Michae - Safety Third 54 

michae is the plural of michael

@@qasqer1004 Thats... the joke.

@@snowed6713 take a lookie at the profile picture

@@circumferenced Ok?

@@snowed6713 oh man! You took that bait hook line and sinker!

Be careful saying Nige out loud

@Seriously? r/whooosh

@Seriously? The FitnessGram Pacer Test is a multistage aerobic capacity test that progressively gets more difficult as it continues. The 20 meter pacer test will begin in 30 seconds. Line up at the start. The running speed starts slowly but gets faster each minute after you hear this signal bodeboop. A sing lap should be completed every time you hear this sound. ding Remember to run in a straight line and run as long as possible. The second time you fail to complete a lap before the sound, your test is over. The test will begin on the word start. On your mark. Get ready!… Start. ding

@@the_butsmuts you didnt get the joke did you

@@the_butsmuts theirs was also a joke, look at their profile picture

holy shit those two could beat elon musk to mars if you gave them enough money

^^

@@Xenibalt they would greatly injure millions and themselves in the process

Once my friend saw me watching one of Nigel’s videos and went “he remind me of this other guy you might like!” And the other guy was Michae.

I disagree

I love how he seems confused by not getting immediately called out for it.

I IMMEDIATELY got it haha

And I would wager that one of the factors involved in your stopping teaching is students' very challenging attitudes and behaviors towards your learning and work expectations? Highly influenced by our societal attitude about how "school sucks". All the while we are doing and experiencing things that students around the world and in less resourced school districts would probably walk over glass in bare feet to experience and that are evidence of great learning that also has helped you discover your path... Don't want to play the teacher "martyr" card, but I love these guys and hope that they can just shift a few degrees towards any more sort of positive talk about school and away from the victim mentality argument that pervades our rhetoric around public education in the U.S. Not defending all the problems, just wish that students, parents, and society would seek clarity about the reality that creates the conditions "on the ground" and be careful what they condemn and why, because there is a ton of very important context that we're not representing in these diatribes.

@@ATONAL6173 nah dude. Student behavior isn't bad. You just have to care about them and they will care for you. I left because of administration overworking (65+ hour work week, mandatory attendance on weekends) and low pay. I worked 5 years and never made more than $28k per year, then another 4 years for $50k. Debt is a killer and when you self fund your classroom and tools it gets worse. Now I make more than before, less work, and more free time. Teaching is a hard profession when done right, but when you can't pay your teachers you will inevitably force them out.

@@wave221 Ah, that would be my second guess... Student behavior/engagement is not as simple as you state, but you're certainly not wrong. :) And I would argue that in our case, as "electives" teachers (I assume - or at least a classroom where students have the ability to be active learners, as opposed to more traditional academic settings), we have an easier row to hoe in that respect. I stand by my contention that our lack of optimism and growth-mindset when talking about educational system change is a major factor in our struggle and one of the only huge leverage points we actually have control over, and I call on our maker community to be careful about what they label as problems and to point the finger squarely at the primarily responsible and empowered parties - legislature and voters, 90% of teachers are desperately working to be part of the solution and are often labelled as the problem, unfortunately. Thanks for making an awesome environment for students, you know you made an impact! Someday some of your students will be on a relatively large podcast, as a result of some level of fame from their making skills, complaining about how their school sucked, but STEM was pretty cool. So I'll be the example I'm asking others to be and point that out as a positive. In fact, about every 20th comment, there's somebody talking about their school shop or STEM class that is doing things right.

@@ATONAL6173 of course the environment is going to be hard, you're working with kids and teens, why do you make it sound like that's a surprise, almost? i don't think blame should be placed on such young people, but the system. low pay and outdated curriculums and methodology do nothing but kill the drive to learn, what an awful thing. learning is the most beautiful thing we can do, and yet, it almost looks systematic how this drive is murdered at schools. i find most of these guys' complains to not be born out of a lack of optimism, but frustration at what i've just stated. underpaid teachers are just as much victims as the students are for the situation.

