Most insects have a ventral nerve cord which is a set of cells that allow for movement based purely on external stimuli so the brain doesn’t need to be involved at all for reactive movement. These cells also seem to do the job of proprioception, locating the body position in space, so it’s not that surprising it can stand itself up and walk…it can likely even move away from high heat. Bugs are weird. Some dinosaurs had similar systems.

Also-

Mike Johnson has lost the first vote for speaker, with Jeffries getting only one less vote … 216-215 with 3 Republicans refusing to vote for Johnson (I think one of them is in a dementia ward of an old folks home after being found wandering her neighborhood in a dazed confusion months ago, but this was kept secret from voters because Republicans don’t think they need to know their representatives are mental invalids, just like the Republicans senator’s cop killing son and his involvement in the case was kept secret because murderous criminality is also none of the voter’s business).
Edit: Two Republican holdouts flipped their votes on a revote …Mushroom munching Mike stays speaker by the narrowest margin possible.

Side note- at least two of the three terrorists caught/killed since Dec 18 were MAGA (maybe all 3), all are natural born American citizens. None were immigrants. Don’t let a maggot lie about it, rub their face in that shit then kick them in the balls.

Um….I found this….I’m just gonna leave it here…..

…also, because I loved “Popstar”…DOINK DE DOINK!

Shocker…D’Souza has admitted the entire basis for his fake propaganda movie, 2000 mules, was a total fabrication and was based on falsely fabricated geo location data and video correlations that were also 100% fabricated, and he apologized to at least one individual directly targeted by the movie and the idiots (like bob) who believe this kind of lie without ever thinking about verification (but deny any verified claims about their violent and sexually deviant party members) and threatened him and his family with injury, rape, and murder.

Shocker…MTG has publicly threatened to expose all her Republican colleagues for all the disgusting sex crimes they committed that she knows about unless they hide and ignore the disgusting underaged paid sex and drug crimes Gaetz bragged about with photos and receipts and confirm him as the nations top law enforcer without looking at or releasing the completed report on his multitude of crimes.

Also shocking, cowardly pedophilic republicans caved to the blackmail and will cover up the documented child rape, sex trafficking, and drug dealing to minors by the AG nominee to hide their own pedophilia and ties to Epstein.

Shocking again, because the report is guaranteed to leak more and what’s public knowledge is already completely disqualifying and prosecutable (his friend who with Gaetz did the same sex trafficking and child drugging with less proof is in prison), Gaetz pulled himself as a nominee.
Expect another slightly less outrageous but just as dangerous replacement, it’s the felon’s MO to first make an outrageous demand so his second demand looks reasonable by comparison despite it still being outrageous.

Also shocking, Pete Hegseth (defense Secretary nominee) is also under investigation for a violent sexual assault in 2017 and has multiple other accusations of violent sexual assault.

This makes me want to go back and play HL2 Episodes 1 & 2. I know I bought them, but don't remember ever finishing them. HL2 was so technically impressive. Portal 2 was also great, especially the co-op multiplayer. Alyx is a good VR title- it's close to a "killer app" for VR, but not quite there. 1 of the few VR titles compelling enough to keep headset on for more than 1 hour.

Not half-life related, but "old but cool" PC tech from that era: I had a DVD/MPEG2 decoder card that did VGA passthrough, and would replace black pixels with the movie content - so I could watch the Matrix in the background of playing Quake or other FPS (this was a dual PIII-450Mhz). I later installed an ATSC tuner card - one of the first channels that broadcast in HD was Fox, and one of my favorite shows, 24, started to broadcast in HD - and the early days all the makeup artists took advantage of low-res, so as soon as the show went to HD, you could see how fake all the blood, makeup, and other effects were. Hollywood ramped up quickly once the first HDTVs started shipping.
That computer also ran BeOS quite well.

Since HL2 will be/is 20 yrs. old and we're all getting nostalgia! Let's talk about those days!

