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- Comment on What Can We Do to Get Youth into Ham Radio? 4 weeks ago:
I think it’s pretty screwed. What is ham radio? The name means nothing to today’s youth, it’s just confusing and they’ll move on to something else. Our attention is so fractioned these days that no one will stick around to find out more, we’re never bored. And you need boredom to get into this type of thing.
What can you do with ham radio? Talk to strangers? You can do that online with milliohms of resistance whereas getting on ham radio is megaohms of resistance in comparison. What I’m saying with this resistance analogy is that ham radio has a big learning curve and friction. You’re competing with the internet, social media, games. Ham radio simply doesn’t have a good hook, it doesn’t have a good incentive.
- Comment on Aardwoof 2 months ago:
Super Saiyan Dog
- Comment on How Shopping Malls Are Being Transformed Into Apartments In The U.S. 4 months ago:
Cause rent-seeking
- Comment on Woke up today to find out my demo has 100% Positive rating (from 10/10 reviews) 5 months ago:
Congrats! I wish you success!
- Comment on I bought a freeze dryer so you don't have to [1:00:14] 5 months ago:
Primarily because it’s a $3k piece of equipment. There are myriad other food preservation methods (canning, pickling, drying etc) that compete very strongly on the price/performance scale.
For some people it’s worth it, but for most use cases it’s going to be cheaper and simpler to go with an alternative method. There’s nothing wrong with the equipment or the technique, it’s just the value proposition for the consumer is low and the entry cost is high.