Eric Simpson

My views expressed on Twitter are mine alone. I follow smart, interesting people. I have eclectic tastes.

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@KrystalNJNJ Hey! July birthday here, too! 🥳

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@Microsoft @Windows Just a heads up…. If you’re on the Canary Channel for updates to Windows 11, your system will get FUBAR’d. something wrong with the 29xxx versions. Two of my systems are totally fucked right now…

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@status_is_down Yup

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@facebook is down!

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@googlenesthelp @Google @googlenest Fuck-SAKE Google! You keep fucking up your Google Home app! My flood light camera is recording, but no live view!

Why do you guys constantly break shit and expect your customers to stay???

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Well…. @CBS is on the decline. Too much political string pulling…. Much better content elsewhere!

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@PimaSheriff You guys posted that Nancy message? Good God, you guys are TOTAL ASSHOLES!

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@Japan_lol_w Now that's what I call throwin' like a girl! Whooo hoo!

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@clubmoms_ 5! Fo sho!

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@RedHeadAliceL We do…

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@CORSAIR I just got the new Galleon 100 Keyboard. I'm pretty disappointed that it's not seamless with other Corsair products, namely iCUE and the lighting/cooling stuff. In fact, you can't even use the Corsair Web app is iCue is running. Very disappointing.

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The only Olympic sport worth watching.

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@amazon You guys REALLY need to hire some smarter people. A) GPS shows CLEARLY which house is mine. B) There is no path, sidewalk, directions, signs or indicators that would suggest that you would walk from ONE driveway that is clearly for ONE house, and make you walk across a frozen yard to SOMEONE ELSE'S HOUSE!

Seriously! What the actual FUCK is wrong with you people????

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@AACOOT Can anyone explain why I keep seeing AA County snow plows driving through neighborhoods with the plow UP? A lot of roads in AACo are barely passable, bus stops completely snowed in. #DoBetter #EpicFail

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When will @verizonfios @Verizon roll out something faster than 1 GbE internet?

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I have analyzed it. The Skydance deal is quite a lot of "actors" who are committing money, some of which are foreign. Netflix offer is far superior just in terms of reliability of Netflix stock, cash on hand, etc. And, it leaves Discovery (and about a dozen other channels for linear) as a stand-alone company. And this is what Skydance is discounting: That the linear TV business isn't worth anything.

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I've been saying this all along: If @Skydance wants $WBD (@warnerbros), it should raise to $32/share. That's still low when you consider @netflix offer is only for the Warner Brothers business, not the linear TV slate of channels.

Shareholders, myself included, are not going to change our vote for the same offer we've voted against twice. $32 is a fair price. It's not over the top or a crazy number -- it's fair.

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Paramount Skydance's proposal is more risky with foreign investors, the astounding level of debt that would need to be managed, etc.

The deal with Netflix is superior in that they have more cash to bring to the table, a more stable stock price, and Paramount was just acquired and the long-term fallout from that acquisition still hasn't been felt yet.

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@elonmusk I don't know if you actually read this stuff, but curious if it makes sense for 3rd party companies to develop replacement batteries for Electric Vehicles?

I know that doesn't help car manufacturers sell new cars, but most of these batteries seem to only have a useful life of 5-6 years before they're degraded to the point of needing to be replaced.

We're so used to buying ICE cars that last 100K-200K miles before needing to replace or rebuild the engine. Batteries can be recycled and bad "cells" can be removed. I do see the complexity in the chemistry and such, but the rebuild or completely new battery to install is relatively simple (compared to replacing an ICE engine.)

Why don't we see more of this? Are the batteries just built in such a way that makes recycling them difficult? what would be the difficulty in developing 3rd party batteries (either the same OEM spec, or newer chemistry/better battery technology?)

Seriously -- we know this is going to happen and it costs manufacturers to warranty the batteries (in most cases, I've seen 10 years, 100,000 miles for the battery/drivetrain...) It seems like a no-brainer since I think quite a lot of these would qualify for warranty replacement anyway!

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@WaltDisneyWorld Kinda weird when the bus driver from Magic Kingdom to Caribbean Beach smells like reefer! 🤣