Greenpeace in 2026 running propaganda for "ban 3D printers" the same way they ran propaganda for "force everyone to use Dupont's new patented refrigerants after the old patents expired" back in the 1990s...
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@dalias I've been engaged in that campaign for a while for the reasons stated. Abrasives are not the only source of microplastics and similar. Look at, for example, car tires as they wear away. Even silicone breaks down and emits harmful particles.
If you want to overthrow fascism, convenience (Amazon, McDonald's, 3D printers) isn't the answer. Decide if you're going to pick up a gun or, instead, push for a representative democracy with things like ranked choice voting. Nothing else is going to save us.
For my part, I completely oppose guns, so pushing for citizen initiatives to enact ranked choice voting and calling my representatives to try to influence their voting is what I've got - that and trying to live the changes we're going to need to not snuff ourselves as a species.
@mason Car tires were the big "unintentional particulate emissions in abrasive processes" in my post you replied to. (Since it apparently wasn't clear, I've since edited them in by name.)
I'm not sure where guns came into this. Printed guns are the thing they like to demonize, but the antifascist applications of distributed reproducible precision manufacturing range from whistles to DIY drones not encumbered with spyware to stencils to repairing things that would otherwise be replaced with new surveillance-capitalist "smart" stuff.
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@bunny_jane@plush.city @dalias@hachyderm.io @mason@partychickens.net the only thing that might contribute more microplastics to the environment than car tires is washing of clothing made using synthetic fabrics, but which one comes out on top depends on which studies you are reading
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