butt stuff without the dating hussle
Yo, hang on there, back up a bit.
…they said, dangling their probe seductively
“To Serve Man… it’s a cookbook!”
me, having lived for the last 40 years, looking directly into the alien’s eyes
“Start fattening me up before I change my mind.”
there’s a good chance that anything they might have planned for humanity…is a step up from what we’re doing to ourselves.
At a bare minimum they have a way off this mudball inhabited by psychotic apes. First order of business is hitching a ride off.
I’ve had my towel at the ready for years at this point.
Sorry, you’re not a hoopy enough frood.
Maybe the yogurt from “love death and robots” will save us
There’s also an interesting Greg Bear novel called Blood Music about computational cells that take over. Worth a read/listen.
This is just a rewritten version of a rewritten joke. There’s been one specific image that’s been shared widely for many years, it’s a tweet I think but I can’t find it ATM. It’s something like this:
Aliens: We’re going to force you to work for us. Human: Oh, we’re already doing that for our leaders. Aliens: We’re going to destroy your planet and make it toxic! Humans: Oh man, you’re not gonna believe this!
I can’t remember it exactly but that’s the gist. There’s also the classic:
Aliens: we’ve killed all your leaders, destroyed your economy and are going to take over your government.
Humans; oh thank fucking God, thank you!
Aliens: wait, what?
I’m sure it is, but I’m not sure why people feel the need to point out that a joke is being retold. It happens all the time. There’s a documentary all about how retelling a joke doesn’t make it any less funny, even when the punchline makes no sense, because it’s all in how you tell it.
For non-Americans, this is still a threat.
Pretty sure it’s mostly butt stuff
Been there, done that.
The transition will be from proverbial anal probing (currently) to literal anal probing.
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
Somebody hasn’t seen scifi before…
It reminds me of the same whatabout-isms that downplayed TikTok as a threat becauae US companies are a threat. I chalk it up to a lack of imagination ironically
Really, we all know they’ll just help us develop warp drive, and be a little over-bearing.
