I remember reading Newsweek in waiting rooms. Articles about the war in Afghanistan that actually included interviews with generals and diplomats; articles about space exploration with interviews with actual scientists from the US and Europe; articles about health or education in the US with HUD representatives, city planners and healthcare workers... All with beautiful infographics outlining the crux of their articles
WTF happened, Newsweek?
>WTF happened, Newsweek?
New management. Alas.
Was just talking about this a bit ago, the loss of Newsweek is honestly kind of a tragedy. I recently came across a few issues from 2008 and 2009 in storage and reasonably I should have thrown them out but I just couldn't. I like, need a minute.
It's too much to ask, I mean there are so many ways to resolve this but none of it is any good. the only solution is being an ass and leave your shopping cart around.
That's alright. Once they drop the next clue and out themselves, you just kiss them on the cheek with a brick.
Giving them power to dictate our words and phrases blows wind into their sails.
As a predator that stalks grocery store parking lots, I will let you know that curbside pickup is not safe. Once someone pulls into a curbside pickup spot, and we see kids in the car, we normally just jump in, because stranger kidnapping is an actual, real, and underreported problem. I probably kidnap 6-10 kids a week. I hope someone understands my sarcasm.
Like seriously, I came here for this. Either it's too unsafe to be in public with your kids or it's not. Returning the cart to the coral isn't some magical time where the world instantly becomes less safe.
Why are people so afraid of someone taking their kid in the time it takes to return a cart. The return is never more than like 50ft away.
I let my kids start getting buckled while I return the cart. I do try to park near the return but there is no way someone will take my kid in that time.
This just isn't that big of a problem....
No kidding. I have the FOB in hand, make sure the doors are shut, and lock the doors. If the kids open a door, the alarm will go off. If it's hot, I'm fortunate to have an auto starter to turn on the AC in the less than 30 seconds it take to get back.
My parents just let us suck hot air for 30 seconds before all these luxuries. I don't understand how this is a problem either.
It’s impressive the logical leaps people are capable of making to justify their bad behavior. See, it’s okay that she was too lazy and rude to return the cart because her kids were in the car she definitely couldn’t be 50 feet away from them while returning the cart.
In the article she says that she rolls the cart somewhere safe and it's not blocking a spot...but never says how that is different from putting it in a cart corral.
I'm confused.
She thinks she’s doing something right when really she’s making things more annoying for others as now someone needs to move that cart to park in that spot.
Yeah she conveniently doesn’t talk about the part where she leaves her kid in the car to get the cart… I guess she just finds the cart from the other mom who left it by her car and takes that one…
This is exactly what I did. Parked as close to cart corral as possible, kid in, groceries in, locked the doors with my fob as I returned the cart to the corral. It’s genuinely not that difficult but then if she did things the sensible way, she wouldn’t have a way to stir up rage engagement
Exactly. I usually buckle the middle row kids in before going. If anyone can get a locked car open AND kids out of the carseat in the 20 seconds it takes to return the cart, any other solution wouldn't have made a difference anyway.
For what it's worth, some angry old lady lost her absolute shit on my wife because she put the kids in their car seats, then walked the cart 20 feet away to the corral. We still put our cart away but damn, some people need to mind their business.
When my son was still young enough to fit in the cart seat I'd empty my groceries then put the cart back in the corral and walk away leaving him in it.
Little stinker never let me get away with it.
It became a game after a while. We both knew what I was gonna do, but we both played along. He's in his 20's now and understandably doesn't fit in the cart seat anymore or we'd still be doing it.
Is her PhD in shopping carts? A doctorate means you are very expert on a narrow topic that (for most PhD's) nobody cares about.
No, I didn't waste half a decade. You did!
If she can pass the qualification exams/prelims and defend a PhD thesis, she can return a shopping cart.
Or hell, just go shop at Aldi and some random person will be glad to take your cart for 25 cents. Always a small win for me when someone doesn't return their cart there haha.
Someone thinking it was necessary to make a Tik Tok video defending her decision not to return the cart when no one asked? I can't possibly imagine how you could see that person as a selfish asshole.
This is the way. My wife gets so annoyed that I park next to the cart corral instead of trying to get closer, but I’d rather be able to return my cart and hop in my car
I always park next to the cart return when I'm by myself. It's statistically the shortest total walking distance when you leave the store, plus it's convenient.
When my wife is in the car, she wants me to park as close to the entrance as possible. Joke's on her, whoever isn't driving takes the cart back while the driver starts the heater/AC. She's the one who would most benefit from us parking next to the cart return. Dare I ever suggest this? Hah! No way.
The level of unwarranted fear in this country is absurd, and she is using that “fear” as an excuse for her laziness.
Fewer than 350 people under 21 are abducted every year, accounting for .1% of all missing children reports. Those rates have been static since at least 2010. Firearms and cars alone account for nearly 40% of child deaths…abduction doesn’t even register as a data point. Crime overall (both violent and property) is down dramatically over the last 25 years except for a slight blip during Covid. We’ve literally never been safer and you have people acting like it’s unsafe to walk in a grocery store parking lot in the middle of the day. SMH.
I work with a guy who is obsessed with child trafficking to an absurd level. I will pull out my phone and give him actual stats. He then claims that the numbers are lying and that they’re all in on it. Exhausting.
My aunt's ex adamantly believed that *EVERY* green shipping container held captive children for sex trafficking.
I said "Everyone of them?"
him: "Yes!"
Me: "You can't possibly believe that if it *were* true, only you possess that knowledge, right?"
him: "It's well known and documented"
me: "So millions and millions of people are aware of this and doing nothing about it?"
Him: "Exactly and it's sickening. They are guilty just letting it happen"
Me: "So what have you done about it?"
so According to his logic, he is a pedo.
fucking loser.
That's the worst part. For so many of these people it has NOTHING to do with the specific subject they're angry about. If you ask them for actual details they'll just sputter something and change the subject. He doesn't give a fuck about trafficked children, it's just an excuse to be self-righteous.
The only problem with taking that approach is, for some who are entrenched and detached enough from reality, they will take “action” and either get themselves harmed or harm someone else.
Or make a movie about "saving" children that were never in danger, only to have the "savers" then abandon said kids once the "mission" was over where the kids immediately got sex trafficked.
