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How does money solve this?

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Royalties. There are generations of black families that have lost out on significant amounts of money because a family member in the past was taken advantage of at one time or another.

Imagine if one of your grandparents wrote a bunch of songs that Elvis made popular, but because they didn't know any better at the time, since they likely got shitty educations(or in some cases weren't even allowed to go to college because of the color of their skin), and they were never fully compensated for those songs. Yet, some white record company exec continues to get royalties on those songs because his grandfather took advantage of your grandfather at the time.

It's a dark side of the history of this country in that very often, rich white men took advantage of black people to further themselves and their wealth. And there are generational wealth gaps in black America that exist because of that.


History.com article on black musicians being taken advantage of.

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Another article about this with quotes on why Tweedy decided to do this as well as some contextual quotes from people like Little Richard and how he got fricked over.

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Pegues at 308 lbs

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How long until he gets moved to the DL?

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I was a big Andrew Bird fan back in the day, but this is very different from what you normally hear from him. I've only listened to a couple of songs so far but am liking what I'm hearing.

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That song sounds a lot like what he did on Hands of Glory. Such a good album. The cover of Townes Van Zandt's If I Needed You on there is fantastic.

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Probably didn’t like the way Auburn handled his injury. I imagine he probably felt like he could come back sooner and Auburn kept saying no.

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Doubtful. His parents had to come down to live with him for a couple months after the injury. Rumors that he actually fractured his skull too. He couldn't study, look at bright light, etc for a while without getting bad headaches. It was a very serious injury.

I think he may just want to get back closer to home after this.

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See, the dang LG machines are highly rated in practically every online analysis, but I’ve heard zero good things from actual owners.

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We have an LG top load high efficiency that is fantastic. Had it for almost 6 years now and no issues(knock on wood). It's huge. It spins so fast that the clothes are mostly dry when you put em in the dryer.

There are some great houses on Lake Blue Ridge and Nottely in N Ga. If it's in the summer, these are somewhat in the mountains, so you might get some heat relief.

Lots of spots on air bnb and vrbo.

Not sure if it's too far east, but from Lake Jocasse down to Keowee and down Hartwell in SC have lots of houses available in the summer usually.

I stayed at a massive house on Keowee a few years ago. Probably had 12-14 adults and 8 kids comfortably.

I'm headed to Zion/Bryce on a guys trip at the end of October that was postponed from last May and those pics got me pretty excited.

I also have two boys - 8 and 4 - and we're going to start taking them to at least one national park a year starting next year. Very excited about that.

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If you want a somewhat satisfying ending...stop after S8E3. But with only 3 episodes after that, you might as well follow through and finish.

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That'd be like running a marathon and stopping at mile 25 because you knew the last 1.2 miles was not going to be fun. Just finish the damn thing.

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I think the last season is a completely different experience to someone who knows nothing about GOT going in and just binges it blindly.

Millions of viewers had read the books and were doing Sunday night watch parties with their friends for several years. The ending was going to be letdown to some degree for most fans.

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Good point. I hadn't read the books, so I think if I had, I probably would have been more disappointed. By the time I'm done with the books, and I end up watching the last two, I'll probably be more let down than I initially was.

Agreed with those that say to watch the whole thing. When it was on, I watched the first 5 seasons, then they had that long break before season 6, so I watched the first 5 again, then 6, 7 and 8.

I'm doing it again, but reading each book and then going back and watching the corresponding season to see how different they are.

I'm about 300 pages into book 3 now and finishing season 2. I'm going to read ahead a good bit before I start season 3 because the show jumps around in the book timeline quite a bit and there were a handful of things I'd forgotten about that spoiled those things in the book for me when I watched season 1 and got into 2.

But yeah, it's just such a damn good series even though the ending was certainly not ideal. Still some good parts in 7 and 8 I thought, but overall, not so great.

I also forgot how much I liked the Hound. Some of his one liners are amazing.

Beric - We will meet again Clegane.

The Hound - ...fricking hope not.