> “Somebody has to wake up the American public and get them to arm themselves,” the man says Paddock told him. “Sometimes sacrifices have to be made.

Trying to "inspire americans to arm themselves" by giving the gov a perfect reason to pass gun legislation is the dumbest plan I could think of. Maybe he was truly that dumb, but I don't think anybody would come to that conclusion.

What he did gave the opposite energy to the country, it inspired people to want to ban guns and even an idiot would be able to think about that before doing it.

"Toward the end of the 1980s, Paddock worked for three years as an internal auditor for a company that later merged to form Lockheed Martin."

Someone that worked for one of the largest defense contractors in America would be able to put together a much better "plan" to get americans inspired to own guns. That personal tie itself is strange and makes me wonder.

But the FBI behavioral analysis unit can still put together reasonable motives for the most fucked-up serial killers and spree-killers out there, and they have for years.

They came out and basically said "yeah we got no clue", and that's fuckin weird.

I understand that some people just go nuts, but we can still figure out what drove them to that point. Them having nothing for a case on this scale is very unusual.

Yep most people that actually make money from it are playing 4+ games simultaneously.

Absolutely no idea but the lack of apparent motive & constant changing of the story + restricted access to the people who were involved doesn't help.

Coming out with this absolute bullshit motive doesn't help. The shooter was researching rooms above large concerts for months before Vegas, he even booked a room above lolapalooza in Chicago and didn't check in. He was planning this for a while and researching sites that had nothing to do with casinos or gambling.

This shooting is one of the strangest ones. I don't think anybody has a good idea of the truth, but I think we can all agree that we don't have it yet.

This one gets to me. I do not support conspiratorial thinking, but this one irks me after all this time.

From the Wikipedia article "He had researched large-scale venues in cities such as Boston since at least May 2017,[10] and had reserved a room overlooking the August 2017 Lollapalooza festival in Chicago, but did not use it.[11]"

So... he was researching large concerts months before the shooting, in places that have nothing to do with casinos...

Whatever the real story is with this shooting, we don't have it.

"A report published by the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit in January 2019 said that "there was no single or clear motivating factor" for the shooting.[77]"

The Behavioral Analysis Unit is serious business and if anyone could find a motive it would be them.

Some background (from the little we have) on the shooter is strange "He was a son of Benjamin Paddock, a bank robber who was on the FBI's most-wanted list between 1969 and 1977.[92]"

And the weirdest thing to me: "Investigators found hidden surveillance cameras that were placed inside and outside the hotel room, presumably so Paddock could monitor the arrival of others.[67] The cameras were not in record mode.[68] Police said a handwritten note found in the room indicated Paddock had been calculating the distance, wind, and trajectory from his 32nd floor hotel suite to the concertgoers he was targeting on the festival lot.

So some dude, who was pictured at a womens march in a vagina hat, is setting up monitoring devices, calculating wind & trajectory to perpetrate this... for what? If he had a manifesto, we haven't seen it. We've seen more footage from the shooting 2 days ago.

>it won't be great until we have energy storage

How are we storing the extra energy from coal plants and hydro...? You're acting like energy storage is a problem that popped up when solar was invented. We've been storing power for a long time.

I'll agree that we don't do it efficiently, but we still can.

Several different methods are all combined to keep the power on currently. Do all of the coal plants get shut down when the hydro power is being used..? Why in the world would we need to shut down the other methods with a flip of a switch while using solar...?

Acting like we have zero solutions for power storage and no ability to use different methods simultaneously is ridiculous. Again, you're just coming up with (invalid) reasons because you don't like solar. Every point you made makes no sense.

"It wouldn't lighten the load because we'd have to shut off the other power plants" ... what? No we wouldn't. You can feed more electricity into the grid from other places... you know that right?

- Maintenance would be difficult

- Hey here's this info proving it wouldn't be

- Well you'd have to show me a study

I just don't understand the willful ignorance of some people

You couldn't be bothered to look up basic info about solar yet you're asking me to present you with a study. Don't pretend like you actually want to research these things when you clearly can't be bothered to do a google search about solar panel maintenance.

And again, it's along an existing roadway where they would already know exactly what needed maintenance. You're acting like these panels would be inaccessible and require insane manpower to get to.

I'll ask you again, do you really thing maintaining a gigantic hydro or coal power plant would be cheaper?

I don't think this is about information for you, I think it's a "gReEn EnUrGy bAd" mindset that you have, which is fine. From your reply, your opinion is "well if I don't have to pay for it I don't give a shit".

Recently, the Maine Public Utilities Commission announced that the Standard Offer price for electricity supply will be going up by 49% or almost $32 a month for our average residential customer in 2023.

So you're cool with the power companies charging you 50% more at the drop of a hat, but you don't want to invest in something that would reduce dependence on those companies and give you cheaper rates? Got it.

Maintenance is needed once a year for inspection and cleaning, and in most cases they're inspected and passed and no other action is needed. Also, there are applications that will tell you exactly what panel is down, so you can go straight there, fix it, and be done. People wouldn't need to be walking around checking them, they would get an alert about a panel and go investigate.

You should really research these things instead of coming up with reasons just because you don't like it. It's really disheartening that most people can't be bothered to learn new things.

Do you really thing maintaining a gigantic hydro or coal power plant would be cheaper than going and checking panels that tell you exactly where to check?

Yeah idk why everyone hears solar and instantly jumps to "but RELY on it?? HOW?"

Isn't it possible that... we just collect some cheap, easy power that isn't being used, and lighten the load on other power-generating methods?

People are so tribal when it comes to power generation for no good reason.

They actually still generate power with snow on them, clearing them off wouldn't really be needed.

If they're set up with a steep enough angle, it would be hard for snow to accumulate on them anyways.

>all across the highway in the middle of nowhere

Well.... you can move the electricity to other places... with those wire-things we have.

It being the middle of nowhere is more of a reason to have them there. Why would we take up space in populated areas for solar when we can easily and instantaneously move power anywhere we put a wire.. ?

I... looked at both sets of data and noticed a lot of things in common.

I said it the way I did to be very clear that it isn't a study and just something I noticed from my own observations. "Seems to be a correlation" isn't stating fact. It means... I see a correlation.

Just drive anywhere inside the ring of 495 and you'll instantly understand.

Also, there seems to be a correlation between state's education levels and stress. The lesser educated ones... aren't really worrying too much. Ignorance is bliss.

Where I'm from, dairy farms aren't really 'industrial entities', and I think that's more what I'm getting at. Sure, giant corporations making mega farms are NOT GOOD and should be held accountable. The family down the road from me that has been farming for 5 generations? Nothing wrong with them & their practices.

I just don't think farming should ever be monopolized the way it has been. The only reason it's so destructive as an industry is because actual farmers get jack shit for their crop, can't repair their own equipment legally, and are forced to use certain brands of seed & cow feed. Eventually they can't sustain the costs & have to sell to a giant corporate farming entity.

Yeah, farming is pollutive & destructive on a large scale, but people's insatiable greed is what bastardized the industry & made it that.

It's better to solve the problem by actually identifying the issue, and that issue is greed & forced growth by shareholders. Taxing Joe Farmer every time his cow burps is ridiculous. That's not going to solve the major problems with the farming industry or reduce the pollution in any way. Forcing farming entities to have better practices & fining them for refusing to change would be much more effective, and actually solve some of the pollution issue.

So industrial entities are responsible for 80% of all carbon emissions. We know what the issue is, but the rich have us fighting over stupid trivial shit like this so we can't all collectively get our shit together & see them for the frauds they are.