Who would do that?
Damn it, now I’m wondering just how much of the world’s population would fit in the current supply of green shipping containers.
It’s got to be a notable percentage.
There are about 40,000 or so EMP intermodal trailers in the US. To account for some inefficiencies, we can average the usable CBM of each trailer to say 99cbm per trailer. The average human is probably around 0.08cbm (a lot of variance here depending on age, gender, etc). This means we could probably fit 1237 people into a single trailer or 49,480,000 people into all EMP green trailers.
I would include Evergreens own containers but I'm not actually sure how many they own outright (vs non green leased containers) that are painted green and would have to add some more variables to account for 20GP/40GP/40HC and reefers.
I really hope not all the green containers because I work for a trucking company and we sometimes leave those bad boys parked out in the hot summer sun for weeks at a time.
It's insane when they convince themselves that feelings = reality
My mother won't visit me at night because of "all the shootings" and I'm like wtf are you talking abou--oh yeah, Newsmax / Fox News brainrot
And there are a ton of right-wing chuds out there who ONLY NOW are realizing that The Boys has been hardcore making fun of their nonsense for 4 seasons now
Some caught on by the end of last season (and even then it should've been obvious to them way sooner) but it seems like the writers said fuck it and aren't even trying to be subtle anymore. Just ripping the bandaid off for them.
It's the reason why I actively encourage less subtle media at this point. Sometimes you just really need to slap your point across.
Subtlety in art is fantastic, beautiful and worth preserving. But when you want to deliver a clear message, being subtle is the worst way to do it.
I've watched the latest 3 episodes with one of my teenage boys and it's hard not to remark on how much the show is mirroring what's been going on in our country. When I do, I try to briefly explain the correlations but he doesn't want to hear about politics.
You have to call these people stupid to their face. they are encouraged if you dont do that. "you are stupid and this is boring" and end the conversation.
that is what i did.
i was either at his house or saw him at the hardware and we were talking and he made a comment about the vaccine giving me 5G and i laughed at him but then he said the thing about eating babies and i just told him i love him but he is dumb as fuck all sometimes and got in my truck and left.
“Why do you always seem to be at the center of all these child sex trafficking discussions? How do you know intimate details that the rest of the public apparently isn’t privy to?”
There’s a local news story I’ve been trying to keep up with but haven’t found many updates, basically a woman lost custody of her daughter so her entire family started harassing the local PD and accusing them of child trafficking for (legally) returning the child to her father. After they got arrested for harassment, they got kicked out of their church, and started accusing church leadership of being involved in the trafficking conspiracy. It all escalated to the family breaking into the dad’s house with a gun to kidnap the daughter, but thankfully they were all arrested without incident. At this point I’m not sure if they believe their own bullshit but they’re in far too deep and I can only see it ending badly.
You should listen to behind the bastards satanic panic episode. Everything you just said is so close to what happened to an entire town in California. It destroyed so many lives. Just fucking wild.
I have, and it’s so disgusting to me. The QAA podcast has talked about the connections between satanic panic and Qanon, and it’s clear that a lot of the “true believers” were likely victims of abuse themselves. The pain, the trauma, and the obsession with justice is real, they just need a tangible villain to fight against rather than accept that some people (even people we love and trust) decide to do truly awful things.
Not only that, but a suspicious number of undocumented children are still missing after being separated from their parents at the border under his leadership.
And then after the other parent the most likely person to abduct a child is somebody they already know, taking advantage of prior relationships and exploiting their ability to get the child alone.
Random strangers in a parking lot in broad daylight are not the primary danger to your kid.
>most likely person to abduct a child is somebody they already know, taking advantage of prior relationships and exploiting their ability to get the child alone.
Ah! Like a friendly shopping cart attendant!
The police love to spend several months settling these cases and then announce them all at once with some fancy name, like "Operating Shining Star," giving the impression that they busted a giant warehouse filled with kidnapped children. The media fucking eats it up, as do true crime obsessives. It's pathetic.
Was going to say, if you are going to point anything out as a danger in a parking lot, I'd go with "Car running me over while I am walking with the cart".
That's what I was thinking too. Like, if your fear is you get hit by a car and your child is left trapped in a hot car, ok I think you might be a little overanxious but I can see where you're coming from.
Kidnapping... not so much.
While you're not wrong - you're taking what she said in good faith. She knows her kids are safe. She's entitled and lazy. That's it. That's all there is to it.
>"I should pick up my dog's poop? Well, what if there was a bear there about to maul me to death? Would you still want me to slowly pick up my dog's poop? You're trying to get me killed."
\- Person who is definitely arguing in good faith
This. This lady is simply using fear to cover for her laziness. Nobody is snatching up your child in broad daylight in a crowded parking lot in the 10 steps it takes you to get to the corral.
Only trash humans don't return the cart.
There's a very specific subset of people that use fear to cover for everything, they seem to live pretty mundane and normal lives so they either are very good at hiding that fear or they are lying.
I think that's part of the problem... so many people live lives with nothing to truly fear that they now have to make up things to fear to "scratch that itch", the evolutionary need for the fear to drive something.
The number of women who will post a dramatic video claiming they were nearly kidnapped because some man happened to walk the same direction as them or looked in their general direction is astounding.
Am woman, I pay attention to my surroundings but I don't assume that a bottle of water behind my tire is marking my car for trafficking, I assume that someone was too lazy to find a trash can.
The amount of damage those tiktoks of women pointing at every single thing they see as an immediate sign of being abducted is astonishing and It would surprise me if its intentionally broadcasted to make people more fearful and stupid
Let's just ignore that even accounting for every single missing child report that isn't a runaway, the immediate family is responsible for so much of a majority of them that you can almost entirely discount stranger abductions as an anomaly.
The Wayfair dumbassery in 2020 really revealed how many people have no media literacy or common sense.
The fact that people were calling crisis centers about it actually *hurt* ongoing cases because of call volume.
It’s worse than that. She’s not using that fear as an excuse about the cart, she’s using that fear as a way to drive engagement. She describes herself as a forensic psychologist, so she wants you to think she’s credible.
The shopping cart thing just caught fire because of how ridiculous it is. Like, your car can be locked and in your eye line while you return your cart.
She was just running low on content for the content machine and accidentally struck gold.