@@saaros I didn't think it was going to be a cakewalk and I don't think my comments fault students for things that are developmentally appropriate and expected. My concern, born of first-hand experience, is that the echo chamber that is modern society and the lightning propagation of ideas, trends, and feelings has become an incredibly difficult addition to any and all previous challenges and as we come into maturity in teaching, learning, and living with this relatively new set of conditions, I'm looking forward to the beginnings of growth past our decades long chant of, "U.S. public education sucks. It's a machine designed to squash individualism and joy.". As I've stated, there are elements of those statements that certainly feel true and valid, but I ask anyone who will listen to be careful how they complain, and what and who they complain about, then do something about it, or offer some sort of optimism or counter with some of the incredibly long list of positives and people who have dedicated themselves to make a difference despite the hordes that turn the other way when they experience the difficulties. This podcast, in particular was full of so very much generalized, unquestioned "school sucks" themes, with almost no acknowledgement of the complex reasons behind the bad experiences, the political reality that stops us from easily and effectively improving experiences and frankly an almost complete lack of acknowledgement of any of the positive experiences and outcomes, that students around the nation and around the world are jealous of. I'm simply asking them to apply an engineer's mindset to the problem, consult with experts, and be solution oriented and model a growth mindset. My comments about pay are in response to a student who was surprised that their teacher didn't read their entire essay. Simply provided as context in defense of a teacher who is essentially being accused of not working hard enough, because they cut a corner. Can't argue that it's not wrong, unprofessional, bad teaching, because it is, but from the other side of the desk, I can understand why and how those things happen. Context matters, but we do not often know or even speculate about the context around any particular teacher's actions or any particular aspect of our experience with the system. And the few negatives are so powerful in comparison with the vast amount of positives, especially in our hyper-communicative world, which these science evangelists have an opportunity to push back against.

Who is nigel?

You're right, I'm sorry guys, I meant to say Nige* 😭

@@Alkatross the cute guy

@@Alkatross Nilered’s real name is Nigel

@@ViperXPizzel who is nilered, nigel is nileblue lol

They didn't say anything that's incorrect.

Literally hopped down here just to say that, yeah. If you buy rough cut lumber from a mill near you, if it's truly rough cut, it'll be real close to 2"x4".

Ahhh. That makes sense. Last month, my dad asked me to hand him a 2x4, and I was a bit confused. I saw wood, yes. But even I, with limited spacial awareness, could tell that the planks weren't two inches by four inches. :P

Same!

I was so disappointed, WHERE IS IT MICHAEjjj

That means it's coming soon... right?! RIGHT?

@@Aplexity we can only hope

Coming soon in 2024:

yeah i wish miel was a host

@@MochaFur1 Makl Is just the best youtuber

feelsgoodman

I think he just likes hanging out with his friends.

Its definitely his social time. I get the feeling he doesn't get a chance to talk much with people outside of this stuff - he went on Trash Taste, and just answering some commonly asked questions sent him down a bunch of personal rabbitholes of things he hadn't thought about or talked about in a long time, if ever.

@@patricktsao9630 that's why I like so much that he's doing this podcast. But he seems to be fun to be around, and he's really smart; I think like you that he doesn't hang out with many people (outside of this chemistry RU-vidr circle), but I just don't get why.

i'm down with nigel just hanging out

nigel is a good foil to a lot of the harsher/weirder takes the others have sometimes, like the whole "why teach history when you could teach welding" stuff lol. and his canadian perspective on that stuff is a nice reminder that things can def be better in the states

I....need to try that .

