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Who the gently caress buys diamonds any more, other than rappers and horrible old boomers? Get a loving interesting looking rock. Nobody is impressed by your overpriced glass.
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from canada-spamenki42 posted:oh toronto sun, never change
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"It's as authentic as my love for you"
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Captain Hygiene posted:"It's as authentic as my love for you" It's real to me! I'm assuming this was a double blind test...? LOL
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What gets me is that De Beers themselves couldn't conjure up a study saying even half of people find diamonds special or romantic.
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Studies show that gazelles find running away distressing Source: lions
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Tenebrais posted:What gets me is that De Beers themselves couldn't conjure up a study saying even half of people find diamonds special or romantic. The big bar for "authentic" as though that's a relevant value judgement about jewelry that people would ever have volunteered if they weren't explicitly asked to rate it
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Jan 4, 2022 23:24
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Please tell me those are all real animals.
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Jan 5, 2022 00:41
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Well, the first one is, and the rest live in my heart
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https://twitter.com/TallDoctorEddy/status/1478397911285309447
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I worked in the jewelry industry for 6 years and honestly, that's exactly what most customers honestly believed. I wasted hundreds of hours of my life being lectured by people that lab grown stones were completely worthless and it was deeply offensive and insulting that I dared even mention they exist. People have been brain poisoned by marketing for decades, and that headline does not surprise me in the least. I'd heard pretty much that exact line out of people's mouths regularly for years. The majority of jewelry consumers genuinely feel that way.
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I was once out to dinner with a friend, his cousin, and her friend, and the two girls started gossiping about a recently-engaged friend's engagement ring. Apparently it was "so tiny," and this was extremely shameful. The cousin said that if her boyfriend were to propose to her, she planned to go and get the ring appraised, and if it wasn't worth at least three months of his salary she would make him get a bigger one. If he refused, she would dump him. The friend agreed that if her boyfriend didn't care to spend at least that much, it would show that he didn't respect her. Either I or my friend asked how she would know what his salary was; she laughed and said she'd figured that one out right up front. It sounds like some MRA poo poo, but swear to god they had this exact discussion right there in the restaurant. Jewelry marketing is toxic as hell Sagebrush has a new favorite as of 08:44 on Jan 5, 2022 |
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I got into a big argument once with the head of the Geoscience department at Melbourne University, where I was saying how good artificial diamonds are, and how basically diamonds are useless outside industry, and he was saying how artificial diamonds are massively inferior to natural ones for industrial applications. I backed down because I was an undergrad at the time and he was head of school, and I was a guest there and needed time on their ion microprobe for my project. That night, I looked up some literature to see who was right, and found some poo poo from De Beers, with his name on it as the primary author. He used to be the head of exploration for De Beers. https://i.imgur.com/hxh1G79.mp4 Memento has a new favorite as of 10:08 on Jan 5, 2022 |
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Memento posted:I got into a big argument once with the head of the Geoscience department at Melbourne University, where I was saying how good artificial diamonds are, and how basically diamonds are useless outside industry, and he was saying how artificial diamonds are massively inferior to natural ones for industrial applications. I backed down because I was an undergrad at the time and he was head of school, and I was a guest there and needed time on their ion microprobe for my project. Head of exploitation is more like it.
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Sounds like you'd need an ION MICROPROBE to find that guy's sesnse of ethics and decency. Is that how they work
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Tree Bucket posted:Sounds like you'd need an ION MICROPROBE to find that guy's sesnse of ethics and decency. Only work down to the 10 to 30 μm scale apparently. What you really want is an electron microscope
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Just a heads up but the caption on imgur for that image is some transphobic poo poo.
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Overminty posted:Just a heads up but the caption on imgur for that image is some transphobic poo poo. oh gently caress seriously? Sorry about that, I just found the image on a search, didn't see the actual home page. Cheers for letting me know.
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https://twitter.com/kerrabecca/status/1478133528260923395 These political compasses are getting weird.
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My only criticism is the axes should be reversed for consistency with the regular compass. Using this new paradigm we can see that Milkshake Cat believes Stalin did nothing wrong and Margarine Duck has some takes on the age of consent
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Picnic Princess posted:I worked in the jewelry industry for 6 years and honestly, that's exactly what most customers honestly believed. I wasted hundreds of hours of my life being lectured by people that lab grown stones were completely worthless and it was deeply offensive and insulting that I dared even mention they exist. People have been brain poisoned by marketing for decades, and that headline does not surprise me in the least. I'd heard pretty much that exact line out of people's mouths regularly for years. The majority of jewelry consumers genuinely feel that way. Marriage is about enduring hardship, ergo I want an engagement ring produced in conditions of the most hardship possible (failed states, exploited workforces, low-level ongoing armed conflicts). This way, the diamond is both materially and ontologically hardened. If I'm going to buy a synthetic diamond, I would at least want you to rough up the guy operating the machinery a little.
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Ok, I'll bite. Who or what the hell is Gabby Petito?
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hooah posted:Ok, I'll bite. Who or what the hell is Gabby Petito? She was that woman who went missing after traveling in her van last summer. Her then boyfriend, Brian Laundrie, was the main suspect, but he was found dead later. A missing white girl case.
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The_Other posted:She was that woman who went missing after traveling in her van last summer. Her then boyfriend, Brian Laundrie, was the main suspect, but he was found dead later. A missing white girl case. Ok, I don't feel (too) bad about forgetting her name then.
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Wow, Africa Australis is really effin humid
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I thought Canada had a lot of swamps.
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Is it me or are the figures there total nonsense? Reading that blurb, it looks like the numbers they're displaying aren't the humidity as a percentage, they're the percentage of the day that city spent at its peak humidity. While that humidity itself is only vaguely defined. Did they pick out the city that reached the highest humidity or just the one that stayed at its maximum the longest?
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I'm the second, lower, Africa. Africa 2: Sweaty Boogaloo
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The_Other posted:She was that woman who went missing after traveling in her van last summer. Her then boyfriend, Brian Laundrie, was the main suspect, but he was found dead later. A missing white girl case. "Main suspect" in this case means "super obviously a murderer." It was pretty messed up.
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cinci zoo sniper posted:I thought Canada had a lot of swamps. Space Kablooey posted:Did not expect Scandinavia and the British Isles to be that dry for some reason. Among other problems, these humid places don't get high enough max temperatures to get the worst dew points, except relative humidity is a big deal for human perception of humidity and a 16C dewpoint with a 16C temperature is still a ball soaking, awful day. Finland never exceeds "comfortable" lmao.
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what i feel bad about myself most days but wow gently caress you chart
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Confidant that it's never going to change, sure. Can't go much loving lower at this point
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Boomers are worried about their investments, their property value, their retirement savings, etc. Millennials simply don't have any of that lol
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