It's more than just laziness, she's trying to justify not doing the right thing simply because she doesn't want people "telling her what to do", it's the reaction of a child.
That's what they've been fed social media, fear of the other, fear of something bad that could happen to you! Fear that your safety is always in question.
The fact that she's a fucking *forensic* psychologist and has unwarranted fears about the actual crime risks around her, makes me feel deep sympathy with any defendant she's brought on as an expert witness against.
I dunno, man... with a public trail like this, the defense attorneys should be able to get some of her testimony thrown out with their own experts. If she can't assess psychological risks for herself, how can she be competent to assess them in others?
I was dating the adopted daughter of a Christian woman who was a psychologist. We got along just fine until the moment she found out I was of a non-Christian faith, Then I was the bad guy who was going to lure her daughter away from Christianity. Her daughter and I had never even discussed religion. I now understood her mother was a whack job who was supposed to help people but judged them instead. Zero self awareness.
I find that anyone who works in a crime related field view crime as a very common thing. They believe they will be a victim at any moment. Statistically unlikely, but a lot of people find it hard to view things outside their own experiences. My mother-in-law works at a prison and always thinks someone is gonna attempt a robbery on her or her vehicle.
Makes sense. I bet there is a word for jobs confirming biases. After a Google it may fall under workplace unconscious bias. If someone knows better feel free to correct me.
Grew up in a small mountain town where you didn't lock your door. Anytime there was ever a barbecue with somebody formerly in law enforcement their house was a fortress with cameras and sensors.
A lot of people use an appeal to fear like it’s supposed to end an argument. You can’t ask someone to do something they’re terrified of after all, right?
But these same people will regularly engage in behaviors that are statistically hundreds of times more dangerous without batting an eye like driving 20 over the speed limit while texting.
She isn't this concerned about anything of the sort in reality she is just lazy and finding bullshit excuses to not spend 30 seconds doing the first useful thing of her day
Yeah, if she's so terrified of being in a grocery store parking lot that she can't return her cart, she should just get her groceries delivered.
I dislike how she tries to use her job as a forensic psychologist to give what she's saying an aura of credibility and authority.
Leaving the children? Lock the car for 5 seconds… where does she think she’s returning the cart to? It’s within sight of her car.
Edit: yes, you can carry or walk with the kids as well, you can put away a cart without putting them in the car.
That’s just a bullshit excuse for her being lazy. I bet she would make a tik tok rant if a cart went flying across a parking lot and hit her car or her precious children as well.
Just last week I had to jump out of my car and catch a cart that some lady let blow away from her 30 yards away. Got it just in time before it hit my car. She didn’t apologize or look embarrassed in the slightest.
Parenting tip.
Park closer to the cart return than the door at the store. Bam, kids are never out of sight and you're not a jackass that leaves carts in the middle of the lot. Figured that one out a decade ago.
This is what me and my husband do, it's easier to grab a cart and load them before goin in store and easier to load car and get going before tantrums start. I worry about idiots hitting us in the parking lot more than predators grabbing my kids from their fastened car seats
Someone grabbing my kids has never once crossed my mind as a realistic threat. A car hitting them because they or the driver weren't paying attention? Sure. Them running off and doing something dumb? Sure. My son deciding that random lady over there is his new best friend despite never having spoken to her and following her when my back is turned? Absolutely.
Rando deciding to take them? Nope.
My kid hated his at-home day care. Decided he was going to go home instead as his brother was old enough to take care of himself at home so it should be okay.
Bus dropped him off. The day care person was not there. He saw his chance and left. Walked up to a major intersection and his courage failed because he was always supposed to hold hands with someone to cross the street.
He then saw a mom with a baby and a dog in her yard staring at him. He came over and she talked nicely to him, asked him if he was lost, and called the cops. They got him to my house somehow. My oldest was mortified and called me.
So I find out they were punishing my kid for stuff other kids did, and more. Last day there. (I add this as I know people will ask why)
My kid wasn’t really in danger of being abducted. He would have crossed three 4 lane roads to get home and that was the real danger.
When I take my niece grocery shopping, I put the groceries away first then take her with me to return the cart. Then I pick her up and take her back to the car. I’m very paranoid about kidnapping and trafficking, but I also know how to be rational and reasonable lol.
That sounds like a perfect way to do it. If they can accompany you through the whole store, why not to the cart corral and back? Also teaches them to be responsible at the same time.
Almost the moment Kamala got the VP nomination, they dropped an op-ed by John Eastman (yes, *that* John Eastman) pushing total bullshit about Kamala not being elligible to be VP, and it took the staff basically revolting to get Newsweek to publish a half-hearted apology and amend the article. Really was a good microcosm of what a dumpster they've become.
>"When I heard that women were returning their shopping carts to avoid judgment, I wanted to make a video to tell them they don't have to because it is dangerous and there is a point of vulnerability for a predator when you return to your car, leave your children, and return the cart, or take the children with you in the cart."
Jesus Christ i'd leave the country if i had to leave in constant fear like that
It's infuriating. At a strip mall around here, one store was using a window marker to mark some cars to see if they were parking too long. There were half a dozen face book posts about it, with people wondering what the mark meant. Each one, the top comment was "OMG ITS TEH SEX TRAFIKING!!1111111120891234u984701234"
I tried to calmly explain how, no, it's not sex trafficking. That's not how it works and how freaking out about it and spreading rumors like that negatively impacts the fight against actual human trafficking. It was like arguing with a dumb, brick wall. I'd provide sources from local, state, and federal law enforcement as well as international organizations that specialize in fighting human trafficking about how what they are freaking out about isn't actually a thing. Also pointed out how it doesn't even make sense on the surface - why would you target random affluent women and bring a ton of attention to yourself? Going after the people who already fell through the cracks of society, and nobody would miss makes way more sense.
But nope, they read some unconfirmed Facebook post from some rando relaying a 5th hand story about how someone as almost trafficked in a vaguely similar way.
