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    Brandon got a reaction from Jason in Dead Celebrities That Don't Warrant Their Own Thread   
    Ok, I have a legit question and am too inquisitive to let this go. How in the fuck are you mourning or coming across assistant movie music engineers?
    I'm 99.3% sure no one here knows who this is.
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    Brandon got a reaction from HanfordGuy in Hanford Guy's Hijacked Memes Thread   
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    Brandon got a reaction from Jason in Hanford Guy's Hijacked Memes Thread   
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    Brandon got a reaction from PattyD22 in What have you watched recently? (Please use the hide function for spoilers or plot lines)   
    Saw an article the other day that Koepka didn't like how he was portrayed and know a friend that does editing and how they can make things look a certain way. They did make him look like a guy that lost it and was struggling with sucking, but I never liked the guy, so didn't even finish the article.
    Like you, I'm liking the show a lot so far. The stuff behind the scenes with their family is really cool.
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    Brandon got a reaction from Nergion in Any extreme music identifiers out there?   
    I remember this dude. I gotta give him props. Since 2019 he has made 4 posts and they have all been promoting his band. 4 years is impressive.
     

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    Brandon got a reaction from cals in Can this trend be reversed? SJWs   
    Because he's a pussy.
    Adapt or die. I remember being a kid at a very young age and immigrants that barely spoke English were making it and owning store, etc. I remember being that young and thinking, "You're a white male in SoCal, you have zero excuse." Successful people find a way to make it.
    Especially with the internet these days. I have five streams of income, mostly passive, that you can simply find on the internet. Yet, some people want to be Lifetime 2.0 and argue with strangers or bump old threads (while crying victim) instead of educating themselves or using that same internet time to better themselves. Claiming equality and the need to tax successful or rich people while you sit on an internet message board all day is a joke. I don't respect it.
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    Brandon got a reaction from Kotchman in Can this trend be reversed? SJWs   
    Because he's a pussy.
    Adapt or die. I remember being a kid at a very young age and immigrants that barely spoke English were making it and owning store, etc. I remember being that young and thinking, "You're a white male in SoCal, you have zero excuse." Successful people find a way to make it.
    Especially with the internet these days. I have five streams of income, mostly passive, that you can simply find on the internet. Yet, some people want to be Lifetime 2.0 and argue with strangers or bump old threads (while crying victim) instead of educating themselves or using that same internet time to better themselves. Claiming equality and the need to tax successful or rich people while you sit on an internet message board all day is a joke. I don't respect it.
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    Brandon got a reaction from Tank in What have you watched recently? (Please use the hide function for spoilers or plot lines)   
    Saw an article the other day that Koepka didn't like how he was portrayed and know a friend that does editing and how they can make things look a certain way. They did make him look like a guy that lost it and was struggling with sucking, but I never liked the guy, so didn't even finish the article.
    Like you, I'm liking the show a lot so far. The stuff behind the scenes with their family is really cool.
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    Brandon got a reaction from AngelsLakersFan in Can this trend be reversed? SJWs   
    Also, blacks and violence is the equivalent of white people and pyramid schemes or get rich quick schemes.
    Everyone wants the easy dollar. Black people from the hood choose to gang bang, drug deal, and steal opposed to getting out of that shit. It's even glorified. It's easier for them to sell drugs or rob people and is their version of some white kid on YouTube telling me how I can make $1k a day doing Forex or making YT channels.
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    Brandon got a reaction from Kotchman in Can this trend be reversed? SJWs   
    While on topic and the steered subject matter, I've talked about how the 2008 mortgage/Wall Street crash was started by Bill Clinton enacting the Community Reinvestment Act in 1995 (where Andrew Cuomo was the head of Housing and Urban Development or HUD) and they made all the banks relax their credit guidelines so minorities could purchase homes....ooops.
    Being a hip hop head and into street culture, the black and gang community are on another level. They have the same entitlements as most of this younger generation, but a built in social media platform to now express it and glorify things like murder and gang culture. Go on YouTube and watch some of the gang videos and "killing ops". There are a certain sector that enjoy being impoverished and being from the streets.
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    Brandon got a reaction from Jason in Can this trend be reversed? SJWs   
    While on topic and the steered subject matter, I've talked about how the 2008 mortgage/Wall Street crash was started by Bill Clinton enacting the Community Reinvestment Act in 1995 (where Andrew Cuomo was the head of Housing and Urban Development or HUD) and they made all the banks relax their credit guidelines so minorities could purchase homes....ooops.
    Being a hip hop head and into street culture, the black and gang community are on another level. They have the same entitlements as most of this younger generation, but a built in social media platform to now express it and glorify things like murder and gang culture. Go on YouTube and watch some of the gang videos and "killing ops". There are a certain sector that enjoy being impoverished and being from the streets.
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    Brandon got a reaction from Redondo in WTF is with this bleeping weather?   
    Agreed. Where can I pick up the chick?
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    Brandon reacted to gotbeer in What have you watched recently? (Please use the hide function for spoilers or plot lines)   
    Netflix:  Treason  A British limited series (5 episodes long).  It deals with MI6 trying to find a traitor.  But this one deals with the higher ups.  Was pretty good for a limited series.  A good evening binge.
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    Brandon reacted to AngelsLakersFan in Any extreme music identifiers out there?   
