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This Old Hiker

@Patrickoldhiker@ohai.social
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Retired engineer living in the Southeastern US. Social Democrat. DIYer, 40+ year hiker and trail maintainer. Proud son of immigrants. Survivor of the "#Bronx is burning" era and the #Anthropocene Epoch (so far). #slavaukraini #adhd

Uses block and mute buttons freely.

My avatar is from Frits Ahlefeldt of Denmark, and is licensed under Creative Commons.

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Joined February 14, 2023

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Patrickoldhiker
This Old Hiker @Patrickoldhiker@ohai.social · Jul 04, 2026
This Old Hiker
@Patrickoldhiker@ohai.social

Retired engineer living in the Southeastern US. Social Democrat. DIYer, 40+ year hiker and trail maintainer. Proud son of immigrants. Survivor of the "#Bronx is burning" era and the #Anthropocene Epoch (so far). #slavaukraini #adhd Uses block and mute buttons freely. My avatar is from Frits Ahlefeldt of Denmark, and is licensed under Creative Commons.

ohai.social
Replying to @VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social
@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social My guess is that #Trump speaks from an air conditioned glass box. It also allows his handlers to cut the mike if he outdoes himself with stupidity.
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Patrickoldhiker
This Old Hiker @Patrickoldhiker@ohai.social · Jun 23, 2026
This Old Hiker
@Patrickoldhiker@ohai.social

Retired engineer living in the Southeastern US. Social Democrat. DIYer, 40+ year hiker and trail maintainer. Proud son of immigrants. Survivor of the "#Bronx is burning" era and the #Anthropocene Epoch (so far). #slavaukraini #adhd Uses block and mute buttons freely. My avatar is from Frits Ahlefeldt of Denmark, and is licensed under Creative Commons.

ohai.social
Replying to @badsamurai@infosec.exchange
@badsamurai@infosec.exchange @zackwhittaker@mastodon.social To quote @grinningcat@tech.lgbt, adblockers are psychological self-defense.
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Patrickoldhiker
This Old Hiker @Patrickoldhiker@ohai.social · Jun 23, 2026
This Old Hiker
@Patrickoldhiker@ohai.social

Retired engineer living in the Southeastern US. Social Democrat. DIYer, 40+ year hiker and trail maintainer. Proud son of immigrants. Survivor of the "#Bronx is burning" era and the #Anthropocene Epoch (so far). #slavaukraini #adhd Uses block and mute buttons freely. My avatar is from Frits Ahlefeldt of Denmark, and is licensed under Creative Commons.

ohai.social
Replying to @fribbledom@mastodon.social
@fribbledom@mastodon.social I assumed that I would work, at least part-time, after I retired. But "why would I do that for this salary" has been my regular response to reading (or hearing) about real-world jobs.
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Patrickoldhiker
This Old Hiker @Patrickoldhiker@ohai.social · Jun 23, 2026
This Old Hiker
@Patrickoldhiker@ohai.social

Retired engineer living in the Southeastern US. Social Democrat. DIYer, 40+ year hiker and trail maintainer. Proud son of immigrants. Survivor of the "#Bronx is burning" era and the #Anthropocene Epoch (so far). #slavaukraini #adhd Uses block and mute buttons freely. My avatar is from Frits Ahlefeldt of Denmark, and is licensed under Creative Commons.

ohai.social
Replying to @badsamurai@infosec.exchange
@badsamurai@infosec.exchange @zackwhittaker@mastodon.social Usually, once such popups are on screen, even switching off my ad-blocker doesn't provide access to the page. Though using the "hide distracting elements" feature in Safari sometimes will.
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Patrickoldhiker
This Old Hiker @Patrickoldhiker@ohai.social · Jun 22, 2026
This Old Hiker
@Patrickoldhiker@ohai.social

Retired engineer living in the Southeastern US. Social Democrat. DIYer, 40+ year hiker and trail maintainer. Proud son of immigrants. Survivor of the "#Bronx is burning" era and the #Anthropocene Epoch (so far). #slavaukraini #adhd Uses block and mute buttons freely. My avatar is from Frits Ahlefeldt of Denmark, and is licensed under Creative Commons.

ohai.social
Replying to @zackwhittaker@mastodon.social
@zackwhittaker@mastodon.social Fortunately, I will never have need of the services of Anthropic.
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Patrickoldhiker
This Old Hiker @Patrickoldhiker@ohai.social · Jun 11, 2026
This Old Hiker
@Patrickoldhiker@ohai.social

