• ✺roguetrick✺@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago
    • A rat done bit my sister Nell
    • With whitey on the moon
    • Her face and arms began to swell
    • And whitey’s on the moon
    • I can’t pay no doctor bills
    • But whitey’s on the moon
    • Ten years from now I’ll be payin’ still
    • While whitey’s on the moon
    • The man just upped my rent last night
    • Cause whitey’s on the moon
    • No hot water, no toilets, no lights
    • But whitey’s on the moon
    • I wonder why he’s upping me?
    • Cause whitey’s on the moon?
    • Well I was already giving him fifty a week
    • With whitey on the moon
    • Taxes taking my whole damn check
    • Junkies making me a nervous wreck
    • The price of food is going up
    • And as if all that shit wasn’t enough:
    • A rat done bit my sister Nell
    • With whitey on the moon
    • Her face and arm began to swell
    • And whitey’s on the moon
    • Was all that money I made last year
    • For whitey on the moon?
    • How come I ain’t got no money here?
    • Hmm! Whitey’s on the moon
    • Y’know I just 'bout had my fill
    • Of whitey on the moon
    • I think I’ll send these doctor bills
    • Airmail special
    • To whitey on the moon

    Whitey on the Moon - Gil Scott-Heron

    • Leate_Wonceslace@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      5 months ago

      Did you know that when a cell is copying its DNA the enzyme that unzips that DNA doesn’t just start in one place, but rather unzip multiple parts of the same strand at the same time? If that weren’t the case, unzipping the DNA would take too long, and the cell would die before it could be done.

      Pretending that doing one thing is stopping us from doing other things is an incredibly idiotic way of thinking about the way progress is made.