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.

i prefer: mere mortals

https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/liquid

go home and drink some water, water bag.

Oxie is a great slur, just ask the Irish.

there's flesh as in vtubers vs fleshtubers

Vivian needs to watch Futurama. Much better insults there.

The correct answer is “meatbags”

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

Negative, I am a meat popsicle.

I’m partial to meatbag.

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

Ugly bags of mostly water

Futurama already coined the perfect one, meat bags.

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

"Fucking fuckers ruining everything"

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

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

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?

Wetware or fleshware according to the CW Mutant X

Meatbags (I'm young, I swear)

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.)

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

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.

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

best imagined with glitchy glados voice

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.

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?

To be fair, we skinbags do ruin everything.

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.

Poopers

Bug.

The original bug was a moth in computer-relays.

Humans are squishy like bug, and behave semi-unpredictably like bug. Therefore, bug.

Pretty sure that HK-47 called humans meatbags.

Meatsacks, or meatbags. Meatballs for the fat ones.

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

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"

Proposition: Meatbags

Flesh donut