It’s not like there are people checking for immortals, I think it would be flagged by a dmv employee or something when they dont believe a clear 21 year old is actually 150. Let’s assume it’s current day im caught and not bring speculation on what the US is like in the year 2139 is like.

154 points

When your id says you’re 100 and you look 21 it’s going to cause issues.

You want to get away from ever needing an ID. The wealth you gain from compounding interest should allow you to hire accounting experts who will handle your transactions and hide your wealth among shell companies. I think once or twice you could go with the “this is my child, me Jr” routine, but eventually you need to have some kind of emissary who conducts business on your behalf while you cycle through fraudulent ids and move around every 20-30 years.

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When your id says you’re 100 and you look 21 it’s going to cause issues.

You can use this to your advantage, by claiming it’s some sort of annoying mixup and it happened before. You can use this to sneak new info into the system when they need your help correcting the obvious mistake that you’re not 100 and get your dates reset.

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So awhile ago I worked on a system that moved education records between 2 different systems at a university. It kept choking on one particular record; turns out the date of birth was in 1499, and MSSQL won’t store dates from before the start of the Gregorian calendar unless you specifically configure it to do so.

We sent a request through to have the record corrected - clearly someone has just typoed 1949 - and moved on, but maybe…

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Just one question: on which keyboard are 4 and 9 close to each other to get typoed *X-Files music starts*

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6 points

Transposition error

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28 points

It’d be cruel to the people around me, but I do rather like the idea of starting over every 30 years or so, your could try out so many different paths.

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It’s a typing speed problem. The left hand hitting the 4 was too slow/the right hand jumped the gun on typing the first 9.

So, definitely aliens.

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I love that you replied to the wrong comment -one which this makes no sense as a reply to- and got upvoted anyway.

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2 points

Yep. Learn every trade. Earn every doctorate.

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I figure that you are wealthy by this point and your lawyer has all your records. They’d be able to establish and maintain your identity in some way. But yeah, just live your life however you like at that point.

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If your goal is to avoid that, and you look 21 permanently a la Highlander, you probably want to get new one every thirty years or so, starting over as a “runaway teen” or “refugee” who lacks identity documents with a nominal age of fifteen.

Or just commit identity theft. That one you could probably do once a decade, or more; just keep a running file of unsolved disappearances of children and teens and pull another one out whenever the age more-or-less fits.

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Or just commit identity theft. That one you could probably do once a decade, or more; just keep a running file of unsolved disappearances of children and teens and pull another one out whenever the age more-or-less fits.

Continue having children throughout your immortality every 20 years or so. Make sure you have an child of the gender equal to your own, and on their 21st birthday, you switch identities with them. You sit for their picture on their newly issued ID on their 21st birthday, and suddenly its your picture that is the one of record for the legal 21 year old. Your child takes over you identity, grows old, and dies. Repeat ad infinitum.

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Continue having children throughout your immortality every 20 years or so. Make sure you have an child of the gender equal to your own, and on their 21st birthday, you switch identities with them. You sit for their picture on their newly issued ID on their 21st birthday, and suddenly its your picture that is the one of record for the legal 21 year old. Your child takes over you identity, grows old, and dies. Repeat ad infinitum.

what happens when the child is immortal too?

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23 points

You eat them

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Child didn’t have to survive birth. I think that is what happens in highlander, he finds dead children’s names and takes them.

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6 points

It’s like a ponzi scheme. You take their identity and now they have to start the process themselves

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7 points

Seems like you’ve given this some thought.

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6 points

Some of us really liked Highlander

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As someone who isn’t an immortal Highlander, this works.

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That sounds exactly like something an immortal Highlander would say

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we’re already almost at the point where biometric tech will make all that irrelevant, especially facial recognition. to really fly under the radar in the future you’re gonna need to hack security systems and erase your data every so often.

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9 points

Or remodel your face

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So, what I would likely do, is go to a country with somewhat easy-to-bribe officials, get a new identity made there; Then get a degree as an OBGYN and slip false names into their system.

you can then re immigrate to wherever, get a somewhat corrupt doctor to keep the “family” running so you get new identities that don’t involve taking over actual people’s identities.

depending on how careful you want to get, you’d have to then generate fake histories with residences, and eventually careers, but given the ability to compound inordinate wealth; it wouldn’t be too hard.

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But you would need to check VERY closely who you are having children with.

That 21 year old you are putting a bun in the oven might be your granddaughter.

That would be immoral,even on a highlander scale.

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4 points

What if this is the only reason people commit identity theft? There could be millions of immortals out there, just trying to get by.

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69 points

“Oh, you must be thinking of my grandfather, we have the same birthday”

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And the same social security number. It’s a weird genetic thing ;-)

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68 points

I was watching this real-life documentary called Highlander about this dude Connor McCloud of the Clan McCloud. He is immortal, but he has to sword-fight people because if he gets his head chopped off, he isn’t immortal anymore. Anywho dude changes names every time someone gets too close. There was also a TV documentary by the same name about his cousin Duncan. Duncan is a bit more loose with it but they pack up and move around a lot. You should check it out, not Highlander 2, though; you can skip that one.

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16 points

He is immortal; he has inside him blood of Kings; he has no rival (except when he does); no man can be his equal.

That song got me super amped (still does tbh)

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9 points

I am not going to lie, the movies and the TV series were my jammalam for a whole minute. Princes of the Universe is a mainstay in my classic rock playlist.

Also, how can you not love a blind Frenchman playing an immortal Scottish swordsman trained by a Scottish man playing a Spaniard?

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Welp, guess I’m listening to Queen.

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9 points

Highlander 2 is cocaine’s masterwork.

Magical immortality? Fuck that - now they’re aliens. And Connor is a scientist who saved the planet with a space shield. But the space shield isn’t actually necessary. And killing another alien will make him young again. And Sean Connery can be revived by yelling his name. Oh, and he can make a ball of energy from his hands to hold up a fan blade, but it’ll cost his life, I guess?

There can’t have been a single sober person involved in that production.

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Brother, have you seen The Source?

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I’m not entirely convinced that Highlander 2 wasn’t written on the back of the same straw wrapper they used to write Gremlins 2.

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when they dont believe a clear 21 year old is actually 150.

This happens much sooner. You have any ticket, anywhere (bus, flight, stadium, speeding…) and sometimes they would check your face with your written age for plausibility.

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Surgery nowadays is top notch eh!

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