• BoofStroke@sh.itjust.works
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    8 months ago

    They are armed. You should be too. And wear protective gear. They’ve permanently blinded people on purpose. They’ve already executed people in the street. Notice they aren’t near anyplace where bpp is active.

    An alarm won’t stop a break in, and a whistle won’t stop these goons from harming you.

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      Intentional deescalation does more right now than having the people closest to ICE or Border Patrol agents carrying weapons.

      The standard for now is that responders with guns stay back to deter massacres.

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      8 months ago

      You both make good points, but prevention is better than de-escalation or alerting. Being known as protected is a preventative measure.

      Of course alarms/monitoring and response (de-escalation) are very important. But stopping it before it starts should get attention as well.

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      7 months ago

      If you really want to fight back, learn from the Mexican cartels and Islamic insurgencies.

      We have data on what works.

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    8 months ago

    Thanks for sharing this. This bolstered my spirit.

    I liked the bit where it discusses how, regardless of the effectiveness of whistles in deterring ICE, they have proven to be helpful in regular people feeling less alone.

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    7 months ago

    lol, 3d printing enthusiasts try to solve everything with 3d printing.

    source: I have 3 3d printers

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    8 months ago

    Really cool article and movement, thanks for sharing it. I’ve been printing whistles and leaving them in my little free library but had no idea there was this nation wide movement going on.

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      7 months ago

      Its hard to import them in quantities of a few hundred thousand, and cheaper to print them than to buy in quantities of a hundred

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      7 months ago

      Because 3D printer owners not only get to feel validated about owning a 3D printer, but also get to help the community during these harsh times.

      There’s a lot of people saying here that it’s cheaper to 3D print. It is not. Even if the claim of 5 cents a 3D printed whistle is true, and I don’t really believe it, it’s not hard to find bulk plastic whistles with the price dropping as low as 2 cents per unit.

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    7 months ago

    Why 3D print them? Isn’t that more ecologically wasteful than just getting any of the mass-produced ones? They aren’t exactly hard to come by. Fuck your wasteful printing.

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      7 months ago

      This is incorrect, the author says that he prints whistles for 5c a pop, which is cheaper than dropshipping from China. This also implies that 3D printing whistles at home in that fashion is more productive when one doesn’t live in China (or next to a whistle factory).

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          Most of the time cheaper products are better for the environment when they’re durable. A very simple whistle has hardly any parts that could fail easily and is therefore durable.

          See the cost of veganism, prefab buildings or electric cars. If local production and local distribution of objects saves transport and handling expenses, which come from people expending time, keep in mind those people need to be fed and have to get to work somehow, then that is a fact.

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          I’d imagine the lack of being shipped many thousands of miles is what makes them ecologically friendlier.

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      Not saying anyone’s doing this for whistles in particular, but you can make PET filament from salvaged bottles. And VHS tape, but I really doubt anyone is going to be able to print something that needs to be as precise as a whistle from VHS tape. From what I’ve seen it comes out… lumpy.