There is a demand for locally printed whistles for communities where ICE is or forecast to be.

If you are interested in printing whistles for your area, search “ICE whistles [your area]”. You can use either your state or major nearby city. If you are interested in printing whistles, but can’t find anything, let me know and I can see if I can find a local org you can support.

  • Triumph@fedia.io
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    5 months ago

    Printed ones are great - I’d never say not to. But cheap whistles bought in bulk are way less expensive.

    • akilou@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      5 months ago

      Printed whistles are like 4 cents each. I haven’t checked but I’d be surprised if you could buy them for cheaper than that. Also, I have so many points on Makerworld that filament is free

      • pageflight@piefed.socialEnglish
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        5 months ago

        Huh, really? $100 for a bucket of 50 with lanyards does come out more expensive, then, assuming people have some spare yarn/cord/old lanyards around. I assumed there was no way bulk production wasn’t more expensive, but maybe the supply chain / middle men catch up.

        • B0rax@feddit.orgEnglish
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          5 months ago

          Those are expensive… just a quick search on aliexpress and I found 50 whistles for 5€ including lanyards.

          /edit: free shipping if you go over 10€, so 100 whistles.

    • cecilkorik@piefed.caEnglish
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      5 months ago

      Sadly it’s not just a question of expensive anymore, it’s also a question of whether they can track your purchases (they can) and whether those purchase records will eventually have ICE banging down your door in the middle of the night to have you disappeared for your seditious act of buying justice-obstructing terrorist whistles.

      3d printing is not impossible to track either but it’s certainly a lot harder to track when you are using basic internet hygiene and money isn’t changing hands.