Retired engineer living in the Southeastern US. Social Democrat. DIYer, 40+ year hiker and trail maintainer. Proud son of immigrants. Survivor of the "#Bronx is burning" era and the #Anthropocene Epoch (so far). #slavaukraini #adhd Uses block and mute buttons freely. My avatar is from Frits Ahlefeldt of Denmark, and is licensed under Creative Commons.

ohai.social
Replying to @khleedril@cyberplace.social
@khleedril@cyberplace.social @Strandjunker@mstdn.social The future of the United States is some mashup of Russia and Argentina.
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Patrickoldhiker
This Old Hiker @Patrickoldhiker@ohai.social · May 09, 2026
This Old Hiker
@Patrickoldhiker@ohai.social

Retired engineer living in the Southeastern US. Social Democrat. DIYer, 40+ year hiker and trail maintainer. Proud son of immigrants. Survivor of the "#Bronx is burning" era and the #Anthropocene Epoch (so far). #slavaukraini #adhd Uses block and mute buttons freely. My avatar is from Frits Ahlefeldt of Denmark, and is licensed under Creative Commons.

ohai.social

RE: @fesshole@mastodon.social

I've never told my parents or my siblings the extent of mental health issues I've had over the years, including ADHD treated with stimulant drugs. Given that my brother expressed disbelief after hearing about a 60 year old co-worker being on prescribed Adderall, that appears to have been a sound decision.

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Patrickoldhiker
This Old Hiker @Patrickoldhiker@ohai.social · May 02, 2026
This Old Hiker
@Patrickoldhiker@ohai.social

Retired engineer living in the Southeastern US. Social Democrat. DIYer, 40+ year hiker and trail maintainer. Proud son of immigrants. Survivor of the "#Bronx is burning" era and the #Anthropocene Epoch (so far). #slavaukraini #adhd Uses block and mute buttons freely. My avatar is from Frits Ahlefeldt of Denmark, and is licensed under Creative Commons.

ohai.social

@FiddleSix@zeroes.ca I'm not in Oregon, but have also been interested in the Novavax COVID vaccine because the period of improved immunity for the MRNA shots appears to be short.

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Patrickoldhiker
This Old Hiker @Patrickoldhiker@ohai.social · May 02, 2026
This Old Hiker
@Patrickoldhiker@ohai.social

Retired engineer living in the Southeastern US. Social Democrat. DIYer, 40+ year hiker and trail maintainer. Proud son of immigrants. Survivor of the "#Bronx is burning" era and the #Anthropocene Epoch (so far). #slavaukraini #adhd Uses block and mute buttons freely. My avatar is from Frits Ahlefeldt of Denmark, and is licensed under Creative Commons.

ohai.social
Replying to @AdmiralMemo@mastodon.social
@AdmiralMemo @Jeroen89 In the late 1960s, I could see fireflies in large numbers every summer in a vacant lot in my New York City neighborhood. #bronx #nyc
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Patrickoldhiker
This Old Hiker @Patrickoldhiker@ohai.social · Mar 27, 2026
This Old Hiker
@Patrickoldhiker@ohai.social

Retired engineer living in the Southeastern US. Social Democrat. DIYer, 40+ year hiker and trail maintainer. Proud son of immigrants. Survivor of the "#Bronx is burning" era and the #Anthropocene Epoch (so far). #slavaukraini #adhd Uses block and mute buttons freely. My avatar is from Frits Ahlefeldt of Denmark, and is licensed under Creative Commons.

ohai.social
Replying to @dannyman@sfba.social
@dannyman This is usually temporary, done because landline phone and cable TV companies (now both internet providers) can't work at the same time as the electric utility installing the new pole. My guess here is that it's permanent because there isn't enough slack in the lower cables to allow them to be attached directly to the new pole.
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Patrickoldhiker
This Old Hiker @Patrickoldhiker@ohai.social · Mar 27, 2026
This Old Hiker
@Patrickoldhiker@ohai.social

Retired engineer living in the Southeastern US. Social Democrat. DIYer, 40+ year hiker and trail maintainer. Proud son of immigrants. Survivor of the "#Bronx is burning" era and the #Anthropocene Epoch (so far). #slavaukraini #adhd Uses block and mute buttons freely. My avatar is from Frits Ahlefeldt of Denmark, and is licensed under Creative Commons.

