The most abundant resource on the planet… it’s just hidden underneath the crust of the earth.
I will never understand jewelery.
That’s the road toward sanity.
Lol. Lmfao.
What a time to be alive … diamond prices are crashing while GPUs keep getting more expensive.
A GPU is forever
AI slop is a girl’s best friend
Geoffrey Farrow at Raphael, a jeweller on the other side of the street, can only just bring himself to sell lab-grown diamonds. “They are synthetic,” he said. “Lab-grown sounds exotic, but it’s created – they make it by the buckets. There’s no history to it. The price is going to go down further and further.
“It makes the stone that much cheaper, and people have the illusion that being big is something special. It’s not. It’s quality that you want.”
What the actual fuck is he talking about? Is it the suffering that gives it quality? They’re impossible to tell apart without a magnifying glass.
This is what monopoly sounds like when it’s dying. I frankly prefer Simon & Garfunkel.
more difficult than that iirc
https://www.gia.edu/hpht-and-cvd-diamond-growth-processes
Jewelers use magnification to read the laser inscription on the rocks and trust what it says. Most jewelers don’t have the equipment to detect the trace gasses and impurities that identify mined rocks.
It’s possible to make lab grown gems with those impurities, but you end up with the shittier product that is mined diamonds
You know what else used to be incredibly expensive, to the point of being more valuable than gold? Aluminum.
So cry me a river.
The world would lose nothing if DeBeers went away, I think.
