So I just watched a video that compares UK vs US basic worker’s rights and it has left me with a question that maybe some american tumblr users could answer for me, because I am very curious now. This video was by an american who has moved to the uk and has worked in both and they mention how in America he would go into work sick because there are no laws that give workers sick days or pay. I live in the UK and I used to work in a cafe where obviously I was around and handling food and drink. We have a rule that says if you are sick at work (as in you’ve thrown up) then you have to be sent home. That wasn’t an offer for you to go home either you had to leave whether you wanted to or not. If you are sick at home then you have to call in sick too, as an employee you are obligated to inform your manager immediately if you have certain symptoms such as vomiting etc. This is because of food safety regulations as certain viruses and bacteria could comtaminate the food and food surfaces and cause customers to become ill.  My question is, in America is there anything similar to this when it comes to food establishments? Like if you work in a restaurant and you fall ill at work and end up throwing up would you be forced to leave work because you work around food or would you be expected to finish your work day? If you have an illness with symptoms like vomiting would you have to stay home from work?   

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saying "it is not necessary to have sweets every day" should not be seen as controversial, but i have had people go for my throat for that take. its literally unthinkable apparently not to have a sweet treat on the daily (or multiple times per day).

i'm not saying "sugar bad" or anything, it's good to enjoy a little dessert every now and then. but i think a lot of Americans are so used to having a diet high in sugary foods, and it's so normalized and what so many people grew up with, that me saying "your kids don't need to have dessert every day" is accused of toxic diet culture mindset and depriving children of joy.

and the thing is, our sweets are really sweet. you don't notice it when you grew up with it, it just seems normal. but if you travel elsewhere or go on a low-sugar diet, suddenly our ice cream and cookies and donuts seem un-appetizingly overly sweet.

anyways i'm not saying don't give your kids dessert, but i think a lot of Americans underestimate how addicted they are to sweets. if the mere suggestion to limit the intake to once or twice a week gives you a knee-jerk reaction of fear/horror/disgust, "i could never! i earned this!", there is a problem.

I love Deanna Troi because she’s representative of an autistic experience you don’t see on TV a lot which is “I learned all about human interaction the same way that one might learn about cool bugs so I know what makes people tick and in THEORY I know the right things to say in social situations but socializing like that is not the least bit natural to me and I don’t know what to do if the situation doesn’t match up with what I studied.” Except for her instead of having JUST learned about human interaction she is also psychic and so she partially relies on that too.

The episode where she loses her powers and suddenly cannot read people at all, not even to the level humans usually can, totally screws up trying to give therapy, and becomes so distraught she tries to resign from her job as a therapist, is so real. Like listen if she wasn’t autistic that wouldn’t have been such a big deal. Deanna Troi is an empath with low empathy, she’s using her psychic powers to compensate for her symptoms.

Also the episode where she hears some annoying music and completely loses her mind about it and screams and sobs and must be put into a medically induced coma because she’s so upset by the music and the alien that made her hear the annoying music seems genuinely confused about why it bothered her so much (meaning that like, that wasn’t the intended or normal effect of his annoying music ability).

Even outside those episodes where it’s so obvious though, everything she says to people tends to read as extremely scripted, like she knows it’s what she ought to say but it isn’t what she would say if she was just being herself. Queen of masking. What is the real you like, if you even still have one? She’s just like me for real

he's the one who makes it for him! he's just an extreme stickler for health & regulation, especially with imposter (canonically. i cry). i will be rambling about this when i get all my thoughts together

love how aras will paint animal testing as this 100% cruel inhumane thing where the subjects are kept in dirty cages and tortured endlessly meanwhile at my actual animal testing facility we have to tell the professors to cut back on the enrichment items for the peanut butter lab because they've stuffed the cages so full of colourful shredded paper and hides that we can no longer easily locate the animals to do a health check without disturbing them

Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde (2003) by Charles Herman-Wurmfeld

Book title

Animal Liberation (1975) by Peter Singer

Living in Harmony with Animals (2000) by Carla Bennett

Constitution, Jefferson’s Manual, and the Rules of the House of Representatives

Food Drug and Cosmetic Act: A Practical Guide to Law & Regulation

Animal Testing Question: Alternatives & Analyses

History of the FDA 

girls who can’t regulate their own body temperature at all i’m kissing you on the forehead

My dad thinks every time this cat cries he's starving bc our other cat doesn't care Abt food much. So he gets a bowl of dry food and 3-5 cans of wet food every single day. Please someone confirm this is an insane amount of food cause I feel like I'm going crazy

so uh. apologies for the unexplained break/short hiatus (again). school and procrastination have been keeping me busy.

take this keegan face reveal redraw as a gift :)

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Food service worker diagnosis