User:Jarrod Baniqued

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This user has been vaccinated and boosted against COVID-19.

 13,758 This user has made 13,758 edits to the English language Wikipedia.

This user has been on Wikipedia for 15 years, 5 months and 9 days.

JOBThis user needs a job.

ANAL 5This user is incredibly stringent with professional grammar.

♂This contributor to Wikipedia is male.

25This user is 25 years, 2 months, and 25 days old.

ZThis user is a member of
Generation Z.

This user qualifies as a
nerd extraordinaire.

enThis user is a native speaker of the English language.

es-1Este usuario puede contribuir con un nivel básico de español.

This user is autistic.

This user is Filipino-American.

This user is proud to be an
American !

This user is a proud native citizen of the U.S. State of California.

This user lives or hails
from Sacramento.

This user resides in the Philippines.

UCDThis user attends or attended the
University of California, Davis.

BAThis user has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communications.

This user is a secular humanist.

This user is interested in space-related articles.

This user is interested in urban planning.

This user is a railfan.

This user promotes efforts to counter
climate change

This user enjoys cooking.

DS	This user is a democratic socialist.

This user advocates Workplace democracy and Workers' self management.

JThis user reads Jacobin.

NLRThis user reads New Left Review.

TVTThis user is a troper.

This user watches or broadcasts on Twitch.

This user watches LOTS of YouTube.

WWDTMThis user would like to win Carl Kassell's voice on his home answering machine.

This user supports the United Federation of Planets.

This user is a Doctor Who fan.

Welcome

Mission statement

Hi! I’m Jarrod (pronounced like ‘Jared’), I’m a Zoomer, and I’m a strong believer in the mantra that information wants to be free, and that a reputable, neutral, nonprofit has immense potential to embody it. (After all, just look what it did during the COVID pandemic.) Now, I don’t know if it’s “the last best place on the internet”, but it’s an important, and easy-to-use, outlet for the people who wish to make a seemingly light and obscure, but nevertheless meaningful impact on the World Brain that is the internet, while at the same time committing themselves to truth above all. I’m certainly one of them.

What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.
–Pericles

I know that Wikipedia is not a democracy, but nevertheless its ethos is soundly rooted in democracy. I intend to uphold that. I hope you are too. XOXO

A few other must-reads

The userboxes have enough of my backstory. They’re a good enough biography to not repeat here.

I’m a man of science. As for political bias, I read The American Prospect and Canary Media a lot and regularly listen to On the Media, and I strongly believe in evidence-based policy, though I recommend reading the works of Murray Bookchin, Richard Rorty, Carlos Bulosan, Martin Luther King Jr., Daniel De Leon, and Jürgen Habermas to get a sense of what my full theoretical perspective is.

I have a Substack, but as of writing I haven’t posted on it in eight months. My writer’s block is 'that' bad. Help me please. I also watch a lot of Twitch and use Discord often, probably too much for my own good. You’ll figure out where to find me.

Musically my tastes are eclectic. I’m not into country or rap, honestly, nor am I into the indie or alternative scenes that much. Basically I just play whatever oldies I feel.

Messages here

You are welcome to put messages on this page as you wish, provided 1) you’re nice to me, 2) you’re open-minded and here in good faith, 3) you get to the point quickly, and 4) you’re nice to me. (That part’s really worth repeating.)

As I always say:

have courage and grace, stay curious, and be kind.