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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (4 children)

I've thought about things like this. What if humans could be kept by aliens as pets? What would that be like? Can any extremely bored writer reading this come up with something?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I've talked to my roommates about this, how we'd eat like a bowl of canned chili every day with a dollop of peanut butter as a treat.

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

Don't exclusively eat peanut butter! Apparently it produces some toxin!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

You probably mean aflatoxin that is produced by a mold that is common on peanuts.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Lmaoo that's so oddly specific, were you guys high af?

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

Funny, I actually have a running story in my head like this. People kept in little cages like hamsters, aliens choosing breeding pairs, or training them to fight each other. Some aliens would be debating the ethics of it all while others go, “Humans are much stupider than we are, so it’s okay to treat them like this.”

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

There was an episode of The Orville that was kinda like this.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Almost exactly like this

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It was exactly this. Right down to them being fed peanut butter and chili.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

They weren't trained to fight or choosing breeding pairs, though. It was just a zoo.

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

Well, we didn't see that on screen.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Whoaa that's pretty brutal 😭 creative though lol

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

All it dose is sleep, eat, and stare at a self illuminated window all day.