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Cake day: May 28th, 2024

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  • “an employee making less than the new threshold who doesn’t manage anyone else, whose job doesn’t require them to exercise “independent judgment with respect to matters of significance,” according to DOL, and whose job doesn’t require advanced knowledge might qualify for overtime pay.”

    The limit used to be people making under like, 100k, and now the limit is like, 130k or something. How many people making between 100k and 130k have jobs that are not management and don’t require independent judgment with respect to matters of significance?

    Feels pretty niche to me, but I guess progress is good. I’m also wondering how many people in these positions don’t have significant bargaining power., as the article states this law is for those people.

    Edit: Ah re-read it: it also impacts those in the 30-40k range, bumping the threshold up significantly.



  • Hey currently religious rules include: -Eating scaleless fish or seafood is forbidden, but actually shrimp is ok but crab is not. -Wearing clothing made of two different fibers is a sin. -Don’t cook a young goat in its mothers milk.

    So I’m not about to assume what might be considered a non-issue to any specific religious community.






  • "Animals must be alive and healthy at the time of slaughter and all blood is drained from the carcass. During the process, a Muslim will recite a dedication, know as tasmiya or shahada.

    There is debate about elements of halal, such as whether stunning is allowed.

    Stunning cannot be used to kill an animal, according to the Halal Food Authority (HFA), a non-profit organisation that monitors adherence to halal principles. But it can be used if the animal survives and is then killed by halal methods, the HFA adds. “” -BBC article.

    But "UK Food Standards Agency figures from 2011 suggest 84% of cattle, 81% of sheep and 88% of chickens slaughtered for halal meat were stunned before they died. "

    So it means that the method of slaughter must be exactly as specified, and whether stunning is allowed or not is up for debate. I see that “healthy” is not specific, so a brain damaged or anesthetized animal may not count. I really feel like a religion shouldn’t have such power over the meat industry, at least to the detriment of best practices. I can see a future where Halal practicing people won’t/can’t eat perfected lab grown meats because they are not technically halal, leading to an increase in animal suffering.

    Regardless, it is an interesting conversation for not just animal rights, but other religions. Is it forbidden to eat “blessed” (or cursed) meat if you are from another religion? I can’t imagine non-religious people care too much, but plenty of people believe in the power of prayer and vibes or black magic or whatever and if everything made at KFC has a prayer infusion then there might not be any reason to eat at a KFC for some groups.