Sunday, March 12, 2023

In which Polonius prattles, the lizard Oz editorialist does a little coal and gas loving, and the pond inquires with the Angelic one ...

 

A curious thing happened this weekend at the lizard Oz. Suddenly the reptiles realised there was soon to be an election on in NSW, and they needed to help the Dominator in the same way that they'd helped thrash Comrade Dan and send him packing, and so they arranged the most hideous Opus Dei snaps imaginable to run in the rotating zoetrope of doom at the top of the digital page ...



 



Oh dear ... oh dearie me ... oh dear ...

Well the pond has entered it into the reptile record and say no more, and instead please allow the pond to press on with Polonius's prattle ...






Here the pond must confess to feeling a tad awkward. 

The pond knows that Polonius will want to rant on about the ABC and their refusal to give him a show or a voice, but the pond still has heaps of cartoons left over from yesterday. Oh what to do, what to do?








Sure, it's only a loose connection, what with Polonius just a humble toiler in the chairman's garden, and so only a kissing cousin with his American chums, but the thing is, the pond always liked a serve of old fashioned bread with thick black crust straight from the oven, with hand made butter, the old cream separator put to work, and blackberries picked fresh from the field before spraying made it a dodgy proposition ... so the pond must serve these cartoons while they're hot, and never mind the heart attack down the track ... especially as poor old Polonius is sounding his usual stale notes ...





Sheesh, the bloody ABC, and the seething resentment (envy? pique?) for the Australia Institute, and endless blather about the Feds, and Polonius apparently entirely unaware that the Dominator is right at this moment only a few weeks out from a big vote, and where's Polonius when he's needed?

There's the Graudian speculating on the result, and the role the crossbench might play, and there's Polonius doing a mutton Dutton ... ‘Got enough problems’: Peter Dutton conspicuously absent from Coalition’s NSW election campaign.

It's almost as if Polonius thinks the Dom might be a loser and is urging on the pond to do a mutton Dutton, and pay no heed, and instead run a few cartoons...







Such a foxy fox, and the pond does appreciate the break, but now it's back to business, and dealing with those wicked cardigan wearers ...






Yes, yes, all that, and the pond had a goodly dose of climate science denialism yesterday from the dog botherer, but what about Dom? 

The bloody election's due 25th March, and he's such a caring chap ... and Tansy did a splendid job, and the photos were simply spiffing, and it was all a tremendous suck ... and so Polonius's complete indifference, and resolute lack of interest, verges on the cruel ...

Oh have some Opus Dei pity, you heartless prattler ...








Phew, is it any wonder the pond reaches for a cleansing cartoon?









Okay, there's one last chance for Polonius to make good and help out ...





Just the usual boring stuff about coal and gas! What about the problems facing the Dominator? When will Polonius pay attention?

At this point in proceedings, the pond often looks around for a bonus... and wondered what the reptiles had been taking to think this was a meaningful weekend EXCLUSIVE, featuring as it does a chortling loon better known for his Hillsong associations... and Crikey, hasn't that been a ride ...





The pond is well over all this stuff, especially as it comes from simplistic "here no conflict of interest" Simon, though talk of defence and structures and world wars did evoke memories of Kudelka having a joke about the militarists at Nine aping the reptile militarists ...






The pond is so over AUKUS and so over India and so over the bromancer and so over the oscillating fan, who really should have retired to academia completely, instead of just leaving Ten ...






Sheesh it's slim pickings and the pond decided to slip in a bit of Modi worship from the lizard Oz editorialist instead of troubling the bromancer, a fundamentalist tyke deeply in love with Hindu fundamentalism, because fundamentalists of a feather flock together ... and the pond has had more than enough of that bromancer infatuation ...





Of course, of course ... that love of Modi loving gas and coal fits well with the reptile business model ...






Now with tail on fire,  back to the coal love-in ...






Yes, indeed, we must continue to respect the fucking of the planet, and actively help out as best we can, and why not, because we have coal in abundance, and must make out like bandits, and not to worry, we also have a tremendous set of security alliances with able allies ...







And so to the Angelic one, who was mentioned in dog botherer despatches yesterday, and was promised a run today for helping out ...






What a dear sweet old irrelevant thing she is... but how nice of her to take up the cause of the lizard Oz editorialist ... the pond was reminded of the old biddy in The Ladykillers ...

Is it wrong for the pond to ask just who the reptiles expect will arrange an inquiry? With particular attention to Comrade Dan? And the polling and the reptile yadda yadda and carry on ...

