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[–] [email protected] 60 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Not necessarily fear it's just most of the time today it's used in horror

Back then it was probably used to differentiate Neanderthals

[–] [email protected] 51 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 26 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Or Lizard people first trying to study us.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Lizard people are a dumb conspiracy!

licks eyes angrily

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago

Well, I didn't vote for them.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I doubt that premise. Neanderthals looked different, but not uncanny valley. Horror and fear may have been involved sometimes, but so was sex and competition... Neanderthals probably just looked like big chinless people

[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 months ago (2 children)

According to commercial genetics testing, I'm more Neanderthal than 90% of other people that used the same major company. My ancestors were into some kinky 👉👌

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago

They like that caveussy

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

You know they sell your genetic data?

The hunter killer bots are going to find you so dang fast in the robot revolution, rip

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

prolly 🤷‍♂️ i got it done about 10 yrs ago when i wasnt aware of all that.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

This made me look up what a Neanderthal would look like in modern clothing and this was one of the results:

Asmongold?...