Diamond market

[saleh@feddit.org]

@[email protected] has a great point. If you, the pleb, wears an artificial diamond and ruin the mood for the people who overpay for the blood diamonds, does devalue the status symbol.

It is the same reason why clothing brands fight so eagerly against cheap knockoffs, even if the knockoffs can be identified easily.

[whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world]

An AuDHD perspective: Neurotypicals tend to lack curiosity and passion for interests. They're less in-touch with their senses, sometimes needing mind-altering substances in order to appreciate basic sensory stimuli. Not only that, but they are overly-invested in "following the group" and "blending in," even if it ends up harming them.

So yeah, you might be onto something.

[gamechld@lemmy.world]

Neurotypical // Neurodivergent

I often forget the term and end up using atypical.

[pringles@lemm.ee]

I like diamonds, my wife calls me a magpie. I buy her jewelry so I get to look at it while she wears it. That being said, I only buy jewelry with artificial diamonds for my better half. She jokingly reacts affronted when I tell her, with an incredulous face she will go "What? No children died for this? Some husband you are!"

[southsamurai@sh.itjust.works]

1/10 the price of what though? Retail, wholesale, or something like that , I assume.

Which is fine, since you were responding to a vague two sentence comment. I should have done my usual long comment instead, it just isn't something I really care about, so I kept it short. Damned if you do, damned if you don't in that regard. Go mid to long, you have morons whining about the Kenney length. Go short, and someone is going to poke at it in one way or another.

I'm just glad the person poking at it was neutral to friendly about it

But, 1/10 the price of mined diamonds is still 1/10 the grossly inflated price of mined diamonds, not what they should cost based on a semi-fair market rather than the bullshit the diamond market is.

Making the diamonds still isn't cheaper than pulling them out of the ground. I'm not aware of energy usage, environmental impact, or anything like that, but in terms of the production costs only.

That's why man-made is cheaper; they're competing against a rigidly corrupt and price fixed market.

Mind you, I also couldn't tell you what the cost of mining the diamonds would be if slave labor wasn't involved either. Could be that with fair wages, safety measures, etc, manmade would totally undercut natural again.

There, that's the ten cent version instead of the penny cent version. Not gonna waste anyone's time on the buck fifty version because I doubt anyone else cares, and I don't care enough

[mystikincarnate@lemmy.ca]

I think it's a modification of "360 noscope" which is a gaming term for an unexpected change in a game stemming from fps games like counter strike. The term basically relates to a high skill/high luck shot usually involving a quick rotation and/or flick shot, where you didn't use the scope of the weapon to help improve accuracy, but made the shot anyways.

Basically saying it was a highly unlikely outcome...

The "nopost" which replaces "noscope" is probably their way of referencing the above while making it relevant to the context (a post).

I'll admit, the words, taken at face value, do not make a lot of sense. The entire thing relies on a general understanding of the 360 noscope meme.

[hawlsera@lemm.ee]

Scarcity of anything is a bad idea. Shouldn't we WANT to live in a land of plenty?

[saleh@feddit.org]

Well, if we had less oil, gas and coal it could make things a lot better with climate change.

Abundance can also lead to wastefullness. But generally speaking it just doesn't matter if pretty rocks are scarce or not, if they don't have any value in fulfilling human needs.

[anton@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

Sorry, but the demon core is not for sale.

[vulgarcynic@sh.itjust.works]

you got a legit snort out of me. well done.

[jherazob@beehaw.org]

For a few years I've saved this pic from previous similar posts in various places, no need even for freaking diamonds

[jherazob@beehaw.org]

For a few years I've saved this pic from previous similar posts in various places, no need even for freaking diamonds

[vespair@lemm.ee]

That fucking site is going to cause so much unnecessary strife and difficultly. LLMs are trained on real speech; that site is going to get is wrong constantly. We all want there to be some magic bullet or to pretend that AI is so easily clockable, but the simple truth is that it simply isn't and all shit like this does is end up making people who actually know how to use "advanced grammar" (said sarcastically) like semicolons and em dashes have to deal with a shit ton of harassment from idiotic chuds who can't comprehend that a real person can be more eloquent than "me like good thing!"

[cephalotrocity@biglemmowski.win]

Incorrect. Scarcity refers to quantity, not quality.

[brundlefly2077@sh.itjust.works]

What self-important bullshit

[cephalotrocity@biglemmowski.win]

yeah, well... Some website said you talk like a chat bot so hahah owned! /s

The hypocrisy of using AI to ferret out AI and then to act like that gives one any right to judge...

[mentaledge@sopuli.xyz]

Is that a difference in the material, or is the Moissanite cut differently?

If Moissanaite just does that, then damn, that's pretty.

[qaz@lemmy.world]

Those sites are really inaccurate afaik, but it does feel generated.

[dharmacurious@slrpnk.net]

Thank you!

Also, if I'm not mistaken, this is (at least) the second time you've replied to me when I didn't understand a comment, and done it in such a way to make things very understandable. Can you just follow me around explaining things to me? It's extremely helpful!

[feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world]

That'll be the autism.