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Cake day: June 29th, 2023

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  • They’re definitely rare, far more rare than many of the similar things to them like their opposite (chimerism where multiple sets of DNA but one person) or fraternal twins. But there’s a lot of people and identical twins have advantages for child acting especially but acting in general. Then consider that likelihood of identical twins is a genetic trait and getting a break in acting is much easier if you have family in the industry.

    Long story short, it’s rare enough that even if you know several twins you may not know any identicals, but common enough that it’s not weird for random actors to have an identical twin. It’s typically just a lucky thing though and they rarely cast around it except for children (labor laws)


  • As someone who lives in an urban environment I just really wish the cops would give a crap about loud vehicles. Like, I get that they want to have their volume, but I’d like to have conversations and listen to podcasts and such on public sidewalks without being drowned out even at max volumes every 10 or so minutes.

    Also gas motorcyclists are convinced that loud bikes are safer and don’t care that this makes everyone dislike them. Personally I’d love to see studies into light based presence signaling instead. Something like a unique color of light that motorcycles have to be showing in all directions and beaming at their perimeter on the ground would likely work better by not just giving a general announcement that what may be a motorcycle is somewhere it would make it crystal clear you do not let your vehicle make contact with the [color] light. Now frankly I’d settle for only enforcing noise restrictions on motorcycles as they’re completely optional.





  • The other scary things with financing is people who struggle to live within their means and people using it for emergencies when they struggle to make ends meet.

    Personally I follow the rule I was taught: only use financing for housing, vehicles, and education, each of which should be evaluated to be within your means and benefitting your life.

    Debt is a chain, it can bring great advancement such as homeownership or a desired career, but it binds you for its duration and it’s an awful experience. I hope someday to be debt free, but it’s financially stupid to pay off my student loans right now when a mutual fund has more return on investment. I still like to put a big chunk in for special occasions when I can







  • I’m an industrial engineer who was hanging out on lemmy and my IT guy was talking about his piracy server, and well I thought that a legitimately aquired media server might be nice, and that home assistant thing sounded cool so he gave me the form to get two used desktops for free from the company. And well now I’m still fucking around with them every once in a while in anticipation for when my space will warrant actually using them full time.

    It also helps that my local bdsm community had had self hosters who talked about it for years.