Comment on If I was a secret immortal how long could I keep the same US ID for before I get taken away for study. I'm thinking 150 years.

Nemo@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• partial_accumen@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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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  • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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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    • slazer2au@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      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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    • thesporkeffect@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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  • jaybone@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Seems like you’ve given this some thought.

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    • Nemo@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Some of us really liked Highlander

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• RustyShackleford@literature.cafe ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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  • swab148@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That sounds exactly like something an immortal Highlander would say

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    • RustyShackleford@literature.cafe ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Look, over there

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• acosmichippo@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  we’re already almost at the point where biometric tech will make all that irrelevant. 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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  • superkret@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Or remodel your face

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• FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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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• philpo@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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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• lando55@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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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