I recently rewatched the video of the woman on the plane screaming that the passenger beside her wasn’t human and it got me thinking about something I’ve seen.

I remember seeing a teenage girl in a small food store I go to address the guy behind the counter as ‘human’. “Thanks, human.” Stuff like that. I think she was just doing a bit or something but I thought it was strange.

  • chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    4 months ago

    I remember seeing a teenage girl in a small food store I go to address the guy behind the counter as ‘human’. “Thanks, human.” Stuff like that. I think she was just doing a bit or something but I thought it was strange.

    My ex would say this type of shit to people she didn’t know, I’d say it was half “doing a bit”, and half she is just a strange person.

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      Sometimes my wife does things like this at work to emphasize a lack of gender (or other) assumptions. Don’t have to worry about pronouns or offense if you just talk to everyone as if they are the same.

      I haven’t heard about her doing it as much lately but at the peak of conservative banter at her work she did it to emphasize we have a gay son and a gender fluid kid as well still trying to figure out their place in the world, and bigotry was not tolerated around her.

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    lol. the only sentient beings on the planet are us humans. Stop wasting your time trying to out things that obviously do not exist and enjoy earth sports and earth entertainment and earth foods. Do not be the silly who worries about how light reflects off the surfaces of his neighbors plant matter and if its wavelength is more pure than what his does.

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    I mean my ex wife had what she called “resting bitch face.”

    Everyone else just said she’s emotionless and has the exact same monotone of voice outside of her “customer service” voice. She could get angry, but she really didn’t get angry she just got loud. Until she typically lost it then it was different.

    Looking back on it, people always told me “there’s something off about her.” I always kind of brushed it aside cause she was hot.

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    I used to think Elon Musk was actually cool and actually trying to do good… Until I met him when working at Tesla. He’s so weird. How he talks, how he gesticulates, what he actually says… He is clearly not living in the same reality as the rest of us and it’s scary to think that people have dealt with this dude personally and agreed with him despite this. Are they all aliens? 😬

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      I think that’s just being rich. The other people agreeing with him are also rich. They may not act like him in public but they know what’s up behind the scenes, they all crazy behind closed doors.

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        Dont forget the drugs. Dude probably hasnt come down in forever so he may literally be living in an alternate reality due to that.

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    Yea. Mark Zuckerburg. Just watch this reptile drink a glass of water. Its a alien reptile that has his UFO break down, and he’s tuck o Earth. This reptile loves violating people’s privacy so that’s why this reptile invented facebook.

    /s I don’t actually believe he’s an extraterrestrial, but like, with this crazy timeline, I won’t be surprised to see Independence Day Aliens

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    Note that a lot of people who come across like that are probably somewhere on the autism spectrum. Lt Cmdr Data is seen as autistic representation for a reason. Like Data, they aren’t bad people at all, they just function differently.

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    The NPC type people. It’s like they don’t exactly have a conscious that can be spoken with.

    Some of you reading this might think I’m referring to individuals I think are dumb but it’s not that. I don’t know if it makes sense there’s a type of person that thinks they’re above others. And that it is them who are interacting with everyone else who are NPCs.

    Like, dude. Snap out of it and talk to people like a normal human being.

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    4 months ago

    Not exactly what you mean but I actually tell myself all the time that I was I was a real human because the things I struggle with make me feel isolated.

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    Yes.

    I was the director of a very small summer camp in a former career. For some background info, the camp mainly served kids from some rather infamous inner-city neighborhoods. This was one of the very few black owned summer camps in the country. 99% of these kids were black or brown; I am vampiricly pale white and ginger.

    And so, I found myself at a conference representing this camp…. Mostly to beg, coerce, and shame wealthy people there into giving us money (we sure as shit weren’t making money off the families of our kids; most couldn’t pay, but going to camp was safer than any week at home in the city).

    On day 2 of the conference I get a text. It’s from the secretary of some high powered individual from Focus on the Family whose name I have long forgotten. He wants to have lunch with me to discuss an “opportunity.”

    What the hell, right? Their money’s just as green as everyone else’s. Maybe I can charm the guy into cutting us a check.

    So, I say yes and we meet at the fanciest restaurant in the hotel this conference was in.

    Friends, I’m not one to believe in possession but something was straight up evil about this man from the moment I sat down. I mean I felt like I was eating with a fucking demon.

    The “opportunity,” by the way, was to essentially fuck over the community our camp was for and convince our board to sell the land to his organization. This land was the same space some of the families of our community had been enslaved on. It was hallowed ground.

    I ordered the most expensive dish I could find, waited for the food to come, told him to go fuck himself, and then went back to my hotel room and took a shower to get the feeling of being around that…… Thing off me.

    I really don’t know how to describe it. It was like sitting across from some kind of hungry emptiness in the form of an old man.

    I don’t know what I talked to, but I do wonder if that mother fucker was human.

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    Haha, yes those creatures are so strange, isn’t that right fellow humans? Who do they think they’re fooling? Get a copy of A Changeling’s Guide to Being Human and blend in better, aw jeez.