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Cake day: July 12th, 2023

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  • There was a van life de-influencer called Dave2D (not the computer one) who lived in a van and demonstrated the harsh realities of living full time in a van, while also mocking and exposing van life influencers who made it look glamorous, and called out those who were obviously just living in a house and pretending to be living in vans for the insta. He regularly made fun of those vanlife couples, especially when they inevitably broke up, until a very famous recently single vanfluencer killed herself after enduring lots of harrassment by his followers, and then Dave2Ddeleted almost all his videos.

    Then he moved into a car with a puppy in LA and someone stole his catalytic converter while he was sleeping in the car, then he moved to a tiny cabin in Montana and transitioned to painting on Livestream, and now as far as I know he has no presence on YouTube.



  • I used to fix POS machines and networks for retail and hospo. I didn’t wear a uniform, just a polo shirt. I could walk into server rooms, storerooms full of liquor, and open cash registers without ever announcing myself or saying who I was.

    Retail and hospo workers so often DGAF who walks behind the bar.













  • There is a “Wilhelm Scream” for TV police radio chatter. It’s a sound effect that you’ve probably heard hundreds of times without realising it. I first encountered it while playing SimCity 3000 and it has bugged me for 20 years because I couldn’t work out what was said.

    Here is the soundbite and an extensive list of TV show episodes and movies where it’s been spotted:

    https://youtu.be/dklA4-ACN4k

    Now, I think I cracked it last year:

    Please go listen to it for a few times and write down what is being said before you read my analysis

    Spoiler

    “Beta, scrub for one-forty-eight-nine St Andrews; prowler heard, not seen.”

    She’s saying that the Beta (backup) unit(s) should scrub (cancel) their dispatch order to 1489 St Andrews because the alpha unit no longer needs backup. The complainant has said that a prowler (someone lurking outside) was heard, but not seen. Probably the alpha unit suspects it to be a false alarm on that basis.

    This is only my guess, based on listening to it 1 billion times, but it seems to fit the context of the soundbite. Why she refers to backup as “Beta” instead of the NATO phonetic “Bravo” is a bit odd, but maybe that’s just her preference, or maybe current NATO phonetic wasn’t as common in policing in the 70s