u/Potential_Shelter449

I’m the Chinese father with white wife in the US. I’ve been having my 2 year old toddler watch YouTube videos like little fox, and other kids chinese YouTube channels. A mix of colors and numbers videos. She’s been watching them for months now. By the way I only speak to her in Chinese. Been doing it since the day she was born.

Well we just recently signed her up for a Chinese class and they also showed a few of the videos that she has been watching and the teacher told the kids to follow along and repeat along and me thinking “oh this will be easy since she’s watched them probably 30 times by now”…. Well she didn’t know anything. The screen time audio might as well have been background noise.

And then the teacher gave us “homework” to review colors. So I decided to play a few YouTube videos on colors. And because we don’t pay for YouTube premium we get ads. My toddler has learned that I help her skip the ads so she’ll ask me for help. So during ads I would pause it and I’d say “okay tell me what color this and daddy will help you”

I would point at the TV remote and tell her that it’s black in Chinese and she’ll say it in English. Then I’ll tell her to say it in Chinese and she’ll repeat after me. I tell her that my coffee mug is white color. Again does it in English. I say do it in Chinese. She’ll repeat. Cool right?

Then repeat YouTube ads, I again ask her what color and she’ll say it in English and I have to repeat to say it in Chinese and she doesn’t remember it. We’ve done this probably 5-6 times just in the last 10 minutes. No retention at all.

This is true with literally every color that she does. I ask her what color it is and she KNOWS it but says English and I have to remind her in Chinese. Some of the basic colors like red green yellow purple, it’s probably been 20-30 times or more that I’ve asked her in the last few weeks alone and she will continue to say it English and I have to remind her to say it in Chinese.

Edit: I just did a test in Chinese. I told her Chinese “can you give me the ( insert several different colors) magnetiles and crayons to me?” She does to correctly. So she knows the colors but doesn’t want to say it

I’m seeing as of the posting of this that ES is still over 20 points below all time high and yet SPX is over that. I know futures will eventually converge with SPX and since it’s already higher due to contango wouldn’t it go even lower and isn’t that a sign of bearish divergence and the market pricing in a pull back?

I am filing jointly with spouse. $150k total W2 income. I’ve gotten about $11k in payments so far but I also have spent like $4200 in prop firm fees, evaluations, etc. I’m also deducting internet, phone, and home office for it too.

I was told by AI it should be 35%.

But also realistically how much would IRS really try to substantiate dollar for dollar of my prop firm fees? I’m sure my prop firm doesn’t give them each credit card payment from each customer.

I have always loved astronomy. But I want also do astrophotography too. I’ve never owned a telescope before and the best astrophotography I’ve done was just a recent picture of the moon with my iphone 18 pro max.

I want a telescope that I can see galaxies and nebulas clearly. I know I’m not going to be able to see ones that are like a billion light years out. But maybe ones that are at least a bit further than andromeda.

I’d love to even if possible hopefully see the star system around Sagittarius a* even if I can’t see the black hole itself.

Any recommendations for a telescope that can fit these criteria that I can own for many years? Maybe with a budget of up to $1300?

I’ve seen social media constantly talk about how upper management and directors are often dumb and they got up there by kissing ass or what. And these posts or videos mock them that you THINk they’re smart until you join a meeting with them and you see how dumb they are.

I beg to differ and maybe it’s because I work in finance. Maybe not. I’ve been in meetings talking about business strategy, process improvements, business updates, etc with senior managers and/or managing directors.

I swear the things that come out of them I’m baffled by. There are complex financial concepts especially with financial derivatives that even for someone with a finance background, I’m still confused by and it rolls them off their tongues easily and they can talk about it like they’re talking about what pizza toppings to get for lunch.

I am NOT a senior manager and I don’t even manage anyone. But I am simply giving my own experience in case anyone wants to call me a “bootlicker”. I do often leave these meetings going “makes perfect sense why they’re managing directors making probably triple or quadruple what I make and I’m not”.

It’s so infuriating to hear him post game interview go “we gotta go back and figure out why that was”. Like you should KNOW why all those plays failed and why they came back.

His habit of playing conservatively and protecting the lead is so common now that I’m sure coaches from these top teams already know that and know how to combat it at this point.

Dude wants to do the same thing over and over again expecting different results. And then he wants to protect the lead with a young inexperienced defense against a formidable offense in a 90 some degree Texas heat. No wonder they looked exhausted and couldn’t hold them back.

