Alumnum

I use the pseudonym Alumnum (Latin neuter form of alumnus, which means "student" or "pupil") because I feel the need of studying and learning. I am an autodidact and I use Wikipedia as one of the main sources for my studies. My main interests are: culture, right-libertarianism, zoology, geology, psychoactive drugs, speculative fiction, video games, linguistics, astronomy and extraterrestrial life.

I enjoy drinking water, tea, almost any kind of juice, and milk-based sweet beverages (I most often take chocolate milk). I do not like alcoholic beverages and soft drinks; they are too unhealthy. As for food, I eat lots of vegetables and fruit and I try to avoid fried stuff. I'm a pescetarian. I particularly enjoy Chinese and Japanese cuisines and Subway.

I enjoy linguistics and learning languages. I have studied many languages to a certain level, but I can only properly talk in English, my native Portuguese and to a lesser extent Esperanto and Dutch.

Politically, I greatly admire panarchism and right-libertarianism. I don't like coercion (and consequently the state) and think it's essentially unethical. I don't think society needs it at all. But I believe that people should have the right to choose under what government or anarchic system they want to live. I definitely do not get along with some people holding excessively sexist, homophobic, transphobic or racist views, but since I believe in unlimited free speech, they are free to do so. The best thing to do is to educate them about the errors in their ideas; but if they do not want to be educated, they should be ignored.

I don't like the idea of schooling (and to some degree universities) as primary forms of education. In my opinion, it is nearly impossible to teach someone what they do not want to learn, so all education should be voluntary. The internet is one great alternative way of acquiring knowledge: it provides unlimited and free information, book downloading (that's because I'm against copyright), groups to talk to people interested in the same subject and many other forms of education.

The top three sites I visit when online are Facebook, YouTube and Wikipedia. I mostly read and edit articles, listen to music, watch educational or entertaining videos, talk to my friends and participate on groups. You can find out more about me in this bunch of userboxes below, which is a bit unorganized (I'm going to fix this sometime).

Userboxes

This user contributes using a PC.

This user eats sushi.

This user drinks chocolate milk.

This user prefers cold weather.

This user is of Russian ancestry.

Majority ≠ right

This user recognizes that even if 300,000,000 people make the same mistake, it's still a mistake.

User:Jeffro77/userboxes/Singular they:LessEvil

subj	This user likes that the subjunctive mood be used. Were this user you, she would use it.

English Singulars: "The data is..."

This user recognizes that "data", "media", and "agenda" have become incorporated into English as singular nouns.

golden toad

This user advocates lowercase common names in an encyclopedia.

This user likes all of the colors.

MC	This user plays Minecraft.

This user uses Google Maps.

Don't be evil

This user would be lost without Google.

This user is interested in Botany.

This user is interested in philosophy.

	This user enjoys his/her privacy.

This user accepts evolution as a biological fact.

This user supports protection of the environment.

This user has a keen interest in learning about Chemistry.

This user is interested in Paleontology.

This user enjoys watching the weather.

This user enjoys tracking weather, and might have a personal weather station.

This user uses Google Earth often.

This user is interested in recycling.

This user is interested in retrocomputing.

This user is interested in beauty.

This user is interested in fantasy.

School

This user doesn't like school.

This user enjoys geofiction.

This user enjoys reading Biographies.

This user believes that "all the world's a stage and all the men and women merely players".

This user loves writing, but can hardly find the time to do so.

PULP	The truth is...you're the weak, and I'm the tyranny of evil men. But I'm tryin' Ringo...I'm tryin' REAL HARD to be the shepherd.

This user is an autodidact in a wide range of subjects that they never took in school or college.

This user can lick his/her own elbow.

The sanity of this user has been disputed. Refer to the talk page to discuss this topic.

This user believes that anyone who thinks Wikipedia is an unreliable source should continue their quest to find a better website.

secular

This user supports the separation of religion and state.

This user is a Capitalist.

This user is interested in environmentalism.

This user is a constitutional monarchist.

This user supports stem cell research.

This user is interested in animal rights issues.

This user prefers that the death penalty be used very sparingly.

This user is against the war on drugs.

This user supports drug policy reform; knowing that prohibition is immoral, counterproductive, illiberal and doesn't work.

This user is pro-cannabis.

This user does not use drugs, but figures people should be able to use recreational drugs in their own home if they're responsible about it.

This user supports Unschooling.

This user opposes removing guns from the civilian populace.

This user believes that we all need to fight for indigenous rights.

This user supports equal rights for queer people.

This user believes if you're old enough to go to war, you're old enough to drink alcohol.

This user supports secessionist and autonomist groups so long as a majority of the people living within the region in question support secession or further autonomy, that it is achieved through nonviolent means only and that the minority that do not support independence are treated with respect.

This user believes in the power of nonviolence.