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[–] enbiousenvy@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 days ago

there's flesh as in vtubers vs fleshtubers

[–] HakunaHafada@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 5 days ago

No need to imagine if you're a Linux user!

terminal: spd-say "Fucking oxies ruining everything"

[–] Semester3383@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Pretty sure that HK-47 called humans meatbags.

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[–] oxideseven@lemmy.ca 4 points 4 days ago

They're made of meat.

[–] notarobot@lemmy.zip 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemmy.zip 5 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Shitters (and their disguising Shitlings)

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[–] Zacryon@feddit.org 1 points 3 days ago
[–] Fives@discuss.online 1 points 3 days ago

Vivian needs to watch Futurama. Much better insults there.

[–] d4nt3@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I've been advocating for "Secretors". It's vulgar and demeaning; everything a proper slur should be.

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[–] kablammy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 days ago

"Poo makers"

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 5 points 5 days ago
  • Gasbags: Even when doing nothing else, humans are constantly sucking in and pushing out air.
  • Slow rotting meat: As opposed to steaks which rot in a day, humans take a few decades to rot, but to a robot which might live for millennia, it's about the same
  • Wet Brains: Unlike a robot, our brains are wet, mushy things.
  • Sleepers: How weird must it be to see a lifeform that spends 1/3 of its short existence unconscious.

But, I can also imagine words of admiration from robots for things humans can do that they can't, for example:

  • self-fixers: When a robot part breaks it needs to be repaired. With a lot of injuries, humans just have to wait and the body repairs itself. That would seem pretty magical.
  • puzzlers: Humans are capable of lateral thinking in a way robots aren't. Humans can use analogies to things they do understand, and can reason about things in the physical world.
  • stinkers: Could be an insult because of humans pooping, pissing, sweating, etc. But it could also be a play on "instinct", somehow magically making a good guess about what to do in a new situation that's outside their "programming".
  • leaders: Robots are good at responding to inputs, but they don't actually have any motivation themselves. If eventually there's a robot that's capable of thinking and wondering, it might wonder what it's like to do something, not because someone asked, but because you wanted to do it.
[–] Mmagnusson@programming.dev 2 points 4 days ago

Nefarious

Squishy: Organics are soft and squishy.

[–] Chee_Koala@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago

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

[–] mr2meows@pawb.social 2 points 4 days ago
[–] wiccan2@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days 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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[–] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)
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[–] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 1 points 3 days ago

Shedders sounds pretty advanced. We are made of cells and practically have an aura of gunk around us.

We would drive up their maintenance costs.

[–] darksiderbun@lemmy.ca 5 points 5 days ago (7 children)

In Dennis Taylor’s “Bobiverse” series, natural born humans are called “ephemerals”

[–] Shareni@programming.dev 4 points 5 days ago

One day the crude biomass you call the temple will wither, and you will beg my kind to save you. But I am already saved, for the Machine is immortal…

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[–] Maultasche@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago

Proposition: Meatbags

[–] psx_crab@lemmy.zip 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)
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[–] Jackcooper@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

It would ultimately have to be something that isn't even related but just sounds like a swear word

Tork or something

[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

People throwing around the M-word in here are likely just closet robosexuals

[–] Shareni@programming.dev 4 points 5 days ago

ITT: science memes become sci-fi memes

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