Sure people can blame Jeremiah Smith and Julian Sayin for those misses but if the play call was better than I’m sure it wouldn’t be as bad as we know what they are capable of.

I’m frankly not sure what can be done in the next 2 weeks before Illinois

It feels like GARP doesn’t pass you based on quartile but an actual cut off. I saw someone the other day said they failed may 2026 with a 2322. Like how is that even possible??

I failed with a 3333 which makes sense but a 2322?? Unless GARP has a cut off of having your quartiles add up to no more than 8, which also doesn’t mean sense since another post said they passed with a 3423.

At the party in the first season, he gave Elliot a bag of ramen and Elliot showed genuine love for it and even credited the ramen for gray matter success (even it was just a sentimental gesture). Elliot and Gretchen tried to help with him with his cancer treatment and he cursed them out.

When I first watched it I was like yeah I get why Walt is mad. But then I think about how he chose to sell his stocks and sure he contributed to the company but we all know that when we work for a company, any work we do is the intellectual property of the company usually.

Like from what I can tell sure Elliot and Gretchen made it and are rich but they deserved it and they are genuine people while Walt blames them for his own fuckery.

View Poll

Where’s our results??!! It’s okay if I failed. I just want to know!! 😭😭

I’m pretty sure I failed despite that the results aren’t out yet. I’m creating this post as an emotional support group.

Many of us busted our asses for months only to get wrecked by the exam wondering if we even studied the same topics… Let’s mourn our failures together 😭 and maybe cheer each other on to do better in November or whenever you guys plan to take it again.

Or will it be based on time zones? I saw that some people are saying by 4 am IST or previously I’ve seen 8 am IST but I’m on EST. Does that mean that it’ll get released late at night for me or is it just 8 am for everyone so they’ll release it based on our time zone?

I busted my ass to do this. And I’ve seen so many posts here where you guys went in going “what did I even study??!!”

And I walked out there thinking “yeah there’s no way I’ve passed”. I remember walking through several questions I got stumped on the exam and checking the info on them and finding out most of them I got wrong.

With the results probably days away it feels like a doomsday clock ticking down to seeing all my efforts gone to waste and questioning am I even fit for or smart enough to do this.

And I’m questioning if it’s selection bias. Like was the test really that hard or if the people that thought it was hard just happen to congregate here and talk about it.

I’m sure all the smart people and the ones that thought that was easy don’t come here to talk about it.

My 25 month old toddler basically only speaks English because she goes to daycare all day and mom is white and we’re in the US. I’m the Chinese dad. She understands Chinese when I speak to her exclusive in Chinese and she knows to speak maybe like 5% of the English she speaks. What if I start going “I don’t understand” when she speaks to me in Chinese until she does.

I already try to respond in Chinese to her requests hoping she’ll understand like if she says “I want milk”, I’ll respond in Chinese “you want milk?” But she’ll respond in English “yeah”.

I even try to correct her/translate. Like if she says “what happened baba” I’ll translate that to her and say both at the same time. Yet she’s not picking up.

While I’m happy she’s understanding Chinese, I’m concerned she’ll be one of those kids (which I grew up with) that understands their cultural language but couldn’t speak it.

I was looking at what I can register and it’s only letting me register part 2?? I know that someone had posted a few weeks ago about it. But I’m assuming that was just a glitch since they just took the exam

The part 1 exam was weeks ago. Does this indicate potentially passing?? Maybe I already passed and the internal system is syncing that up but they haven’t released the results yet??

I asked Gemini to count from YTD how many emails from a specific sender with a specific email subject line I got this year and it failed miserably. I said 10 and I probably have hundreds. Any suggestions?

Just tell me that I failed so I know I have to sign up for November again. I hate this waiting.

I know I failed despite months of prep. I just want the results now 😭😭😭

I know it’s not uncommon for us to talk about the toxic traits of Asian parenting. And the stereotype that they require STEM or lawyer or disown and just the general tiger parenting.

Is there any element of Asian parenting that you do respect and potentially with perpetuate?

I want to be specific that I’m not looking for family specific issues but a more general culture principle that you have observed. I say this because I grew up in a very loud household with major anger issues from my mom and it wasn’t until she had passed away that I found out from my dad that the way she acted wouldn’t even be acceptable in Asian community.