balderdashHonestly, fuck diamonds
Mossy Feathers (She/Her)Honestly, fuck diamonds in general. Normalize jewelry with unnatural laboratory gems. The old gems are boring, bring on the synthetic glowy gems.
vikinghoarderThose look interesting
They are so fucking cool. If I had the money, I’d have a room that’s just these gems+blacklights. There are some that change color based on the wavelength of UV light they’re exposed to. Some glow a different color under UV than they do under normal light. Some are both fluorescent and phosphorescent, meaning they light up in response to UV, but then they can maintain their glow temporarily. Some change color based on the angle you view them at. They’re so fucking cool.
robocallLol I am interested in purchasing a glow in the dark wedding ring
ScrubblesMy wedding ring was 30 dollars on Etsy. It has just as much meaning as a 10k diamond to me.
TigbittiesI got my wife her dream ring with synthetic stones. Her idea.
She’s a keeper. Screw these dumb traditions engineered to indebt.
DesignateMine was literally a piece of stainless Steel my mate turned into a ring. Even made me spares, love them.
TakStainless Steel is the alloy of miracles. Fuck the naturally occurring rock, I want the alloy millions would fight to the death over for most of human history.
Diamonds are great…
…as tools in the hands of the working class.
Holy shit I need blacklight jewelry! I got lab alexandrite and lab moissanite for my wedding ring, but I didn’t know I could get SCIENCE gems! And I do a ton of confocal microscopy where we use dichroic for splitting the wavelengths! Thank you for this link, I’m def buying all my jewelry from here from now on!
Track_ShovelThe mechanics of extracting diamonds is baffling. Hell, even gold. Cutoff grades (where it is no longer feasible to mine economically) for gold is about 2.5 grams per tonne of overburden… that’s a fucking metric shitpile of waste rock, some of which is ML/ARD (Metal leaching or acid generating).
I find the whole thing fascinating, and mining can be done responsibly, but it is not an easy thing in general
ComradeChairmanKGBVery interesting selection. Is that site safe/reliable/etc?
If you buy something and they don’t ship it to you then you have my words that I will go break their legs. You can trust me.
Nice I’ve been looking for a legbreaker. What’s your retainer fee?
If your significant other would be upset with a brass ring for an engagement ring, I don’t pity the misery that will be both of your lives.
Depends if it turned her finger green or not.
Yeah brass wouldn’t work as brass polishing sucks. I’ve had to spend hours every year polishing the brass pots at my grandparents place. Never again.
What happens if the pots were unpolished? Does it effect aesthetics or function?
A nice patina.
Yeah it’s (as far as I know) just aesthetic since the pots were decorative from the 1800s. I don’t think anyone cares about the aesthetics of like brass pipe fittings but for something decorative (like the pots and a wedding ring) the aesthetics matter.
I like brass for jewelry, but it gets green and grimey.
Destidewe can achive what the earth can in a matter of months or we can chuck kids in a pit …humanity chose
Wait, wait, go back a second. Are the child death pits still an option? Can we retroactively volunteer ourselves?
Flyberius [comrade/them]They look tacky as shit regardless of whether they are mined, synthesized or fake.
MxM111I disagree. Shit does not look tacky. Ok, it is tacky, probably, but in different sense.
IzzyDataTechnically man-made diamonds are also the diamond industry.
Please Gen Z, finish killing this Industry off.
NateTrust us we are. It’s not like we can afford them anyway
And even if we could, why buy some stone to wear if one could buy 10l gas for the same price?
I bet they are selling real diamonds as lab diamonds.
Naw, synthetic diamonds are cheaper, there’s no point selling natural ones and pretending they’re synthetic.
They’re literally sitting on mountains-full of excavated natural diamonds.
