So you're annoyed that someone (who took the time to go to a charity shop, list the book online, and ship it to you) charged you the RRP for the book, that you didn't have to buy from them?

I hope you have the same kind of energy for when mega-corporations charge anything from tens to thousands of pounds for products that often cost single pounds or even pennies to manufacture (due to underpaying for labour and materials that were in turn manufactured by underpaid labour as well), and the snowballing impact they have on the rest of the economy (by pricing out smaller companies, monopolising industries, avoiding tax, and so on).

The person you bought this from likely works for themsleves, trolling charity shops all day for bargains, and almost certainly pays tax on their income. I'm as anti-capitalist as they get, but even I can't take issue with this. If they had charged you more than the RRP, sure, that'd pushing it, but if you didn't want to pay full price, you should have spent your own time looking for the bargain. ¯\(ツ)/¯

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/08/22/american-democracy-was-never-designed-to-be-democratic

https://truthout.org/articles/fascism-is-possible-not-in-spite-of-liberal-capitalism-but-because-of-it/

https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/10/14/liberalism-and-fascism-partners-in-crime/

FYI she's gone back to using her full name Thandiwe

That's pretty cool, and sounds like you've got a good challenge on your hands both because it will take you a lot to up the diversity, but also because statistically it feels like somewhere there will be people that look like whatever results from your work unless you add in non-human features (but I realise that's not really the point, but rather to create "everypeople" rather than celeb/filter clones, it's just the "don’t look like any one real person" got me lol).

Adam Pearson was the first that came to mind.
Having a bit more of a think about women in particular, I'd say Michaela Coel, Milly Shapiro, Liz Carr just off the top of my head, I'm sure there are more, I might add them if they come to me (keeping in mind that I'm terrible with both faces and names lol)..

On an aside - this is a great demonstration of representation (or lack thereof) and intersectionality.
While more white cis men are allowed to exist in the industry without meeting the "ideal" standard, darker skinned people (even within majority black/brown countries, colourism is still a very real problem), disabled people, trans people, and women in general but also specifically within each of the other categories, are all still held to a much higher standard and scrutiny (and of course the more of those categories you fit in to, the worse it is). And it isn't a bug of course, but a feature.

https://anarchistfaq.org

Lol, imagine having to take digs at a literal teenaged doctor because their success makes you feel that insecure in yourself..

Here from /all, don't own a 3D printer, but if I did, yes I absolutely would lol

Maybe change it up with some more modern/abstract/famous faces though, the Greek statue look would get old fast.. But planters are so expensive for what they are, being able to print my own would really feed my failed plant addiction (I'm no good at actually keeping them alive but I can't stop buying more) 😂

Thanks for letting me know, I'm glad someone found it helpful!

And yeah, they absolutely would..

Image ID: on the left is a red button with the label "I don't want the government telling me what to do", on the right is a red button with the label "If he did what the cop told him to, he'd still be alive", bellow is a sweaty Gadsden flag faced man struggling to choose.

So I'm the only one who read it as Friiiiiiends? 😂

https://medium.com/international-workers-press/misconceptions-about-communism-2e366f1ef51f