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The grass is happy to see you (piefed.cdn.blahaj.zone)

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[-] [email protected] 15 points 6 days ago

Grass, famously, does not die when it's cut. In fact to some degree, grass benefits from being grazed on, as grazers in a meadow will eat everything - leaving grass that is ready to grow back quickly, and severely harmed weeds and shrubs that will either die or be significantly set back while the grass quickly overshadows it.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago

True, the plant as a whole doesn't die.

But this particular slice of grass on the microscope slide?

Dead.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I suppose, but only about as dead as a sliced off arm, I think? And that plant gets to regrow that arm!

[-] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

And that severed arm is giving you the thumbs-up gesture.

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