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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.

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[–] [email protected] 101 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I have a public-facing job, so, yes.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 2 weeks ago

As a member of the public, I’m so sorry

[–] [email protected] 61 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (4 children)

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? 😬

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Being rich and on a cocktail of designer drugs will do that to you.

Also being an uncaring sociopath leech upon humanity.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Probably a unique blend of drugged-up-billionaire-meets-autism. But yeah, the dude is definitely odd

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 weeks ago

I did, two times. First was when woman had some problems with spine and skin so she looked weird and moved weird add to it my shortsightedness and it was weird/creepy. Second time I was going back home at 3 am after drinking, and there was a guy that was walking in my direction in the unevenly lit underpass and he had no face. I was like don't scream like a little girl it's alcohol probably. Then I understood it was a guy who learned to wear helmet on a moto the hard way of being human chalk piece.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

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 stuck on 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

[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 weeks ago

Every time I turn on American news.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Look up Kenneth Copeland. The pastor dude.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

Demon in skin form

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Got this question at bar trivia:

"How many pairs of ribs do human beings have?"

Me: "Easy! 12!"

Everyone else: "How do you know that?"

Me: "Because I have 13 pairs of ribs..."

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Same haha. There's dozens of us, dozens!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

Haven’t met him but Zuckerberg

A friend did run into him in Hawaii and called him steve Zuckerberg just to fuck w him

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I don’t know why but I love that omg

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm often told I lack human traits in my face to face communication with others

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

have you considered that you might be on the autism spectrum? 50% basing that off your description 50% basing that off your username. Normies hardly read xkcd

[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I’d bet like 90% of Lemmy knows what XKCD is

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 weeks ago

So you're supporting his claim.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Wow the only way I'd be part of the 1% then. No clue on what that is

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Oh. I'm absolutely on the spectrum. It's such a part of my life I didn't even think to bring it up.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago

Licks eyes nervously

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

yes, me, but no one except that

(hint: everyone on lemmy is a bot except you)

you might enjoy https://www.tedcruzforhumanpresident.com/

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Wait, so I'm a bot, too?

Ah, I see. This explains so much.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

I met some gibbons once—they were suspiciously lacking in social skills.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

Or, another thought, maybe I'm just curious and want to have something interesting to read. Or, maybe I am the silly who worries about how light reflects. Or, maybe I'm the non-human wanting to interact with humans. It's all a possibility.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (6 children)

Edit: I'm guessing all of the downvotes are from asexuals I've offended somehow? I don't really get how my personal experience of feeling not quite human is somehow offensive. Romance/sex are literally ubiquitous in media...almost every song, book, movie, etc. involves them in some manner or another. To not be able to relate to something that's literally all around me every single day makes me feel less human than everyone. And to then not be able to relate to the asexual community makes me feel even further away...


Sometimes I feel like I am a different species of being that isn't quite human. I lack a very core set of feelings and sensations that 99% of humans seem to feel and experience. Not in terms of empathy or compassion or anything like that, so I don't think I'm a psychopath, just a bit different...

I've found there are others out there like me, but so rare that I've not met another in person.

For the curious, I'm likely to be considered to be on the asexuality spectrum. But the confusing thing to me is that many asexuals I've spoken to or read about online still seem to experience their own form of attraction and their own sexual urges. So I still don't relate to the majority of them and I find it confusing why they all still consider themselves to be asexual.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

The descriptions you wrote resonate a lot with myself.

I'm often "robotic", I even sound like some LLM as someone recently accused me of being. It's not AI, it's me, although I'm not sure who exactly...

That's because I often find myself fighting with me, as if my essence/soul and my physicality/body were two distinct entities. Part of me wants to "just be normal" (whatever that means), while the other part of me finds no purpose at all, a nihilist perception from a cosmic level, all the way to myself and my existence.

And there's my brain, often diving itself into an almost obsessive seeking for information and knowledge. I try to learn as much as I can find (self-teaching was always an easy thing to me), and I dive into a whole ocean of information and knowledge across several fields, from STEM fields to philosophy and a syncretic spirituality (from several belief systems). Deep inside, it's me trying to flee from myself.

I feel like I exist in a bubble of myself, with my own culture, habits and thoughts disconnected from "other humans", as if I couldn't really get to understand the "invisible and unwritten rules" while having my own "invisible and unwritten rules" which nobody else seems to understand, yet deep inside I know there are people similar to me, struggling to cope with themselves and their surroundings just like I struggle to cope with myself and my surroundings.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

No, I've never met a CEO

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm gonna need the link to that video.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago
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