So you’re doing their job for them, dragging out a rarely used definition and trying to pretend it’s the “common use of those words”? Or are you their alt?

The only “common use of those words” is what the captain posted. I have never heard that term used in any context outside of someone that holds a position, political or otherwise, that will be gone soon, either from term limits, because they lost or didn’t run in the last election, or got fired/replaced/quit, but the new person isn’t in the position yet.

You used it wrong. You can learn from the person that responded to you or you can double down and try to invoke a little-to-never used definition, but everyone will know you just used it wrong.

Youth. Just saying time is basically asking for some monkey’s paw shit.

Pulp Fiction

I’m not sure if this is available everywhere, but in California you can put up a bond in lieu of insurance with the DMV, either with your own money or with a surety bond company.

So you can do it, they just require proof in the form of the bond that the money is available when needed. They won’t just take your word for it. They might take the word of a company with a $1.3 trillion market cap, which is probably a bad idea. You get hit with one of these fuckers and instead of the admittedly shitty but known process of dealing with an insurance company, now you have to deal with a huge company that doesn’t want to admit their dumb camera only system is at fault.

What is there to breach? You’re already exposing your your real identity when you post under your real name with this new requirement. As long as the methods for verifying your identity aren’t something scammers can exploit there is nothing to expose. If, for example, you could use your photo ID with everything but your pic and name covered, and maybe also birth year for age checks, all it does is remove the ability for people to be cunts with impunity.

I’d have to give it some more thought, but I’m not against this right away. The Internet has become a vile place. Maybe if you wouldn’t say something in public for everyone to hear, you shouldn’t post it either.

I’m not sure if it was intended as behavioral engineering to encourage slowing down at crosswalks, but even if it’s unintentional, I consider it a feature.

We’ve all heard “it takes money to make money.” But rich people know it’s better to use other people’s money.

That’s not how it works. You’re correct when you say that from your point of view it’s Earth’s clock going half speed and from Earth’s point of view it’s your clock going half speed while you’re traveling away from Earth (or Earth is traveling away from you, both are equally valid), but that’s only true as long as the distance between you and Earth continues to increase at 86% of the speed of light. As you decelerate at your destination your reference frame continuously changes until you’re back in the same frame as Earth (or nearly so, we can assume the two stars aren’t exactly maintaining their relative positions). While you’re decelerating, from your perspective Earth’s clock speeds up and goes faster than yours, how much is determined by your rate of change in relative velocity. Earth’s reference frame isn’t changing (ignoring movement around the sun, galactic center, the great attractor, etc.), so the Earth’s perspective on your clock doesn’t change, the Earth sees your clock gradually speed up as you “slow down” until it’s going the same rate, but never faster. So once you’re back in the Earth’s reference frame both you and the Earth will agree that your clock advanced 5 years while Earth’s clock (and your destination’s clock, adjusted for any relative movement between it and Earth) advanced 10 years. This assumes a constant 86% light speed and ignores the time accelerating at departure and arrival so let’s assume very fast acceleration so it doesn’t change more than a couple days.

Edit: this is all completely ignoring gravity based time dilation from the spaceship climbing out of Sol’s well and going down the destination’s well and only considers velocity based time dilation. It would be more correct if you only considered two spaceships in a void where one accelerates to relativistic speeds and then accelerates back into the reference frame of the other.

Let him build it.

Let the chauffered car thing fail.

Eminent domain the tunnel.

Stick a fucking train in it.

Not just anyone, but it’s not too hard. They expect to be able to get you into shape. There are also waivers available for disabilities, if you score high in the ASVAB you’re more likely to get one. OP didn’t mention any disability so it shouldn’t be a problem.

And different branches have different requirements. A buddy from high school with a horrible home life and no prospects was too heavy for the Marines but the army took him. Got a specialty with transferable skills in the real world and has a great life now. In and out before 9/11 though.

Say you lost your driver’s licence/ID and need your birth certificate and SS card to get a new one, a new passport is easy enough if you have those basic documents.

I’m going to get burned like crazy for saying this but if leaving right this second, like NOW, really means homelessness for you; go join the air force. Sign the papers, pack up what they let you bring and forget about everything else. If your family gets wise to what is going on and tries to stop you, they will come looking for you and your family will be in deep shit. Maybe even mention to your recruiter that if you don’t show up at the appointed time, you’re probably being held against your will, might speed things up.