Kinda blends two different internet memes.

Sources:

1. The Enigma of Amigara Fault
2. The Square Hole

I’d recommend you go read / view both of the sources yourself, they’re each great in their own unique ways. The first is a horror manga about compulsion and death wishes, the second a light hearted joke about a kid’s block set.

In the above meme, the far right girl is reacting to the circle humanoid on the left finding "their" hole. But, of course, the circle humanoid should actually be in a circle hole, despite them fitting in a square hole.

SPOILERS AHEAD

::: spoiler Tap for spoiler The Enigma (shortened the name, sue me) is an older manga about the discovery of a collection of human shaped holes in the side of a mountain. Two prominent characters in the story find holes that look to be carved specifically for their body type / size, and question whether they should go in "their" holes. I really don’t want to ruin the premise and conclusion here, as I really think you should read it yourself, but the story’s horror factor centers around the compulsion to enter "your hole". You don’t know where it goes, or what’ll happen at the other end (if there is one). You may never get back out of your hole, but also your curiosity as to why it was made for you and what will happen if you go in weighs on your mind.

The Square Hole is a newer TikTok reaction video about a girl getting visibly more and more distressed as the original video’s narrator continues to put all the varied shape blocks from the set into the same hole. The first couple are correctly placed, but then each next block (that should go in "their own" hole) is put into the same single square hole. Funny responses from the girl reacting, and a generally wholesome video. :::

I kinda hate the fact I understand this meme. I’m gonna go outside and touch some grass now.

Edit: I am not active in the manga community, but here is the first link I found to read the full Enigma text. If there is another more ethical / more internet friendly version, feel free to comment it below my comment and I’ll amend my link.

I would think that any business having this on an employment screener would be a huge red flag. But also, part of being a seasoned (read: weathered) corporate wage slave is answering nonsense like this with the corpo-appropriate response and NOT your actual thoughts.

[from a breakdown of expenditures]

• Spent $638,000 on two luxury mattresses
• Spent $295,000 on luxury bedding and linens

Hot damn, and I thought my current $700 foam mattress was overkill.

Alright I don’t like the direction of AI same as the next person, but this is a pretty fucking wild stance. There are multiple valid applications of AI that I’ve implemented myself: LTV estimation, document summary / search / categorization, fraud detection, clustering and scoring, video and audio recommendations... "Using AI” is not the problem, "AI charlatan-ing" is. Or in this guy’s case, "wholesale anti-AI stanning". Shoehorning AI into everything is admittedly a waste, but to write off the entirety of a very broad category (AI) is just silly.

Is this a projection? Or sticker / paint?

404?! Ruh roh.

https://archive.is/ohI5R

Constant brawls no, but I’d never say the NYC subways are boring.

Yeah, had to answer a few of these in a personality match assessment when I was greener. Answered them truthfully and… never got a response from the company. But things like: are you willing to grind yourself into dust if the need arises, do you perform 110% 24/7 or just enough to eek by, and the classic "do you work to live or live to work".

My limited searching found that Amber alerts are generally controlled by regional police organizations. Indigenous tribes tend to not mesh well with local law enforcement, and as a result indigenous-related crimes tends to fall through the cracks due to lack of coordination / jurisdiction issues.

This sounds like an effort to allow alerts to be more (?) controlled by indigenous tribes, but still distributed in the manner that Amber alerts are.

Let’s see who is really at fault…

Credit to the original author, @ellisjrosen.

It’s dangerous to go alone! Take this.

German for "planned".

It is a prototype.

Their development roadmap specifically mentions Android AND iOS versions…

Oh I agree, but a quick movie rewatch vs re-reading the entire book?

I haven’t reviewed the whole thing, only small parts but it does look to handle online verification better (re: invasiveness).

There is a section talking about a prototype app already released that is used to store age. It verifies off a couple different government docs (ID, bank details, upcoming Digital ID), but in the end only stores the user’s age (no name, ID, birth date, or other details). The fact page for the app claims that once age is established there is no further contact between the user and age verifier, but of course this is where I likely see the issue with any age verification tool. It’ll depend on whether the verification tool trashes age-related data once done with it, or if they retain a copy for whatever reasons.

Proof of age is tied to the age required per country per activity, but this sounds far more reasonable than having a single company verify and manage age data (Persona in the US).

+1 to Cassette Beasts

Silo. I don’t think that phrase was said in the Fallout show.

This photo is from 7 years ago.

This is just a cross-site karma farm.

https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/8pt2oc/shoutout_to_the_13yearold_on_a_skateboard_who/

https://archive.is/ohI5R