

@RegularJoe thank you! This is quite interesting. I’d forgotten about the celebrity look-alikes you mentioned. I’m not surprised the studies aren’t there.
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@RegularJoe thank you! This is quite interesting. I’d forgotten about the celebrity look-alikes you mentioned. I’m not surprised the studies aren’t there.


@RegularJoe I’m curious about how this might work across ethnicities. I can’t point to a photo, but several times, I’ve noticed people from other continents who could easily be someone I know here, except they’re African, or Asian, when the person I know is white, just for example. Under the expected differences in hair, eyes, etc, the basic facial structure is the same. A DNA match seems less likely in these cases.
@eicker Where is all this concern when banks rob grocery money from poor families? If you’ve ever lost your week’s food money to overdraft fees when you were sure you had it covered, you would hear the tiny violins right along with me.