Dan Ports@dev this may be the best slide deck of all time
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@spiegelmama @SnoopJ @regehr @dan @dev No one can say that Softbank hasn't laid some big eggs over recent years.
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It seems they’ve taken their inspiration from @grickle:
https://mstdn.social/@grickle/116771946228889458
neoluddite@SnoopJ @regehr @dan @dev *the power to stop laying eggs, and tell the farmer to go duck himself #unionstrong
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stephen ryner jr. 🦉@aburka “Il faut imaginer que l'oie est heureuse.”
Stylus@nuthatch @aburka omg that is gold for those who get it.
At the risk of explaining the joke, it's very nearly the last line from a book by Camus that aims to answer the question of whether life is worth living: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Myth_of_Sisyphus#:~:text=The%20essay%20concludes
The essay concludes, "The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy."
However, l'oie (the goose) has been substituted for Sisyphus.
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Paul@tuvok the context is a ridiculous slide deck presented at SoftBank's shareholders meeting
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Attached: 2 images Oh my god, these are real, actual slides from a SoftBank presentation. Pulitzer-worthy https://group.softbank/media/Project/sbg/sbg/pdf/ir/investors/shareholders/2026/shareholders-meeting_46_05_en.pdf
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In none of the "goose that laid golden eggs" stories was there any hint that incubating the eggs would give you golden hatchlings who might (if female) also lay golden eggs. If that could happen, it would certainly have been mentioned. And leveraged:
Hatch a number, so you have lots of geese laying golden eggs. Then, when you have plenty of geese, melt most of what they produce to get money.
And NEVER let anyone else get any of your eggs!
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And, of course, in the stories, when they cut the goose open, as shown in the slide deck, they lose everything. The goose is, of course, NOT full of useable eggs. Only the living goose can grow the thousands of immature eggs into full sized golden eggs. That's the point of all the stories.
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Isaac Ji Kuo@SnoopJ @regehr @aburka @dan @dev Also, when you definitely understand that immigrants magically don't exist or need to be paid but their labor still exists for free or maybe you think tomatos are like Attack of the Killer Tomatoes and they'll pick and plant themselves in those field for you or something.
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