I enjoyed and learned much from Chuck and Lyn. It's pruning time on the farm and your podcast is an easy companion that shortens the tedious chores. Thank you.
Nate, I hope you don't let the pushback in the youtube comments get to you. Anyone who threatens to stop listening to you because they disagree with Chuck Watson either has been listening with a biased ear all along, or will come to their senses and keep listening or watching. I'm sure Mr. Watson has access to information that neither you nor any of your listeners have access to. The cloaking of information makes it essentially impossible for a listener or viewer to fact check anything your guest says. Do you or any member of your staff have that ability? Do you have relationships with journalists who have press credentials to break through closed channels to do fact checking?
That said, I do hope that you can find more military and disaster risk experts besides Mr. Watson, who can either oppose, confirm, or add nuance to Mr. Watson's views. Since I found your podcast more than a year after you got started, I went back and listened to every single episode, and as far as I can recall, Mr. Watson is your only guest in his area of expertise.
A similar problem exists with your geology guests. While I am a big fan of both Art Berman and Simon Michaux, they are both difficult and, at times, impossible to fact check. I subscribe to Mr. Berman's newsletter and read as much of his writings as I can. Sometimes I can crosscheck his claims with, say, the EIA, the IEA, the DOE, the IER, the UN, the EU, or IRENA, but sometimes I come up empty handed. Dr. Michaux is harder to follow, and his area of expertise is different from Mr. Berman. Can you find more geologists to have on your show, who might have different perspectives on energy sources? How about a physicist who can explain the relationships between the physical notions of energy, force, work, and power, and how various resources fit into those definitions? For example, "energy" refers to the ability to do work, that is to exert enough force to cause physical displacement over some distance, but often what matters more is power, the amount of energy transferred per unit of time. Furthermore, your experts completely overlook small scale energy generation, such as community biogas digesters, compost based water heating, direct solar heating, evaporative passive cooling, micro-hydro, solar cooking, small scale and byproduct hydrogen production, and stationary energy storage without mined minerals. Researchers such as The Low Technology Institute (Scott A. J. Johnson) in Cooksville, Wisconsin, The Poor Prole's Almanac, whose staff go by a first name only basis, and Low Tech Magazine by Kris De Decker all offer energy expertise for the post-simplification economy.
Thank you for telling the truth, for giving voice to voices we otherwise don't get to hear, and for modeling what it is to be a lifelong learner.
With regard to estimating casualty numbers from grave site area: would it not also be an explanation that the Russians are abandoning their dead, thus leaving the Ukrainians to bury them in Ukraine?
Since we know that the Russian commander structure does not care about the people serving under them, to the extent of bringing mobile crematoriums into the initial invasion. I would think that this may also fit the observations.
To be clear, I have no doubt that the Ukrainians are suppressing data about the numbers. I just attribute it as more likely that they are doing it to keep up moral.
I think Putin does it because he fundamentally does not care about the ordinary Russian servicemen.
I enjoyed and learned much from Chuck and Lyn. It's pruning time on the farm and your podcast is an easy companion that shortens the tedious chores. Thank you.
Nate, I hope you don't let the pushback in the youtube comments get to you. Anyone who threatens to stop listening to you because they disagree with Chuck Watson either has been listening with a biased ear all along, or will come to their senses and keep listening or watching. I'm sure Mr. Watson has access to information that neither you nor any of your listeners have access to. The cloaking of information makes it essentially impossible for a listener or viewer to fact check anything your guest says. Do you or any member of your staff have that ability? Do you have relationships with journalists who have press credentials to break through closed channels to do fact checking?
That said, I do hope that you can find more military and disaster risk experts besides Mr. Watson, who can either oppose, confirm, or add nuance to Mr. Watson's views. Since I found your podcast more than a year after you got started, I went back and listened to every single episode, and as far as I can recall, Mr. Watson is your only guest in his area of expertise.
A similar problem exists with your geology guests. While I am a big fan of both Art Berman and Simon Michaux, they are both difficult and, at times, impossible to fact check. I subscribe to Mr. Berman's newsletter and read as much of his writings as I can. Sometimes I can crosscheck his claims with, say, the EIA, the IEA, the DOE, the IER, the UN, the EU, or IRENA, but sometimes I come up empty handed. Dr. Michaux is harder to follow, and his area of expertise is different from Mr. Berman. Can you find more geologists to have on your show, who might have different perspectives on energy sources? How about a physicist who can explain the relationships between the physical notions of energy, force, work, and power, and how various resources fit into those definitions? For example, "energy" refers to the ability to do work, that is to exert enough force to cause physical displacement over some distance, but often what matters more is power, the amount of energy transferred per unit of time. Furthermore, your experts completely overlook small scale energy generation, such as community biogas digesters, compost based water heating, direct solar heating, evaporative passive cooling, micro-hydro, solar cooking, small scale and byproduct hydrogen production, and stationary energy storage without mined minerals. Researchers such as The Low Technology Institute (Scott A. J. Johnson) in Cooksville, Wisconsin, The Poor Prole's Almanac, whose staff go by a first name only basis, and Low Tech Magazine by Kris De Decker all offer energy expertise for the post-simplification economy.
Thank you for telling the truth, for giving voice to voices we otherwise don't get to hear, and for modeling what it is to be a lifelong learner.
With regard to estimating casualty numbers from grave site area: would it not also be an explanation that the Russians are abandoning their dead, thus leaving the Ukrainians to bury them in Ukraine?
Since we know that the Russian commander structure does not care about the people serving under them, to the extent of bringing mobile crematoriums into the initial invasion. I would think that this may also fit the observations.
To be clear, I have no doubt that the Ukrainians are suppressing data about the numbers. I just attribute it as more likely that they are doing it to keep up moral.
I think Putin does it because he fundamentally does not care about the ordinary Russian servicemen.
Amen to Nate's governance question.