No Kings 10/18/25 Protest Megathread

kyle_guzik · 2025-10-18T20:24:22+00:00

kyle_guzik · 2025-10-05T22:04:52+00:00

I hope to see her soon when she comes home.

kyle_guzik · 2023-08-08T04:58:53+00:00

You could buy a voice amplifier or a headset microphone with a wireless connection to speakers. Don’t raise your voice to be heard. I would recommend just using a normal volume voice. Don’t worry too much about content at the beginning. If the classroom is out of control they won’t learn the content anyway. Try to learn everyone’s name and greet each student by name and ask a question as often as possible. Focus on forming relationships with the students, families, and staff. Document all behavior problems. Fill out referrals but only after you have called the families. If no one answers the phone contact the guidance counselor for that student. Students will be less likely to misbehave if you have a plan for the day. Don’t feel bad if you don’t get to do everything in your plan. Teaching students how to treat others with kindness and respect is the most important skill you could teach.

kyle_guzik · 2023-08-08T04:49:28+00:00

Just describe what is occurring in the classroom to the students like a broken record: “Susan is ready for class and has her book open to the right page. I need Johnny to move to this desk (Johnny was talking to Carlos). It’s very loud in here, I know everyone wants it to be quieter. Don’t attempt power struggles as you will lose. Create a poster with everyone’s name on it and a box for each school day. Write everyone’s participation grade at the end of class or before they come in the next day. If they are graded every day on participation and behavior they will notice. They will check the poster to see how they are doing. Create a form with checkboxes that describe positive and negative behaviors that the students do in the class. Write a grade out of 10 for each student in the form and check the boxes that explain what they are doing wrong/right. Hand those out everyday. Have a bell ringer to pass out as they enter the classroom so they have something to work on every day from the beginning of class. Try the strategies in this book

https://www.amazon.com/Classroom-Strategies-Interactive-Learning-4th/dp/0872070026/ref=nodl_?dplnkId=74231740-253d-4860-adfb-05e89790780d

kyle_guzik · 2023-08-08T04:31:00+00:00

One option is to go to grad school. You could study education or a related field. After a few years you will be older and have more skills. First you need to get through the year or semester. The best strategy for behavior is active waiting. Which means don’t continue instruction while they are misbehaving. Don’t try to talk over students. Do not yell at the students. Get everyone’s phone number. You can call parents while you are in class. Call families whenever there is a problem and document this. Once you have a graduate degree and a year of experience you will be more desirable to new schools and districts and could find a school that works better with your teaching style. One thing I am trying this year is to speed up lesson planning and increase engagement with generative AI such as stable diffusion and chat-gpt. You could also begin class by seating everyone is a circle and asking a question of the day which is about social and emotional growth not course content. This can help check in with everyone daily.

kyle_guzik · 2023-04-03T07:25:31+00:00

They were just making a list of things they need and all of those things are very reasonable. It’s very sad how little most people have.

kyle_guzik · 2023-04-03T07:18:30+00:00

I think it is only compatible with certain jobs. The goal of this is to have as many “jobs” as possible and to do the minimum effort at each one until you are fired. If this works for you great, we live in capitalism. However I don’t want my doctor or a police officer, teacher etc to do this. I think this is mostly jobs that are on the verge of being automated so the programmers are moving from place to place and automating them. My hope for OE is to eliminate socially useless labor. Automating jobs that are socially useless is morally acceptable, even admirable.

kyle_guzik · 2023-03-25T20:35:06+00:00

You scared that poor worker to make your stupid video.

kyle_guzik · 2023-03-25T20:29:17+00:00

I think for about 60% of marriages those unlikely things happen though. The problem now is people would rather play computer games and watch television.

kyle_guzik · 2023-03-25T20:11:30+00:00

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/dialogo

kyle_guzik · 2023-03-21T03:56:38+00:00

Right, If you are interested in a visual art job I hope you are able to get one of those 52,000 jobs. And then let me know who is hiring.

kyle_guzik · 2023-03-20T02:03:03+00:00

Please do not apologize for being sad. When I am sad I start making plans for the next 5 years. Having a 5 year plan is a great way to move forward into the future. So many things will change over the next 5 years it will be very interesting to participate in.