IIRC during the first week of its release, I bought its retail from a local Best Buy with a $10/10% sale or something back then. According to my detailed https://zimage.com/~ant/antfarm/about/toys.html history, I recently upgraded my Windows gaming PC with these parts: "... ATI Radeon 9800 Pro video card, an AMD Athlon 64 3200+ 2.2GHz 512KB Socket 754 single core CPU, ASUS K8V SE Deluxe (VIA K8T800 Socket 754 ATX; VIA VT8237 South Bridge; Revision 2; onboard sound disabled; onboard NIC not used/connected (using 3COM NIC for network) and can't be disabled or else Promise Raid won't be activate), a 3 fan HDD Peeze cooler, 1 GB of PC3200 Kingston RAM (CAS 3), and Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS." I think I also got Windows XP OS too.

Anyways, I remember playing this game over my long Thanksgiving weekend. It was amazing! Very smooth, pretty, and fun! I don't remember how long it took me to finish it. It was a great sequel. Of course years later, episodes 1 and 2 (The Orange Box -- will talk about that in three years). I don't have and want a VR to play Alyx.

What about the rest of you? Also, remember PlanetHalfLife.com web site? RIP, & GameSpy's web sites.

You should watch-
https://videosift.com/video/Ben-Stein-Ferris-Buellers-Day-Off

Also….another one-
The 29-year-old worship director from Oakwood Church in Augusta Township, Michigan, Zachary Joseph Radcliffe, faces 11 felony counts with charges dating back a decade. He was arraigned two weeks ago on two counts of aggravated child, sexually abusive activity, two counts of child sexually abusive activity, and six counts of using the internet to communicate with another to commit a crime, he could face up to 25 years in prison if convicted. The charges stem from incidents as early as 2014, according to court records.
Odd that it always seems to be the maga pastors and leaders with child rape and kiddie porn cases sticking, don’t you think? Even odder how often it turns out their “Conservative Christian” groups are found to have covered it up for years or decades (like here, the crimes being investigated have been happening consistently since 2014).
Maybe because the leader is partners in crime with Epstein and approves?
This guy is a huge maggot, on stage with the big guy and his family in his red hat over and over, performed at C-PAC….of course they’ll try to say they don’t know him just like all the others, ignore all the pictures and events they did together, he’s just some guy, probably a liberal…yeah-yeah…that’s it.

“They will know you by the company you keep”…lots and lots of convicted child rapists and convicted felons (convicted of crimes of moral turpitude) in Trump’s company.

*doublepromote a *quality and pertinent bit of information I wish more people learned in school.
Tariffs don’t stimulate economies, they stifle them and start trade wars that are always losers for consumers, they add a national sales tax to any tariffed imports, and the countries targeted always reciprocate making it hard or impossible to compete on the international markets and hurting American companies.
Our last Trump tariff/trade war with China was a horrific failure costing hundreds of billions of dollars, hurting American farmers (had to bail them out for $50 billion more and thousands closed shop), manufacturing, supply lines, and consumers…all for absolutely nothing gained.
Get ready for round 2 to feel like Glass Joe was replaced with Tyson…up to 200% tariffs across the board are going to absolutely destroy the economy in extremely short order.

Also Ben Stein’s birthday

Your evidence?
Russian bloggers on twitter?
Beyoncé, Lizzo, Megan, Eminem, the Harris campaign and official campaign financial records all say it’s 100% bullshit spread from Twitter accounts.
You bought and repeated another stupid lie without checking it out, because you don’t care if it’s true you just love to talk shit like a spoiled little girl.

The Harris campaign, as of Oct. 17, lists only one endorsement-related expenditure — for $75 — in its Federal Election Commission financial reports. It was made to the League of Conservation Voters, a pro-environment nonprofit, in June, when President Joe Biden was still running for reelection.

https://www.factcheck.org/2024/10/posts-make-unfounded-claim-about-beyonces-endorsement-of-harris/
Sorry, not sorry, liar, another stupid lie debunked as soon as you spout it.

Why is it that you continue to buy every stupid lie you’re sold and never are embarrassed or apologetic when your stupid insulting lies are proven to be lies? Must be because you have no morals or ethics left, and we’re never smart.


