5-7 years. Taz apparently said, “Mark Garrity would not have been killed had he not just put down that bag.”
In my opinion, an absolute psychotic level of justification to kill someone.
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Agreed, obviously. All of the statements from him about the incident honestly make me feel sick. Whole situation is just beyond awful. Plenty of ways to deal with theft at a convenience store other than using a knife - especially when you repeatedly use that knife. Totally senseless.
From a DTR perspective, will be interesting to see what occurs with that storefront now that the legal side of this has come to a close.
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Some community humor to lighten up your pre holiday stress. It involves my 5 lb dog and her love of 
Enjoy. @GucciLittlePig
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I like my too, but it’s usually extra crispy in thin strips.
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I prefer my bacon that way as well, and Rosie also prefers her Dylan to Piggie.
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Rosie loves her Bacon crispy as well. She prefers to tease it first.
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I was actually putting up a stopwatch to see when I heard a comment from D. You better come see Rosie before she takes up with your renter. He looks way too much like you. And I bet he has some bacon 
to give her on her walks lol.
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I hope I didn’t disappoint! Did you or Mr. SVP win the over/under on the timeliness of my comment? 
Looking towards Feb for a visit to see Rosie.
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I want to meet Rosie
Chris P. Bacon is a great name for a pig…
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Smaller, purpose-driven communities are the future. The desire for smaller, more intimate communities is undeniable. People are abandoning massive platforms in favor of tight-knit groups where trust and shared values flourish and content is at the core. The future of community building is in going back to the basics. Brands and platforms that can foster these personal, human-scale interactions are going to be the winners.
Should we start a forum maybe to capitalize on this new trend?
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Isn’t that why we’re all here instead of Reddit? Wouldn’t be opposed to starting something new with people who have a generally more positive/constructive attitude though. That’s what I was hoping to find here in the first place anyway.
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It’s interesting the different perspectives on how this forum overall falls on the spectrum between negative and positive. I get feedback all over the place. Since it seems to average out to neutral, we must be heading in the right direction.
I do want to get this sentiment analysis plugin working but it requires a bit of tech work on my part so will be awhile. Then I could see how we really stack up!!
More exclamation points and emojiss!!! 
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Sure, the issue is that the sentiment here, even if neutral, is so far off from the actual perception of Raleigh which is backed up by various rankings. It’s an incredible place to live and we do a ton of things right as a city. So if the sentiment here is “neutral” at best, it’s still doesn’t align with how the city actually performs (arguably best in class).
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I don’t see what the big deal with negative sentiment is…most of us live here because we love it, but we also recognize that there are a lot of ways in which the city could do better/be better than what it is today…I don’t feel that loving the city/being happy to live here and being upset/frustrated with the slowness/resistance to change we encounter here are mutually exclusive…I’m thrilled to see Raleigh as a whole growing but I hate that so much of it is happening outside of the downtown core…I’m excited about all the new apartment buildings going up but disappointed that more of them don’t have retail spaces…I think the whole point of this forum is to celebrate the wins and growth while also pushing for more of what we want to see/complaining about what isn’t happening - and that’s exactly what I see here
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I doubt we rank very high in traffic fatalities or pedestrian/transit infrastructure.
I think that’s fair feedback, and I would consider your comment constructive. It’s the negativity I’m really speaking about. Some people only post negative things. That’s insane to me, that you can live somewhere with overwhelming positive qualities yet only find negative things to point out? That’s not constructive at all.
The rankings are more about Raleigh in general that’s true, and this forum is DTR specific. Still, folks downplay the growth downtown, and it boggles my mind. There’s no more happening outside the downtown core here than in any other growing city our size or larger. In many cases, it’s worse elsewhere. But we actually do have significant growth downtown too when other cities’ growth is only on the periphery. That’s why I think it’s still misleading to call this out, and it’s a very common theme.
Durham has lots of apartments with no retail that drive people to frequent the areas with retail. If all of DTR’s new apartments had retail, there would just be more vacancies. This has been discussed at length. Durham is super walkable and they accomplish that without having retail in every building. They have clusters of apartments without any retail and it’s fine. So maybe I just fundamentally disagree with what people are complaining about. I’ve listed my own complaints before too, they’re quite different and in my opinion more specific and actionable than much of what we talk about here.
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Do you mean people’s feelings about this forum or people’s feelings about Raleigh vis-a-vis the topics we discuss here? I would think most people have a positive view of the forum itself or they’d just leave. In terms of “is everyone here always brimming with cheerful optimism?” well no. Speaking only for myself, I see lots of room for improvement in Raleigh as a whole and specifically downtown. And we’ve had a lot of letdowns to go with the accomplishments. So I think it’s balanced to be negative and positive depending on the topic and the personal viewpoint. Which may be exactly what you were saying.
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This relates to a great post from a writer I follow: Against the dark forest
Shared values and trust seem to be a big driving factor in changing internet community paradigms. Personally I’m tired of context collapse and waffle hatred (language warning), and I think this is a larger social trend.
Something I really like about this community is the shared value of the betterment of Raleigh. Some people express that through fault-finding, others though celebration, most a little of both, but basically everyone has a stake here. I also like that the locality and regular meetups means you might meet anyone here face to face some day. I think these factors work to regulate (although not eliminate) divisive and trollish behavior.
Personally I think it’s really cool that we seem to have a broad sweep of political perspectives here alongside all that. I actually don’t think we need to avoid those conflicts and “focus on Raleigh” or something like that. IMO there is tremendous social value in acknowledging those conflicts in a space that is more genuinely a community with some anchor values. As far as I understand it, this is how deep cultural rifts actually get bridged.
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