ohai.social
Replying to @ketan@climatejustice.social
@ketan Over the past 50 years, petroleum-related unrest in the US has generally been truckers and farmers protesting high diesel prices, rather than ordinary drivers. https://www.history.com/articles/oil-crisis-1973-truck-strike
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Patrickoldhiker
This Old Hiker @Patrickoldhiker@ohai.social · Mar 27, 2026
This Old Hiker
@Patrickoldhiker@ohai.social

Retired engineer living in the Southeastern US. Social Democrat. DIYer, 40+ year hiker and trail maintainer. Proud son of immigrants. Survivor of the "#Bronx is burning" era and the #Anthropocene Epoch (so far). #slavaukraini #adhd Uses block and mute buttons freely. My avatar is from Frits Ahlefeldt of Denmark, and is licensed under Creative Commons.

ohai.social
Replying to @CorioPsicologia@mastodon.social
@CorioPsicologia @ketan Farmers certainly have more claim on fossil fuel use than Americans driving lifted pickup trucks to go to work in office cubicles.
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Patrickoldhiker
This Old Hiker @Patrickoldhiker@ohai.social · Mar 25, 2026
This Old Hiker
@Patrickoldhiker@ohai.social

Retired engineer living in the Southeastern US. Social Democrat. DIYer, 40+ year hiker and trail maintainer. Proud son of immigrants. Survivor of the "#Bronx is burning" era and the #Anthropocene Epoch (so far). #slavaukraini #adhd Uses block and mute buttons freely. My avatar is from Frits Ahlefeldt of Denmark, and is licensed under Creative Commons.

ohai.social
Replying to @thetyee@mstdn.ca
@thetyee I see what is happening in my country, the US, as a sustained tantrum at the loss of its status as the world's most powerful country, which happened somewhere between 2010 and 2015. China has already won. The US can't maintain its air travel system, the infrastructure required for driving, or its fleet of cars, which appears to be going full Cuba. Ironically, the only way to save this car-based system would be to buy Chinese EVs, which is political anathema.
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Patrickoldhiker
This Old Hiker @Patrickoldhiker@ohai.social · Mar 24, 2026
This Old Hiker
@Patrickoldhiker@ohai.social

Retired engineer living in the Southeastern US. Social Democrat. DIYer, 40+ year hiker and trail maintainer. Proud son of immigrants. Survivor of the "#Bronx is burning" era and the #Anthropocene Epoch (so far). #slavaukraini #adhd Uses block and mute buttons freely. My avatar is from Frits Ahlefeldt of Denmark, and is licensed under Creative Commons.

ohai.social
Replying to @gwagner@fediscience.org
@gwagner They have succeeded in bailing out oil companies by pushing EV adoption in the US back by a generation, in the process wiping out Tesla's competition for those who actually want an EV. There are no accidents.
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Patrickoldhiker
This Old Hiker @Patrickoldhiker@ohai.social · Mar 16, 2026
This Old Hiker
@Patrickoldhiker@ohai.social

Retired engineer living in the Southeastern US. Social Democrat. DIYer, 40+ year hiker and trail maintainer. Proud son of immigrants. Survivor of the "#Bronx is burning" era and the #Anthropocene Epoch (so far). #slavaukraini #adhd Uses block and mute buttons freely. My avatar is from Frits Ahlefeldt of Denmark, and is licensed under Creative Commons.

ohai.social
Replying to @khleedril@cyberplace.social
@khleedril@cyberplace.social @ThePolishDispatch@mstdn.social @dantheclamman@scicomm.xyz COVID too, and it is definitely being seen in population behavior in the US.
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Patrickoldhiker
This Old Hiker @Patrickoldhiker@ohai.social · Mar 15, 2026
This Old Hiker
@Patrickoldhiker@ohai.social

Retired engineer living in the Southeastern US. Social Democrat. DIYer, 40+ year hiker and trail maintainer. Proud son of immigrants. Survivor of the "#Bronx is burning" era and the #Anthropocene Epoch (so far). #slavaukraini #adhd Uses block and mute buttons freely. My avatar is from Frits Ahlefeldt of Denmark, and is licensed under Creative Commons.