By comparison….
The felon’s campaign finance records showed he had to pay actors to pretend to be auto workers, union workers, blacks for Trump, etc…paid people to show up at his rallies and post a picture to prove it, etc…Elon had to pay millions for votes (and is being accused of hacking the election using Starlink to edit the data it transmitted, then crashing the satellite to erase the evidence…14 million missing votes, recounts started!)…every single relationship he’s ever had including familial has been transactional.
If you actually had a problem with that, you wouldn’t support the felon who only has paid spokespeople who make millions themselves…parking lot attorney Alina Habba?!? How many millions did she get paid?
Even Melania had to get paid $250000 to stoop to speaking for 15 minutes to support her husband.

THAT is a LOSER!!!!!!!!!!!!

You also have conceded that you expect every metric of the economy to be worse under Trump than it has been under Biden, you can’t come up with a single measure you expect to improve in the next 4 years…and have telegraphed your nonsensical intent to blame Biden for Trump’s economy and accept no blame despite holding full control of all 3 branches of government. If only your people had been honest about that before the election things would be different.

Bwaaahahaha! That’s absolutely not what you said, you said it will be great under the felon, booming all the time, everything will be amazingly better in every way…or crash immediately under Harris (just like you said in 2016 and 2020)….hypocritically hilarious that now you admit he will tank it. 😂

Also hilarious you want zero responsibility despite having 100% control….or it would be hilarious if your party wasn’t led by an infantile fascist with unregulated power and immunity for ignoring the constitution on a vendetta against over half the country.

The Biden economy is the envy of the entire world and far better than the first Trump economy unless you erase all his losses and only count successes. It is growing, not shrinking, manufacturing, gdp, jobs, wages, and earning power are ALL growing, deficit, inflation and interest shrinking..and every other metric is moving in a positive direction under Biden including the deficit. That will not continue under the bankrupter in chief. Hide and watch. He will double the debt and we will have nothing to show for it but another negative gdp.

GDP, stock markets, profits, jobs stupid, infrastructure, all measurably and significantly better under Biden than the felon, all better under Biden even erasing the omnibus disaster that was 2020 under Trump.

I blamed Trump for year 1 of Bidenomics because he kept most Trump policies, just as I will blame Bidenomics for the first 6 months to 1 year of Trumpenomics (depending on what he changes and how fast).

I just gave you the clear undisputed starting point numbers. Just like in 2016. I would bet whatever you want that, again, they will be worse after 4 years, but you Welch on bets so I’ll just make you a gentleman’s bet, those and all other economic numbers (except the personal wealth of the top 1%) will be worse in 4 years.

If he follows through with the mass deportations, that will trigger a depression.
If he kills the ACA with just a concept of a replacement, it will trigger a recession.
If he enacts 20% tariffs on imports, it will trigger a recession, followed by a trade war, followed by a global depression.
If he withholds federal funding from blue states as he has threatened, it will trigger a civil war.
The first tump administration was a slow train wreck (with a few actual train wrecks thrown in), the Biden administration has been a slow cleanup of that wreck…admittedly far too slow. The next 4 years are poised to be an ELE size meteor strike, making us wish for those halcion days of deregulated chemical train wrecks.

Yes. Never bet against the prejudices and stupidity of the average voter. Think how stupid the average person is, then realize fully half are actually stupider than that.

Ball’s going to be 100% in your court…so no excuses…

https://yt3.ggpht.com/2NBLmEiGoKaIJg5rtp2ImLGE4G3tMpa0SIYaG1TjPLN1vTl6fk3AcshBWYa_x2UfKX0KWNuVPTzsgBY=s1600-nd-v1
We should also be able to file our taxes on a 3x5 index card, a major 1st term promise he ignored.

The current economic numbers, watch them all get worse.
https://yt3.ggpht.com/GFdWJNiqJcTIku4RIo0htdWLgIAUPbDgPoWaIGYweoPHwbkLvJfSJwR0Dl_FyPnGRB3oHfRrDEtGvg=s1290-nd-v1

If he pulls it all off, I will give him/republicans credit. I know what I expect, and if America becomes a fascist dictatorial autocracy and/or faux democracy like Russia (with an “election” but no choice, with a failed economy and few allies) I will give him/them 100% of the blame, and the blame for the resulting collapse and civil war.