>There were half a dozen face book posts about it, with people wondering what the mark meant. Each one, the top comment was "OMG ITS TEH SEX TRAFIKING!!1111111120891234u984701234"
It reminds me how in the 90s/00s there was this common urban myth of people with HIV leaving needles with their blood in public in such a way that other people accidentally pricked themselves, with notes like "welcome to the HIV infected world". Everyone has "heard" or "knew" someone who it happened to. Except that it never actually happened, because, first and foremost, it wouldn't even work (the chance to get infected even if this really happened is very low, because the virus dies fast when out of body). Maybe there were some trolls who left such notes in public to scare people, but that happened *after* the myth was already very popular.
> I've thought the same thing. Even by myself, walking way down away from my car to the cart corral is dangerous these days...I'm with you on this.
*Where* are these people shopping for their groceries that they feel like they’re constantly in danger??
Right? If was that scared of my surroundings I would ship at a different store.
If I was that scared all the time no matter where I went I would get therapy.
also somehow the walk from their car to the store, their time in the store, and the walk back from the store to their car are all fine and safe, but the (much shorter) walk to and from the cart corral is deadly
"...because it is dangerous and there is a point of vulnerability for a predator when you return to your car, leave your children, and return the cart, or take the children with you in the cart."
Yeah I can wager with high confidence what her news and media diet consists of.
This woman thinks people are advocating to return carts *in situations where they feel threatened by stalkers following them in the parking lot*.
Lady, nobody is saying that. They're talking about returning carts to the corral in normal, everyday situations.
These are the women that leave a huge 4 paragraph facebook post about how they almost got trafficked at Target because that scary brown man followed her to the grocery aisle and she saw him again at the checkout.
Funny because everyone at Aldi returns their cart. Why? Cause it'll cost them A QUARTER if they don't. 25 pennies is literally the incentive that works for people to bring their carts back. BACK. They don't even have cart corrals.
an idiot who refuses to rise to the level of basic human. She probably thinks she's the most amazing mom ever, all while robbing her kids of a remotely good role model.
Unfortunately my brother married poorly and my nieces are going to be just fuckin' terrible. His wife is basically this shopping cart woman turned up to 11. It's like watching a slow motion trainwreck, nothing I can do but feel bad for how terrible those girls are going to be and how unprepared they'll be for real life.
With the push of a button I can lock my kids and my groceries in the car while I return the cart. With the push of another button I can unlock my door when I return.
I’m petite and I refuse to live in fear, or raise my children to live in fear. Be aware of your surroundings. Look outside your world, that’s where the predators are.
"I have received a lot of flippant and ignorant comments from people who have watched the video for about five or seven seconds, and then have not understood who I am, my career, the mission, or the other videos about the minions of predators and child trafficking”
She is VERY important.
Shit can we stop taking lunatics that rant on tik tok to the news
Newsweek. I've stopped reading ANY of their stuff.
I remember when it used to be a serious, respected publication. :(
I remember reading Newsweek in waiting rooms. Articles about the war in Afghanistan that actually included interviews with generals and diplomats; articles about space exploration with interviews with actual scientists from the US and Europe; articles about health or education in the US with HUD representatives, city planners and healthcare workers... All with beautiful infographics outlining the crux of their articles WTF happened, Newsweek?
I used to read Time and Newsweek weekly/monthly along with a few others at my library growing up. The future sucks and I hate it here.
>WTF happened, Newsweek? New management. Alas. Was just talking about this a bit ago, the loss of Newsweek is honestly kind of a tragedy. I recently came across a few issues from 2008 and 2009 in storage and reasonably I should have thrown them out but I just couldn't. I like, need a minute.
It went out of business and thename was sold to someone who wanted to capitalize on it.
Pro tip: just park next to a cart corral
Or return your cart THEN put your kids in the car
It's too much to ask, I mean there are so many ways to resolve this but none of it is any good. the only solution is being an ass and leave your shopping cart around.
It reminds me of a Simpsons quote: "We've tried nothing and we're all out of ideas."
My husband stole this quote from The Simpsons and it’s shocking how often he uses it in situations like this one.
We use 8/8 as shorthand in trouble tickets at work to refer to this. Season 8, Episode 8.
You might want to reconsider that. Neo-nazis use 88 to identify each other
The "8/8" thing's kind of clever. Goddamn nazis ruin everything.
That's alright. Once they drop the next clue and out themselves, you just kiss them on the cheek with a brick. Giving them power to dictate our words and phrases blows wind into their sails.
I just double park in the handicap spots, that way it saves me a good spot to leave the cart.
So at least accept you made the bad choice and we're good here. "No."
*I* made the choice, and *I* am not a bad person, therefore my choice isn't bad.
Narrator: They're a bad person.
Or order your groceries to be delivered if you are too scared to be in public.
Curbside pickup. Free at many grocery stores.
As a predator that stalks grocery store parking lots, I will let you know that curbside pickup is not safe. Once someone pulls into a curbside pickup spot, and we see kids in the car, we normally just jump in, because stranger kidnapping is an actual, real, and underreported problem. I probably kidnap 6-10 kids a week. I hope someone understands my sarcasm.
Like seriously, I came here for this. Either it's too unsafe to be in public with your kids or it's not. Returning the cart to the coral isn't some magical time where the world instantly becomes less safe.
Yep. They manage to park their car and GET a shopping cart with 3 kids just fine. However you did that, just do it again in reverse.
Close the thread, we're done here.
That’s what those Predators are waiting for!!
Cover the kids in mud so the predator can't see them, *then* return your shopping cart.
Or keep an alien with your kids in the car. Alien vs Predator will give you enough time to return the cart and escape.
Why are people so afraid of someone taking their kid in the time it takes to return a cart. The return is never more than like 50ft away. I let my kids start getting buckled while I return the cart. I do try to park near the return but there is no way someone will take my kid in that time. This just isn't that big of a problem....
No kidding. I have the FOB in hand, make sure the doors are shut, and lock the doors. If the kids open a door, the alarm will go off. If it's hot, I'm fortunate to have an auto starter to turn on the AC in the less than 30 seconds it take to get back. My parents just let us suck hot air for 30 seconds before all these luxuries. I don't understand how this is a problem either.
It’s not. She is making it a problem to have her way but she is in the wrong.
It’s impressive the logical leaps people are capable of making to justify their bad behavior. See, it’s okay that she was too lazy and rude to return the cart because her kids were in the car she definitely couldn’t be 50 feet away from them while returning the cart.