ohai.social
Replying to @mjb@mathstodon.xyz
@mjb@mathstodon.xyz As an American, I can't see how any major international academic or research organization can choose to hold a conference in the US right now.
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Patrickoldhiker
This Old Hiker @Patrickoldhiker@ohai.social · Feb 22, 2026
This Old Hiker
@Patrickoldhiker@ohai.social

Retired engineer living in the Southeastern US. Social Democrat. DIYer, 40+ year hiker and trail maintainer. Proud son of immigrants. Survivor of the "#Bronx is burning" era and the #Anthropocene Epoch (so far). #slavaukraini #adhd Uses block and mute buttons freely. My avatar is from Frits Ahlefeldt of Denmark, and is licensed under Creative Commons.

ohai.social
Replying to @mapcar@mastodon.sdf.org
@mapcar @drikanis @ludicity Also affecting this situation is that this generation of young people lost a year or two of schooling to the #pandemic causing weaknesses in both knowledge and socialization. I've heard a number of comments on this from a friend and a niece who are teachers.
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Patrickoldhiker
This Old Hiker @Patrickoldhiker@ohai.social · Feb 22, 2026
This Old Hiker
@Patrickoldhiker@ohai.social

Retired engineer living in the Southeastern US. Social Democrat. DIYer, 40+ year hiker and trail maintainer. Proud son of immigrants. Survivor of the "#Bronx is burning" era and the #Anthropocene Epoch (so far). #slavaukraini #adhd Uses block and mute buttons freely. My avatar is from Frits Ahlefeldt of Denmark, and is licensed under Creative Commons.

ohai.social
Replying to @drikanis@mstdn.ca
@drikanis @ludicity It's notable that, if these useless meat sacks are in the US, someone likely either borrowed $250K or spent their own money for them to cheat their way to a degree using AI. Some days, I'm comforted by the fact that I'm old.
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Patrickoldhiker
This Old Hiker @Patrickoldhiker@ohai.social · Feb 14, 2026
This Old Hiker
@Patrickoldhiker@ohai.social

Retired engineer living in the Southeastern US. Social Democrat. DIYer, 40+ year hiker and trail maintainer. Proud son of immigrants. Survivor of the "#Bronx is burning" era and the #Anthropocene Epoch (so far). #slavaukraini #adhd Uses block and mute buttons freely. My avatar is from Frits Ahlefeldt of Denmark, and is licensed under Creative Commons.

ohai.social
Replying to @nina_kali_nina__dup_39315@tech.lgbt
@nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt There are reasons why my #Facebook profile picture has been a caricature for years.
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Patrickoldhiker
This Old Hiker @Patrickoldhiker@ohai.social · Feb 13, 2026
This Old Hiker
@Patrickoldhiker@ohai.social

Retired engineer living in the Southeastern US. Social Democrat. DIYer, 40+ year hiker and trail maintainer. Proud son of immigrants. Survivor of the "#Bronx is burning" era and the #Anthropocene Epoch (so far). #slavaukraini #adhd Uses block and mute buttons freely. My avatar is from Frits Ahlefeldt of Denmark, and is licensed under Creative Commons.

ohai.social
Replying to @billyjoebowers__dup_5623@mastodon.online
@billyjoebowers@mastodon.online Since support for the Trump administration is close to unanimous among American CEOs and business owners, boycotting specific companies is of limited usefulness. Cutting personal spending, especially by those of us who have some discretionary income, is essential.
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Patrickoldhiker
This Old Hiker @Patrickoldhiker@ohai.social · Feb 04, 2026
This Old Hiker
@Patrickoldhiker@ohai.social

Retired engineer living in the Southeastern US. Social Democrat. DIYer, 40+ year hiker and trail maintainer. Proud son of immigrants. Survivor of the "#Bronx is burning" era and the #Anthropocene Epoch (so far). #slavaukraini #adhd Uses block and mute buttons freely. My avatar is from Frits Ahlefeldt of Denmark, and is licensed under Creative Commons.

ohai.social
Replying to @ThePolishDispatch@mstdn.social
@ThePolishDispatch@mstdn.social @dantheclamman@scicomm.xyz People aren't talking about it, but the people in charge of businesses and governments around the world are exactly the age group who received the maximum doses of environmental lead. I strongly suspect that this fact is behind our worldwide political instability. I'm in this age range and I think that we need to take away grandpa's car keys.
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