Which they want to sell at inflated 'natural diamond’s prices, not cheaper 'lab diamond’s prices. So their goal is to try and convince people lab diamonds aren’t as good or ‘don’t count’; pretending natural diamonds are lab grown isn’t going to help with that. And would probably make the industry look even worse than it already does once they get caught, which they would
Yea not to mention that they don’t expire or go down in cost. Diamonds are extremely cheap to store and hoard until they sell for the price that the owner wants them to sell for.
I’m sure they can go down in price.
You are right. I guess I meant to say that there is no incentive to lower the price, because storing them is dirt cheap, so the people that are hoarding them are able to keep the price high, unlike most other goods that have some sort of a shelf life or a smaller period of time to make profit.
I bought my wife a lab diamond, it’s nearly flawless.
You just can’t fake that with a natural diamond, it’s too rare.
Blood diamonds “the suffering makes them special!”
“It builds character”
Look up moissanite. It’s literally the cheaper, superior diamond. The fact that it exists just goes to show how inflated the diamond market is
Saw a story about a wedding ring where instead of a diamond the ring was jeweled with the couple’s birth stones fit together into the shape of a heart, which honestly I think is WAY better and probably WAY cheaper too.
As long as one the birth months isn’t April.
What are birth stones?
LogicalDrivelBirthstones are like the zodiac signs of geology. Each month gets assigned a gemstone.
One of which is diamond, annoyingly enough.
There’s some religious history to them, but in general these days people are talking about the list of stones that American jewelers came up with in the early 20th century to try to sell more shit.
fristislurperMoissanite is chemically different to diamond (SiC vs C), has a different crystal structure, and is less hard. You can also get actual lab-grown diamond, but they are quite expensive. But you probabaly won’t be able to tell the difference anyway.
Usually you can tell the difference. Lab grown diamond is pure while rock grown diamond is imperfect.
But also, who cares that it’s less hard? I’m not using it for a drill bit, it’s a cosmetic piece. Literally it’s only function is visual. And moissanite is superior. All the visual markers that are used for beauty in a diamond it surpasses. And some quick googling I did to confirm that also showed me that diamond is only barely harder (“With a hardness of 9.25, moissanite is the second-hardest material used a gemstone.” a diamond is a 10.) and it turns out, less likely to break in some cases. “Moissanite doesn’t have a cleavage plane, while diamond does. (This is an internal plane along which a diamond crystal can easily split)” So if you hit a diamond in the wrong spot, it can still crack. Moissanite does not have a weak spot.
It’s very important to me that my gemstone only has carbon. If it has silicon I’m going to get very upset. Silicon interferes with your inner flow and can have harmful ions.
- my crystal wearing, hippy Grandma.
ImFresh3xIt’s like 93% as hard but has better better optical properties which is what matters.
Captain AggravatedA strategy that has been working well for me is “Never buy jewelry of any kind ever because it’s completely pointless.”
Everything can be pointless when it comes down to it. I never ever wore jewelry but when I got married we got really nice matching plain bands and now I never take it off and quite like how it looks, it’s not pointless to me.
There will be no rings for me. I run too many power tools for that.
Don’t hang around people who demand you consume in order to get their approval. They are empty people who will not support you.
But it’s the dried up blood from the child slaves that dug them that make diamonds so pretty!
My nightmare of a previous boss called my moissanite engagement ring "cheap" and "trashy," and treated us to a 30-minute speech about how if it's not "real" diamond, it doesn't count.
I hope sucking down those Marlboro blacks takes care of that problem of a woman sooner, rather than later, and in the meantime the gorgeous rainbow sparkle of my pretty ring is made all the more beautiful for the complete lack of child slavery that went into making it!
... I also just realized that horrible harridan didn't have an engagement ring, or even a boyfriend, and now some things make sense.
HauiWe all have these people in our jobs, don’t we? I‘m practicing to engage them with a therapist rn. Have been through abuse when I was young and they love to dump on me. My new goal is to pin a notice on my wall that I get for telling the next bully where to stick it (in public). Lets see how that goes.