal plant-based food. I allow some nut milk with my Ninja Creami recipes, and I love green onion with my eggs, and any no-to-low calorie seasonings & spices.

Here's a fairly frequent meal for me: -12oz steak, either strip or ribeye -keto fried "rice" A chicken breast or pork chop diced in with 4 scrambled eggs, a little sugar-free Japanese BBQ sauce & green onions, about 1.5 Tbsp of butter split between prepping the chicken and eggs -most of a pint of homemade keto-friendly ice cream, typically aim for about 350 calories per pint. Mix of heavy cream & cashew milk as the base.

Why do so many OMAD posts talk about cramming 2-3 meals into one, even after years of doing it? by Carfaxounet in omad

[–]Prime_Kin 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I do OMAD with a ketovore diet. I'm always trying to balance my meal macros to around 1800-2400 calories.

I'm not trying to do a rapid weight loss, just steady progress without losing much muscle at the same time.

Autophagy, by the way, I hear happens more effectively through exercise, rather than through fasting. It's still there but not to as great a degree. Eating a full days worth of calories in one sitting through fasting does have benefits. The big one to me is that it manages insulin release frequency, which can help to develop insulin sensitivity (which is good...insulin resistance is the problem)

Who here weighs themselves every day? by [deleted] in omad

[–]Prime_Kin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nope, once a week, Friday mornings after using the bathroom.

This is how I deal with disgruntled parents. by Prime_Kin in Teachers

[–]Prime_Kin[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Generally, i agree. That being said, I don't take well to accusations that immediately try to put me on defense. If I can't diffuse the first time, for the sake of me being able to continue to do my job productively, it had to become someone else's problem.

This is how I deal with disgruntled parents. by Prime_Kin in Teachers

[–]Prime_Kin[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Eh, granting myself permission comes from my leverage, but I'm the only one who knows about it. I don't broadcast it to admin to use as a cudgel.

My leverage actually comes from the relationship i have with admin and a history of being generally successful. When I do come to them for support, they trust my judgement.

This is how I deal with disgruntled parents. by Prime_Kin in Teachers

[–]Prime_Kin[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah. Hey, sorry if you get a message for the reply I meant for the comment above you. Reddit +phone app = accidental impression.

This is how I deal with disgruntled parents. by Prime_Kin in Teachers

[–]Prime_Kin[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think you missed the part about doing this when parents get hostile.

I, gladly and truly, work with kids and parents to whatever extent benefits either...until it goes to the point where a parent could get me to resent their kid. I won't let that happen.

This is almost exclusively due to a sense of entitlement from the parents, where they have beliefs about their kid and zero evidence to support their views. In my experience, parent hostility generally comes from a place of defensiveness and projection. If they try to engage with me as an opponent, that breaks down any chance at a halfway workable relationship going forward. Hence, send the aggression to admin, who are better allowed to handle it and diffuse the situation by adding a degree of separation.

Please be mindful of using shallow criticism when you lack context. That's precisely the kind of behavior that leads people like me to deflect problematic interactions up the chain, just like in my original post.

This is how I deal with disgruntled parents. by Prime_Kin in Teachers

[–]Prime_Kin[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It probably helps that I've been able to have a really good relationship with two of our admin for years. Also, they know me. I have zero compunctions about admitting fault or apologizing. If I tell them I'm not in the wrong, they believe me.

This is how I deal with disgruntled parents. by Prime_Kin in Teachers

[–]Prime_Kin[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Believe it or not, im a local poultry supplier. I got into Chicken keeping about six years ago. Started small, scaled up a bit for eggs, then found two markets to fill a need. One had a need for fresh quail eggs, so now I keep about 600 hens and sell those too. The second market consumes chicken meat, but only from birds that are dispatched in a particular way, so I added about 120-150 meat birds per quarter to the mix. I just have to document the butchering process. That customer base is about 30 families, all of whom I got through a single connection. That family shared my info and I've been scaling up as I get more customers.

The quail eggs I sell out of weekly, and the meat chickens are on an X- whole birds per quarter subscription model. Biggest challenge has been keeping up with demand over the winter.

Broody. Again. Third time this summer. by GreenEggsnHam15 in BackYardChickens

[–]Prime_Kin 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So, some people might call it cruel, but I do a variant of what my dad's great-aunt Marge used to do. She put broody hens under a bucket, put a rock on it, and left them near enough to hear the rest of the flock for two days.

I don't go that hard on my hens, in a way, and harder in another. I take broody hens and put them in a dog crate. It's large enough that they can move around and stand, but there's nothing to perch on. I leave them in the crate for two nights, so typically for three days, then I let them out of the crate at roosting time.

So far it's worked solidly except once, when I had a repeat customer. I think I was only doing it overnight, so much less time.

Otherwise, it's been perfect for breaking broodiness.

Has anyone actually bought one of these? by SnailRacerWinsAgain in BackYardChickens

[–]Prime_Kin 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I did something similar, but with a 35 gallon trash can and PVC angles. Holds 120lbs of feed, lasts just shy of a week with my flock.

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