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These are Red imported fire ants, they are considered to be a pest so nothing wrong with this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_imported_fire_ant#Countermeasur

• anotheryou 11y ago
  they also do it on native colonies: e.g. "Ant Type: Field Ants (Formica pallidefulva)" among others. (all those less "rooty" casts)
  • goldenkey 11y ago
    It starts with one justification. And then ends with another. Even if it was just pests, it's in bad taste to create art through termination of life.
    • sjwright 11y ago
      Does that include art that involves plants? Ink made from bacteria?
      • goldenkey 11y ago
        Of course an HNers gonna ask something like this. Plants have no mechanisms to experience time at a metabolism even near the slowest of animals (ie tortoise, elephant.) Nothing close to a nervous system. When you find out the first pain-bearing plant, don't comment here, go get your Nobel Prize. Don't waste your breath on a specious argument.
        • sjwright 11y ago
          I can only trust you'll be so considerate to a nest of termites that infests your house.
          • goldenkey 11y ago
            Only if they take their shoes off at the door.
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        • yk 11y ago
          What about my computer then, it has a mechanism to 'experience' time, on a level far better than any living being. (The real time clock.) It can process information, which seems quite similar to a nervous system. And it can cry for help via log-files. Seems by your definition I need a really good justification for a reboot.
          • goldenkey 11y ago
            You're just pulling a pundit... But to entertain your coy argument. Metaphors are not biology. A computer has nothing close to a nervous system. And has no self modifying parts.