I used to print quite a lot of toys for my kids, but I stopped doing that, since it feels mostly like a waste of plastic.

3D printed toys are rarely enjoyable. The toys are usually either not interesting enough (think static, non-movable, single-color figurines like the low-poly-pokemon series), or not durable enough or both at the same time.

My kids liked the printed toys when they got them, but they barely looked at them after like 10 minutes and then they ended up rolling around the house until they broke, usually very soon.

I love 3D printing, I use it a lot for all sorts of things, but toys are just not a very good application for 3D prints, in my opinion. It's just not worth the plastic.

Edit: Just for context: I've been around the block with 3D printing. I started about 7 years ago and I've been the 3D printer repair guy for my circle of friends ever since, fixing up everyone else's printers. I design most of the things I print myself. The reason I am posting this is because pretty much everyone I know who has a printer and kids prints toys all the time, and any time I'm at any event where someone can shoehorn a box of give-away low-poly-pokemon in, there is one there.

IMO, this is all plastic waste and nothing else.

When it comes to Canada's often tense debate around gun laws, most Canadians likely will not have heard of an RCMP database called the Firearms Reference Table, or FRT.

The FRT is a database used by the RCMP to help classify firearms. That classification determines whether a gun is non-restricted, restricted or prohibited.

Technically, the FRT isn't a legal instrument, but instead just an internal RCMP tool based on definitions set out in the Criminal Code and Firearms Act. But in practice?

"It's both the law and not the law," said A.J. Somerset, the author of Arms: The Culture and Credo of the Gun.

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The horse is dead, and I feel no need to beat it. Where I do take issue is this:

Journalist Mehdi Hasan responded to the report about Weiss by tweeting: “RIP CBS News.” Paul Farhi, a former media reporter at the Washington Post, said: “She’s an opinion journalist and always has been, and that’s not the person you want running a news division or having a prominent role in the news division. You want someone who actually knows or upholds the tradition of straight-up reporting that CBS has stood for its entire existence.”

Look, I realize it's a limited number of users familiar with my background -- why should you care?

But I started as a columnist, moved on to opinion editor, and if my standards for U.S. News suggest anything, it's that you want "opinion journalists" to keep things in line.

Where city/news editors often fail is not realizing that a conclusion being reached isn't backed up by data. Going into the reasons why would take a full research paper, but it's never been intentional. It's the cycle and amount of time, combined with what's now the limited experience of reporters and the demise of the desk.

Running opinion makes abundantly clear with is straight fact and what isn't. Running news? Less so. These are editors used to promoting "analysis" to prime real estate.

I've only pulled this card once (thankfully, I was already managing ed, and Lisa wasn't going to overrule me), recasting opinion as analysis (it realistically was, being a tale of my experience at a startup as the dot-com bubble imploded in 2000) and throwing it out front.

You can't excel in any field if you've not first learned what each part does.

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The video description says:
In November 1993 I read the following note in the taz (German newspaper):
In the north-Serbian Wojwodina a 2,000-people-village collectively refuses military service / Now the "Spiritual Republic Zitzer" has declared independence...
Thereupon this song evolved, about this almost unbelievable story. It belongs to my song cycle "Peculiar Saints". For this upload of the song I've searched the Internet again and actually found some authentic video recordings from 1992 and added them to the song.

Here are the lyrics:

Teachers bomb children, bakers are firing around wildly.
The neighbours nice boys turn into rapists.
The war devastates the land and the people and no end is in sight.
Only very isolated, very endangered, here and there a ray of hope:

Ref: Such as this Tresnevac, Tresnevac, little village in the north.
Resistance and imagination against the murdering

One morning, the postwoman delivered 200 gray postcards,
from the military office. Horror spread from house to house
"Reserve excercise" was written on them, but they meant "order to kill"
In the evening, crowded together in the village club they were all united by the idea:

To say "No!" together now, "No!" despite all threats.
Continue teaching children, baking bread rolls, driving tractor.
Simply not to obey. Simply not to go to war.
Determined to get through whatever comes, together.

Oh, this Tresnevac, Tresnevac, little village in the north.
Resistance and imagination against the murdering

Ninety-two tanks stood around the vilage, ready to shoot.
But the Tresnevacians remained hard-nosed the whole time.
The pub became their peace camp, the tanks retreated.
Soon the tiny spot declared itself boldly a "Spiritual Republic".

For the connection of all the people who want the peace. Now.
Drew up their own constitution in the pub.
And their coat of arms: Billiard balls for their peaceful model
Their anthem, quietly beginning, the "Bolero" by Ravel

Tresnevac, Tresnevac,...

"The Bolero doesn't stay quiet", the teacher plainly says.
"Even if they isolate us, our dream doesn't die!"
It will infect other, such a dream needs its time.
For now, all TV channels only show the inevitability.

Teachers bombard children, bakers are firing around wildly.
The neighbours nice boys turn into rapists.
The war devastates the land and the people and no end is in sight.
Only very isolated, very endangered, here and there a ray of hope:

Such as this Tresnevac, Tresnevac,...

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All my friends in Gaza are telling the same story at this point, even with money, the markets are empty, there is simply **NO FOOD** to buy.

Israel is implementing it's **FINAL SOLUTION** in full view of the world.

Zionism has turned this planet into a **DYSTOPIAN NIGHTMARE**.

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#Palestine #Gaza

Fisher says at the beginning of Chapter 3:

“A moral critique of capitalism, emphasizing the ways in which it leads to suffering, only reinforces capitalist realism. Poverty, famine and war can be presented as an inevitable part of reality, while the hope that these forms of suffering could be eliminated easily painted as naive utopianism. Capitalist realism can only be threatened if it is shown to be in some way inconsistent or untenable; if, that is to say, capitalism's ostensible 'realism' turns out to be nothing of the sort.”

His two main inconsistencies are climate change and poor mental health. I see that others have added to this list, like Silvia Federici’s claim that unpaid labor such as child rearing and other domestic labor will disintegrate in a capitalist system or Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams’ claim that increased automation and the reduction of production costs will result in a nonexistent consumer pool. I have no depth of knowledge about those claims, but they make sense to me, and I might add that films such as Blade Runner portray ecological collapse, poor mental health, radical loneliness, and perhaps other blatant inconsistencies with capitalism.

But interpassivity drains the consumer of their responsibility to upset the system, and the urge to rebel against such inconsistencies are marketed once again to the consumer. How could this be negated? And at what point does media, rather than “doing the work” for the viewer, inspire the viewer to make change? Is this a matter of the approach of the viewer, or does it have to do with the nature of the media itself?

This is my first Lemmy post and I have no idea if these kinds of lengthy, dense posts have any place here. I've just gotten into Capitalist critique and I'm interested in what people think about this, and I would appreciate any input. I have many more question besides this one!

Below a sign that says "LOCAL ART GALLERY" and "ART IS RESISTANCE™", a cubist character is placing a sign that has the following text on it: "SUPPORT LOCAL ARTISTS $500".

Meanwhile, another cubist character, an annoying looking man in a suit, is telling "PLEASE GO AWAY, YOU ARE RUINING THE AESTHETIC" to another character.

Down in the corner, the character being talked to is drawn using curves and regular lines, they look homeless and depressed, and are holding a sign that reads "WILL DRAW FOR FOOD"

https://thebad.website/comic/starving_artists_not_welcome

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