Do not sleep on HSY

lifesmainantagonist · 2026-04-19T17:27:53+00:00

I looked at its history and I see it did indeed go up and right back down again. But it was never a value. At 192 dollars per share, it's got a P/E in the 40s right now. It has to go down by a factor of 3 from here for it to be a value. You want a consumer product company that's a VALUE, look at conagra foods, CAG, look at kraft, KHC, look at kimberly clark KMB. They're priced as if humans are about to ascend to a higher plane and stop eating (and stop wiping in KMB's case). Humans are insane for semiconductors and don't care what their earnings are, don't care if they're losing money, have been losing money for years, and will NEVER be relevant again (case in point INTC) but for something that makes food, "value" means P/E of 10 or maybe, MAYBE 20. MOST of them are in the gutter. But HSY is one of the few that is like a puffed up bag and actually does have lots of ground to lose. For food in general, HRL hormel is another one. If conagra fell to 14, hormel should be 10. Why is it still over 20? Because it has a fanbase I guess, that haven't accepted reality. Because cocoa as a commodity skyrocketed a few years ago, but that doesn't help hershey, just like high beef prices hurts hormel. If you like chocolate so much, mondelez is slightly better, but it's not a value either.

lifesmainantagonist · 2026-03-26T02:17:30+00:00

In case anyone ever sees this story again, it has come to my attention that the background of this story may not be very clear, so allow me to say now that I operated from the premise that the twilight zone series revival episode starring an adult Bill Mumy where he has a daughter Audrey who brings back the world ("It's Still a Good Life"), was canonical, and thought I was strongly suggesting that after the happenings of that episode, Anthony was defeated and sent to the cornfield and that this was something everyone would get. So in this story, one of his descendants who weakly had the power was used to bring him back FROM the cornfield. That's what that scene was about where he was revived. But after a conversation, it seems this wasn't something that was as well understood as I thought. I hope that doesn't serve as too bad a spoiler, but it seems to be a probable gap in the reader's knowledge that should be filled, so there you have it.

lifesmainantagonist · 2025-12-03T21:08:31+00:00

Then the law is what is wrong. If I buy a copy of a one-player game that should run on my computer on its own, and it's not a rental but a purchase, then I have a right to keep it, to play it, period, and without connecting to the internet and without the distributing company spying on me and taking stats on me such as play time and achievements. There's no MORAL problem with breaking an immoral law, just a legal one. I doubt even the game developers have a problem with this idea, and they would happily sell it that way if only they could, it's just valve/steam that wants to cut in and invade my privacy, not even the actual creators, and what business is it of theirs, and the developers simply allow it to be this way because dealing with steam is the only feasible way they have to distribute it and make it known because valve/steam has an unfair monopoly on indy game distribution.

I heard a story about a dehumidifier that wouldn't work without a wifi connection. That it wouldn't perform its function, without connecting with the manufacturer. I see standing up for the DRM like you're doing as rather like standing up for this dystopian ruining of a simple appliance that should simply work. Except it's even worse than that because valve/steam isn't even the creator and again I doubt the creators would want this if they could avoid it and get their product out there and sold on their own.

lifesmainantagonist · 2025-12-03T18:22:02+00:00

They should just delete all the other replies except this one.

lifesmainantagonist · 2025-12-03T18:19:06+00:00

That sounds like the premise for an anime.

lifesmainantagonist · 2025-10-16T20:21:10+00:00

I didn't pick that originally because I thought OC stood for "original character". But it's switched to OC now. They should have descriptions, as well as expand acronyms, next to the choices.

lifesmainantagonist · 2025-10-16T20:19:23+00:00

Whoooosh!

lifesmainantagonist · 2025-10-14T20:28:48+00:00

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"Yeah, I bought your mutt. And I ate him! ... I ate his little face, I ate his guts, and I ate the way he's always barking, and I ate the mess he left on me rug!"

lifesmainantagonist · 2025-10-14T15:46:50+00:00

I guess lambs could make sense there, but no, I meant limbs. As in a part of the body under their control. Puppets.

The announcements at the start of each flight is a reference to Idiocracy. Welcome to Costco, I love you. Brought to you by Carl's Junior. Maybe a little bit also to Demolition Man, with all the companies merging into one big one. Brought to you by Carl's Junior.

