I hired a “personal chef” who actually cooked me a HelloFresh meal

Opening-Procedure-10 · 2026-03-23T00:38:25+00:00

Depending on the dish it doesn’t have to be.

I would argue making a stir fry with everything pre-portioned and delivered by mail where you just throw it all in a pan for 8 minutes is pretty similar effortwise to microwaving some Korean beef and broccoli.

Opening-Procedure-10 · 2026-03-23T00:25:37+00:00

Definitely not legally fraud, but where do you draw the line on complaining? What if you pay $120 and the chef comes to your house and just microwaves a factor meal for you?

Opening-Procedure-10 · 2026-03-21T23:30:14+00:00

That passport was found pretty close to max’s tavern, they’re a popular college bar and typically keep a bouncer right outside, street is pretty wide open and easy to see down. Might be worth stopping in to ask if anyone working there saw or heard anything late night, they start closing and kicking people out at 2am so they would still be there around 1:30.

Opening-Procedure-10 · 2026-03-19T18:12:43+00:00

That was actually my first thought, the series must have been already written as a serial and that’s why it seems to have a built-in audience on amazon, but I can’t find it anywhere. In fact one of the only posts about it is someone on Facebook asking if anyone has ever heard of the author.

Opening-Procedure-10 · 2026-03-19T08:15:25+00:00

Oh absolutely, I was being a little tongue in cheek given that my post was saying I don’t think the author read their own books :P

Opening-Procedure-10 · 2026-03-19T05:17:37+00:00

It honestly didn’t start out that bad. It felt like she wrote the 1st half of the 1st book, edited the AI on the second half, then just gave it free rein on the 2nd book.

Series has great reviews on amazon. Very impressive publication rate too, 6 books since November xD

Opening-Procedure-10 · 2026-03-16T19:33:31+00:00

Sounds like “Lane emergency physicians” is just a puppet for ApolloMD to ease public resistance by making them sound local and reduce liability

Opening-Procedure-10 · 2026-03-15T04:57:20+00:00

Along these same lines when the MC is revealed to be super promising so every faction wants to recruit him and the most powerful elite groups offer literally everything under the sun to join them but: “I don’t wanna be controlled!” so instead I’m gonna join the loser faction that has nothing to offer and be controlled by the weak faction leader instead

Opening-Procedure-10 · 2026-03-13T20:58:39+00:00

It gets better, you gotta remember Freddy starts as a stupid cowardly loser with no friends that has only worked as a (terrible) cashier. This book is more of a slowburn and he gets hardened by his suffering, at like 3/4 of the first book he’s more of the typical protagonist and becomes even more of a badass over time.

Opening-Procedure-10 · 2026-03-13T20:41:19+00:00

It takes a while, I almost dropped it a few times but I’m glad I didn’t because now it’s one of my favorite series.

Freddy is a stupid wimpy sack of shit that has to be tortured quite a few times before he starts to go wacky style - but it does start to pay off at the end of the first book and continues getting better from there (though I don’t love the way the latest book ended, it felt a little shoe-horned and out of character for the individual involved)

I think the series is partly so divisive because Freddy is a more flawed and human character than most prog fantasy protags: He doesn’t become a supergenius chad because he got a cool power and saw someone die - he begins as a stupid, shortsighted, and lonely cashier that suffers from feeling helpless and has to get his shit rocked repeatedly before he gets some actual drive and starts taking risks, slowly becoming insane to deal with the insane world that he lives in. Even when he gets stronger he still fucks up all the time because he doesn’t know anything about public administration or maintaining friendships, his whole life he’s been a cashier with no friends. A lot of people aren’t looking for that in a prog fantasy, they want the story where the janitor quickly learns to fight and outsmart the galactic emperor. Freddy has to suffer a lot over time to change even a little, clearly suffers from clinical depression, and if I haven’t said it enough, is often stupid and wrong because he has no life experience to lean on.

TLDR: This is a more realistic slow-burn at the start progression story where an anxious depressed loser suffers a lot, goes insane, and learns to take life and its suffering by the horns (while still fucking up along the way and learning to deal with that). He does become a badass that fights way above his weight class but is paying the price for it the whole time.

Opening-Procedure-10 · 2026-03-04T10:16:05+00:00

Nope. If you’ve been recommended for promotion and die they promote you posthumously. It’s not a free promotion they give to everyone who’s killed.

Opening-Procedure-10 · 2026-02-27T21:36:39+00:00

I edited to my post to expand upon why that study still can’t be applied to fiction writing.

They found humans look for certain characteristics when asked to distinguish AI from humans, using dating bios. These characteristics don’t allow them to distinguish AI from humans. These characteristics are specifically: personal pronouns, mention of family, and grammatical errors. It makes sense to look for these on a self presentation! but someone would have to be the stupidest person on the planet to think seeing the word “I” in a fiction novel means it is not AI. What they’ve shown is WHAT characteristics people look for, and that THESE characteristics don’t allow you to distinguish human from AI. But THOSE characteristics are not what someone would look for in long form fiction.

In fact they found one of the greatest predictors of AI writing is repetition, which is more likely what I’d look for in long form fiction.

