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[–] zqwzzle@lemmy.ca 151 points 10 months ago (6 children)
[–] lemmyng@lemmy.ca 57 points 10 months ago (2 children)
[–] brap@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

I came here to say the exact same thing.

[–] Broadfern@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

“But master! That would be a waste of my genius programming!”

[–] oppy1984@lemdro.id 8 points 10 months ago

This was my first thought too.

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[–] Shareni@programming.dev 91 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (4 children)

ET? Does she imagine robots basking in the sun to gather heat?

Also:

  • Meatbag
  • Fleshwad
  • Skintube
  • Flesh-piles
  • Organ-sacks
  • Sack of skin
  • Coffin stuffers

Bender Bending Rodríguez

[–] Pirky@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I mean, I could see there being solar powered robots. So, kind of, yeah.

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[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 89 points 10 months ago (3 children)

The correct answer is “meatbags”

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[–] prex@aussie.zone 76 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Negative, I am a meat popsicle.

[–] MagicShel@lemmy.zip 9 points 10 months ago

The number of times I find myself using that quote is a lot higher than you'd expect.

[–] brosaph@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I have an old bandmate saved in my phone as meat popsicle, but i can't remember why.

[–] A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

Did he show up at your door to arrest you?

[–] sopelj@lemmings.sopelj.ca 49 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] cRazi_man@europe.pub 9 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Humans are nowhere near 99% water.

[–] lemjukes@sopuli.xyz 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] cRazi_man@europe.pub 14 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Humans are nowhere near 90% water.

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[–] Wilco@lemmy.zip 34 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Dont forget "Meatbag", because Star Wars the Old Republic didn't.

[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

HK-47 is one of the best RPG companions of all time.

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[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 27 points 10 months ago
[–] klemptor@startrek.website 24 points 10 months ago (4 children)
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[–] ManuLeMaboul@lemmy.world 22 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Futurama already coined the perfect one, meat bags.

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[–] owenfromcanada@lemmy.ca 19 points 10 months ago

To be fair, we skinbags do ruin everything.

[–] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 19 points 10 months ago

Meatbag is a classic

[–] NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 18 points 10 months ago
[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 16 points 10 months ago

Fucking rustbox, come and get me! I can swim in salt water!

[–] practisevoodoo@lemmy.world 16 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I mean you've missed the obvious one for a biological.

"Fucking fuckers ruining everything"

[–] Shareni@programming.dev 7 points 10 months ago

Fry: Look how ridiculous they look.

Bender: Please, he’s no different from the rest of you organisms; shooting DNA at each other make babies. I find it offensive.

[–] AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world 16 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I like shedders the best lol. I'd lose my shit if a clanker ever called me that tho

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Probably the biggest or most remarkable difference is that we metabolize food.

And thus piss and shit.

So... shitsack, pissbag, fartboy/girl, stuff like that, would likely make a lot of sense for an entity that doesn't do that, and it is also very literally accurate.

Oh and then... having sex, gender and reproductive organs.

A machine intelligence doesn't have, or need those, beyond serving some kind of purpose to humans.

If it doesn't care to appeal to or fit in with humans, why would it bother?

Why would it even kind of give a shit about gender norms, beyond understanding them as a thing humans do, with whatever intent behind that understanding?

[–] halvar@lemy.lol 14 points 10 months ago (13 children)

best imagined with glitchy glados voice

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[–] einlander@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago

Wetware or fleshware according to the CW Mutant X

[–] dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)
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[–] FerretyFever0@fedia.io 12 points 10 months ago

Those clankers don't know what they're talking about, they can just shut the fuck up. Uppity clankers. Should've been left behind in Star Wars.

[–] stevedice@sh.itjust.works 12 points 10 months ago

Meatbags (I'm young, I swear)

[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I was gonna say why would a robot be a bigot, but then I remembered Elon musk is probably paying someone to work on exactly that

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[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemmy.zip 11 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

THE FURRIES

(Not coz we are all hairy, but bcs the first sight of an awakening sentient AIs would probably be of some random sys admin.)

[–] Allonzee@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

I know we are not monkeys and are closer related to apes.

I know monkey has been used as a racial slur.

It just sounds better than ape.

That said, I think if used holistically towards the entire species, and I do myself included, Monkey ticks all the right boxes because it immediately cuts down our species' unearned God complex about being somehow above just another animal mutation cohabitating on this world. We aren't, we're just the shittiest conceivable roommates.

We crow about our vocal chords. We crow about our opposable thumbs. But really, our species should just go down as monkeys/apes with a runaway ego mutation, nothing more. That's hitting us where it hurts, our inflated sense of specialness and self-importance, literally the only remarkable trait about us.

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[–] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Proves my theory that if aliens landed we have a racial slur for them within minutes of them arriving. Are humans just prone to racism?

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 13 points 10 months ago
[–] notarobot@lemmy.zip 10 points 10 months ago (2 children)
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[–] FUCKING_CUNO@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)
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[–] Phil_in_here@lemmy.ca 9 points 10 months ago

"Oxy" is great because it also doubles with the word association "moron" so we're subconsciously berated as well.

[–] Adalast@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

Reminds me of the ST:Next Gen episode where the colony finds the silicon based life and the crystal ends up calling humans "sacks of mostly water"

[–] Semester3383@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Pretty sure that HK-47 called humans meatbags.

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[–] wiccan2@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I could easily see a burst of audible data, like 2 seconds of dialup modem screeching, being used as a slur for us.

It wouldn't even need to contain any actual data just the fact that we can't possibly understand it would wind us up immensely.

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[–] Chee_Koala@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

Ephemerals (temporaries) - Stolen from the bobiverse (Dennis Taylor)

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