Diamond coin! With a hologram of Trump doing Queen Victoria
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Finally, rocks might be worth what rocks are worth.
Thank goodness, maybe I’ll finally be able to buy a diamond pickaxe for what few emeralds I have. I’ve been having to use stone tools in this economy and I’d really like some obsidian for a nether portal.
if you want to go to hell, just wait.
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Good should never be so high. Artificially inflated prices. Due to one company holding the diamonds
Yay polyamory is taking off
... not really. that has been said since the 1970s, and it hasn't happened so far (on a larger basis). i put it somewhere between nuclear fusion and antimatter spaceflight.
It says marriages are on decline
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I respect jewelers and stonesetters as an art, but the rock itself has negative value in my eyes.
The rock is quite useful as an industrial tool. It's when you cut it in to a fancy shape and wear it that it's pretty useless.
We use diamonds to test the hardness of materials, grind really hard things smaller, orient and locate specialized cutting tools, and cut through really hard things. Hell we sell garnet by the barrel to help cut through regular materials. Orderly carbon or, in many cases orderly aluminum oxide, is something we need a lot of. The price going down on those is actually good for manufacturing.
I own twns of thousands of diamonds. most of them are embedded in metal plates and I use them to sharpen chisels. A few are on little wheels I use to cut steel.
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There's nothing wrong with orderly carbon. There's more than a few things wrong with Debeers
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You know, it must be that food and rent are a bit higher priority than the pressure stones... especially when more and more people cant afford those... food and rent i mean.
I find the thought funny ... propose to your love with a hamburger instead of a ring...
A hamburger? My wife is worth a high end porterhouse for sure.
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Rolex, you're next
I like mechanical dive watches but I also like them cheap. Thanks Vostok.
Paying overprice for a lump of carbon is insane.
My mother was always bitter that an anniversary ring my father gave her turned out to be synthetic, but I think back in the 80s lab grown diamonds went cloudy after a while.
She could also have been complaining about anything and Everything my father had done 24/7 once the separation and inevitable divorce were in effect.
i never understood why a mined diamond has a bigger value than an artificially made one when the only difference is the suffering of the workers. ppl who like diamonds are stupid.
For a long time (and maybe still currently I don't know) they weren't able to make diamonds bigger like people want. So for a small diamond it might not make any sense, but there was a point where ones we made weren't meeting what people wanted.
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The suffering is the point
Same reason diamonds are valued in the first place. Marketing campaigns tricking the gullible majority and most of the rest conforming to not stand out and cause issues for themselves.
Diamonds do make sense as gemstones because of their hardness. They'll stay scratch free for life. But ya, the diamond industry is garbage.
Maybe, but realistically, most jewelry will have them inlaid in gold anyway, which is not hard at all. So you need to take care not to scratch it regardless of what gem is used.
Also, many other gems are harder then steel which is about the hardest thing your jewelry would come into contact with.
So I would say the benefit is minor.
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There is this idea that seems to be really pervasive that natural is always better. And it's not true so often. A common example I like to give is that natural almond extract contains cyanide and artificial almond extract does not. No, it isn't enough cyanide to kill you, but I would say no cyanide is better than some cyanide.
And a lot of those "natural is always better" people would happily take fentanyl over willow bark if they were in agony.
Snake venom is natural 😊
Indeed. As is arsenic. You can even find it in water supplies (especially in the U.S., where there are "acceptable" levels).
Another aspect of this is that "natural" things like supplements are not usually "naturally occurring" but rather highly refined.
I think a better analogy would be oxycodone or hydromorphone over opium but your point stands
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The longer I live, the clearer I see that the beliefs of my youth were just capitalist lies.