There is no such thing as a good person , we are both good and evil…given perspective.
The line between good and evil cuts through the heart of each of us.
Instructions unclear, cardiac surgeons are the line between good and evil.
I order online for pickup which takes up way more of the staffs time. Am I a civitizen?
I haven’t seen a shopping cart without a coin slot for a very long time. Communist Europe does not have moral lessons for citizens!
My local supermarket in Germany doesn’t have coin slots in its carts. This was unusual for me, too, though; maybe an urban-rural-divide.
Aldi’s is the only chain that I specifically remember seeing those coin locked shopping carts/trolleys at here in the US. I know they are used other places, but it’s been years since I was in those parts of the US and don’t remember the other store chains that use them.
Almost every single store in SoCal uses shopping carts/trolleys with a “brake” on one of the wheels. If you pass outside of the IR perimeter of the store’s designated property (which frequently doesn’t include the outside parking spaces of their own parking lot, thereby making them a problem for all their customers,) one of the wheels locks so the cart/trolley is basically unuseable.
Many, but nowhere near most, of the carts/trolleys that don’t use such technology of coin based locks, or wheel brakes end up being used by the people experiencing homelessness to cart what few possessions they have left. Most of their stuff has already been stolen by the cops and shoved into garbage trucks, or in the case of their pets, they get taken to the shelter and put down.
This isn’t just true of California, but they at least try to not do this heartless crap to everyone, just the most vulnerable of us that can’t remember schedules. Other states don’t even give schedules. The cops and trash crews show up in the middle of the night, and your tent, all your possessions, probably all your important ID papers that you have, and your pets disappear. You now have to pay to get your pets back. All your property went into a garbage truck, was compacted, and went to the landfill. You don’t get that stuff back.
Cruelty is the point in the US, and always has been.
Then come to capitalist Europe. Because in Belgium we do have those without a coin slot.
People even propose to take them off other people after they are done, so those people don’t have to bring it back to cart return and can just leave instead. While there are plenty in the in stock. It is just a nice thing to do.
Stopped using those 10+ years ago here in Norway. I guess having to deal with cash was more of a hastle for the supermarkets than having to retrieve the occational cart.
Okay, gooder. We’ll get your son.
I said for years that every second date should be to a grocery store. The first date can be as fancy and choreographed as the couple wants, but the second date needs to be to the grocery store.
You can learn just about everything you need to learn about a person from watching them at a grocery store. From how they chose a parking spot, to how they talk to employees, to how they budget, to how they prepare a list, to how healthy they eat, to how they check out, to if they return the shopping cart.
lol, this is how my first roommate vetted me. I guess I passed the test.
I feel like that would doom any chances I’d ever have of a relationship. I park really far away, visit the bathroom at least once for guerrilla art installations, and zig zig across the entire store as I remember what kinds of things I want. Both major exes hated this.
Wow I would hate that too. I try to spend as little time in the grocery store as possible. I almost always have a list of exactly what I want and that’s it. It’s hard enough finding things that are on the list, never mind remembering new things to buy.
Most of the stuff in a grocery store is junk food. The good stuff is at the ends and around the back, with only a few good things in the aisles (staples like olive oil, spices, rice, pasta, canned tomatoes).
It’s all about compatibility. This is in your favor. If you had taken your ex’es grocery shopping early on then they wouldn’t be your ex’es now.
The supermarket is my 3rd space
Especially if they’re Greek and you go to university together?
Change your mind on a product. Do they put it back where it belongs or throw it on the nearest clearly wrong shelf?
Or, is the person a shopper at all? Do they act like they’ve never been to a grocery store in their lives?
That’s useful information.
Or do they compulsively steal? And if so, did they remember what my favourite chocolate bar is?
Gen z is already struggling to date. They don’t need the added barrier of not ordering limos for their burrito and being judged for it.
It’s all about compatibility here. If the date thinks they need limo burritos then that’s important information.
Meanwhile I have no idea what a limo burrito is
Are frozens a separate category here?
Just go shopping. We’ll discuss compatibility when we are done.
tbf, ime people working grocery stores like lost/cast off items like that (assuming it doesn’t spoil quick). the small game of “oh, where does this go” is much wanted change of pace to the mind numbing tedium that is working a grocery store
I don’t think I’ve talked to an employee in a grocery store in years. They’re all self check out or 95% self check out and there’s online directories to find the location of every product in the store
Date takes note.
Never understood people who couldn’t put the shopping carts in the cart return when they are done.
I hurt my knee a few years back, not going to return it if it’s too far away. There’s a good reason sometimes, it’s not a 100% judge of character.
I’m sorry for your downvotes. I can think of several reasons not to return the cart, with different levels of validity.
I’m almost always alone, not in a hurry, and quite healthy. I will look around for additional carts to return with mine because I recognize that, in the future I might be the one without to privileges. In short: Got chu, fam.
I’m fully mobile now and do the same. I think the downvotes are funny, but thanks for the support.
Sure, Adolph, go ahead and tell yourself whatever lies you need to go to sleep at night.
We see you.
/s
If you can push it around the shop full of things, you can put it back while empty.
This is such hot garbage. Like I’m sorry but people stare and laugh when I bring my wheelchair to the store but then stand to reach a shelf. I’ve so often barely finished shopping out of exhaustion
Have to take a break after entering the store. Have to take a break halfway through. Have to take a break before check out. Have to take a break before parking lot. Take a longer break recouping in the car because groceries are fucking heavy with a spinal fracture.