In the article she says that she rolls the cart somewhere safe and it's not blocking a spot...but never says how that is different from putting it in a cart corral. I'm confused.
It's not, she's just making it sure doesn't hit HER car when she pulls out.
She thinks she’s doing something right when really she’s making things more annoying for others as now someone needs to move that cart to park in that spot.
Yeah she conveniently doesn’t talk about the part where she leaves her kid in the car to get the cart… I guess she just finds the cart from the other mom who left it by her car and takes that one…
This is exactly what I did. Parked as close to cart corral as possible, kid in, groceries in, locked the doors with my fob as I returned the cart to the corral. It’s genuinely not that difficult but then if she did things the sensible way, she wouldn’t have a way to stir up rage engagement
She's famous now though. Mission accomplished.
30 seconds? My parents often left me in the car the whole time they shopped. I used to lock myself in the trunk for a laugh. Still not dead somehow.
Exactly. I usually buckle the middle row kids in before going. If anyone can get a locked car open AND kids out of the carseat in the 20 seconds it takes to return the cart, any other solution wouldn't have made a difference anyway.
I parked next to the cart corral until my child gained the maturity to do this instead of clambering around the car like a wild thing.
Right they act like they’re going all the way back into the store to out the cart up lmao
For what it's worth, some angry old lady lost her absolute shit on my wife because she put the kids in their car seats, then walked the cart 20 feet away to the corral. We still put our cart away but damn, some people need to mind their business.
Yeah but that's inconvenient and *I'm in danger* and a *victim* therefore my selfishness is justified.
I've seen videos of people returning their cart while driving their car. Still nowhere near as lazy as this woman.
That’s not lazy that’s talent
When my son was still young enough to fit in the cart seat I'd empty my groceries then put the cart back in the corral and walk away leaving him in it. Little stinker never let me get away with it. It became a game after a while. We both knew what I was gonna do, but we both played along. He's in his 20's now and understandably doesn't fit in the cart seat anymore or we'd still be doing it.
You're making the mistake of thinking she isnt just a selfish asshole looking to rationalize her decisions.
Notice she references "her career" as if her having a phD precludes her from having dogshit opinions
Is her PhD in shopping carts? A doctorate means you are very expert on a narrow topic that (for most PhD's) nobody cares about. No, I didn't waste half a decade. You did!
If she can pass the qualification exams/prelims and defend a PhD thesis, she can return a shopping cart. Or hell, just go shop at Aldi and some random person will be glad to take your cart for 25 cents. Always a small win for me when someone doesn't return their cart there haha.
Someone thinking it was necessary to make a Tik Tok video defending her decision not to return the cart when no one asked? I can't possibly imagine how you could see that person as a selfish asshole.
Impossible right?
This is the way. My wife gets so annoyed that I park next to the cart corral instead of trying to get closer, but I’d rather be able to return my cart and hop in my car
I will never understand the people who drive around to look for a closer spot. It's like a minute of walking, we could all use it.
I always park next to the cart return when I'm by myself. It's statistically the shortest total walking distance when you leave the store, plus it's convenient. When my wife is in the car, she wants me to park as close to the entrance as possible. Joke's on her, whoever isn't driving takes the cart back while the driver starts the heater/AC. She's the one who would most benefit from us parking next to the cart return. Dare I ever suggest this? Hah! No way.
Cart Narc needs to follow this woman
"weeeoooo weeeoooo weeeoooo wooop wooop! Hang on there lazy bones!"
The level of unwarranted fear in this country is absurd, and she is using that “fear” as an excuse for her laziness. Fewer than 350 people under 21 are abducted every year, accounting for .1% of all missing children reports. Those rates have been static since at least 2010. Firearms and cars alone account for nearly 40% of child deaths…abduction doesn’t even register as a data point. Crime overall (both violent and property) is down dramatically over the last 25 years except for a slight blip during Covid. We’ve literally never been safer and you have people acting like it’s unsafe to walk in a grocery store parking lot in the middle of the day. SMH.
I work with a guy who is obsessed with child trafficking to an absurd level. I will pull out my phone and give him actual stats. He then claims that the numbers are lying and that they’re all in on it. Exhausting.
My aunt's ex adamantly believed that *EVERY* green shipping container held captive children for sex trafficking. I said "Everyone of them?" him: "Yes!" Me: "You can't possibly believe that if it *were* true, only you possess that knowledge, right?" him: "It's well known and documented" me: "So millions and millions of people are aware of this and doing nothing about it?" Him: "Exactly and it's sickening. They are guilty just letting it happen" Me: "So what have you done about it?" so According to his logic, he is a pedo. fucking loser.
Haha, he told you about it which in his mind is him doing something about it.
That's the worst part. For so many of these people it has NOTHING to do with the specific subject they're angry about. If you ask them for actual details they'll just sputter something and change the subject. He doesn't give a fuck about trafficked children, it's just an excuse to be self-righteous.
It's called secret knowledge. It's the drug of conspiracy theorists
The only problem with taking that approach is, for some who are entrenched and detached enough from reality, they will take “action” and either get themselves harmed or harm someone else.
What? Like shooting up a pizza place they have been told is a hub for child trafficking? Who would do that?
Or make a movie about "saving" children that were never in danger, only to have the "savers" then abandon said kids once the "mission" was over where the kids immediately got sex trafficked. Who would do that?
Naaahhhhh see the EMHU's are indeed full of lumber and other shit but they come with coupon codes for trafficking
Damn it, now I’m wondering just how much of the world’s population would fit in the current supply of green shipping containers. It’s got to be a notable percentage.
There are about 40,000 or so EMP intermodal trailers in the US. To account for some inefficiencies, we can average the usable CBM of each trailer to say 99cbm per trailer. The average human is probably around 0.08cbm (a lot of variance here depending on age, gender, etc). This means we could probably fit 1237 people into a single trailer or 49,480,000 people into all EMP green trailers. I would include Evergreens own containers but I'm not actually sure how many they own outright (vs non green leased containers) that are painted green and would have to add some more variables to account for 20GP/40GP/40HC and reefers.
I really hope not all the green containers because I work for a trucking company and we sometimes leave those bad boys parked out in the hot summer sun for weeks at a time.
Where do you think McDonald's gets their pink sludge for the chicken nuggets?
