Didn’t Nissan try something similar to a guy with a the last name Nissan and a computer company he named Nissan Computers? I wonder if he might have some recommendations to help fight this corporate bully.
Impossible food sues to cancel earlier trademark owners
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#22Wow, this deteriorates my view of impossible foods as the “good guys”.
I get that they want the brand, but that they apparently haven’t even attempted to buy it is pretty telling.
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#23Didn’t Nissan try something similar to a guy with a the last name Nissan and a computer company he named Nissan Computers? I wonder if he might have some recommendations to help fight this corporate bully.
Had a friend named Mike Rowe. We always thought he should start Mike Rowe Computers.
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#24Will you concede that many, but certainly not all, vegans bring it upon themselves with their moralistic pontificating about those who are not vegan?
Everything I've seen suggests to me that most people's annoyance with perceived "preachy" vegans comes from cognitive dissonance around being forced to confront that vegans have a good point. Why confront real issues when you can make a bacon joke and say "oh, I could never give up cheese"?
It's like when talking with someone who is very disciplined about exercise. Many will say something like "wow you're so lucky to have such good genes" to deflect from the fact that they're just not willing to put in that level of work.
And I say that as someone who is not vegan, and is pretty lax with exercise.
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#25Will you concede that many, but certainly not all, vegans bring it upon themselves with their moralistic pontificating about those who are not vegan?
Everything I've seen suggests to me that most people's annoyance with perceived "preachy" vegans comes from cognitive dissonance around being forced to confront that vegans have a good point. Why confront real issues when you can make a bacon joke and say "oh, I could never give up cheese"? It's like when talking with someone who is very disciplined about exercise. Many will say something like "wow you're so lucky to…
> being forced to confront that vegans have a good point
That you/they take it as a moral right to force people to do anything, even to consider some point, demonstrates the very moral corruptness that people hate about vegans.
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#26Will you concede that many, but certainly not all, vegans bring it upon themselves with their moralistic pontificating about those who are not vegan?
> Will you concede that many, but certainly not all, vegans bring it upon themselves with their moralistic pontificating about those who are not vegan?
"They deserved it" is rarely a good look. I imagine that just about any position one can imagine has its vocal and irritating proponents, so this response seems easy to generalise in ways that you probably wouldn't want.
(Because I recognise how this post looks, it's probably worth saying that I am not a vegan. Here in Texas, I actually had someone claim to me that he was a vegan because he ate only fish … but I still think that people expend far more energy on mocking vegans than they would just ignoring the occasional over-voluble vegan.)
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
Everything I've seen suggests to me that most people's annoyance with perceived "preachy" vegans comes from cognitive dissonance around being forced to confront that vegans have a good point. Why confront real issues when you can make a bacon joke and say "oh, I could never give up cheese"? It's like when talking with someone who is very disciplined about exercise. Many will say something like "wow you're so lucky to…
> being forced to confront that vegans have a good point That you/they take it as a moral right to force people to do anything, even to consider some point, demonstrates the very moral corruptness that people hate about vegans.
> That you/they take it as a moral right to force people to do anything, even to consider some point, demonstrates the very moral corruptness that people hate about vegans.
I think in no other context on Hacker News, which is a hive of far-reaching intellectual curiosity, would it be taken as a negative to claim that confronting someone with a possibly uncomfortable point would be taken as moral corruption.
(Note that 'forcing' here is not in the sense of, say, using physical force to compel someone; it is just in the sense of presenting information, so that people's only possible responses are to consider that information or somehow to ignore or discount it without acknowledging it.)
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#28Didn’t Nissan try something similar to a guy with a the last name Nissan and a computer company he named Nissan Computers? I wonder if he might have some recommendations to help fight this corporate bully.
Had a friend named Mike Rowe. We always thought he should start Mike Rowe Computers.
He wouldn't have been the first to make use of that name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_v._MikeRoweSoft
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#29This is absolutely awful. Isn't this a textbook case of malicious suing, SLAPP?
No this is an ongoing attempt at theft. They don't want to be paid off they want his trademark even thought it's been granted for a decade and he is using it for an active business.
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
Everything I've seen suggests to me that most people's annoyance with perceived "preachy" vegans comes from cognitive dissonance around being forced to confront that vegans have a good point. Why confront real issues when you can make a bacon joke and say "oh, I could never give up cheese"? It's like when talking with someone who is very disciplined about exercise. Many will say something like "wow you're so lucky to…
> being forced to confront that vegans have a good point That you/they take it as a moral right to force people to do anything, even to consider some point, demonstrates the very moral corruptness that people hate about vegans.
The power of an argument is plainly not "force" in its own right. Nit picking a figure of speech like "forced to confront" is not a persuasive point.