In fairness, its a supreme court ruling after a dairy uk(3rd party) objected to a trademark and its been going on for awhile. So it’s not like it was specifically put on the agender by any government or authority.
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Fedegenerate@lemmynsfw.com 18 hours ago
This, this is what my country thinks is valuable to be doing right now? Not all the nonces that may or may not be being blackmailed by hostile powers? But that oat milk is called milk?
Strawberry@sh.itjust.works 18 hours ago
Fedegenerate@lemmynsfw.com 17 hours ago
I’m not sure why “in fairness” applys here? I don’t disagree it is a supreme court ruling after dairy UK objected to a trademark. I don’t disagree it’s been going on for a while.
What I’m disagreeing with is the supreme court not going “fuck off, you petty time wasting freaks”.
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
What I’m disagreeing with is the supreme court not going “fuck off, you petty time wasting freaks”.
Because the real world is significantly more complicated than we imagine. Yes, it’s infuriating.
Strawberry@sh.itjust.works 17 hours ago
That makes more sense. I interpreted your ‘my country’ more generally… like actions of government or something co-ordinated.
Still, the supreme court just heard and decided the case. Nor is it a consious decision to do this rather than deal with all the other stuff. I guess they could have refused permission to appeal earlier, but I don’t think whatever else going on is a consideration. They’d just look at the case itself. And I think that’s the best way about it.
That said, I’m not sure I agree with it either, but I haven’t read it in full. Just the guardian article.
Fedegenerate@lemmynsfw.com 17 hours ago
I imagine more than a little of my frustration is rooted in me not agreeing. But, I think I would have still been frustrated if the SC had decided the other way, just less so. I think regardless I would have wanted:
I guess they could have refused permission to appeal earlier[.]
But, more than that, these nonces have been noncing for actual decades. “The purpose of a system is what it does” is being thrown around a lot recently, I’m not sure organically. But fuck me if the purpose of our system isn’t to protect monied interest and bind the rest of us.
MurrayL@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
It’s a stupid decision but I don’t think the people in charge of this are the same people investigating blackmail by foreign powers.
Makes about as much sense as the people who say ‘why do we bother researching space when we have problems here on earth?’
Fedegenerate@lemmynsfw.com 18 hours ago
The supreme court?
Strawberry@sh.itjust.works 17 hours ago
they’d just hear the case, not investigate. Plus it’d have to go through the lower courts first and some of that might just be a inquiry before convictions sadly :(
I guess there is a massive backlog of cases, but I think it’s fair to hear this one.
Zombie@feddit.uk 16 hours ago
You think it’s fair to hear corporate lobbying on the use of the word ‘milk’ in reference to a product that has existed since the early 1990s without confusion? Despite massive backlogs being such a national issue that prisoners are being released early, jury trials are being scrapped, and the current government campaigned on it…
Going through multiple courts, using up multiple clerks, lawyers, and judge’s time?
And that’s fair?
And now this non-milk milk, which every layperson refers to as milk, can no longer be labeled milk, despite everyone likely to continue calling it milk.
That is a fair use of limited court time and salaries?