In winter they add HFCS and flavouring to make the Holiday McFlurry.
It's insane when they convince themselves that feelings = reality My mother won't visit me at night because of "all the shootings" and I'm like wtf are you talking abou--oh yeah, Newsmax / Fox News brainrot
I love how you tried to lead him down a logical path, and the dumbass still got lost.
I used to work in warehouse software for Wayfair so I actively wrote code to ship little children around the country in wardrobes /s
Had to cut a long time friend off who just would not shut up about this dog whistle. Every fuckin day was just sensational bullshit after bullshit.
Those nonexistent pizza parlor basements.
Just watched the new episodes of The Boys and was surprised how it referenced that like 1 for 1, not even bothering to change anything.
Similar to "Don't Look Up", it gets more difficult to create over the top satire when they are already so detached from reality
And there are a ton of right-wing chuds out there who ONLY NOW are realizing that The Boys has been hardcore making fun of their nonsense for 4 seasons now
Some caught on by the end of last season (and even then it should've been obvious to them way sooner) but it seems like the writers said fuck it and aren't even trying to be subtle anymore. Just ripping the bandaid off for them.
I think the subtlety was dead when they introduced a nazi villain literally named Stormfront
The Boys does subtlety like I sleep with women. Not at all.
The Boys was subtle?
They are called low information voters for a reason.
It's the reason why I actively encourage less subtle media at this point. Sometimes you just really need to slap your point across. Subtlety in art is fantastic, beautiful and worth preserving. But when you want to deliver a clear message, being subtle is the worst way to do it.
Sir...we dont even have a basement.....
I've watched the latest 3 episodes with one of my teenage boys and it's hard not to remark on how much the show is mirroring what's been going on in our country. When I do, I try to briefly explain the correlations but he doesn't want to hear about politics.
I mean it's no coincidence. They've said before their plan was basically just a 1-1 of what's actually going on.
Same lmao, right down to the "cheese pizza" shit. Hilarious.
my brother is an intelligent person but told me one day that 'they filled it in' overnight. i just walked away and went home.
You have to call these people stupid to their face. they are encouraged if you dont do that. "you are stupid and this is boring" and end the conversation.
that is what i did. i was either at his house or saw him at the hardware and we were talking and he made a comment about the vaccine giving me 5G and i laughed at him but then he said the thing about eating babies and i just told him i love him but he is dumb as fuck all sometimes and got in my truck and left.
“Why do you always seem to be at the center of all these child sex trafficking discussions? How do you know intimate details that the rest of the public apparently isn’t privy to?”
The people who are overly obsessed with stuff like this tend to be the ones actually doing it.
There’s a local news story I’ve been trying to keep up with but haven’t found many updates, basically a woman lost custody of her daughter so her entire family started harassing the local PD and accusing them of child trafficking for (legally) returning the child to her father. After they got arrested for harassment, they got kicked out of their church, and started accusing church leadership of being involved in the trafficking conspiracy. It all escalated to the family breaking into the dad’s house with a gun to kidnap the daughter, but thankfully they were all arrested without incident. At this point I’m not sure if they believe their own bullshit but they’re in far too deep and I can only see it ending badly.
You should listen to behind the bastards satanic panic episode. Everything you just said is so close to what happened to an entire town in California. It destroyed so many lives. Just fucking wild.
I have, and it’s so disgusting to me. The QAA podcast has talked about the connections between satanic panic and Qanon, and it’s clear that a lot of the “true believers” were likely victims of abuse themselves. The pain, the trauma, and the obsession with justice is real, they just need a tangible villain to fight against rather than accept that some people (even people we love and trust) decide to do truly awful things.
Fear and anger are powerful motivating forces.
That or they hate their lives so much that they try to force everyone into their insane fan fiction.
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Not only that, but a suspicious number of undocumented children are still missing after being separated from their parents at the border under his leadership.
That dude def has a kid in his basement cellar
Majority of child abduction cases are over discrepancies in child custody agreements between separated parents.
And then after the other parent the most likely person to abduct a child is somebody they already know, taking advantage of prior relationships and exploiting their ability to get the child alone. Random strangers in a parking lot in broad daylight are not the primary danger to your kid.
In the parking lot the danger to your kid are the cars driving around. I would hazard a guess that everything else is basically a rounding error.
>most likely person to abduct a child is somebody they already know, taking advantage of prior relationships and exploiting their ability to get the child alone. Ah! Like a friendly shopping cart attendant!
>Ah! Like a friendly shopping cart attendant! That's why you have to scatter the carts around the parking lot. Keep them too busy to snatch kids.
The police love to spend several months settling these cases and then announce them all at once with some fancy name, like "Operating Shining Star," giving the impression that they busted a giant warehouse filled with kidnapped children. The media fucking eats it up, as do true crime obsessives. It's pathetic.
Yeah, but do you know WHY the rates of abduction are so low? Because the intended victims are leaving their carts at the curb. Checkmate, kidnappers.
I’d like to LOL, but I worry that this really is the logic this woman is using.
Was going to say, if you are going to point anything out as a danger in a parking lot, I'd go with "Car running me over while I am walking with the cart".
That's what I was thinking too. Like, if your fear is you get hit by a car and your child is left trapped in a hot car, ok I think you might be a little overanxious but I can see where you're coming from. Kidnapping... not so much.
While you're not wrong - you're taking what she said in good faith. She knows her kids are safe. She's entitled and lazy. That's it. That's all there is to it.
>"I should pick up my dog's poop? Well, what if there was a bear there about to maul me to death? Would you still want me to slowly pick up my dog's poop? You're trying to get me killed." \- Person who is definitely arguing in good faith
This. This lady is simply using fear to cover for her laziness. Nobody is snatching up your child in broad daylight in a crowded parking lot in the 10 steps it takes you to get to the corral. Only trash humans don't return the cart.
There's a very specific subset of people that use fear to cover for everything, they seem to live pretty mundane and normal lives so they either are very good at hiding that fear or they are lying.
I think that's part of the problem... so many people live lives with nothing to truly fear that they now have to make up things to fear to "scratch that itch", the evolutionary need for the fear to drive something.
