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Re:Ham radio is not dying, it's evolving by nipponese on Friday August 28, 2020 @10:11AM (#24305043)
It's hard to agree with that line of reason. In my observation, GenX marketed themselves as the generation of apathy, and so eventually people became apathetic about them.
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Re:Ham radio is not dying, it's evolving by Cd00d on Friday August 28, 2020 @11:44AM (#24306214)
I think GenX didn't believe in marketing themselves. The concept makes this X-er chuckle quietly.
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Re:Ham radio is not dying, it's evolving by TeMPOraL on Friday August 28, 2020 @02:40PM (#24308494)
Funny things these "generations" are. It's just as if someone were drawing an arbitrary cutoff line every two decades, picking a random characteristic from the overall zeitgeist, and proclaiming it to define the people of that "generation"...
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Re:Ham radio is not dying, it's evolving by dvtrn on Friday August 28, 2020 @04:51PM (#24309784)
And people buying into the characteristics and tropes with shocking willingness
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Re:Ham radio is not dying, it's evolving by samatman on Friday August 28, 2020 @12:44PM (#24306974)
Boomers marketed GenX as the generation of slack and apathy, because we weren't impressed by their music. Richard Linklater was born in 1960...

We were too young to object at the time, and now we're stuck with it.

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Re:Ham radio is not dying, it's evolving by mikece on Friday August 28, 2020 @01:13PM (#24307377)
> Boomers marketed GenX as the generation of slack and apathy...

And we spend all day on Slack at work so clearly the Amateur Radio version of Slack/IRC has to be called "Apathy"!

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Re:Ham radio is not dying, it's evolving by TeMPOraL on Friday August 28, 2020 @02:43PM (#24308516)
More realistically: people playing with computers in the 80s/90s didn't complain enough about this being considered "nerdy", and now instead of "bicycles for the mind", we're stuck with digital toys designed to the lowest common denominator.
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