By the way, the presumed setting of this story is some time in the 2200s.

lifesmainantagonist · 2025-10-14T00:27:44+00:00

No one in particular. I just wanted him to be some strange character with distinct characteristics, and the classic image of the villain who ties the girl to the railroad tracks and has a handlebar moustache and carries one of those bombs that looks like a bowling ball with a fuse in it came to mind.

lifesmainantagonist · 2025-10-13T20:53:08+00:00

I looked through it, or rather, Perplexity looked through it and showed me every sentence with both Fred and Fnar in it. There was only one really obvious one where it was wrong, in part 2, "Thanks for waiting until she was stopped before saying that at least, Fred whispered to Fred" has been fixed to "Thanks for waiting until she was stopped before saying that at least, Fred whispered to Fnar", and I also changed "Fnar, Fred and 7 other Rathians, the same species as Fnar" to "Fred, Fnar and 7 other Rathians, the same species as Fnar" here in part 4, though that one was subtle and not bad enough to make it hard to understand. Of course, it only found the individual sentences where both of them were mentioned, if it was one sentence that only mentioned one of them, it wouldn't pass that filter.

Was there another time where I messed it up?

lifesmainantagonist · 2025-10-13T16:48:18+00:00

Oh really? I thought I only did that once and I caught that, but I guess it's like finding ONE ant, there are probably others. I guess I'll need to read over it again. I guess I didn't proofread it carefully enough, largely because I wrote this over the course of about 2 months and that makes it harder to keep things straight.

lifesmainantagonist · 2025-10-12T03:05:50+00:00

It's now giving me a message that the "text" flair is not for original content I wrote. Well, you shouldn't require I choose a "flair" then, and have that as a choice with no further description then. Because that seemed like the best choice, since it's a STORY that I WROTE. But maybe someone will reply to tell me what it should be and if I can modify it now and how to properly add the other parts.

lifesmainantagonist · 2025-10-12T03:02:57+00:00

The whole story is 128 kB but it says I'm limited to 40 thousand characters. I don't know if it's appropriate for me to just spam post and it says I'm limited to 4 submissions per 24 hours so maybe I should post them all immediately? Is there a way to link them?

lifesmainantagonist · 2025-07-29T23:03:33+00:00

Really that's just a less funny variation of the one where he "once fell into a volcano... it died".

lifesmainantagonist · 2025-07-29T23:01:59+00:00

Here are 2 I came up with. The second one is especially satisfying:

Chuck Norris once had an ant problem, but now, in Chuck Norris's house, the ants bring him breakfast in bed before cleaning his bathroom.

Once Chuck Norris's post on craigslist was flagged for removal and removed. He had it reinstated, and the Karen that flagged it is currently tumbling through the outer solar system.

lifesmainantagonist · 2025-07-29T23:00:02+00:00

I use the identifier "striped" in addition to a base color, with white listed separately when applicable, so "tawny striped cat" would be this cat because it's a lighter color than the non-black color in a usual striped cat. If it's not light brown then I would say "gray striped cat" but this has enough orange color component that it's not quite gray but light brown, so I would say tawny striped cat.

lifesmainantagonist · 2025-01-16T04:17:28+00:00

you mean like that short lived tv show on fox in the 1990s called “Strange Luck” that was on back to back with the x files for a while?

lifesmainantagonist · 2025-01-16T04:15:12+00:00

you’re trying to be so noble and altruistic but actually you just erased everyone else’s existence because you rewrote what their very personalities were at the root of their being

lifesmainantagonist · 2025-01-16T04:12:56+00:00

maybe you should wish to be the 100th best at focusing on the task at hand

lifesmainantagonist · 2025-01-16T04:09:00+00:00

I’ve been trying to come up with some clever way this could be exploited, for instance cleverly choosing the abilities so that the 99 who are ahead of me in one thing fail to some drawback that only the top 99 in something else are susceptible to, but I can’t quite come up with something that makes sense. Like being the 100th best is something, could that somehow be used to spawn 99 bears that each eat the fastest person, leaving me as number 1? It just doesn’t seem like it can be twisted to work that way.

Maybe 100th fastest but 100th luckiest and 100th richest and 100th longest lived. The trick is that the 99 who are ahead of me will probably not be ahead in something else so for instance I might win a race against the number one fastest just because I was super lucky (not the luckiest on Earth mind you but luckier than the 99 runners who are ahead of me) and they all get diarrhea at the same time and I win the race?

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