Want teachers to do a better job? Give them the time needed to be the educators we expect them to be. But nobody wants to pay for that. Experts' time is expensive. Just about everywhere else in life, we all expect to pay well for experts' time. (I think I remember these very creators talking about how they would simply refuse to work for less pay than they deserve...we've been there too, as teachers, but boy does it come at a price. Nobody likes striking teachers for very long. And when we cut necessary corners to try and protect our bottoms lines, we're being unethical, counter-productive, and lazy.) I cannot excuse any unethical behavior, because that is certainly unethical to not read the paper in its entirety, but I can certainly understand the context which brought about that decision. We shouldn't be surprised that we are forced to cut corners! If you were to calculate the amount of time we have to spend on each student... just don't. It's depressing. And the usual response is, "Wow, I really appreciate all the hard work you're doing! Here's an apple. (literally happens.) Here's a bunch of donuts. (I don't want to sound ungrateful, I know I do, but it's YT comments and I'm ranting. So rant I shall. After teaching for 16 years, I get to.) Here's a McDonald's gift card. Here's the inflation-adjustment to your salary schedule that the voters approved 10 years ago that the legislature froze that does nothing to address the lost income of the last 10 years. Let's have you spend 30 minutes of your staff meeting practicing self-soothing skills, hug yourself, rub your arms. It will help. Hey everybody, make sure and prioritize your mental health and self-care! Oh, I'm sorry you feel like you don't have enough time to do the job you, your profession, your students, and your parents expect - here are some ways you can, like, be more efficient or something. Or here's a strategy that works for this teacher, but is impossible in your situation. Oh, and that common planning time that your colleagues get, yeah, we can't give you that. Sorry different department, different funding." Now, if I spend extra time grading, planning, cleaning, inventorying, communicating, scheming, coaching...I GET PAID LESS. The system for us is, "Here's a lump sum of money beyond your yearly salary for the entire year for all the 'extra' you do" I am keeping track of all the extra hours beyond my contract just for grinsies this year. I make about $61 per hour for my regular pay. My "extra" rate is down to $33 at this point, and it's not even half way through the year. All those extra hours to carefully read your paper or listen to your playing test and help you become a better musician are going to be $15 per hour by the end of the year. I might as well work just about anywhere else, it feels like sometimes. Ok. I love my job, I love my job. Remind myself. Say the mantra. Grass isn't greener anywhere else. I have pretty high job security and a lot of positives that many people envy, I shouldn't be ungrateful. It's just a job. Not every parent is like that. 99% of people get it and appreciate the situation with abounding grace... Breathe.... I hated it for a good 6-7 years and wanted out pretty desperately. Still do kinda. But the grass is not greener on the other side, and I am extremely, extremely, incredibly fortunate to be a valued professional in a union job, with 100's of students and parents who get it and appreciate me with all their hearts and vote yes on every education issue they can without question. I am 16 years in, so I make a living wage that I can somewhat comfortably support my family with. I have decent benefits, a retirement system that is ok, and a lot of time "off", but reminder, we don't get paid for all that. (And before anybody says it...as if anybody will read this....the argument that a parent (with a "reagan.com" email address) made that our retirement and benefits should be included in our "actual" compensation and that teachers are paid "way more" than we say, (Oh, I read on the internet that teachers are actually paid a national average of 110K! And they are lizard people!) has some merit, but I don't know that any other profession is criticized or compared that way. Saying that we should include the "true cost" of my medical benefits and retirement contributions when calculating my "real" salary is unfair, I think. We do talk about benefits packages when discussing one firm or another, or one industry or another, but when you say, "This person makes 60K and this person makes 110K for doing a similar job", benefits don't really enter into that, even if they are better at one place, than another. Oh, your company has this cool free meal chef and cafeteria thing? But the other job is offering better money. Hmmm....do I want salary or celery? (gross oversimplification, but the point stands, I believe) Our benefits are in large part due to the fact that we negotiate with health-care providers in a GIGANTIC pool of workers, as a unit, so we benefit from sheer scale. Only if there were a way for the entire nation to negotiate with healthcare industry as a GIGANTIC unit of "United" people instead of as individuals and relatively small groups. Maybe we could get a better deal and not be the laughing stock of the world for having a shameful healthcare system....Man, I'm really saving the world with this YT comment rant. I should join Reddit and really make a difference.) We are hourly workers, most definitely. And the more we work, the less we get paid. The district pays us for 180-some days of work and they are 7.5 hour days. And reminder, there's no such thing as overtime. You want to work more? Ok, yeah, we have this Professional Responsibility Stipend (or Time Responsibilty Incentive) that we'll pay you on top of your salary, but your hourly rate for that work will be laughable by the end of the year. Again, the more you work, the less you get paid. We simply can't trust teachers to say that they've put in these extra hours and pay them time and a half for it like almost every other hourly worker, they'll probably make it up and pad the hours anyways, their jobs are pretty easy anyways...and they love it, right? They should just work smarter, not harder, duh. Dangit, I can't even end on a positive note. And I'm a music teacher. On the whole, love my job, really love my students and most of my parents, and a lot of my administartors are awesome. I'm lucky to work in the state I'm in, I teach a subject that is usually pretty fun and students' attitudes are pretty good. But please everybody, be careful about how you complain and what you complain about, there's a lot that you might not know that goes into every less than optimal outcome when it comes to public education in the U.S.

@@ATONAL6173 god damn that a lot of words music man

@@chekhov-and-his-gun It's an important and complicated issue, which I'm extremely passionate about and I enjoy using language to its fullest extent. -Captain Mega-Rant

@@cmmartti Thanks very much! I don't think I caught that one. I'm aware she's a teacher and agree that there are a few moments where they're not seriously criticising the teachers, but my comments arise from the large quantity of really negative takes, when there are so many glaring positives that they could and, I think, should be acknowledging, plus a whole bunch of context that is missing from an educator's perspective about the current state of education compared to their experience and the vast and complex variability in the sheer scale of our large system. I'm calling for them to apply their engineering mindsets to the problem and be more accurate and solution-oriented, essentially.

