Ants can carry out life-saving amputations on injured nest mates, study shows

In this 1991 sim game, you played as Ant Jesus:

https://www.pcgamer.com/saturday-crapshoot-simant/

>SimAnt really is the weirdest simulation. For starters, you literally play as an ant. One ant. A single, solitary ant. Only not! You're really more like the God of the Ants, with powers that would be amazing and world-changing and beyond belief, if not for the unfortunate fact that... well, you're just an ant. You can die and be reborn for instance, like Ant Jesus, only with a larval stage. You have effective omnicognisance, with the ability to see the world and understand the human residents who dwell within it. Your charismatic power allows you to draw armies of fellow ants and lead them into battle against the foul humans, spiders, and other things that stalk the back garden. Too bad the whole "being an ant" thing means it doesn't usually go so well. If only you had some proper weapons. Like the Holy Hand Grenade of Sim Antioch.

Schneier on Security: The Security Mindset

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/03/the_security_...

>Uncle Milton Industries has been selling ant farms to children since 1956. Some years ago, I remember opening one up with a friend. There were no actual ants included in the box. Instead, there was a card that you filled in with your address, and the company would mail you some ants. My friend expressed surprise that you could get ants sent to you in the mail.

>I replied: “What’s really interesting is that these people will send a tube of live ants to anyone you tell them to.”

In 2011, Will Wright's "Stupid Fun Club" studio partnered with Milton Levine's "Uncle Milton Industries", who developed the original "Uncle Milton's Ant Farm" in 1956, to develop a creepily unique cult classic toy product, "Ant Farm Revolution", in which ants live and dig their tunnels in a green translucent nutrient gel developed by NASA, through which an LED light and lens projects frightening shadows of enormous ants crawling around on the ceiling!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton_Levine

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formicarium

https://sfvbj.com/retail/uncle-milton-industries-inc/

>Most recently, Uncle Milton partnered with Will Wright, the creator of The Sims, on a multi-year licensing agreement for Ant Farm Revolution, the newest product under the Ant Farm brand. The most recent version of the toy includes a cylindrical gel-filled case, allowing consumers to watch ants create their own 3-D habitat. The product also features an integrated LED light and projecting lens that illuminates from within and projects ant shadows on walls and ceilings. It sells for $39.99.

Benjamin Taylor: Uncle Milton - Ant Farm Revolution:

https://www.behance.net/gallery/18480457/Uncle-Milton-Ant-Fa...

Uncle Milton: Ant Farm Revolution:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3homHfkqaY

Uncle Milton Ant Farm Revolution Hands on Review:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcYY7iwPS0c

Consciousness is considered the irreducible entity (Self) that acquires a temporary material body. In essence, consciousness is the same, regardless of the body. So, an ant's consciousness has just as much value as yours, which is why every being is seen with equal respect.

Just because an individual happens to be experiencing reality through the body of an insect, it gives us no right to harm them and crush them for fun or any other reason. If the situation flips, we'd be the first ones to curse the ones hurting us.

Just a bit after you stomp some of the workers or drop some diatomaceous earth on them you can see soldiers appearing in the entrances to their holes. They seem to actively try and block injured and/or dirty workers from re-entering the nest.