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...bound to each other in the relentless pursuit of admission to a fancy college. A kid on that track can’t really separate from her parents, as their close involvement in this shared goal is essential. Replicating the social class across a generation is a joint project. That’s why it’s so hard to break into the professional stratum of society: The few available spots are being handed down within families. From this has flowed a benefit that parents love—deep emotion... How Helicopter Parenting Can Cause Binge Drinking - The Atlantic

Again, here’s the central thesis—maintaining status across generations now takes a lot of work! It used to be pretty easy.

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...er way, you could get a lot done by midnight. Beyond us, on the other side of high school, was some sort of future, probably more or less in line with our parents’ larger plans for us, but maybe not. The average middle-class kid (as we were called back then, meaning: a white kid whose parents owned a house and whose father was steadily employed) was not burnishing dreams of Princeton. Go to class, show up for the SAT, fill out the applications, and then enroll in the best, or the most interesting, or the farthest from home, or the cheapest college that lets you in. We didn’t need ... How Helicopter Parenting Can Cause Binge Drinking - The Atlantic

This seemingly unimportant sentence ends up (I think) being an important part of the point (I think) Flanagan is trying to make—that just 40 years ago, middle-class white families considered their children’s continued, satisfactory middle-classness a foregone conclusion so they were basically pretty chill about things.

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@ewokABdevito this is the parenthetical I mean

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Heart Is Full (Remix) Miike Snow (Ft. Run The Jewels) – Heart Is Full (Remix)
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Miike Snow teams up with Run the Jewels for this remix. The song started gaining new attention after being featured in a trailer for the Netflix series Luke Cage.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytkjQvSk2VA

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The Spoils Massive Attack (Ft. Hope Sandoval) – The Spoils
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Massive Attack joins up with Mazzy Star singer Hope Sandoval for this exploration of anxious love. On August 9, 2016, they released a captivating video starring Cate Blanchett. It was directed by John Hillcoat, director of films like The Road and The Proposition.

It’s the second time Hope Sandoval sings on one of Massive Attack’s songs. She was previously cast as the main vocalist on “Paradise Circus” off the band’s 2010 Heligoland album.

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The song is called “The Spoils”, which comes from the phrase “To the victor go the spoils”. The speaker in the song is in love with a person who is in involved with another woman. This other woman is the victor; to her go the spoils. The person they both love is “the spoils”.

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People looking at today’s report, however, should remember that one month’s number isn’t always reflective of underlying economic trends. US adds a healthy 255,000 jobs, unemployment rate holds at 4.9% [Video]

These numbers will probably be revised in the coming months. It’s common to see revisions of over 100,000 jobs in either direction. When all is said and done, it’s possible that this month showed anywhere between “weak” and “very strong” jobs growth.

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But the business of exclusive content has itself come under attack. In a series of Twitter posts over the weekend, Mr. West said that the competition between Apple and Tidal — in which exclusives play a major part — was hurting “the music game” and asked Apple to “give Jay his check for Tidal now,” which some people saw as corroboration for rumors that Apple was interested in buying Tidal. Frank Ocean’s Long-Awaited ‘Boys Don’t Cry’ Is Due on Friday - The New York Times

My theory: Jay and Kanye were hoping that the deal would wrap up before the Frank release and that the Frank release would have been the first from a joint Apple/Tidal deal. Deal was delayed, Frank release was delayed (perhaps the that July 15th library card stamp was a relic of that earlier plan?). Then over the weekend Kanye got wind of what the rollout for the Frank album was going to be, thought it was lame, and started tweeting. Also, so far, (my imaginary) Kanye’s right. This rollout is bad.

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upvoted for “Also, so far, (my imaginary) Kanye’s right.”

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Most album rollouts in 2016 that involve an exclusive from either Apple or Tidal are bad imo

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All through my city, all through my home Justin Timberlake – CAN'T STOP THE FEELING!
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Justin was born and raised in Memphis, Tennessee but currently lives in Los Angeles with wife Jessica Biel.

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They currently live in Nashville

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War Ready Vince Staples – War Ready
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“War Ready” is produced by British electronic artist James Blake. The song opens and closes with a sample of André 3000’s last verse on “ATLiens.”

A snippet of the track was premiered during an episode of the HBO series Ballers on July 24, 2016.

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the fourth set of “born ready, war ready” is wrong its only “ war ready, your boys lost already” and its “FAUGHT to the death, never caved in” not fucked

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