'Slow-motion insurrection': How GOP seizes election power

Via: Dig  •  News & Politics  •  224 Comments  •  8 Likes  •  one week ago  •  LOCKED

With fascism coming, America responds: LOL who cares? Let's Netflix and chill

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“As the threat of authoritarian takeover grows, most Americans have lost interest. They'll have nobody else to blame”

Researchers identify how red meat increases cardiovascular disease risk

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Day Trip - Ruins, Rocks, Woods, and a Spring.

By: Dig  •  Other  •  31 Comments  •  12 Likes  •  2 months ago

Yesterday was probably the last really nice day of the year in my neck of the woods, so I took a little afternoon trip over to a state park called Ha Ha Tonka, right outside of Camdenton, Missouri. It's basically the remains of a secluded woodland estate begun by a wealthy businessman over a...

Fox News: 25 years of making everyone's lives progressively crappier [user poll included]

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“Conservative media was going to birth a network eventually. But Fox has made life worse, even if you never watch.”

New parents wearing masks get kicked out of Texas restaurant

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“Natalie Wester and her husband, Jose, were asked to leave Hang Time in Rowlett, Texas on September 11 because they wore face coverings to protect...”

How Do mRNA Vaccines Work?

By: Dig  •  Health, Science & Technology  •  22 Comments  •  7 Likes  •  4 months ago

The Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines are mRNA vaccines. Here are a couple of videos explaining how they work and came to be. It's ingenious, as far as I'm concerned. They simply borrow the ribosomes in our cells (protein printers, essentially) and let them produce the Covid antigens for us...

Garden 2021 - Part 3

By: Dig  •  Gardening  •  42 Comments  •  9 Likes  •  5 months ago

The weather has been a mix of good and bad this month. Some days have been hot and humid, and downright nasty. Others have been pleasant and almost cool. I'm going into another hot spell at the moment. Today is forecasted to be something like 95, and because of recent rain it'll probably be as...

Runt Wren Chick

By: Dig  •  Other  •  14 Comments  •  2 Likes  •  5 months ago

Here's a video I made this weekend. A runt wren chick is left alone in the nest after its siblings fly away, but mama doesn't forget about it.

NASA is Recruiting for Yearlong Simulated Mars Mission

Via: Dig  •  News & Politics  •  2 Comments  •  5 months ago