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2 months agoYou don’t have to have conversations with those people - start your own net on a repeater about gardening or robotics or astronomy, find other local people you’d like to work simplex with, ask POTA or SOTA contacts if you can come along next time.
You can change the hobby for the better, if you actively participate.
yeah, “the west” is going to invade 🙄