• Erika2rsis
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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.

      Transcription:


      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

      • Got_Bent@lemmy.world
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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.

        • Erika2rsis
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          For me, when a picture doesn’t load on my Lemmy app (Liftoff), if I go back to the post about an hour or so later, it loads just fine. And as said, clicking on “view post in browser”, then the picture will load just fine there, too. So it’s a really weird problem that in my impression is specific to Lemmy apps.

          • Laticauda@lemmy.ca
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            1 year ago

            For me viewing on browser doesn’t seem to work either. Idk if it’s the app I use or something else.

      • RozaŭtunoOP
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        Thank for writing a transcript, I totally forgot.