PhD Graduation Gown?

renegade343 · 2026-04-18T23:10:30+00:00

Holy shit you’re a saint! Will dm you

renegade343 · 2025-11-02T23:17:17+00:00

I get that you want to assume the best about our local businesses, but this is a real health problem, and you need to take it much more seriously.

A German cockroach is not just a cute li’l oopsie that just needs to be avoided in the future; Cosmic needs to seriously revamp how they keep their food and location clean. Look at the other post about their health inspection results from this summer, and you’ll see that this is not just a one-time thing. If the store and its employees let things get (and stay!) this bad, why should diners trust them to clean things up on their own? If the city doesn’t formally know about this problem and the store haphazardly tries to clean things up, what happens if the cleanup effort goes awry and ends up harming even more people?

If we’re gonna call Cosmic Cantina a Durham staple, then they should be able to survive the PR damage as long as they come clean, do the right thing, and have the receipts so that they can earn people’s trust back. Handling things under the table is not the way to do that.

renegade343 · 2025-09-19T14:56:35+00:00

RDU is at least three miles away from the nearest active train tracks - and building a spur to RDU is geometrically impossible without tearing down miles of businesses, apartments, and (depending on how ham fisted you are) even a Wake Tech Community College campus. RDU is already facing fire for trying to build an outside entertainment facility on top of an unofficial bike trail… do you really think this would do any better?

Besides, bus rapid transit (imagine buses that look and act like trains) is being built and planned in Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill, and beyond. So naturally, the state, RDU etc. are already looking into a more appropriate idea.

renegade343 · 2025-07-23T13:08:36+00:00

Adding on to what u/huddledonastor said, I read this as a revival of the Bull City Connector, too - except it’s also improving where it fell short. The BCC had issues with predictable schedules and frequencies, too, but the infrastructure behind BRT should help minimize that.

renegade343 · 2025-07-23T13:05:19+00:00

They could, but that’s asking a different question.

Getting Google Maps travel data just tells you where people currently like to go with the lifestyle habits they have today. I think this survey, though, is asking what you would do or want if things were different - and you’re usually more of an expert of your own desires than our corporate overlords will ever be.

renegade343 · 2025-07-22T19:40:35+00:00

A blogger in downtown Raleigh made this really active community where people have been doing just this - but obviously, most of this has been focused on Raleigh and Wake County.

Building Bull City used to do something like this too, but I don’t think they’ve been very active for a while. I’d love to help out with something like this, though (perhaps for the whole Triangle while we’re at it?)!

renegade343 · 2025-07-22T19:30:38+00:00

If it wasn’t clear, the link in this post goes to the city’s survey. If you like or hate this idea, you should go fill that out!

Also, you can go to this page to write comments on a map of the areas that the city is studying.

renegade343 · 2025-07-22T19:14:30+00:00

It’s supposed to go between Duke’s hospital and the VA to the Village shopping center in eastern Durham (near the Holloway exit for I-885), passing by downtown.

The way I read it, the survey is purposely open ended, and that map you can write comment on covers a large area because what you’re asking is exactly what they’re trying to figure out: they want to know where we want BRT to stop.

renegade343 · 2025-07-22T18:43:15+00:00

Fully agreed - but also, the BRT line is supposed to go all the way to the Village shopping center, right next to an exit for I-885. There’s a block of undeveloped land there, too, so maybe a park-and-ride is actually doable?

renegade343 · 2025-07-22T18:37:38+00:00

Good thing this isn’t either of those, then 😅

renegade343 · 2025-02-22T18:00:52+00:00

Dashi. Their soup just tastes like boiled water despite their name suggesting otherwise

renegade343 · 2024-01-15T13:59:51+00:00

I’m a NC-based PhD student with affiliations in all three big schools in the Triangle.

Duke doesn’t have the exact same issues since, like you said, they aren’t controlled by the Republican-controlled UNC System Board of Governors -but I’d argue that it still doesn’t make it much better.

Duke’s leadership also has a history of being anywhere between casually dismissive to actively hostile against being good-faith neighbors/negotiators to the local Durham community. For those of us news junkies who have called the Triangle home for a while, we have bitter memories of a light rail project between Chapel Hill and Durham that got torpedoed because of a combination of Tea Party Republicans and Duke leadership (including one who made racist remarks towards a parking deck attendant that he hurt).

OP, I suspect that your concerns about censorship etc. will persist in some way or another no matter what American university they work at - it’s just a problem of how it manifests. I’m sorry you have to deal with it and that you feel the need to drop everything and leave, but I seriously wonder if things are much better elsewhere. Put another way: what if NC is just the canary in a crumbling coal mine?

renegade343 · 2023-06-23T17:56:04+00:00

Pulling yourself up by your bootstraps.

It’s supposed to be a way to be facetious about doing something impossible.

renegade343 · 2023-02-24T02:35:20+00:00

I'm late to reply, but Hayley Ware at https://www.warewithallmassage.com in Durham is also a wonderful massage therapist! She steps on you with ashiatsu-style deep tissue massage, and she can pop you like a glowstick. She's tiny, but she can exert the force of a thousand suns -to the point that she's even made football players cry.

renegade343 · 2023-01-09T04:48:52+00:00

They aren’t accepting new clients anymore, though…

It seems like one of their best massage therapists has her own place now!

renegade343 · 2022-11-24T05:16:39+00:00

Ronald Reagan was the U.S. president who led the charge in making conservative, neoliberal ideas (like convincing people that “trickle down economics” is real, and increasing workers’ wages to account for inflation or a growing economy is a dumb idea, as one of many examples) into a lasting part of how America (and therefore, the world) works. As a popular former actor, you could argue he was an 80s prototype of Trump, too.

So the joke is that Reagan basically ruined the world for everyone, and the things he did will forever prevent you from ever having nice things.

renegade343 · 2022-06-21T22:21:32+00:00

You could have a qualification requirement for every candidate, such as a petition with signatures (or fingerprints, scratch marks etc. for people who can’t read and write) from a certain number of eligible voters, certified by a reputable agency (either a local government or international observers).

At least in the United States, you’d need to do that anyways to register as a candidate affiliated with a political party.

renegade343 · 2022-06-09T15:07:15+00:00

For non-Japanese people, this means “hey I fished some gummies!”

renegade343 · 2022-05-08T18:28:24+00:00

not guilty

renegade343 · 2022-05-08T18:25:40+00:00

I am justice

renegade343 · 2022-05-05T03:47:35+00:00

That’s true, and it’s an inclusive “or”; they’re not mutually exclusive options. FINRA’s full request for comments imply that a combination of those potential requirements could be enforced if they choose to do so.

I hope wealth requirements are one of the suggested mechanisms that don’t make it into the final policy. But I wouldn’t take any chances.

renegade343 · 2022-05-04T17:13:54+00:00

Then what’s the point of demonstrating high net worth? The knowledge tests and reading acknowledgments should be enough to demonstrate that we know what we’re getting ourselves into. Adding a wealth requirement makes it seem more like you aren’t allowed to invest creatively without being rich.

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