Snowboard, ski or surfboard wax

What I find particularly interesting is that it's an ad they're serving directly from their own infrastructure - ublock isn't blocking it as an ad.

That's pretty normal for financial charts like this though.

Nearest convenience store is 200m Chain supermarket is 200m Bus stop is 150m Library is 50m Park is 500m Train station is 800m

NYC makes everything easy

I honestly think that difference in opinion speaks highly of Banks as an author - the books speak to us differently and he wrote diverse enough stories that they capture each person separately.

Per capita with total as tiebreaker:

Brazil 94kg

Germany 78kg - 17% less than Brazil

China 76kg - 2.6% less than Germany

UK 76kg - 2.6% less than Germany

USA 73kg - 3.9% less than UK/China

France 61kg - 16% less than USA

India 55kg - 10% less than France

Russia 33kg - 40% less than India

Big disagree on the best - Use of Weapons, Surface Detail and Consider Phlebas are the favorites of my partner and me.

Not that the 3 listed are bad just that I like my 3 more :)

3.4bn is their gross - we have no idea what their operating costs are since they refuse to share them.

Some estimates say they're burning 8 billion a year.

The latest releases ChatGPT 4o costs $600/hr per instance to run based on the discussion I could find about it.

If OpenAI is running 1k of those models to service the demand (they're certainly running more since queries can take 30+ seconds) then that's 200M/yr just keeping the lights on.

If "your own research" never makes you change your opinions then you're not doing research, you're looking for confirmation.

You're always wrong about something. Figure out what it is.

Misread another comment on the 40 part - my bad.

Good luck yourself - Everyone's journey is different. My ADHD was crippling for decades and it worked out. I hope yours does too - but if it doesn't ever quite work out I hope you give yourself the grace and the space to be imperfect.

Interact with them just the same as before. they're still friendly people, they're just friendly people who didn't come to an optional social event.

How many optional social events do you say no to? Personally I will decline dozens of invites to do things every year for various reasons including: nah I don't feel like it.

It's not that I don't like the people doing the inviting: it's that I have a limited social battery, limited free time and a lot of things I want to do.

And in the meantime: become even closer with the 5 who showed.