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.
Printed ones are great - I’d never say not to. But cheap whistles bought in bulk are way less expensive.
I did some math and the ones I printed probably came out cheaper than the online listing for 100 that a friend pointed me to.
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
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.
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.
Not only is that still more expensive than printing, you have to wait a week to ship instead of waking up to a print bed full of them
You are right. You can beat the prices on alibaba though. Then you could even get metal ones for 11 cents a piece.
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.
I don’t care if they track my purchase of whistles. There is nothing wrong or illegal.
Cash exists.
https://www.partycity.com/translucent-whistles-24ct-912860.html
Counterpoint: Flock cameras also exist. Surveillance police state dystopia is already here and it’s spreading much faster than I think most people are prepared for, we have to take it seriously.
So if you aren’t going to leave your house and protest fkr fear of Flock, what are the whistles for?
Counter-counterpoint: The less cash you spend today, the more ammo you will be able to buy tomorrow.
These are 25 cents each. Printed whistles are like 4
I mean, we live in a time when 3d printed guns exist, I’m pretty sure having a 3d printer and ordering filament is probably about as likely to get you on a list as ordering some whistles
But whistles are readily available and cheap, without looking too hard I can get a dozen from them at target for less than $5 with lanyards. Leave your phone at home, pay cash, take a bus or park in the next shopping center over or wear a mask like you’re getting over a cold and a baseball cap and you’re about as anonymous as you can get.
Can probably get them even cheaper if you shop around a bit, if you have a party store around you I’ll bet you can get a bunch there for cheap as party favors for a children’s birthday party goody bag or whatever.
At the end of the day everyone’s got to do their own risk analysis, but ICE is also pretty reactionary and stupid in their gestapo tactics, and people aren’t regularly shooting ICE with 3d printed guns at this point. The whistles probably (hopefully) irritate them though, and they tend to aggressively lash out at things that irritate them.
It may end up being faster too.