Aaron Parecki

I’d like to report a malfunction.

There’s a rock in front of me, it’s clear to my MastCams that the rock is broken. Shattered into pieces and worn down by winds and sands so that it’s unrecognizable to what it once was.

I have an instrument that’s telling me the rock is fine.

Creators are getting HIGHER RETENTION RATES using this trick in videos:

Use 10-12 cuts and or visual changes in the first 15 seconds of your videos and tell me if that improved the first 30 seconds' retention rate for your videos.

works even better if you do 20-30 cuts in 30s

OH on a call: "Their hearts are in the right place." "Well, good. Then we know where to stab."

This is a really important point because scientifically, life doesn't "begin" at any point in pregnancy. What discussions about when life begins are trying to capture is when a fetus can be considered to have a soul, in a very Christian sense.

It’s good to be reminded that when people give concrete examples of using space differently to improve the lives of people living in a neighborhood, there’s always some constipated car-living boomer to add at least one humbug to the discussion. Don’t like it? Move to Florida.

So sad that my neighbourhood lost 2 parking spots to accommodate a dog-friendly patio, with flowers, artwork and bike racks, that fits 20 people.

Absolutely furious that people are currently able to buy THE SIMS 4 for $19.99 when I myself paid $59.99 several years ago. A real slap in the face to those who worked hard and paid full price.

If it's possible to bootstrap a new device and get existing credentials on that device with only a phishable password, phishable SMS code, and phishable unlock code, the solution is phishable. It enables an attacker to control "something you have" using only "something you know."

And huge thanks to @aaronpk for grabbing this first-ever footage of the @BikePortland interview-by-bike setup!

It's the perfect metaphor for web3 stuff: reliant on existing web infrastructure, but there's also a crypto middleman pretending to do something to create the illusion that the blockchain is doing anything meaningful

Have we tried telling Republicans that every student with a loan is like a tiny corporation that needs a bailout, maybe that will make them less angry

when I was born I only weighed 5.4 lbs

now I weigh 145lbs

here’s the 7 secrets i used to grow an impressive 10.5% YoY for the last 33 years

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I love my Aranet4. It’s a phenomenal piece of technology. When I start getting brain fog and forgetting people’s names during Zoom calls, I check the CO2 levels. It’s usually the lack of ventilation in the office and not lack of caffeine.

Ohhh those look fantastic

If we stop blowing up planets now, that would be extremely unfair to the planets we've already blown up.

Boomers melting down about how this isn't fair is really something. We know life isn't fair. You told us that every single day of our childhood. So I'll give you the same advice you always gave us: Get over it.

Helmet laws undermine one of our medical community's greatest sources of organ donation in this time of dangerously low transplants.

I'm always endeavoring to be "that guy"

🤯 TikTok vs. YouTube Shorts revenue, "Apple Has Declared War On Spammers", 8/15/2022 (same vid)

TikTok: 931,400 views (64% US), $23.81 revenue = $0.025 RPM
YT Shorts: 2,700 views (51% US), $3.15 revenue = $1.17 RPM

👉 YT PAYS 47X MORE FOR THE SAME CONTENT 🤦‍♂️

Bye bye #tiktok

I love my Aranet so much