Exactly, the dough alone is a whole job. I found other robots online that pull dough balls directly from a fridge and press them out, so those seem like they would save time.
And those robots also put the pizza into the oven, remove it, and cut it.
if you're doing all three of those steps, dough, toppings and cooking, that would save some time.
You do still need someone for prep, making the dough balls, cutting most ingredients, filling the various machines, etc. But those robots could be helpful at reducing labor costs. Could being the key word.
If these things break I don't know how long they take to fix. Sure people "break" too, but they're easier to swap in.
Kindell previously used Picnic's robots at T-Mobile Park, home of the Seattle Mariners, a baseball team.
Usually, he'd need about 10 people to make pizza in such a setup. With the robots that number fell to just two.
So I'm not familiar with the T-Mobile Park setup and I don't know which specific robot they used, but I found a video demo of the Picnic robot. There is no way that system reduces the number of employees from 10 to 2.
First off you don't need 10 people to make a pizza. The robot does the "toppings" step, which is the easiest step. You know how I know it's the easiest step? When you have kids pizza making parties guess which step the kids do? The toppings step.
If he had said it takes 3 people to make a pizza and the robot brings it down to 2, or that the robot speeds up production by 30% or so, that's believable.
Also the pizza making machine is huge. You're losing a whole prep area with that thing. If you're only making pizza then maybe that's ok, but most pizza places I've been too also make sandwiches or other things. A robot making things is a novelty so maybe if you plan a new restaurant with this specifically in mind you can justify the space, but I don't see this fitting into an existing kitchen.
I'm glad he's coming back and I hope his family comes with him. One of my favorite parts of the Blue Beetle film is that he's a superhero with a huge non-superhero family that are fully involved in the superhero story. So many superheroes are alone.
Shazam is probably the closest other DC film to show a similar dynamic, although by the end of the first film they do all get powers.
Given his age (20s) he would fit in well with the other announced X-Men. Iceman is a possibility.
However given that we just named a bunch of X-Men publicly and the phrase "key role" (which probably doesn't actually mean anything), Franklin Richards is a possibility. If we're going to age up T'Challa, why not Franklin Richards too.
When I was much younger my mother and sister were baking cookies. My mother removed some finished cookies from the oven and clearly instructed my sister "Do not touch, it's very hot' and my sister verbally acknowledged my mother's warning.
My mother turned her back for a moment to clean some dishes or something only to immediately hear my sister screaming. She had put her tounge on the hot pan trying to lick a cookie. Logically your tongue isn't "touching ".
This fool waited until they were an adult. My sister was way ahead.
"Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu" is a theatrical film releasing to Disney+ on September 2nd.
"LEGO Star Wars: The Mandalorian" is an animated special also releasing to Disney+ on September 2nd.
It's reportedly less than an hour long so I guess it counts as a TV special or TV movie. (Spiritually it's the third season of "Lego Star Wars: Rebuild the Galaxy", which is billed as a miniseries but is just a film chopped up into four parts.)
I completely understand where you're coming from, but I also agree that we have to see how this story plays out.
For example it's interesting that obedience seems to be the most important quality the Guardian is looking for in John. The Ring picks the next Lantern, not the Guardians. John is being setup for failure. John from 2016 is not going to become the next Lantern. We know Hal doesn't die until 2026, and we know Guy Gardner is a Lantern. John is taking the ultimate test in 2016, the test he's been waiting his entire life for, the test his parents raised him for... and he's going to fail. And as a parallel to this episode, it's going to be Hal's fault.
But, as you said, John is a paragon of willpower. He isn't giving up. John in 2026 is going to be the next Lantern.
Disney has also been slowing down heavily on live action Disney+. Even if the budget had come back reasonable they still probably wouldn't have moved forward.
Hopefully they've got a fun story idea and we can still get an animated version.
But the study doesn't measure other surfaces or things like "a nearby sink" or "a hand towel". Perhaps for airborne particles they roam more freely, but what about surface particles? I feel like there is more to study.
Predictably, a bird is not just bird. I guess it's a sense of safety since it means he's being watched. Or a sense of duty since he's fearless?
Last episode Hal told John to fly, but he subconsciously(?) disobeyed that order and instead created something to watch over him. He created a spy?
I also loved the line about how being programmed isn't the same as being raised. John's still human. He should be more of a mess of a person, but he's still deep down a person.
Also it sounds like Sinestro has only been imprisoned recently. At first it seemed like maybe Hal had done something back in 2006 (because it was our missing year) but instead it seems like it happened recently.
As much as I want the main story to move forward I hope next episode is all about Hal. Although we probably save that for later.
You're absolutely right that I kept waiting for John's mother to die. I mean I don't think this show is going to have a child shoot his mother in the face... But I didn't know for sure.
I assume the person making the dough is also prepping by chopping vegetables and meats, as well as babysitting the machine.
Zero people is impossible (since regardless someone has to load the machine), but reducing from 3 down to 2 or down to 1, that could be possible.
Exactly, the dough alone is a whole job. I found other robots online that pull dough balls directly from a fridge and press them out, so those seem like they would save time.
And those robots also put the pizza into the oven, remove it, and cut it.
if you're doing all three of those steps, dough, toppings and cooking, that would save some time.
You do still need someone for prep, making the dough balls, cutting most ingredients, filling the various machines, etc. But those robots could be helpful at reducing labor costs. Could being the key word.
