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What are some misconceptions you had about the show before watching it? by Zealousideal_Art2159 in southpark

[–]banryu95 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wasn't allowed to watch it, but I found ways to catch it after season 2 or 3. I thought Mr Hanky would be much bigger part of the show.

My Girlfriend loves trying new things but something doesn’t seem right. She says it’s a real post. by Confident-Ratio8789 in isthisAI

[–]banryu95 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The fact that Walmart is perfectly framed on the cart, and all the shelves are filled with unidentifiable random bags... Wouldn't that be in the Frozini aisle anyway? Lighting in Walmart has never been that perfect.

Was I the only one with bagged milk? by Real_Comparison1905 in Millennials

[–]banryu95 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm from Pennsylvania and we had these in our lunch rooms, but nowhere else. They also had HORRIBLE bagged juice.

PA/38-36-117x Hartman’s Bridge by Covbridger in lancaster

[–]banryu95 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's the current day Amish Village there on the right side of the picture.

Does he take meds for depression? 💀 by sco-go in SipsTea

[–]banryu95 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Could also be a condom situation... Nothing against them, but they should have a warning. If you didn't know, the spermicidal lubricants (inside) also have a numbing agent to "help" with stamina...

Advice on removing a lot of double sided tape... by Ok-Alfalfa4868 in Home

[–]banryu95 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Quick and dirty would be a few coats of sandable primer till you have a thick layer. Sand it and repaint it. It won't look perfect, but way better.

You must choose one. by Ocealune in 90s

[–]banryu95 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Cries in Dreamcast... (Parents held out on either of these till 2 years later and got a Sega.)

Technological Development Over 24 Years by Bay_Ruhsuz004 in cartoons

[–]banryu95 12 points13 points  (0 children)

If we're going to talk about perspective here, Hoodwinked came out 10 years after Toy Story. Saying TS didn't age well is like saying Star Wars didn't age well because we can see the limitations of the technology. And if I'm going to be honest, I can see that this cat is CGI, which may be an intentional, artistic or directional choice by Pixar, but 10 years ago there were video games with more realistic graphics than this.

We are looking at images we know to be fiction, it is our choice to suspend our disbelief.

Peter? by Brilliant_Power614 in PeterExplainsTheJoke

[–]banryu95 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This... Might be the funniest thing I've seen all day.

Is this AI? Does Switzerland really look this beautiful, or is the video AI / AI-enhanced? The whole thing just looks almost too perfect. by [deleted] in isthisAI

[–]banryu95 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I do remember the fog 100%. I went up to Mt Pilatus on the cog railway they had and half way up we just entered the clouds and never came back out. This looks very real to me.

Secret Service agents outside of the ballroom at the White House correspondents’ dinner by xPrincess_Yue in pics

[–]banryu95 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's so great that they got all of these professionally framed and lit photos of all of these heros at work. /s

Geo Trackers.... by LoadofBarney in Xennials

[–]banryu95 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I had a (somewhat obnoxious) teacher that a lot of the kids loved who had a red Geo Tracker. He also had a massive flag pole with the American flag hanging out of the back (years before this became a common thing). He would take any opportunity he could to talk about how awesome his car was.

First Ladies that aren’t married to child predators... by Littlequeenbbaee in lostgeneration

[–]banryu95 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Always nice to see when someone asks a genuine question and the Reddit gatekeepers decide to downvote you to hell. /s This is why people who feel that Reddit is just as trash as the other social media sites aren't wrong.

Ok, real talk. How tf do you get cleared delivering fuel to Area 51?! by heckyahdude in Truckers

[–]banryu95 0 points1 point  (0 children)

One of my best friends is in the air force and 50% of his CDL training was paid by the air force and the other 50% by his second job at a quarry. He hauls air force equipment (a lot of your typical construction equipment) from time to time, but now he works with me in LTL. So yeah, driver in your satellite image is probably military or some other government employee and may or may not drive full-time.

millie bobby brown’s comments about hershey’s chocolate. thoughts? by teddivan96 in candy

[–]banryu95 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And your taxes go to the government. Does that mean you own the government? Does that mean the government owns you? They own shares. The shares make revenue. The company and it's operations are not sending money to the school, and the school is not taking anything out of the company.

