• Erika2rsis@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 year ago

    This happens sometimes for me too. You can try opening it in browser, but I’ll write a transcription for our screen-reader-using friends, too.

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    tlirsgender | Nov 6, 2020

    Weird peeve time. Calling lab grown gemstones “fake” is stupid because it’s the same shit just not formed naturally. An artificially grown diamond is the same shit as a natural diamond it is the exact same material bro it’s all fuckign carbon


    spacefroggity | 45m ago

    It’s carbon it’s pretty and it didn’t involve slave labor what’s not to love??? Hi I’m having geology opinions tonight apparently. And I’m right


    spacefroggity | 45m ago

    There is so much bullshit in the diamonds industry to be mad about tbh. It also ties into the bullshit of the wedding industry as a whole but we don’t have the time to unpack all that


    val-ritz | Nov 29, 2020

    not even going to lie, the day i learned i could get like 15 lab grown rubies the size of dimes for $20 is the day i spent $20 on rubies, and i have never once said to myself "man, i wish this cost $1,600 and the lives of eight children to produce


    fuckyeahmineralogy | Dec 8, 2020

    We are a pro-lab-grown mineral blog here, not only is it massively cheaper but massively more ethical as well in many cases.


    thegreenpea | Mar 8, 2021

    another very cool lab grown gem is Moissanite. It has a 9.25 on the mohs hardness scale where diamond is a 10. Moissanote also has a 2.69 refractive index in comparison to diamond’s 2.419 and here is the difference

    Diamond on left and moissanite on right: moissanite's refraction consists of long, thin beams almost in rainbow colors, whereas diamond's refraction has shorter, thicker, whitish beams

    and the best thing about moissanite? It is all lab grown and it costs only a fraction of what diamond costs. So fuck the diamond indsutry and buy lab grown gems which cost significantly less


    rubixpsyche | Aug 6, 2021

    Also it’s just cool to think of some mad scientist lookin person doing shit against the law of the universe and making pretty gems for you. Like cmon. This shouldnt be allowed probably. But humans really be like on gOD i want some shiny an just started MAKIN em


    dadzathechaosgod | 46m ago

    for years people wanted alchemy, well now we have alchemy and we’re making gemstones out of it and suddenly “it doesn’t count” anymore

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      1 year ago

      Doing fine work there.

      While this picture does load for me, I also frequently run into those that don’t on Connect for Lemme. I’m not tech savvy, but I suspect it’s related to different instances or something like that.