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Bug.
The original bug was a moth in computer-relays.
Humans are squishy like bug, and behave semi-unpredictably like bug. Therefore, bug.
Ironically, I think the original bug would fall under the category of a glitch because it would have been a hardware failure, rather than a software issue.
The original bug was a moth in computer-relays.
No, it wasn't, but it's a commonly repeated mistake.
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
I mean, I could see there being solar powered robots. So, kind of, yeah.
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Dont forget "Meatbag", because Star Wars the Old Republic didn't.
Meatsacks, or meatbags. Meatballs for the fat ones.
Dirty water
Unrefridgerated meat
Terrible coincidence
imagine banging a robot and they scream 'HARDER YOU DISGUSTING MEATBAG'
"Are you classified as human?"
"Negative. I am a meat popsicle."
Dennis E. Taylor coined "Ephemerals" which, if I recall correctly, isn't even immediately intended as an in-universe slur by the machines/replicants, they only realize after a while "Wait, that's kind of derogatory, maybe we shouldn't call them that".
I see we've been practicing exotic new forms of racism. not sure why.
All oppressed groups have willing collaborators, and I've never understood why until now.
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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"
What about “typers”?
Yes, this pretty much the entire premise of Murderbot.
I like shedders the best lol. I'd lose my shit if a clanker ever called me that tho
I mean you've missed the obvious one for a biological.
"Fucking fuckers ruining everything"
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Meatbag is a classic
Wetware or fleshware according to the CW Mutant X
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?
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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To be fair, we skinbags do ruin everything.
Fucking rustbox, come and get me! I can swim in salt water!
ok, clanker
Meatbags (I'm young, I swear)
there's flesh as in vtubers vs fleshtubers
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?
Yes.
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.)
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