trafguy @ trafguy @midwest.social

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I think you're right, thanks for the ID! I've seen monarchs and silver spotted skippers around, but I don't think I've seen this type hanging around too much

Thanks! This was a few months ago, but IIRC they were around 6-8 inches (15-20 cm) tall, so not quite as big as the composition might make it look.

The best job I could ever hope for would let me find arbitrary projects to work on, at whatever pace I'm comfortable with. Doing the same type of work day after day will get boring/tiring for me no matter what it is, no matter how complex or simple, how isolated or social.

I've basically started picking up random productive hobbies around my day job that take over my life until I finish them or the grind of life obligations makes me put it down to be forgotten.

I'm curious where we'll be if we can move towards a future with a living wage UBI and people can choose to be productive in whatever way suits them. How would people fill their time?

Hello! Another Northern Illinois member here in the 25-35 age bracket. I have some potentially useful knowledge in web development, programming, a good intuition for structural engineering (mostly through woodworking and some 3D printing), and am currently working on some electronics projects.

Technically I'm now a refugee from vlemmy . net (the server suddenly disappeared a few days ago, their donation accounts are suspended/deleted), but before that I was on Reddit where I explored a lot of smaller niche information sharing type communities. I was a mod of a few relatively small communities there under a different name, but have pretty much abandoned the platform since they attacked their power users/mods and started charging exorbitant rates for their API.

Generally, the way I engage:

• I try to follow the paradox of tolerance. I try to be tolerant of others doing/saying anything which does not reduce overall tolerance of society, and when pushing back against intolerant ideology, I aim to politely discuss ideas from a place of logic and reason.
• I tend to engage in discussion of ideas and am happy to discuss hypotheticals that I find interesting. I like to solve problems, and have been known to come up with some atypical (and I'd argue interesting), if often unworkable, solutions/approaches.

I don't have time to devote to moderation/administration, but I'm happy to offer whatever advice I can within my knowledge areas to whoever may ask, such that it is.