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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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