Aaron Parecki

Y'ALL look what I did for my pumpkin pie decoration this year

Dear YouTube creators: Can we put a moratorium on slo-mo b-roll of coffee grinding and pouring and drinking? Otherwise, I'm going to start opening all of my videos with a slo-mo montage of me making dishwater coffee with Maxwell House in a dirty Mr. Coffee machine.

In Argentina’s black market traders are getting picky about different USD bills:

- Newer dollars trade at face value, 100%
- Bills from before 1996 with a “small face” trade at 97% value, and sometimes are not accepted because of the counterfeit risk

https://www.cronista.com/finanzas-mercados/dolar-cara-chica-vs-cara-grande-como-distinguir-el-viejo-diseno-del-nuevo/

We say that money should be fungible, but cash is often not fungible

For example, during coin shortages, coins are more valuable than bills. Laundromats can be “quarter-positive” or “quarter-negative”, causing headaches for owners.

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/quarter-shortage-creates-a-two-bit-black-market-in-coin-operated-seattle/

⁦@aaronpk⁩ great live today.. it’s been a blast following your growth and how you have become a live stream master!

the unbelievable high of getting a “sorry, I’m running late!” text when you, yourself, are running late

Having been on both sides I can definitively say that working for other people sucks.

And a lot of what I thought was “security” was more of an illusion than anything.

Doesn’t mean full time YT is the answer, but your time is a very valuable thing to sell to others.

It amazes me how wrong this quote is but how unsurprising it is.

After a long time, a new way to login to websites was invented. Many other websites started using it. For a while it was called “OAuth” but now it’s called "OpenID Connect." It has other names too.