Well, except for the hard morphology genes ("make this bone bone-shaped"), genes tend to code for potentialities/ranges. Height is probably the most common physical example: Your genes say you have the potential to grow to be between 5'5" and 5'10", say. No matter how bad your diet is, you'll be at least 5'5", and no matter how great your diet and exercise is, you'll never be over six feet tall.
Same for IQ; some people simply won't ever be good at learning in and of itself, or retaining what's learned, or understanding what it is they were supposed to have learned. Others could be good at it, but they've been inhibited somehow (diet, distractions, not being taught how to think/learn/apply what's learned, are domesticated/institutionalized and don't need to think or shift for themselves.)
Neanderthals had a fully human voicebox setup, too.
I totally suspect that the clicking that Bushmen use is a communicatory relic, a holdover from an ancestor that couldn't make modern-human phonemes, and so communicated in other ways.
Of course, they can't let themselves connect high IQ with building and maintaining a high-tech, civilized society ....
They did, themselves. I worked in a library in the lowest position you can get - the one who knows how to reshelve the books properly without needing a fucking university degree to do it.
Though honestly, the real snobs were the accounting witches. Those were the big fat busybody types.
The most cursed race of creatures on the planet. They don't have souls, there's demons animating those things.
I remember going to a taping of Reach for the Top in high school. It was a high-school trivia show, so yeah, went to support my school's team. I think we lost, lol.
It was a great concept, though, and really popular for years.
Canada's the same way. Winnings (lottery, game show) are not taxable.
However, our game shows are notoriously cheap. (See: The New Liar's Club for a good laugh at the prizes alone.)
Dude, they tried to tell people not to be sluts back in the early 80s when AIDS first got discovered. That was met with rage. Suggestions that people demand medical histories from one another was ridiculed. Then they were able to point at tears over Freddie Mercury, then they trotted out that 16 year old to boo-hoo about, then Philadelphia, and suddenly, having no immune system is now "normalized" and the fuckers in power act like stunned sheep that anyone should be able to shrug off the common cold without a "vaxx".
Don't need a body for to be considered a "martyr", no matter which definition of "martyr" you're using ... a martyring is in the act, not the object.
lol. I passed by the local arena after running an errand about 10 years ago; I hit it letting out on my way home. Happened to notice that everyone seemed to be my age or older, and I started wondering "geez, what's with all the geezers?" So I stumbled across this couple, or rather, they stumbled across me, asking if they were going the right way back to their hotel. They were, and I had a chance to ask them what concert it was that was letting out.
"Bob Dylan".
lol. Biggest bunch of old white folk I'd seen in a long time, or since.
I actually saw people getting upset over the "you can legally leave a kid with a fire station" (or hospital, or church, historically) as "legal abandonment is evil" kind of knee-jerk reaction thing. It's like they have no inkling that people have and do abandon their kids in dumpsters and forests instead (and yeah, there's a reason the recovered "feral children" of India never learned to be fully human, except for perhaps one case - they were retarded, and that's why their parents abandoned them, possibly near a carnivore's den ....)
Catholic nunneries have had "angel's cradle's" since at least the medieval period.
Two of those three cons I don't care about (all gameplay becomes repetitive after a while).
And it HAS diversity, the MC is a monkey who was born from a rock. That isn't a diverse enough character for them?
Someone needs to tell the niggers that twerking is cultural appropriation of gorilla mating rituals.
This is why I've always hated the anti-bottle brigade, they're fucking nuts.
That's why the whole tranny thing looks like it's pushed by an accellerationist out to mock the very idea of individualism. "See? This is what American Individualist thinking leads to!" while at the same time eradicating the childhood bullying that used to keep individualists more or less within societal bounds.
But they are practicing original American values.
Ah, ok. Well, the CGI is so fugly ...
Everything about humans is clown world, frankly.
They did the same thing with The Nigger Mermaid. They couldn't even find a young, pretty black girl to steal the role of Ariel, no, they had to use someone who was all that 40 years ago instead.
Oh, that started at least as far back as the 70s, when it was "You're special! Just because you're you!" bullshit they used to show in between cartoons and Schoolhouse Rock. I find it related to "You're special because of your species membership" mentality.
Someone missed the point of her cleaning up as a way of Earning Her Way into the dwarves' house. She didn't just traipse into someone else's house, demanding she be helped because she's a damn princess. We were shown she doesn't consider herself too good for manual labour; her evil stepmom meant it to be punishment, but she found joy in simple labour, and had company while she did it because she's a nice person.
Oh, and she thought CHILDREN lived there. Everything was child-sized. And yeah, all kinds of discarded people lived in the forest in medieval times.
The original is a classic, and fuck everyone who made the remake for shitting on Walt's LITERAL master-piece.
I dunno, kids can think hippos are pretty rad until adults start reshaping their opinions.
I remember having to chill for the better part of an hour by the hippo's enclosure at the Detroit Zoo when my kids were little, because they just couldn't get enough of her.
And all the things humans brag up about themselves re: cleverness, resilience, and ability to eat anything, well, those qualities are very much shared by swine ...
Well, look at all the tards who think that a live-action Goku needs to be played by a Japanese dude, when Goku isn't even a member of the human species and Japan doesn't even exist on Earth 7 (even if the cultural trappings or phenotype does, these things do so completely independently of each other.)
That being said, if Brock from Pokemon were made today, there'd be much sperging over the lines for eyes, I'm sure.
Flee from one ice cube to another? Nah, I'll pass for now.