Just because someone CAN do a given task doesn’t mean they can do it to the ability level of everyone else. Nor can they do it without longterm consequences, yes I can walk a few blocks, but I’ll be unable to move at all the next three days.
If someone says they can’t do something because of physical limitations, leave them the fuck alone about it and accept people struggle in unseen ways.
I sincerely hope you never dislocate your knee and still have to go shopping.
You know I actually have dislocated my knee twice. Still have never done that though.
Maybe that wouldn’t happen if people didn’t leave shopping carts around to bump into and fall over.
can walk around an entire store shopping with said cart, but can’t spend a fraction of that walking to return it
You guys are some ablist mother fuckers.
imagine telling on yourself like this
not only lazy and selfish, but obviously dumb both for sharing this and for thinking the explanation makes any sense. also, for not just parking near the fucking corral on the first place
what a fuckin’ wanker
can walk around an entire store shopping with said cart, but can’t spend a fraction if that walking to return it
The book is way too “Wow the military is cool!” for how long the author actually served it seems weird. Movie definitely has better theming, characters of course shine better in the book but the book seems to not think they are fascist. The author protrays it as kinda good or necessary.
Heinlein liked to turn sociopolitical thought experiments into novels. Stranger in a Strange Land was published a year and a half after Starship Troopers. If you’re not familiar, it’s basically about starting a massively successful free-love commune religion. The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, five years later, is about a libertarian (arguably anarchic, by some definitions) revolution for independence.
I think any attribution of advocacy for any of the political ideologies expressed in his books, even when vindicated by the narrative, misses the point a bit. It seems much more likely that he was exploring various political ideas through the narrative form.
Kinda like this post about The Twilight Zone:
Robert Heinlein had a serious respect/love for both the military and the mormon religion. The movie, on the other hand, is a satire of the book. Personally, I prefer the movie
I do too after reading the book. But I do believe after reading that there is so much room for more. A show would be great but I want the real suits. It really gets across the terrorism.
Power armor and terrorism, you say? Could I interest you in Warhammer 40K?
I was always told by military people, the longer you serve, the more you hate it. That only people going hoorah after getting out were the ones that served like a month long type stuff.
Yeah the book glazes the military and he didn’t serve that long so it does line up.
For those that may have somehow missed it…
I expected this to be higher up
according to the meme, from now I see “returning the cart” as a fascist move
The world sucks man
The real test of character is whether a person not just takes the cart to the cart return, but also tidies up the coral as well so that the carts are all pushed in.
Wait, it’s underwater?
No, coral.
That kid from the Walking Dead.
Gurgle gurgle.
I used to park right next to tthe cart return so I could grab a cart and return it easily. Then those sorry fucks moved the cart return a good hundred yards farther out. Fuck you cocksuckers, I’m DONE!
That’s just an excuse to walk more. You’re a persistence predator. Waking and lazy swimming are literally THE BEST exercise for us. Low impact exercise for the first, and zero impact exercise for the second.
Remember to stretch everything everyday, and stretch just a little further every month.
When you’re walking into the store, do you take in a cart that you pass which is not in the corral, or do you shake your head and curse whoever left it there, while leaving it there yourself, to get one at the door? Also, you could take one in from the corral, or you could return the one you used back to the front of the store, instead of the corral.
Taking it to the corral is not the only measure of a “good” person. Why don’t you do even more? Why don’t you take several carts from the corral to the store when you’re entering? You’re heading that way anyway. Because you’re not paid to do it, you say?
I normally walk into the store and try to hold my groceries with my two stupid hands. I was just getting a few things. And the a few more. Then I schlep around the store cursing the god that didn’t make me an octopus.
This ^
A just society requires you do to more than just police your own actions, you have to contribute to the commons to cover for the underprivileged that can’t.
Wrangling kids? Leave the cart. Walking is painful? Leave the cart. Don’t want to be late for something more important? Leave the cart.
I know almost always none of those are true for me, so I check around for carts to move into the corral or store both when I get there and once I’m done with the cart I ended up using. My good luck means I should improve the commons, not just avoid ruining it.
because there is cleaning up after yourself, and there is cleaning up after other people
I’ll take a convenient cart on my way into the store or gather a cart while taking my own to the corral (which rarely happens because I usually park near them in the first place when I use a cart), but I won’t go out of my way to get other carts that people left behind, because fuck them that’s their fucking job*. I will give them shit if I see them leaving them there though.
*to be clear lmao I mean it’s the cart user’s obligation to return the cart, not the employee’s job to gather up random shit across the lot
do you take in a cart that you pass which is not in the corral
Yeah, usually. But only because I don’t want it to crash into my car.
I don’t even get who can fail society’s litmus test?
I don’t do it because I don’t want to and they can pay someone to come get it. Why does everyone defend companies? Just hire someone to go get the carts all day. Hire 2, 3 or 4 people.
I worked at a supermarket and loved going outside to get the carts.
Shouldn’t you know then you could be doing a more fulfilling job?
Or better yet, get rid of the “work or die” society.
hey, look, it’s a piece of shit
citizen /sĭt′ĭ-zən/
noun
- A person owing loyalty to and entitled by birth or naturalization to the protection of a state or nation.
- A resident of a city or town, especially one entitled to vote and enjoy other privileges there.
- A civilian.
I don’t understand?
The movie is Starship Troopers, in which only those who serve in the armed forces are granted full citizenship.
A citizen is a civilian, a civilian is not necessarily a citizen.
