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Re: Send someone you appreciate an official 'Continue and Persist' Letter

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Post by borski »

This is brilliant. This is one of the best things I’ve seen all year.

My father was diagnosed with liver cancer about a month ago, and I have had a rough time of it since. I needed this positivity in my life.

Thank you for reminding me of the good in the world; sometimes we all need a dose of that.

If I can buy you guys beers, please don’t hesitate to reach out. I’d love to help build some future boondoggles. :)

Email is in my profile. (The irony of my domain being owlpost.lol is not lost on me haha)

Re: Send someone you appreciate an official 'Continue and Persist' Letter

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Post by zoklet-enjoyer »

In 2024, Chang's company, Momofuku, drew criticism after sending cease and desist notices over the use of their trademark "chili crunch."[65] In a statement to the Los Angeles Times, Momofuku argued that the trademark was not intended to stifle any competition surrounding the sauces, stating that "When we created our product, we wanted a name we could own and intentionally picked 'Chili Crunch' to further differentiate it from the broader chili crisp category."[66]

On April 12, 2024, Chang issued a public apology regarding the issue on his podcast, The Dave Chang Show, stating that Momofuku had not intended to upset with their legal actions, and noted that Momofuku would no longer attempt to enforce the trademark.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Chang

Re: Send someone you appreciate an official 'Continue and Persist' Letter

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Post by dmix »

costcofries wrote: post #99
bragr wrote: post #22

This reminds me of how my father (a lawyer) sent fake subpoenas to invite people to his brother's bachelor party. Most found it hilarious but it freaked a few people out. I suspect that this would have the same problem.

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Depends what someone does for a living. If you deal with lawyers often you might have more emotional baggage seeing one.

Re: Send someone you appreciate an official 'Continue and Persist' Letter

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Post by richardw »

adnanaga wrote: post #88
ldoughty wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I agree so much, but the pessimist in me says that this isn't _really_ free, and I don't want to plug in a cool person's info without knowing who the info is being sold to. If this was publicly available document so I could fill in the missing bits, I'd send a dozen of these tomorrow.

it truly is free hahah we're using some free survey website plan and then Mark would fill in a template in google docs, print, and post the official letter. I think we hit our limit on the form though. We didn't expect it to blow up! Mark is gonna kill me when he checks his email

“Yeah we pivoted to hiring and blackmail only later. Killer skills went to hiring, dodgy office romances went to blackmail. Profits are excellent.”

Re: Send someone you appreciate an official 'Continue and Persist' Letter

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Post by growt »

omoikane wrote: post #66

> A official-looking legal letter [...] Surprise someone Having received actual legal letters before, my personal experience is that I would much rather receive normal looking holiday cards to encourage me in continuing whatever I was doing, rather than being surprised by official-looking letters. It might be different if this service offered help in other ways, but currently it seems like a practical joke of dubious…

I agree. I would rephrase it „send someone you appreciate and that you wish had a mild heart attack this official looking letter“

Re: Send someone you appreciate an official 'Continue and Persist' Letter

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Post by indus »

As a startup founder, my journey is super lonely.

There is seldom a flutter of thanks—-rarely does anyone come to me saying, “Splendid!”

Yet, the day continues, operated by a calendar.

The lack of thanks does not make me anxiouz, but I continue on my journey because I signed up—to create. Create something out of thin air, something out of my figment of imagination.

But there are moments where I am vulnerable, alone. In those moments, I look for a post-it where it says, “Continue and Persist.”

Thanks for creating this. I’ll wait for this. Maybe someone, someday.

Re: Send someone you appreciate an official 'Continue and Persist' Letter

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Post by DonHopkins »

DavidSJ wrote: post #67

On a few occasions I’ve called the phone number on a professional vehicle’s “how’s my driving?” bumper sticker to report the driver for good driving. It’s always a fun experience.

The customer service people at 1-800-EAT-SHIT laughed at me when I did that. Then they sold me some of my own "Don't like my driving? Call 1-800-EAT-SHIT!" bumper stickers.

Re: Send someone you appreciate an official 'Continue and Persist' Letter

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Post by ghusto »

mattclarkdotnet wrote: post #86

Very funny, completely American, mostly unrelatable for the rest of the world. Please continue and persist.

I don't mind America-only stuff — I think countries should have _more_ country specific stuff! — but it's rather frustrating when you only find out half way through the process of signing up / filling out a form. The presumption that all English speaking people are American is tiresome.

On the other hand, I can't blame people for it either, since it's equally tiresome to be world-inclusive by saying "This is for an northern American audience" at the top of each website that requires it. If only there were some way to un-obnoxiously denote this ... TLDs ...

Re: Send someone you appreciate an official 'Continue and Persist' Letter

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Post by kynetic »

cootsnuck wrote: post #97
ldoughty wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I agree so much, but the pessimist in me says that this isn't _really_ free, and I don't want to plug in a cool person's info without knowing who the info is being sold to. If this was publicly available document so I could fill in the missing bits, I'd send a dozen of these tomorrow.

> I don't want to plug in a cool person's info without knowing who the info is being sold to. Have we reached peak data privacy paranoia? Harmless lil projects that harken back to the good ol' days of the internet are somehow actually devious PII honeypots? Why do people think their data is so valuable on its own without being connected to their actual consumer related behavior? Truly, what is a name and address wort…

The privacy policy on the website specifically states that they are collecting the PII and may use it to offer products or services, either by themselves or via a "business partner".

It isn't paranoia when the threat is real.

> We may share Your information with Our business partners to offer You certain products, services or promotions.

> To provide You with news, special offers and general information about other goods, services and events which we offer that are similar to those that you have already purchased or enquired about unless You have opted not to receive such information.

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