Comrade Dan? Not likely. Albo or any of his mob? Hardly. SloMo? Maybe in an alternative reality. The mutton Dutton? He might have the desire, but he somehow, for some obscure reason ,lacks the wherewithall.

So what's the bloody point?

It's a bit like the pond having a pleasant mango Mussolini dream ...










If only, and yet somehow in the Angelica one's delusional head, she wants an inquiry to be held, and for the politics to be kept out of it, which is a bit like urging Killer Creighton to wear a mask ...







The pond appreciates that the Angelic one is a bit more inclined to care about public health than your average Killer Creighton reptile, but just let it go ...

There are other things that are more entertaining...










What's the chance of an inquiry, except perhaps by a batch of bureaucrats with too much time on their hands? What's the chance any findings would be made public? 

Surely the right thing to do is to muddle along until the next pandemic comes along, and nobody's prepared, and the arguments about masks and vaccines and mandates and lock downs can start all over again, and so the lizard Oz's business model might be saved for a few more years, because there's always room for a judicious mix of panic, fear, loathing and conspiracy theories and bizarre remedies...

Does any of this cross the mind of the Angelic one? Of course not ... she wants to rustle up a lamp, give it a rub, and produce a non-political inquiry ...






Ah there we go, broadbased decision-making, though surely that would only be useful if it produced a picture of overalls, so we might have the overall picture.

Meanwhile, in what alternative universe might an inquiry be held which wouldn't immediately be politicised by a slavering, slobbering pack of reptiles, talking of Kung flu and the Wuhu virus and all the rest of it, as offered up only yesterday by the dog botherer?

Best just to muddle along, in the Australian way,  occasionally running stories deploring the wearing of masks in operating theatres, and urging horse pills on those feeling poorly.

It's the reptile way around the world, and so the pond can end with a few last cartoons celebrating the reptile way ...







12 comments:

  1. Good old Polonius: "Moreover, if the transition to renewable falters, new coal and gas may be needed to provide domestic energy." Oh sure, yes, if we have a lot of clouds and an extended dunkelflaute, we'll just have to race out and build a bunch of coal and gas generators all over Australia. Can do that pretty much overnight, can't we - well, overnight for about 5 or 6 years. And how many more solar and/or wind generators - at about 1 to 2 years each - could we build and operate in that time ?
    Five reasons not to build new coal power plant in Queensland
    https://reneweconomy.com.au/five-reasons-not-to-build-new-coal-power-plant-in-queensland-45488/

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  2. Don't we just love Simpleton Simon: "The test will be whether the government is deemed by voters to be a culpable contributor to deteriorating conditions. The next election may well be won or lost on this question." Yeah, right, so we'll go back to the nongs that got us into this condition because clearly they are much better than Labor-Greens at running the economy, aren't they. And they are never, ever 'culpable' for anything.

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  3. Fate of the PoloniusGPT / ABCFreeAI -  The Crypt -"the redundancy of their beings annihilated by the crypt’s abhorrence of over-duplication.".

    Predictable Repeat AI's -ala "ChaitGPT";
    1. PoloniusGPT - proof by assertion
    Also known as the  ABCFreeAI
    *unusual feature of the PoloniusGPT LLM is self awareness, although it never accepts new training data. As evidenced by "Gerard Henderson Scribbles On (Wilkinson Books, 1993;", it is aware enough to write it's own Crypt eulogy.
    2. GroanGPT - bitch slapping AI
    3. BromancerAI - funDADAmentalAI
    4. NedAI is a very early AI, soon be entombed in The Crypt, leaving only a - " brief description of the exact shape of their hollowness behind".
    5 ala Gruebleen "never, ever 'culpable' for anything" is the
    SimpleSimonAI - or the NeverOutFaultGPT
    6. NewzAI - see 1,2,3,4 + hallucination at 11 + truth filter set to 1, + ROI set to "enshitification".

    Feel free to adjust or suggest teh oz AI's

    DP "The pond knows that Polonius will want to rant on about the ABC and their refusal to give him a show or a voice,".

    Inspired by DP &;
    "ChaitGPT"
    by Henry Farrell at crookedtimber...

    HF re ChaitGPT:
    "My objection to most professional contrarians isn’t that they outrage my core beliefs, but that they don’t do so in particularly interesting ways.2 It’s much harder to distinguish Chait [Polonius] from ChaitGPT [PoloniGPT] than it ought be. If you’ve read even a moderate amount of his previous work, you’ll be able to predict, with a very high degree of accuracy, what he is going to write when the next Chait-friendly controversy hits".

