Do tiny grass dream of trees?

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• lugal@sopuli.xyz ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Or do they have nightmares of sheep?

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  • nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    And the angel of the lord came unto me
    Snatching me up from my place of slumber
    And took me on high and higher still
    Until we moved to the spaces betwixt the air itself
    And he brought me into a vast farmlands of our own Midwest
    And as we descended cries of impending doom rose from the soil
    One thousand nay a million voices full of fear And terror possessed me then
    And I begged Angel of the Lord what are these tortured screams?
    And the angel said unto me
    These are the cries of the carrots, the cries of the carrots!
    You see, Reverend Maynard. Tomorrow is harvest day and to them it is the holocaust

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• Sludgehammer@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  IIRC the English is apparently the original text and the Chinese is nonsensical Google translate output.

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  • nudnyekscentryk@szmer.info ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Not sure where you heard that but the Chinese fully makes sense to me and I can further confirm the English translation is simply due to literal translation of the phrase “小草” (small+grass), which turns out to be a turns out to be a customary name for Microchloa indica.

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    • Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The context here probably just simply mean grass, not specific species. They called it 小草 to make it sound cutesy.

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    • Sludgehammer@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Huh, I can’t read Chinese so I’m obviously taking others word for it, but several people in this Reddit thread and this language blog both said there were several problems with the Chinese text.

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• 0x4E4F@infosec.pub ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Uuu, nice take on the Blade Runner title 👍.

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