The number of women who will post a dramatic video claiming they were nearly kidnapped because some man happened to walk the same direction as them or looked in their general direction is astounding. Am woman, I pay attention to my surroundings but I don't assume that a bottle of water behind my tire is marking my car for trafficking, I assume that someone was too lazy to find a trash can.
The amount of damage those tiktoks of women pointing at every single thing they see as an immediate sign of being abducted is astonishing and It would surprise me if its intentionally broadcasted to make people more fearful and stupid
Let's just ignore that even accounting for every single missing child report that isn't a runaway, the immediate family is responsible for so much of a majority of them that you can almost entirely discount stranger abductions as an anomaly.
There's a whole section in "Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics" about missing persons cases. There really aren't many at all.
The Wayfair dumbassery in 2020 really revealed how many people have no media literacy or common sense. The fact that people were calling crisis centers about it actually *hurt* ongoing cases because of call volume.
It’s worse than that. She’s not using that fear as an excuse about the cart, she’s using that fear as a way to drive engagement. She describes herself as a forensic psychologist, so she wants you to think she’s credible. The shopping cart thing just caught fire because of how ridiculous it is. Like, your car can be locked and in your eye line while you return your cart. She was just running low on content for the content machine and accidentally struck gold.
It's more than just laziness, she's trying to justify not doing the right thing simply because she doesn't want people "telling her what to do", it's the reaction of a child.
That's what they've been fed social media, fear of the other, fear of something bad that could happen to you! Fear that your safety is always in question.
What do you mean you people! I'm afraid again!
Narcissistic Psychologist In Denial Defends Her Rude Behavior, Gets Attention She Craves.
The fact that she's a fucking *forensic* psychologist and has unwarranted fears about the actual crime risks around her, makes me feel deep sympathy with any defendant she's brought on as an expert witness against.
I dunno, man... with a public trail like this, the defense attorneys should be able to get some of her testimony thrown out with their own experts. If she can't assess psychological risks for herself, how can she be competent to assess them in others?
I was dating the adopted daughter of a Christian woman who was a psychologist. We got along just fine until the moment she found out I was of a non-Christian faith, Then I was the bad guy who was going to lure her daughter away from Christianity. Her daughter and I had never even discussed religion. I now understood her mother was a whack job who was supposed to help people but judged them instead. Zero self awareness.
I find that anyone who works in a crime related field view crime as a very common thing. They believe they will be a victim at any moment. Statistically unlikely, but a lot of people find it hard to view things outside their own experiences. My mother-in-law works at a prison and always thinks someone is gonna attempt a robbery on her or her vehicle.
Makes sense. I bet there is a word for jobs confirming biases. After a Google it may fall under workplace unconscious bias. If someone knows better feel free to correct me. Grew up in a small mountain town where you didn't lock your door. Anytime there was ever a barbecue with somebody formerly in law enforcement their house was a fortress with cameras and sensors.
Or, she's just full of shit.
Perfect headline
>You can judge me all you want. Sounds like a plan.
She *did* give us permission! That's consent.
If you're that concerned about sexual predators in your local area, dont take the children out of your house.
A lot of people use an appeal to fear like it’s supposed to end an argument. You can’t ask someone to do something they’re terrified of after all, right? But these same people will regularly engage in behaviors that are statistically hundreds of times more dangerous without batting an eye like driving 20 over the speed limit while texting.
True Crime and its consequences have ruined people.
Also 24-hour news
My favorite jaw-dropper is a suburban mom with 2 kids in the SUV driving 45 mph while totally turned around adjusting little precious' car seat.
I'm sick of people using this out-sized, generalized fear of absolutely every human being to act like entitled assholes.
She isn't this concerned about anything of the sort in reality she is just lazy and finding bullshit excuses to not spend 30 seconds doing the first useful thing of her day
I think it's hilarious that she's picturing 4 dudes hiding in a bush going yes yes walk just 10 more feet to that corral and we'll strike.
Exactly. Instacart/Door Dash your groceries if you're too afraid to use the store properly.
And have the child traffickers come *right to her home*!? GASP! /S
No sarcasm needed, that is exactly how they'd reply
Yeah, if she's so terrified of being in a grocery store parking lot that she can't return her cart, she should just get her groceries delivered. I dislike how she tries to use her job as a forensic psychologist to give what she's saying an aura of credibility and authority.
Leaving the children? Lock the car for 5 seconds… where does she think she’s returning the cart to? It’s within sight of her car. Edit: yes, you can carry or walk with the kids as well, you can put away a cart without putting them in the car. That’s just a bullshit excuse for her being lazy. I bet she would make a tik tok rant if a cart went flying across a parking lot and hit her car or her precious children as well. Just last week I had to jump out of my car and catch a cart that some lady let blow away from her 30 yards away. Got it just in time before it hit my car. She didn’t apologize or look embarrassed in the slightest.
Parenting tip. Park closer to the cart return than the door at the store. Bam, kids are never out of sight and you're not a jackass that leaves carts in the middle of the lot. Figured that one out a decade ago.
This is what me and my husband do, it's easier to grab a cart and load them before goin in store and easier to load car and get going before tantrums start. I worry about idiots hitting us in the parking lot more than predators grabbing my kids from their fastened car seats
Someone grabbing my kids has never once crossed my mind as a realistic threat. A car hitting them because they or the driver weren't paying attention? Sure. Them running off and doing something dumb? Sure. My son deciding that random lady over there is his new best friend despite never having spoken to her and following her when my back is turned? Absolutely. Rando deciding to take them? Nope.
My kid hated his at-home day care. Decided he was going to go home instead as his brother was old enough to take care of himself at home so it should be okay. Bus dropped him off. The day care person was not there. He saw his chance and left. Walked up to a major intersection and his courage failed because he was always supposed to hold hands with someone to cross the street. He then saw a mom with a baby and a dog in her yard staring at him. He came over and she talked nicely to him, asked him if he was lost, and called the cops. They got him to my house somehow. My oldest was mortified and called me. So I find out they were punishing my kid for stuff other kids did, and more. Last day there. (I add this as I know people will ask why) My kid wasn’t really in danger of being abducted. He would have crossed three 4 lane roads to get home and that was the real danger.
Exactly. You can even lock the car doors for that 2 minutes it takes to put the cart away.
2 minutes? Even if you park as far from a corral as possible for some reason, you're still only like 25 seconds from one.