    HF led the above paragraph with Iain Banks and the - hopeful - Fate of the PoloniusAI / ABCFreeAI et al;

    "As the saying had it: the crypt was  deep and the human soul was shallow. And the shallower the soul, the less of it survived as any sort of independent entity within the data corpus; somebody whose only opinions were received opinions and whose originality quotient was effectively zero would dissolve almost entirely within the oceanic depths of the crypt’s precedent-saturated data streams and leave only a thin froth of memories and a brief description of the exact shape of their hollowness behind, the redundancy of their beings annihilated by the crypt’s abhorrence of over-duplication."
    https://crookedtimber.org/2023/03/08/chaitgpt/

    LoonpondGPT DP?

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    1. Henry Farrell still burbling ? He'll never shut up, will he.

      But oh, the very deep Iain Banks: "somebody whose only opinions were received opinions and whose originality quotient was effectively zero". Well that describes a heck of a lot of us, doesn't it. Of course, most people are effectively silenced throughout most of their lives and that's probably just as well.

      What kind of world would it be if everybody was a Srinivasa Ramanujan. Or even maybe a David Hilbert. Or perhaps just a Rear Admiral Grace Hopper.

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  4. Mulling over a coffee this morning (steady rain across the estate) and looking at various attempts to give us 'news' on AUKUS, I got to thinking that Mr Potato's objections to that 'Voice' thingy - that we lack details, including any idea of ultimate cost, yadda yadda - those objections apply to the AUKUS deal, times fifty. Yet he tells us to go with him on the simple concept of 'We are gunna get some real fancy submarines, some time, at whatever the cost.'

    So like the decision to sign up for F111 aircraft.

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    1. And for F-35s and for Spanish built ships and for locally built patrol boats and ...

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  5. The angelic Angelica: "There will be more pandemics..." Oh wau, we've been precedented yet again: floods, fires, storms and pandemics; all of them fully precedented.

    But hold on, wasn't even the Covid-19 pandemic 'precedented' ? Didn't we have a really big one back in 1917/18 ? Some Spanish thing or another ? So Angelica tells us that "Bennet suggests we need a nationwide assessment of the actions of each health department and nation-level data sharing for future broad-based decision-making. She is right."

    Oh, but is she ? It all depends on the timing, doesn't it: if our next pandemic comes within, say 10 to 20 years, we have a ready army of KillerCs just waiting to revolt and see how many they can kill and whether they should have had a vaccine and worn a mask after all.

    And if it's later than that ? Well, everyone will have forgotten and the disc drive where all the useful medical and organisation data was held will have been cleansed, or faded over time, or something. If there's one thing we can say with certainty about humanity, it's that it is never prepared and it always has to learn again from scratch.

    May I remind that WWI ended in 1918 and WWII started in 1938-ish; a whole 20 years to have completely forgotten why waging very large-scale wars is murderously futile.

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    1. I really wonder if there is widespread resentment of lockdowns, or is it just some FUD manufactured by the reptiles and the usual group of grifters worrying about their cash registers (eftpos machines in 2023). I can only think of one distant relation who kicked up a fuss, all the rest seem to accept lockdowns personally, although they often think other people probably didn't. The few I questioned couldn't really point to anyone apart from that one dull chap.

      I'm not sure if there's some accurate data out there, but my instinct is that its a small minority of cookers and moaning travel agents etc (looking at you Adam Schwab) boosted by the reptiles to make it look like a mass movement.

      Of course, I'm usually wrong. Perhaps I cannot come to terms with fuckwittery

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    2. Who can, Bef, who can ?

      But it's always a question of who makes the most noise, isn't it. And it's always the KillerCs of the world who do. After all, despite the high infection and kill rate, for the very great majority, Covid was no worse than a moderate flu (which may be largely down to the vaccines, perhaps) and therefore not worth making a fuss over.

      So we're unlikely to get a mass protest in favour of the lockdowns etc. are we.

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  6. An interesting read for when you've got a bit of time to spare, Chad:

    How did we miss the surge in inflation? IMF researchers think they know
    https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-03-12/imf-how-we-missed-the-inflation-surge/102075588

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    1. Thanks GB, and credit to IMF and its authors, Koch and Noureldin, for being prepared to run a discussion this way. For Australia, I would still attribute some of our problem coming from the Reserve Bank Board putting virtually no 'value' on money, by applying minuscule interest rates for too long. Perhaps I need to re-read the chapter on 'value' in Joan Robinson' 'Economic Philosophy' again, to remind me to maintain a broad view of what 'value' can be.

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    2. Pleasure, Chad. And yes, the idea that ignoring Volcker and flooding the place with virtually zero cost money wasn't going to generate some serious problems should be more than enough to get Pil Lowe instantly sacked.

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