https://www.sfgate.com/food/article/pizza-hut-drivers-layoffs-18575596.php
Hundreds of Calif. Pizza Hut restaurants to lay off all delivery drivers
The march of progress continues as the ages old in-house delivery drivers are replaced by gig workers who aren't subject to the new minimum wage. Most of the staff was long ago replaced by confusers. Lions noted local fast food want ads offering $17/hour. The state is raising that to $20.
It's unclear if the government was really the cause of the staff reductions. Not having to worry if an animal copied your order correctly or looking like you don't know what the hell you're doing to a line of hungry animals is a big improvement. Helas, lions grew up in that tougher world where only cash was accepted, everyone watched you ordering, & employees bare pawed the food.
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Final xmas light photos
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20 years ago when GOOG was going to infinity, lions pondered what the next GOOG was. The answer was NVDA. That was as out of nowhere as it gets. Not an IPO. Not a startup. Not doing anything really remarkable in 2004. The most valuable thing lions used in those days was their programmable shader framework but lions never saw their interests as having any prospects. Penny stonks really are a lottery.
Now the most valuable thing lions use is robotics. There aren't any publicly traded companies doing that. Maybe Creality or PCB Way will be the next stonk windfall since lions do a lot of small batch manufacturing. The foundational stuff that got Goog & Nvidia paydirt is all done in China now.
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The mane thing on lions minds during the generation Z reboot of Hunger Games was whether Tom Blyth made a good impersonation of Donald Sutherland. He certainly tried to fake the eyebrows by keeping his eyes wide open. He honestly looked more like Christopher Walken.
The arena had a central role. What got lions attention was after it blew up, they kept using it without repairing it. It's usually the mark of a civilization in decline. The big picture was the decline of the hunger games & the hero trying to keep them going. It was all a bit upside down as modern forever franchises tend to be.
The heroine saves the man, but she reminded lions more of the legions of 25 year olds trying to keep their golden tickets alive than anything to do with love. By now, it became obvious to lions that since Donald Sutherland was alive & a corrupt bastard in the original trilogy, the heroine had to die & he probably blamed her death on the colonies.
The heroines reminded lions of so many 25 year old secretaries in the city swinging for venture capitalists for the 1 in a million chance of infinite wealth. Lions didn't see any love story other than all of the characters trying to use someone else to get ahead.
Lions like most animals saw some hint of economic apocalypse imitating reality in the 1st trilogy. In the prequel, the hint is now a lot closer to reality. The idea of battling in the arena to win one's freedom has become the accepted reality.
The traditional theme in apocalypse movies is there's an upper class. You have to give up everything you have to get into the upper class & have any chance of survival. What happens next depends on luck. That became the popular view of living in NY by 2015 & nowadays, it's accepted reality most everywhere. The only way to not starve is to give up everything you have to buy a house now.
1 thing they tried to convey was the Snows were broke, living in some kind of burned out ruins after the father was killed. Noted the brother & sister were living together in their 20's. Normally with millennials, the son lived with the parents into his 20's while the daughter moved out. Katherout was 1 exception where she lived with the parents until age 24 but there's no record of a son & daughter both living together.
1 thing about the Snows is they're still in the same apartment the father was renting when they ran out of money. It was bombed out & looked like on fire. Presumably the damage was from a war with the colonies. A big theme was the colonies killing off Snow's father & waging war against the capital. No-one but the very richest could afford that much space in US.
Eventually, like so many Amerikans, they get evicted. The hero's journey continues with Snow getting exhiled to district 12.
The district seemed a lot more pleasant than the supposedly wealthy city. It was supposedly all shot in Germany. It's not clear what Snow's job was supposed to be.
The 3rd act was a welcome relief from the series just being a game show. Lions never did like the game show formula, ever since Running Man began it.
The wide angle lenses & marksmanship reminded lions of Kubrik. By the end, lions figured the heroine escaped. He previously hallucinated birds screaming like his buddy did, which foreshadowed him hallucinating shooting the heroine. In typical sequel fashion, it wouldn't be surprising if she gave birth to Jennifer Lawrence & lived out her days in an unknown forest community.
Snow's apartment gets repaired. Surprising that even the mighty Snow had to pay rent. His mom lives out her days in luxury. It all makes Snow to not be the total villain he really is. He was more like a villain fighting other villains. Not being entirely about the game show definitely made it a better experience than the other episodes.
The lion kingdom should revisit the original trilogy to see how it all fits together. Seem to recall the capital eventually falling in a final battle.
There's some foreshadowing in the final shot of the road the rebels use to enter the capital but it's all a bit hazy. The 3rd episode was utterly boring.
The development of Tom Blyth into Donald Sutherland reminded lions of the evolution of Anakin in the star wars prequels. But the idyllic location also reminded lions of the great outdoors. Look, you cannot show up at the dock & make up like the movies. It's not going to look as good as the movies, anyways.
It was in this scene that lions noticed how much his ears sagged. Generation Z came after the earring craze.
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