User:SvenTheBold

I'm kind of a platypus. When I see a grammar error, I fix it. I often fix unclear paragraphs as well. Sometimes I organize lists. Other times I fixate on a certain page or topic and spend hours upon hours on end clarifying it to remove POV edits.

I can often be found lurking in the most ill- or well-trodden corners of Wikipedia. Or sometimes I can't be found at all. If you message me, don't expect me to reply for at least seven months. I might reply within seven seconds, though. Or I might never reply. No one knows.

If I say something harsh, don't worry; I usually meant it, but I usually didn't mean for it to have sounded like I meant it quite so strongly. If I say something understated, don't worry; it usually just means that I'm trying to exercise my self control in light of the mantra, "Wikipedia doesn't have to be perfect."

But mark my words: I will make it perfect. If I feel like it. And I probably won't. But I will often feel like making edits. And that is why I have created this account.

If you are looking for information about me, you should install cookies on my web-browser and track my every move across the Internet like a stalker. Only not really, because that would be creepy. (But not illegal! See below.)

Original Quotations. Copyrighted by me. (Or are they?)

Any sufficiently inexplicable certainty is indistinguishable from magic.

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Things I care about in the order they popped into my head:

Mars Colonization (Immediate)

Martian Terraforming (logical result of colonization)

Copyright (turn it left) Law (My interest is in redrafting of those laws entirely from scratch, to allow all copyrighted materials to be used for any and all non-commercial purposes, including education and personal enjoyment.)

Internet Neutrality, Privacy, Autonomy, and Open Accessibility

Video Editing

Chainmaille Weaving

Removal of Idiots from Political Office. (Yes, all of them. And their little parties too.)

Support for Seasteading Projects Worldwide

Yves Rossy's Wingpack

Anything involving the SpaceX, Tesla Motors, Virign Galactic, and the Mars Foundation.

Immediate Construction of High-speed Rail Lines in the Upper Midwest (specifically between Chicago, Milwaukee, Madison, Wisconsin Dells, Minneapolis, and possibly Duluth, St. Cloud, etc.)

Bringing the Olympic Games to Minneapolis (Woot!)

Reviving Midwestern Industry through Investment in 3-D Printing as an Alternative to Foreign Crap.

Global Crop Development

Promotion of Better (Any) Safety Standards for Genetically Modified Organisms

Public Reconciliation between Faith and Science (i.e. Lets Stop Giving the Bigots/Idiots the Microphone)

Inter-church Dialogue

Linguistics (Tentative)

Con-scripts (in the sense of Conlangs)

Stopping Anthropogenic Climate Change

Ending Abortion

Ending Legal Recognition of Marriage (of any kind, as this would free marriage to be no more or less than exactly whatever society defines it to be, without letting politicians interfere in any way. I say this because there is absolutely no right afforded to partners by state-recognized marriage that could not be better afforded to individuals, based on criteria other than whether or not they have sex with someone else.)

Ending the Fact that Social Manipulation Policies have come to Dominate the American Political Conversation, to the Exclusion of Practical Dicussions on topics like Poverty, Economic Oppression by the Rich, and Inequality of both Achievement and Opportunity

American Energiewende

Bringing About the Electric Economy

Music Composition

Cold (or less-hot) Fusion

Designer Babies

Someone Please Start Talking about Native American Poverty

Genetic Engineering (Making Real Pokemon)

Species Resurrection

Culture Studies

Geography (anymore it's mostly my party trick)

XKCD (awesome comic strip)

Normal People Stuff

Lutheranism (I saved this 'til the end to make use of the bathtub effect; it's important that you remember this part of my personality because I derive myself from my faith. I'm a Lutheran Christian.)