    He is an extreme music identifier 
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    Brandon got a reaction from Redondo in What have you watched recently? (Please use the hide function for spoilers or plot lines)   
    Well, they have to wrap it up somehow. 
    I think it will be hilarious if the old dude doesn't die or retire and the show remains the same as it started.
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    Brandon got a reaction from Tank in Can this trend be reversed? SJWs   
    Are you speaking from your own drug experiences?
    Lex Friedman is a researcher at MIT and one of the most respected people with regards to intellectual discourse.
    I always laugh at you dudes that do this holier than thou or talk like you're smarter than the people in some of the videos with doctors or scientists. Blows my mind. Pretty sure I'm going to lead with a scientist than some random dude on a baseball message board.
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    Brandon got a reaction from jsnpritchett in What have you watched recently? (Please use the hide function for spoilers or plot lines)   
    Makes sense. Even the name of the show is linear in premise. I feel like they took it as far as they could.
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    Brandon got a reaction from Redondo in What have you watched recently? (Please use the hide function for spoilers or plot lines)   
    Makes sense. Even the name of the show is linear in premise. I feel like they took it as far as they could.
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    Brandon got a reaction from Jason in Can this trend be reversed? SJWs   
    Are you speaking from your own drug experiences?
    Lex Friedman is a researcher at MIT and one of the most respected people with regards to intellectual discourse.
    I always laugh at you dudes that do this holier than thou or talk like you're smarter than the people in some of the videos with doctors or scientists. Blows my mind. Pretty sure I'm going to lead with a scientist than some random dude on a baseball message board.
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    Brandon reacted to gotbeer in Official 2022 PGA Tour thread   
    EA Sports’ lifelike Augusta National replication praised by club’s caddies
    Too bad not on VR. This is something I'd love to play on the Quest 2.
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    Brandon reacted to Jason in Supplemental $$$ ideas   
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    Brandon reacted to Jay in Some Military Stuff   
    Long time ago (1979) but I wanted to enlist in the Air Force and the ASVAB was 4 categories: Admin, General, Electrical, Mechanical. I scored highest in Electrical and lowest in Admin. That was fine, I wanted to work on airplanes.
    Pretty sure I took the ASVAB on one day and agreed to become an avionics type, then on another day I went back for physical exam and the rest.
    I didn't have a "guaranteed job" as some may have back then but I was supposed to be in a certain career field and that worked out. Next thing I knew I was in Basic Training.
    Basic Training in the Air Force was a cakewalk but even so some guys washed out. Six weeks at Lackland AFB, San Antonio.
    Then it was on to Lowry AFB in Denver CO. That base is gone now I think. There I learned fundamental electronics, then trained specifically on the system I would be working on. In those days there was a squadron of airplanes and a dedicated maintenance team comprised of specialists for various aircraft systems, mechanics who would do general maintenance, refuel, etc. and weapons specialists who would load/unload bombs, ammunition and maintain the machine gun, bomb racks, missile stations etc.
    So I was a specialist on the Weapons Control System (WCS) on the F-4 Phantom II. The WCS consisted of the tactical radar, radar missile stations, and optical sight system.
    When I enlisted I had 3 semesters completed at Cal State Northridge so they gave me an E-2 rank. My intention was to complete my degree and get a commission while in the service but it didn't work out. That was kind of a pipe dream that the recruiter said was possible. I didn't have a nice cushy Admin job I worked swing shift on the flight line. I took a couple of classes. Back then they had "Community College of the Air Force (CCAF)." They didn't have GI bill where they would pay for your education after you leave the service. They had something else where you contributed from each paycheck to a fund and the Air Force would match the amount with $2 for every $1 you put in. Then you could use that money to pay for education after you leave the service. If you maxed it out you could put in $2700 and get back $8100, something like that. That might have paid for tuition in 1984 but anyway I didn't have a lot of spare cash to contribute so I didn't take advantage of that program.
    In any case I worked on airplanes for a few years and drank a lot. Mostly I worked 8 hour shifts but occasionally we would have exercises and everyone works 12 hour shifts 7 days a week for however long the exercise lasts. I was married so my wife and I had nice base housing which was a two-bedroom duplex. Most single people had to live in a dorm, two to a room until you achieve E-5 rank and then you would get a dorm room to yourself (I think that's right).
    Sometimes the squadron would deploy for various reasons and the maintenance team would deploy as well. Some of these deployments were a lot of fun. One such annual deployment was Red Flag which is at Nellis AFB near Las Vegas. That was always a good time. Some others were at Cocoa Beach and Panama City. Once we had a combat readiness exercise at a shitty little airfield in Gulfport MS. So that was 12-hour shifts, chemical warfare gear, etc. But we still managed to run down to New Orleans one night (I forget whose car it was), party all night, get back to base and grab a couple hours of sleep before the next 12-hour shift started. Ah, to be 21 again.
    It was easy to find a job, after I got out. I had a secret clearance in the military and the aerospace companies love that. I worked at Northrop for a few years and then started going to school at night and got my degrees.
     
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    Brandon got a reaction from Don in What have you watched recently? (Please use the hide function for spoilers or plot lines)   
    I see what you mean, dude. I started this tonight and it's clearly aimed at casuals, but I see why it works and how it would would have worked for the F1 series.
    A little too melodramatic (for the casuals), but I always enjoy just about any behind the scenes type stuff of things I'm into. I'll probably watch all of them and dig it.
    I forgot JT came back from 7 down to win the PGA.
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