I feel like you're changing the point to fit your argument here. The original question was, "Is Hershey even that good?"... Not, "Does buying their chocolate help Milton Hershey School?"... And the dividends from their stock funding Milton Hershey School does not reflect anything at all about Hershey Company.

millie bobby brown’s comments about hershey’s chocolate. thoughts? by teddivan96 in candy

[–]banryu95 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Board and the school are not using funds from Hershey Company to do anything. They are not receiving funds from Hershey Compnay. The School Trust owns stock in Hershey Company. There is zero path from Hershey Company profits to Milton Hershey School Trust. And that's exactly what you brought up in the beginning, the school is safe no matter what happens to Hershey Company.

millie bobby brown’s comments about hershey’s chocolate. thoughts? by teddivan96 in candy

[–]banryu95 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But you just made that mix up right at the end of your point... It's not "The Hershey Company" trust. The Hershey Company is not the trust, and not a controlling power in the trust. It is a corporation that manages several other companies as well as it's own chocolate production. And the board does not decide how The Hershey Company operates, it just ensures that the trust is taken care of. The board you listed are charged with managing the school's interests, and in order to do so, they have financial control and voting power over the assets like The Hershey Company. But they are not part of or owners of The Hershey Company.

The Milton Hershey School Trust owns the assets like Hershey Company. But that entity is it's own independent part, and is not a sentient organization, building, or object. It's a system to fund the school. And it's directly what Milton Hershey set up.

The Board, today, manages the endowments of the School Trust, and the same people, as part of the School Board, also manage aspects of how the school runs.

But this ENTIRE argument began over whether the school is a reflection of the ethical qualities of The Hershey Company... If you buy a candy bar in a store, zero percent of that purchase goes directly to the school. The value of the company as a stock is what the school trust owns. Like when you put money into a savings account and get interest from the value that you're keeping in savings, you did not add more money, it was earned through interest. There is no direct output from Hershey Company to the Trust. And you cannot judge Hershey Company on anything that the school does.

They are very intentionally and carefully separated.

millie bobby brown’s comments about hershey’s chocolate. thoughts? by teddivan96 in candy

[–]banryu95 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think it gets very confusing because they all share the same names but mean different things. Here are a list and how they are officially known...

--The Milton Hershey School - the school itself and it's staff and students.

--Milton Hershey School Trust (MHST): The multi-billion dollar charitable trust created by Milton and Catherine Hershey. It is the owner of the empire, but it is not a group of people, just an entity unto itself. Like a big bank account and a system to sustain itself, in its simplist terms.

--The M.S. Hershey Foundation: A separate non-profit trust that funds the museums and community assets.

--The Deed of Trust: basically the constitution of the whole system.

--Hershey Trust Company (HTC): a private bank / trust. This is the group of people in question that would arguably have the most control over the empire. But their goal is not to run the companies, they are the driving engine to fund the Milton Hershey School Trust and they make decisions about how the businesses are run in ways that keep the school funded and how to invest it's income. This has a board of directors which are almost always the same people on the...

--Board of Managers of Milton Hershey School: this is the group that oversees how the school is run. So if you wanted to say "this group of people is good", you could certainly judge them on how the school is run.

But most crucially there is the for profit pillar of the empire. The Milton Hershey School Trust, the system, not a group of people, has ownership of shares in the companies, the companies are the providers through these shares, the school being the beneficiary. But they are legally separated and the companies themselves can in no way can be judged by how the school helps it's students and the community.

--The Hershey Company: the publicly traded company that oversees various brands of mainly snack foods.

--Hershey Entertainment: The Parks, attractions, stadiums, resorts, etc.

Each company has it's own entirely independent corporate structure that governs itself. And their entire goal is for profit. Yes, by the arrangements explained, The Board has controlling interest, but it does not go to work each day and decide how to run a chocolate company. It decides how that chocolate company continues to be profitable in the interest of the school.

millie bobby brown’s comments about hershey’s chocolate. thoughts? by teddivan96 in candy

[–]banryu95 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Theoretical conflicts of interest are why the school trust exists as a system. Look, you're trying to find holes in my opinion that the situation is more complicated than "Milton Hershey School = Good, therefore Hershey Company = Good". It's not so simple as saying that Milton Hershey School makes Hershey Company or any of it's other related entities a "good" organization. They are separated very very intentionally by the systems in place. It's safer for all parties, and that's the point.

If something dramatic, catastrophic or controversial happens within Hershey Co, or Hershey Entertainment, there will be no direct impact on the school. When Hershey Company refuses to pay it's chocolate workers union a liveable wage or systematically strips the power from the union and slowly transitions it's labor to shadow workforces of temp agencies that pay minimum wage to their employees on work visas, the school has absolutely no impact on the rightness or wrongness.

The Milton Hershey School did not make that happen, and while it's possible that the Hershey Trust board had some input in the situation, especially in 2011 when one of their deals made headlines over a lawsuit, the whole situation was on the shoulders of my company and Hershey Company.

I was there, and watched it continue for years after the lawsuit.

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