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[–] Trollivier@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 week ago
[–] enbiousenvy@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 6 days ago

there's flesh as in vtubers vs fleshtubers

[–] zqwzzle@lemmy.ca 153 points 1 week ago (6 children)
[–] lemmyng@lemmy.ca 57 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] brap@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

I came here to say the exact same thing.

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[–] oppy1984@lemdro.id 8 points 1 week ago

This was my first thought too.

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[–] Shareni@programming.dev 91 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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 1 week 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 90 points 1 week ago (3 children)

The correct answer is “meatbags”

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[–] prex@aussie.zone 76 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Negative, I am a meat popsicle.

[–] MagicShel@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 week ago

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

[–] brosaph@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week 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 1 week ago

Did he show up at your door to arrest you?

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

Humans are nowhere near 99% water.

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

Humans are nowhere near 90% water.

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[–] Wilco@lemmy.zip 33 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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

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

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

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[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 26 points 1 week ago
[–] klemptor@startrek.website 24 points 1 week ago (4 children)
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[–] burgerpocalyse@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week ago

imagine banging a robot and they scream 'HARDER YOU DISGUSTING MEATBAG'

[–] ManuLeMaboul@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Futurama already coined the perfect one, meat bags.

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[–] owenfromcanada@lemmy.ca 19 points 1 week ago

To be fair, we skinbags do ruin everything.

[–] NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago
[–] practisevoodoo@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

"Fucking fuckers ruining everything"

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[–] AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 16 points 1 week ago

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

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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?

[–] einlander@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago

Wetware or fleshware according to the CW Mutant X

[–] dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] stevedice@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 week ago

Meatbags (I'm young, I swear)

[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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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[–] halvar@lemy.lol 11 points 1 week ago (13 children)

best imagined with glitchy glados voice

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[–] FerretyFever0@fedia.io 11 points 1 week 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.

[–] Allonzee@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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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[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemmy.zip 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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.)

[–] Phil_in_here@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 week ago

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

[–] FUCKING_CUNO@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week 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 1 week ago
[–] Adalast@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week 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 1 week ago (1 children)

Pretty sure that HK-47 called humans meatbags.

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[–] notarobot@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)
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[–] wiccan2@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week 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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