Buy Or Don’t Buy

Here’s something to think about:

The human (Homo Sapien) is constructed of 2,900,000,000 units of DNA, or base-pairs. This immense network of variant combinations of ATCG can be thought of as Code, much like binary code. Between you and me and the next person there is less than a 3% variance in that code, [...]

Because we’re all fucking broke.

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