Police are investigating after a man died and two children were injured during an officer-involved shooting on Main Street on Tuesday afternoon in Forest Hills.

Forest Hills Police Department spokeperson Matt Chamberlain stated that at approximately 2:30PM, a traffic officer at the intersection of Main and Elm Streets observed the man armed with what the officer believed to be a rifle behaving erratically around a group of children.

Police say that the man ignored the officer's command to halt. The officer fired several shots with their service pistol, striking the suspect and two of the children. Officers immediately rendered medical assistance, but the man died at the scene. The children were transported to Mercy Hospital, where they are in critical but stable condition after emergency surgery.

Witness Timothy Burns said that the man may have been experiencing a mental health crisis. "He was acting kind of crazy, carrying a broomstick, and leading a group of children down the middle of the streets of town," Burns said. "He only paused a moment when the officer hollered stop. That's when [they] shot him."

The suspect is described as a white man, about six feet tall, with black eyes and a button nose, wearing a top hot and scarf. He was not carrying ID, and is believed to be homeless. Authorities have not released the identities of the children.

When you’re going to a concert or a sporting event, you’re worried about one thing: Will the stadium have an endless parking lot packed with thousands and thousands of cars, making entry and exit a living nightmare?

I just heard that Congress passed a bill making October 14th a day of remembrance for a true hero, who sacrificed their life for the good of humanity. A sad, tragic death far before their time.

That said, it is kind of weird that Congress spend its time on a, let's face it, minor media figure, what with all of the pressing issues of the day facing our nation, but that's what they did. So, let's do as Congress intended, and honor Charly Burke on October 14th.

Maybe with a big stack of pancakes.

Artwork by krls8.

No, I wasn't stoned. This thought was inspired by the post the other day about how trees evolved independently (e: multiple times) from different plants, the product of convergent evolution.

I'm very glad to hear that this wasn't a targeted attack, it was just another instance of routine traffic violence that kills hundreds of people daily. That means that I don't have to care about the victims. I don't have to learn their names, or their stories, or see their faces splashed across the news as tragic, sainted victims of a destructive ideology. They're just more roadkill to be tossed anonymously on the heap of bodies. Thank goodness! There's a lot going on in the world lately, and the last thing I need is more terrorism victims to wring my hands about. I just don't have the time or the energy.

(/satire, I hope obviously)

Today, I searched DDG for information on Rythmnbox and Jellyfin. For the very first time that I've ever seen it, one of the top results was from Lemmy. Huzzah!

One man commits a horrific crime. The other man shoots a CEO. The difference in response by our politicians is illuminating.

CNN and ProPublica found that Democratic vice-presidential nominee Tim Walz is the owner of an active account on the website HotOrNotDish.net, where he posts under the anonymous username DarthTater, according to an investigative analysis of comments on the forum. The user DarthTater has for more than a decade offered compliments (sometimes accompanied by a flame emoji) under every single photo uploaded to the site for hot dish appreciators.

The account also mentioned the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in one post, in which it wished other HotOrNotDish.net users a “happy MLK weekend!” and hoped they would get to “spend it with family, eating hot dish.”

Walz appears to have been active under the same username for years on a variety of HotOrNotDish.net’s subforums for other hot dish-related issues, including once posting 24 times in a thread dedicated to the question of “Is hot dish casserole?” DarthTater ultimately concluded, “Sorry, friends. I’ve got to hit the hay. A lot of good points. Food for thought (almost as delicious as hot dish).”

Posts going back years include statements such as “That hot dish looks delicious” and “My only note? Try it with Schell’s beer. But what you have going looks good too!” and “Hope you’re enjoying that delicious dish with your beautiful family! Cherish your family! I know I cherish mine!”

DarthTater also expressed some viewpoints that matched with Walz’s public persona. In one instance, the user wrote, “National Coming Out Day is around the corner and I need to be on my A-game with snacks (I’m a GSA club sponsor). Any suggestions, hot dish friends?” adding, “Goes without saying, but, just in case, I disapprove of slavery.”

DarthTater was also the name Walz appears to have used on Quora, where that user often posted detailed replies to queries about the best snow tires to purchase.

Walz admitted that the account might be his, adding that he hoped he had not said anything that would offend anyone. “Those hot dishes all looked delicious,” he noted. “I wouldn’t want anyone to think that their hot dish didn’t pass muster.”

Another HotOrNotDish.net user, MarkRobinsonIsMyLegalNameAndThisIsMyRealEmailPleaseAskMeAboutNazismIAmForIt, complained about DarthTater’s posts being dragged into the news. “Why is it fair to bring in the things that people post anonymously on forums in their spare time?” the mystery poster asked. “Especially if, frankly, they’re not all that surprising.” (On the record, the legally named Mark Robinson denied engaging in any such behavior.)

MarkRobinsonIsMyLegalName was a less active HotOrNotDish.net poster, having left only one comment, “some folks need killing,” under a picture of a hot dish that had used cream of mushroom soup as its base.

Kelly: Is there a downside? I'm thinking of people trying to find a parking place, for starters.

Horowitz: So we see that in places that have actually eliminated parking minimums, that we see fewer people driving at all and having cars and we see vehicle miles traveled decrease because people can get around via other mechanisms.

Well, now, would you look at that?! If we change the incentives, if we stop incentivizing driving by law, people change their behavior. In this case, they can save a ton of money by not needing a car.

A crane lifts pads for the hands-free mooring system at the Welland Canal locks into place. Credit: Michel Gosselin. Video and more photos here.

Yeah, basically that. I'm back at work in Windows land on a Monday morning, and pondering what sadist at Microsoft included these features. It's not hyperbole to say that the startup repair, and the troubleshooters in settings, have never fixed an issue I've encountered with Windows. Not even once. Is this typical?

ETA: I've learned from reading the responses that the Windows troubleshooters primarily look for missing or broken drivers, and sometimes fix things just by restarting a service, so they're useful if you have troublesome hardware.