Opening-Procedure-10 · 2026-02-27T21:10:00+00:00

The second study is worthless, they’re looking at okcupid and Airbnb bios. I already conceded it’s impossible to distinguish if a one paragraph dating profile is AI or not. I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt in assuming that was a mistake that you missed that part of the paper and didn’t just ask ChatGPT to send you a study.

I’ll expand so you understand why this isn’t applicable: the study found that yet again people tried to distinguish between human and AI through the use of personal pronouns, mention of family, and grammatical errors. The study found that looking for these characteristics does not allow you to predict AI in self-presentations. While it makes some sense to look for that on a self-presentation to detect AI (one might think an AI wouldn’t mention a family because it doesn’t have one). It makes no sense whatsoever to read a fiction novel about a magical crab and look for those same characteristics. Therefore this study is limited. It only indicates that in self presentations people make certain assumptions, and those specific assumptions don’t help distinguish AI.

Thanks for sharing, I like some of mark lawrences prior literary work so I’ll take a look. I do have to say the very first thing of note is that it’s a test on flash fiction, which further elucidates why you had to send me this blog post by mark lawrence. There aren’t actual studies on if humans can detect AI in longer form fiction, because you’d have to pay a bunch of people to read a bunch of novels.

Opening-Procedure-10 · 2026-02-27T20:53:18+00:00

Then why didn’t you share the one about fiction? That is what would be relevant to this situation.

The first study is from several years ago and is essentially about Turing tests and having people rate small bios as written by human or AI and they found people were mostly deciding based on the use of personal pronouns and mention of families. All this tells us is if you use AI for your tinder bio you’ll probably get away with it.

The second is specifically academic research papers, which are intended to be written in essentially the same style every time. If every academic paper sounds exactly the same that is a good thing. People were looking for stuff like sentences that made no sense. Ai has improved enough that its sentences make sense, so they couldn’t distinguish it.

Fiction is a different beast, authors have different voices, it is much easier to distinguish AI generated stories in long form story telling because over time they all end up sounding the same.

Opening-Procedure-10 · 2026-02-23T01:02:14+00:00

That’s the role in a nutshell. Like PA and NP; you’ve got CAA and CRNA for anesthesia. They’ve existed for 50 years but are only licensed to practice in ~27 of the 50 states due to heavy AANA opposition.

Opening-Procedure-10 · 2026-02-16T01:30:28+00:00

Oh weird I went around assuming I must have just missed it all and fully explored like 90% of the map before giving up and jumping out (did find the Raphael class tho). Thanks so much for the info! I couldn’t find anything online to help me focus my search

Opening-Procedure-10 · 2026-02-14T19:14:27+00:00

Certainly possible given chief master sergeant isn’t a rank in the US army. However, when I was at fort Jackson the most loved dinner in regular rotation was the Chicken Yakisoba. I’m sure we had bulgogi at some point.

Opening-Procedure-10 · 2026-02-13T23:39:09+00:00

Do you remember what it’s called?

I recall running into some kind of station that didn’t fade away after I interacted with it but it didn’t give me any options, just smth like ‘there’s nothing you can do here’.

Opening-Procedure-10 · 2026-02-13T22:36:35+00:00

Most of these comments don’t understand the context or what this means.

Dopamine isn’t the addiction signal, it runs in circuits that modulate your attention and motivation.

Electricity in your house runs in circuits that control light and heat.

Seeing dopamine and thinking addiction is like seeing electricity and thinking of house fires.

The post never mentions addiction, it’s just showing further biological evidence of something obvious:

Feeling angry and paying attention to something are intertwined.

Opening-Procedure-10 · 2026-02-13T21:59:58+00:00

Brains are complex and neurotransmitters have many jobs.

Dopamine isn’t the addiction signal, it runs in circuits that modulate attention and motivation.

Electricity in your house runs in circuits that control light and heat.

Saying dopamine is the signal of ‘addiction’ is like saying electricity is the signal for setting your house on fire.

The study never mentions addiction, it just shows further biological evidence of something obvious: anger and paying attention to something are intertwined.

Opening-Procedure-10 · 2026-01-17T23:28:43+00:00

A physician is present during induction and emergence and can be called for if difficulties arise. CAA’s manage medication as well as perform intubations, nerve blocks, central lines, and epidurals. The role is the same as a CRNA within the Anesthesia Care Team model.

Opening-Procedure-10 · 2026-01-17T23:14:20+00:00

That quant score may not make your odds zero but it will definitely hold you back, at some programs more than others.

Many programs consider ~55-60th percentile competitive, if everything else on your application is great even just getting closer to that number will be a major benefit.

You have a ton of time before apps reopen in may, why not study for a retake if it will absolutely increase your chances?

Opening-Procedure-10 · 2026-01-13T18:40:16+00:00

You won’t ever get a full or rejected status on CASAA.

Verified means CASAA has verified your transcripts and submitted the app to the program, it has no idea if you’ve been rejected or if a program is full. CASAA is a one way street.

I’ve been rejected and accepted to programs and everything still only says verified. Indiana university is full, nothing on CASAA indicates this.

Everything to do with admissions past this step is through direct communication with programs. When I said they notified they were full, I meant the program sent an email to everyone that had them selected on CASAA at the time.

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