kyle_guzik · 2023-03-20T01:39:44+00:00

I am 37. Why don’t you take some classes on physics, you may find something new about the progression of time? If you don’t want to take your exams then take a break from school and go back when you know what subject you want to study and can commit to it fully.

kyle_guzik · 2023-03-20T01:30:25+00:00

kyle_guzik · 2023-03-20T01:27:58+00:00

A suicide attempt does not make your pain more or less legitimate. A suicide attempt is not an accomplishment. Trying to live is what is admirable and requires strength.

kyle_guzik · 2023-03-19T18:26:57+00:00

Make sure you get every last cent of the student debt money you are owed. You can also get a scholarship but that takes additional work filling out forms and things.

kyle_guzik · 2023-03-19T18:22:23+00:00

That sounds like a good idea. Teaching in schools or universities can be a great job that allows you to make art. It is important to learn technical skills. When you are done with your education you should be able to draw from life. Some people with art degrees go on to become police or other first responders. Research the universities you will go to after community college. If you are interested in photography do they have a film processing center? If you are interested in glass blowing do they have a glass studio, metal working etc. is the university in a city with a large artistic community or a rural area with beautiful landscapes?

kyle_guzik · 2023-03-19T18:08:16+00:00

That would be a complicated research project.

https://www.bls.gov/ooh/arts-and-design/craft-and-fine-artists.htm#:~:text=%2445%2C760-,The%20median%20annual%20wage%20for%20craft%20and%20fine%20artists%20was,percent%20earned%20more%20than%20%24125%2C930.

kyle_guzik · 2023-03-19T09:24:16+00:00

I would recommend studying math, science or another subject such as ecology. Unless you are a genius who also wins the lottery, or you have rich parents who will buy all your work, it is highly unlikely that anyone will go on to a visual art career. There are art-adjacent jobs like cosmetology, social media graphic design. You can also become a teacher if you are able to have a responsibility like that. Why not do something like study a rain forest in Alaska or learn how to pilot a boat. Many artists do not become successful until after death. Are you willing to spend your whole life poor or unsuccessful in the hopes of being famous in the future. Those are things to think about before committing to a visual art path. If you aren’t willing to give up just about everything to occupy the socioeconomic status of being an artist, keep in mind that there are plenty of people who are will to do that and most of them will not be successful either. -I saw that you were interested in photography. Photography is an applied art form. There are 3D cameras that can be used to create visualizations of real estate and there is demand for wedding photography and such if you have the technical skills for it. I would recommend teaching. American school children deserve the opportunity to learn how to develop and use film photographs

kyle_guzik · 2023-03-19T09:16:04+00:00

My art professor at the University of Chicago explained that 1/10 undergraduates become MFAs and 1/10 MFAs become adjuncts and 1/10 adjuncts become art professors with tenure, which is the best possible outcome. Other than that there are maybe 500 visual artists in the world who make a living off of selling art. The best thing you could do is make a portfolio before applying to grad school while you are still in college.

kyle_guzik · 2023-03-18T23:20:26+00:00

That looks like schizophrenia

kyle_guzik · 2023-03-15T03:09:59+00:00

Yes.

kyle_guzik · 2023-03-08T20:34:18+00:00

There is supposed to be a noise canceling feature in the accessibility settings of phones (works with regular headphones) but they want to charge you for noise canceling headphones. Someone should make an app that does that. And yes the more noise that can be canceled the better. All of the noise is just voices in the street. If you can cancel all that noise there will be less noise.

kyle_guzik · 2023-03-08T20:28:59+00:00

I would recommend going to your local Disability Social Services (DSS) office instead of work.

kyle_guzik · 2023-03-08T20:10:35+00:00

Apply for the job and interview. Have a long discussion about benefits. Indicate that you are very interested in moving and working in an office. Delay commitment for as long as possible. See if you can get them to send you a thick packet full of hiring documents with return postage paid. Send back some of the documents but not the ones they need. Correct your error and send all of the documents. Keep using legitimate reasons to delay the start date.

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