PeriodicallyPedantic

I'm getting Blood Machines vibes

(And by extension Turbo Killer)

I wanted some of their side projects. Their web-things iot automation controller (and related standards) was pretty sweet. Until they spun it off into its own company without any staff.

Giving me anxiety just looking at it

For complete strangers who you never see again, it doesn't matter if you judge them or not, you'll never see them again.

It's useful on aggregate to tell the general attitude of an area to set expectations for interacting with strangers.

But mostly what people are talking about is when you're getting to know someone. If you find out an acquaintance or romantic prospect does/doesn't then it's one (of many) indicators you can gather to build a model of them.

Remember, this isn't deep. This is intentionally super simple. There is no "struggle" involved that wouldn't be immediately apparent. There is very little room for nuance because there is very little to be nuanced about.

This is "given the chance, will this person spend a trivial amount of effort to make someone's life easier, if there is no personal gain?"

Let me put it another way:
They fail the vibe check
It's a red flag

Bad vibes and red flags don't mean for sure someone is a bad person, they're a call to be alert and suspicious.

It's absolutely a good.

The only "cart returner" I saw against it basically just claimed that the people in their town/state/country were too incompetent to operate shopping carts (even if that's not what they explicitly said) so idk if i really trust them or want to use that as a measure.

Making work for others to save yourself some trivial amount of work absolutely says something about your character

I feel like this was chosen specifically because it's one of those cases where it's easy to tell.

For instance, there was a Walmart next to a bus stop I used to take. People had to take their groceries to the bus, but Walmart didn't put a shopping cart corral within like 200 meters of it. I don't really blame people too harshly for leaving their carts there, if they're taking a big load of groceries on the bus.

Fwiw it's not that it's a social norm that is important, it's it's natural as a social good, and it's nature as something (typically) trivial to do.

Lol yeah
But also let people like stuff. Don't be a snooty ass about it.

I never considered the counter argument: Americans are too stupid to operate shopping carts 😱

Apparently there is some validity to that.
But assuming basic human competency that the rest of the world casually exhibits, successfully putting your shopping cart back is a mark of common decency and failure to do so is either a moral failing or a sign that the person should absolutely NOT be allowed to operate a vehicle

You can typically tell when someone is in the kind of rush that'd excuse being a jerk to others

Goodharts law in action

Murca has invented these little devices that trick the machine so you don't have to put in a quarter.

They'll do anything to avoid being decent lol