Writing is a form of building, and it's only one step away from reading. In other words, all you gotta do to is stroll down to that home depot, buy a 2x4, then get back home and start writing! ... The 2x4 is for inspiration, obviously.

@@BalthorYT thanks! i've always wanted to try. i'm thinking about doing a small project over christmas to build confidence : )

as a current college student, outside of my signature i use cursive almost once a year. meanwhile, analog clocks are something you see almost once a day in classrooms, lol.

I learned both in grade 2 or 3 and while knowing how to read cursive is helpful on occasion like if I'm looking through documents but analog clocks are still everywhere, like uni classrooms, the break room at work, as someone who works in retail too I can tell you even the cheaper watches and alarm clocks are analog not digital

I see analog clocks everywhere, I'm in college and the last time I wrote in cursive must've been the end of elementary (roughly 6 years ago)

I just recently learned cursive is just normal writing. I don't get why you wouldn't teach kids to write? (I'm Belgian, so pls explain)

@@irissupercoolsy Cursive is a particular style of handwriting where all the letters are joined together. Most people (who speak English at least) write in a "print" style, where letters are separated. Print style is easier to write and read imo. The only people who still use cursive are old people

And the part spinning is at torso height

was drilling hole into small wood pieces making yo-yos at middle school workshop thing and finger slipped into drill bit. chewed up my thumb, didn't have thumb print for few months. not to bad overall tho, good times👍

They're the size they are because it's the minimum legal definition for dimensional lumber. Every mill makes them the legal minimum to maximize their margin and reduce their waste. I'd bitch that I wasn't getting my money's worth but: 1. It saves trees a little bit. At least, it maximizes their yield. 2. As every mill does it, all the blueprints are tailored around the legal minimum definition of a 2x4. Modern mills ship garbage. They grade the lumber after it's cut and don't avoid defects in the lumber so much as they're aware of lumber defects, sell that stuff as "standard grade" and mark up the defect-free stuff as "premium". You can still buy rough-cut, full-size lumber, and I've seen houses built recently where the builder went all-out and built it using old-school blocking and cross-tie construction. It's a thing of beauty. It also doubles the cost of the house. Not just because of the material or the labor, but the amount of re-work from bringing on framers who are so trained to use the smaller lumber that there's inevitable mistakes made with things like window casements and such.

I didn't know how I didn't connect the dots when the highschools in Disney Channel/Nickelodean tv shows/movies were formatted completely differently from the schools I went to.

Underrated time stamp

uh oh

Damn dude. That's fucked.

This is a rust squad 100%

It's actually a weirdly profitable industry. Older houses that get demoed will have people coming by to get the old wood because it's true dimensions. Some cities have laws that houses before a certain date have to be recycled almost entirely. I believe Destin from Smarter Every Day has a video on reclaiming a wood beam for his friend's house. They go to a whole wood shop dedicated to reclaimed lumber.

And it's rough lumber, correct? Planed lumber is 1.5"×3.5" Rough lumber used to be 2"x4" Planed lumber demand got the rough cut 2"x4" re-specified closer to the finished dimension because planing off a 1/4" per side is a waste of material Now we rough cut as close to finished dimension as we can without the kiln shrinking the fibre too much for the planer leave a proper finish. (I used to feed a planer in a stud mill. We made 2x4,1x4,2x3,1x3 and 2x6 up to 8' long)

Michae*

Because it is easier to give up and be defeatist than have hope and work hard for the future you want.

@@AllTheArtsy I'd say it's naïve to think working hard is enough to have the future that you want, specially in a world as unjust and unequal as the one we live in.

@@JordiVanderwaal Sure, so just lie down and give up.

@@AllTheArtsy no, we have the revolution first, then we take 50% of the wealth the billionaires and mega corporations have and give it to the 90% with the least amount of money. Then we lie down for a bit.

If McDonald’s could put advertisements in the comments this would be a great choice 😂

@@the.bog. probs talking about mri machines

@@the.bog. If you don't have the right lens and need the framing a certain way (like you might in an x-ray), someone can be too fat for a photograph

The op is clearly a fat-phobic troll. Doesn’t even spell the occupation properly.

@Blair he's not trolling, some people around the 700 lbs mark can't fit in standard mri machines. Gotta have specialized vehicles to pick them up as well

I think the name has changed but I believe the program is now called "JA Biztown"