Rocket plume, orbital mishap, or something else?

By: Dig  •  Other  •  17 Comments  •  5 Likes  •  3 years ago

This cruised over my backyard earlier, about 6:50 PM Central. It was a point of light much like a satellite in size and speed, but with a large gaseous spiral around it, all moving together in an otherwise cloudless sky. It was bright and obvious, and the whole thing was about the size of a...

Netflix - Don't Look Up

By: Dig  •  Watch This!  •  26 Comments  •  10 Likes  •  3 years ago

This was released in December, but I only watched it last night. Great flick! Impressive cast, too — Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Lawrence, Meryl Streep, Cate Blanchett, Rob Morgan, Jonah Hill, Mark Rylance, Tyler Perry, Timothée Chalamet, Ron Perlman, Ariana Grande and Scott Mescudi. (list...

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

Via: Dig  •  News & Politics  •  224 Comments  •  8 Likes  •  3 years ago  •  LOCKED

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

Via: Dig  •  Op/Ed  •  150 Comments  •  11 Likes  •  3 years ago

“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

Via: Dig  •  Health, Science & Technology  •  9 Comments  •  3 Likes  •  4 years ago

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

By: Dig  •  Other  •  31 Comments  •  12 Likes  •  4 years 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]

Via: Dig  •  Op/Ed  •  69 Comments  •  11 Likes  •  4 years ago

“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

Via: Dig  •  News & Politics  •  134 Comments  •  8 Likes  •  4 years ago

“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 years 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  •  4 years 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...