jack [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net to politics@hexbear.netEnglish · 1 month agoChina and Africa are destroying the De Beers diamond cartelyoutu.beexternal-linkmessage-square9fedilinkarrow-up158
arrow-up158external-linkChina and Africa are destroying the De Beers diamond cartelyoutu.bejack [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net to politics@hexbear.netEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square9fedilink
minus-squareLeeeroooyJeeenkiiins [none/use name]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up19·1 month agoi can’t wait until china invents newer, better forms of diamond
minus-squareWafflesTasteGood [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up20·1 month agoFrankly, thats what lab grown diamonds are. None of the scarcity cost, all the same properties, and if youre not a jewelry person you’re not gonna notice the difference between a natural sparkly rock and an artificial one.
minus-squareLeeeroooyJeeenkiiins [none/use name]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·1 month agobut those are just boring old diamonds. I mean like wedding rings out of crystallized q carbon or something
minus-squarejack [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·1 month agotriamond
minus-squarelaziestflagellant [they/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·1 month agoI want a lab grown diamond that looks like an aura quartz by default. give me fucked up rainbow minerals
i can’t wait until china invents newer, better forms of diamond
Frankly, thats what lab grown diamonds are. None of the scarcity cost, all the same properties, and if youre not a jewelry person you’re not gonna notice the difference between a natural sparkly rock and an artificial one.
but those are just boring old diamonds. I mean like wedding rings out of crystallized q carbon or something
triamond
I want a lab grown diamond that looks like an aura quartz by default. give me fucked up rainbow minerals