I notice a lot of the more prolific posters and commenters, for better or worse. Even more so the ones with distinct avatars since I associate that picture with what they post and my client has avatars on by default.

You’re not wrong, but we don’t all have the capability to move to another country, for both legal and financial reasons.

Not surprised. Always book tickets in private browsing, preferably with a VPN. Expect to get upcharged otherwise.

You can get a lot for free too if you know what you’re doing.

You’re really testing the limits of this community name, aren’t you?

Sure, but have you stopped to consider that maybe you’re just not a greedy sociopath?

Never heard of it.

I’m legitimately confused on why people would be downvoting this post. Do they think women have no right to autonomy?

Ah, let me clarify: I’ve never heard of being able to sell a military pension like how JGW “buys” them, as they don’t have a buyout option that I’ve ever heard of.

I’ve never heard of it. Doesn’t that require the pension to have a buy-out value? Military pension doesn’t have that.

Interesting. Wonder why you retain that but lose everything else. Thanks for the correction.

Fuckin’ A.

It’s fine, this isn’t Reddit.

There’s no lump sum option for a military pension, at least not in the US, and renouncing citizenship also forfeits any future pension or social security entitlements.

Edit: VA and healthcare benefits too.

My interpretation of the graph is that the services have shrunk since the cold war era ended, which is true.

I would imagine that the number of applicants trending downward is likely due to a combination of a stable civilian employment market and a decrease in the recruiting budget. Notice there are spikes in application numbers that correlate with economic downturns, but don’t have an equivalent increase in recruitment.

As for why the lines converge towards the end, my guess would be that although there are fewer applicants, the services still have annual recruiting quotas to maintain force end strength. This will result in a higher percentage of applicants that have waivers for the factors I mentioned in my previous comment.

As for the quality of recruits, I think as a population they are decreasing in quality, but this is no different than trying to apply the BMI standard to an individual to assess their health. You will still have individuals in the population that perform highly, although they are likely a shrinking proportion of those making the cut. Also, there are always a number of people that join and discover the military isn’t for them / what they expected. Some will finish their contract and get out, others will find a way out early. The latter group are the ones that tend to have disciplinary problems and/or are constantly at medical seeking a reason for early discharge.

You might be surprised then. Each branch has slightly different standards, but you can be rejected for being out of shape, your medical history, your criminal history, being unable to score high enough on the aptitude tests, or even something like excessive tattoos.

Wouldn’t the tu version be apilas? I’m not super familiar with that particular verb.

Non-native Spanish speaker, but I believe it’s in the directness of the command. Apila is telling someone to do it, whereas apile is just saying it needs to be done.

I haven’t seen an ISP offer tech installation on anything in years unless the home wasn’t pre-wired. Self installation kits are the norm these days.

Fuck, what was this from? I can remember the voice but can’t recall the source.