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Paul Davey

@pauldavey.bsky.social

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Pronounces schedule as "shedule" not "skedule" Un-populist, catmatic & possiblist Believer in universal human rights & cats Also @pauldavey@mastodon.social & @theplatformformallyknownastwitter

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Paul Davey @pauldavey.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

A picture of a laughing Liz Truss (49 days as UK Prime Minister) behind a pensive looking Sébastien Lecornu (26 days as French Prime Minister).

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Paul Davey @pauldavey.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

The UK (& EU) generally uses a precautionary principle, with stricter regulations on additives, pesticide residues, & foodborne disease prevention. So the USA allows carcinogens like Potassium Bromate (KBrO3) & Azodicarbonamide (ADA) clearborder.co.uk/resource/com... eatwell.uky.edu/sites/defaul...

Heading of a pdf from University of Kentucky
UNITED STATES VS. EUROPE: What’s in Your Food?
WHY THE DIFFERENCE?
Rules about food additives are generally stricter in the European Union (EU) versus the United States (US). The US tends to wait until an ingredient is flagged as dangerous before taking action, while
the EU tends to be more proactive in banning such ingredients.

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Paul Davey @pauldavey.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

These guys must be turning in their graves.

A group of eleven men dressed in early 20th-century formal attire, seated around a table with teapots and cups, against a wooden backdrop.
These were the men known as members of Dr Harvey Washington Wiley's 'Poison Squad' who tested adulterated foods and paved the way for the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906, the first federal regulations safeguarding American consumers.
(Source Flickr: US Food and Drug Administration)

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Paul Davey @pauldavey.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Which in turn just led me to this gem: joshblackman.com/blog/2014/05...

Page 1 of letter lawyer Tom Goldstein
wrote on behalf of Dan Bilzerian to Shoham Soluki, the lawyer of Porn Star Jance Griffith.

For text of the letter suitable for screen readers see
https://www.reddit.com/r/legal/comments/wrzgv0/tom_goldstein_and_dan_bilzarian_insane_response/?rdt=54825

Page 2 of letter lawyer Tom Goldstein
wrote on behalf of Dan Bilzerian to Shoham Soluki, the lawyer of Porn Star Jance Griffith.

For text of the letter suitable for screen readers see
https://www.reddit.com/r/legal/comments/wrzgv0/tom_goldstein_and_dan_bilzarian_insane_response/?rdt=54825

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Paul Davey @pauldavey.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Gotta include the UK satirical magazine Private Eye's infamous shorthand response to legal threats “We refer you to the reply given in the case of Arkell v Pressdram”. web.archive.org/web/20220524... (Pressdram Ltd is Private Eye’s publisher).

Dear Sirs,

We acknowledge your letter of 29th April referring to Mr. J. Arkell.

We note that Mr Arkell’s attitude to damages will be governed by the nature of our reply and would therefore be grateful if you would inform us what his attitude to damages would be, were he to learn that the nature of our reply is as follows: fuck off.

Yours,
Private Eye

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Paul Davey @pauldavey.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

I think I've seen that story before...

Dan Aykroyd and Eddie Murphy celebrate on the commodities trading floor after having made a killing short selling orange juice futures in Trading Places (1983)

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Paul Davey @pauldavey.bsky.social · 27/08/2024

Thanks. Interest is a significant cost, but the DHSC budget may include some social care and other obfuscated monies. Indisputable that healthcare costs are increasing as a proportion of overall public service costs esp. as others cut. Pic from DHSC 2022-3 report, I but can't say I follow it all.

Funding flows in the health and care system 2022-23 (per supplementary estimate).

Highlights - £187bn input to DHSC, of which £159bn to NHS England. Other funds of 3.2bn to local authorities, and other money to health education, health security and medicine regulator agencies.
Complex funding to Integrated Health Boards and money from Public Health Services to NHS & other providers.

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Paul Davey @pauldavey.bsky.social · 27/08/2024

Where did you get the idea that "close to half" of government spending is on healthcare? It's around 11% of GDP www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopula... and about 20% of Government spending according to en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governm...

Pie chart from HM treasury spring budget 2023, showing healthcare as £245bn (20%) of the total.

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Paul Davey @pauldavey.bsky.social · 07/03/2024

You say that, but I heard that in South Africa the robots are already directing traffic... :-) 🚦 Vehicular automation ranges from automatic transmission or cruise control upwards, but the Johnny Cab is still fiction.

Picture of the robotic Johnny Cab taxi driver, with Arnold Schwarzenegger in the back seat, from the film Total Recall (1990).

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