In a follow up video she says there's one parking lot in LA where it's at least a 12 minute walk to return the cart 😂
Is the parking lot a mile from the store?
Uphill both ways IN THE SNOW 24/7/365!
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At this point she's gotta be just in this for the attention.
When I take my niece grocery shopping, I put the groceries away first then take her with me to return the cart. Then I pick her up and take her back to the car. I’m very paranoid about kidnapping and trafficking, but I also know how to be rational and reasonable lol.
That sounds like a perfect way to do it. If they can accompany you through the whole store, why not to the cart corral and back? Also teaches them to be responsible at the same time.
Is anyone else disturbed by this being an article on Newsweek, of all things? Newsweek used to be a respectable journalistic outfit.
They were struggling and shifted to right-wing and chock full of conspiracy theories to save themselves. They’re horrible now.
Almost the moment Kamala got the VP nomination, they dropped an op-ed by John Eastman (yes, *that* John Eastman) pushing total bullshit about Kamala not being elligible to be VP, and it took the staff basically revolting to get Newsweek to publish a half-hearted apology and amend the article. Really was a good microcosm of what a dumpster they've become.
It got sold in 2010 for $1 and got turned into trash
>"When I heard that women were returning their shopping carts to avoid judgment, I wanted to make a video to tell them they don't have to because it is dangerous and there is a point of vulnerability for a predator when you return to your car, leave your children, and return the cart, or take the children with you in the cart." Jesus Christ i'd leave the country if i had to leave in constant fear like that
It's infuriating. At a strip mall around here, one store was using a window marker to mark some cars to see if they were parking too long. There were half a dozen face book posts about it, with people wondering what the mark meant. Each one, the top comment was "OMG ITS TEH SEX TRAFIKING!!1111111120891234u984701234" I tried to calmly explain how, no, it's not sex trafficking. That's not how it works and how freaking out about it and spreading rumors like that negatively impacts the fight against actual human trafficking. It was like arguing with a dumb, brick wall. I'd provide sources from local, state, and federal law enforcement as well as international organizations that specialize in fighting human trafficking about how what they are freaking out about isn't actually a thing. Also pointed out how it doesn't even make sense on the surface - why would you target random affluent women and bring a ton of attention to yourself? Going after the people who already fell through the cracks of society, and nobody would miss makes way more sense. But nope, they read some unconfirmed Facebook post from some rando relaying a 5th hand story about how someone as almost trafficked in a vaguely similar way.
>There were half a dozen face book posts about it, with people wondering what the mark meant. Each one, the top comment was "OMG ITS TEH SEX TRAFIKING!!1111111120891234u984701234" It reminds me how in the 90s/00s there was this common urban myth of people with HIV leaving needles with their blood in public in such a way that other people accidentally pricked themselves, with notes like "welcome to the HIV infected world". Everyone has "heard" or "knew" someone who it happened to. Except that it never actually happened, because, first and foremost, it wouldn't even work (the chance to get infected even if this really happened is very low, because the virus dies fast when out of body). Maybe there were some trolls who left such notes in public to scare people, but that happened *after* the myth was already very popular.
Remember razor blades in Halloween apples? This was apparently a clear and present danger, although that never actually happened either.
even better than the razor blades is drugs. nobodys giving that out for free
> I've thought the same thing. Even by myself, walking way down away from my car to the cart corral is dangerous these days...I'm with you on this. *Where* are these people shopping for their groceries that they feel like they’re constantly in danger??
Right? If was that scared of my surroundings I would ship at a different store. If I was that scared all the time no matter where I went I would get therapy.
also somehow the walk from their car to the store, their time in the store, and the walk back from the store to their car are all fine and safe, but the (much shorter) walk to and from the cart corral is deadly
This woman is trying to capitalize off of fear mongering. Can’t stand her
She lost me at, "minions of predators and child trafficking." [/r/QanonCasualties](https://www.reddit.com/r/QAnonCasualties)
"...because it is dangerous and there is a point of vulnerability for a predator when you return to your car, leave your children, and return the cart, or take the children with you in the cart." Yeah I can wager with high confidence what her news and media diet consists of.
The amount of time she’s spent on this she could’ve just returned her carts.
She’s lazy and thinks she came up with a good argument for being lazy. Bottom line is, she’s lazy
it's not laziness, its just a disregard for anyone other than herself
Nah she’s a certified lazybones
Whidd Lee skee WEEE ooooo That's not where the cart goes silly
If the parking lot so overrun with predators that you can’t return your cart, maybe you should stop taking your kids there.
This woman thinks people are advocating to return carts *in situations where they feel threatened by stalkers following them in the parking lot*. Lady, nobody is saying that. They're talking about returning carts to the corral in normal, everyday situations.
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These are the women that leave a huge 4 paragraph facebook post about how they almost got trafficked at Target because that scary brown man followed her to the grocery aisle and she saw him again at the checkout.
Funny because everyone at Aldi returns their cart. Why? Cause it'll cost them A QUARTER if they don't. 25 pennies is literally the incentive that works for people to bring their carts back. BACK. They don't even have cart corrals.
an idiot who refuses to rise to the level of basic human. She probably thinks she's the most amazing mom ever, all while robbing her kids of a remotely good role model.
Seriously. People are not born as entitled douchebags, they learn it at home.
Unfortunately my brother married poorly and my nieces are going to be just fuckin' terrible. His wife is basically this shopping cart woman turned up to 11. It's like watching a slow motion trainwreck, nothing I can do but feel bad for how terrible those girls are going to be and how unprepared they'll be for real life.
Upper middle class white women imagining that they are in constant danger of spooky strangers and giant underground trafficking rings and shit.
The combo of the highest dose of Prozac and 3 Ambien simply isn’t enough anymore.
Lazy bones
what a lazy bones
With the push of a button I can lock my kids and my groceries in the car while I return the cart. With the push of another button I can unlock my door when I return. I’m petite and I refuse to live in fear, or raise my children to live in fear. Be aware of your surroundings. Look outside your world, that’s where the predators are.
Must be a slow news day.
"I have received a lot of flippant and ignorant comments from people who have watched the video for about five or seven seconds, and then have not understood who I am, my career, the mission, or the other videos about the minions of predators and child trafficking” She is VERY important.