If these things break I don't know how long they take to fix. Sure people "break" too, but they're easier to swap in.
So I'm not familiar with the T-Mobile Park setup and I don't know which specific robot they used, but I found a video demo of the Picnic robot. There is no way that system reduces the number of employees from 10 to 2.
First off you don't need 10 people to make a pizza. The robot does the "toppings" step, which is the easiest step. You know how I know it's the easiest step? When you have kids pizza making parties guess which step the kids do? The toppings step.
If he had said it takes 3 people to make a pizza and the robot brings it down to 2, or that the robot speeds up production by 30% or so, that's believable.
Also the pizza making machine is huge. You're losing a whole prep area with that thing. If you're only making pizza then maybe that's ok, but most pizza places I've been too also make sandwiches or other things. A robot making things is a novelty so maybe if you plan a new restaurant with this specifically in mind you can justify the space, but I don't see this fitting into an existing kitchen.
Anger is what makes America great.
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Not a documentary I would have asked for, but if it's helpful to his family and friends to help continue to process his death then I'm all for it.
I'm glad he's coming back and I hope his family comes with him. One of my favorite parts of the Blue Beetle film is that he's a superhero with a huge non-superhero family that are fully involved in the superhero story. So many superheroes are alone.
Shazam is probably the closest other DC film to show a similar dynamic, although by the end of the first film they do all get powers.
Given his age (20s) he would fit in well with the other announced X-Men. Iceman is a possibility.
However given that we just named a bunch of X-Men publicly and the phrase "key role" (which probably doesn't actually mean anything), Franklin Richards is a possibility. If we're going to age up T'Challa, why not Franklin Richards too.
When I was much younger my mother and sister were baking cookies. My mother removed some finished cookies from the oven and clearly instructed my sister "Do not touch, it's very hot' and my sister verbally acknowledged my mother's warning.
My mother turned her back for a moment to clean some dishes or something only to immediately hear my sister screaming. She had put her tounge on the hot pan trying to lick a cookie. Logically your tongue isn't "touching ".
This fool waited until they were an adult. My sister was way ahead.
Ok, this is a doozy.
"Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu" is a theatrical film releasing to Disney+ on September 2nd.
"LEGO Star Wars: The Mandalorian" is an animated special also releasing to Disney+ on September 2nd.
It's reportedly less than an hour long so I guess it counts as a TV special or TV movie. (Spiritually it's the third season of "Lego Star Wars: Rebuild the Galaxy", which is billed as a miniseries but is just a film chopped up into four parts.)
C-SPAN to the rescue
Original article seems to be missing now,
https://www.worldofreel.com/blog/2026/8/30/david-finchers-cliff-booth-will-get-an-imax-only-release-from-netflix-playing-in-just-350-us-theaters
Seems to cover the same content. Source is a tweet so it's possible it was taken down because despite the tweet saying confirmed there is no source.
Edit: "Source" tweet below.
I completely understand where you're coming from, but I also agree that we have to see how this story plays out.
For example it's interesting that obedience seems to be the most important quality the Guardian is looking for in John. The Ring picks the next Lantern, not the Guardians. John is being setup for failure. John from 2016 is not going to become the next Lantern. We know Hal doesn't die until 2026, and we know Guy Gardner is a Lantern. John is taking the ultimate test in 2016, the test he's been waiting his entire life for, the test his parents raised him for... and he's going to fail. And as a parallel to this episode, it's going to be Hal's fault.
But, as you said, John is a paragon of willpower. He isn't giving up. John in 2026 is going to be the next Lantern.
Disney has also been slowing down heavily on live action Disney+. Even if the budget had come back reasonable they still probably wouldn't have moved forward.
Hopefully they've got a fun story idea and we can still get an animated version.
It's like the toilet paper is an extension of your body.
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Yeah Discord is definitely seen less, but it's also more niche/focused. As an example I saw a post the other day about Linux support for a game .
Something like politics is more public generally speaking.
Threads, Bluesky, Mastodon, they are all shared the same way because they are all shaped the same way.
Plus once sharing images of text became the norm, it happened everywhere.
I mentioned deleted content, but what about private content? Discord content is private, so how is it shared? As an image.
We won't get a whole season, but I think we'll definitely get a whole episode that feels like that.
That same study also includes this figure,
But the study doesn't measure other surfaces or things like "a nearby sink" or "a hand towel". Perhaps for airborne particles they roam more freely, but what about surface particles? I feel like there is more to study.
Predictably, a bird is not just bird. I guess it's a sense of safety since it means he's being watched. Or a sense of duty since he's fearless?
Last episode Hal told John to fly, but he subconsciously(?) disobeyed that order and instead created something to watch over him. He created a spy?
I also loved the line about how being programmed isn't the same as being raised. John's still human. He should be more of a mess of a person, but he's still deep down a person.
Also it sounds like Sinestro has only been imprisoned recently. At first it seemed like maybe Hal had done something back in 2006 (because it was our missing year) but instead it seems like it happened recently.
As much as I want the main story to move forward I hope next episode is all about Hal. Although we probably save that for later.
Episode 1. My god! John's father is a monster.
Episode 3. My god!!! John's mother is a monster.
You're absolutely right that I kept waiting for John's mother to die. I mean I don't think this show is going to have a child shoot his mother in the face... But I didn't know for sure.