No. The article clearly said that Neanderthals were optimized for “heavy exertion”, not “heavy extortion”.

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I’m laughing at your comment and it’s not a fake laugh.

If you’re not the only one, can you take the others off in a corner and all of you shut the fuck up and let us enjoy something?

The all-out hatefest for this book and movie on io9 is a bit much. The “I don’t like when things get referenced that I love outside the context in which I love them” opinion is super valid, but the air of superiority and smugness around hating the very idea of this movie is way over the top. I have a million problems…

“What the fuck is a reviewer supposed to do rather than talk about how they liked the movie?”

Personal take: Insurrection is a perfectly fine Star Trek movie (albeit one that feels like an extended episode), and Nemesis isn’t nearly as bad as may would have you believe.

Internet Liberalling 101: Eat your allies. They taste like purity test.

I love you.

I’m in favor of catwashing the role.

He should have just kept it simple.

YUP. I’m vaguely familiar with the place. Even though it’s in Illinois, that area is super...let’s call it Trumpish. It’s not just overwhelmingly white, it’s THAT kind of white.

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I kinda wanna see Bucky be both. lol Have him running around juggling 3 different identities, and then hilarity ensues when he shows up on a top secret Wakandan op wearing his Cap gear. It’s like a wacky rom-com, but with superhero antics. “Oh shit, I thought this was Tuesday!”

Mara Jade. Mara Jade Mara Jade Mara Jade Mara Jade Mara Jade.

I feel the same complicated emotions. This isn’t a solution, but being pro-sex and pro-choice and pro-birth control doesn’t address the culture that doesn’t promote a conscious approach to parenthood. And most liberal, educated perspectives on this are way too rosy re: the fate of children in these situations. Love is…

Dale is working on the FX... got distracted by another client.

Mine had to stop a corrupt politician from altering the future for his own gain. Don't even get me started on the slip up they had though, some guy went back in time to Area 51 and actually slept with his (then young) grandmother...