Pandora says laboratory-made diamonds are forever

Post by username90 » Tue, May 04, 2021, 1:03 PM UTC

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Nursie wrote: post #35

Good for them. It's literally the same material, and we can now use scientific and engineering advances to remove the need for people to toil and die underground to get them. Hopefully the process is more environmentally friendly too. They are real diamonds. I find it hi-goddamned-larious that the moment these became viable, the industry switched from "Diamond purity is the be-all and end-all and you must have the cl…

Why do people pay insane amount for a box copy of Super Mario Bros, a game you can play one pretty much any device. ROM dumps are literary the same data. I guess rarity is hard to set a price on. And people like being rare and unique.

Post by tialaramex » Tue, May 04, 2021, 1:04 PM UTC

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Alternate view: Almost everything in life is ridiculous when you view it with cold logic. It's utterly ridiculous to put golden balls on a fake tree in your house every year, but due to societal constraints most people in Western societies do it. Your SO probably doesn't want a logical gift, she wants something sentimental that makes her feel that you care about her. For some people, that's an expensive rock with no…

Rituals do make a lot of sense even if the content of them makes no intrinsic sense: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-rituals-work/

Post by bena » Tue, May 04, 2021, 1:04 PM UTC

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There's no need to flatter blatant sexism with the dignity of honest argument. Indeed, there is nothing to be gained by doing so.

> There's no need to flatter blatant sexism with the dignity of honest argument. Indeed, there is nothing to be gained by doing so. If you think it's so out of line then why engage on that same level by replying with a bunch of "nope"? I fail to see how his comment is blatantly sexist. If anything it's insulting both sexes equally and craps on the institution of marriage more than anything else. Yes, his comment was…

Post by sodality2 » Tue, May 04, 2021, 1:05 PM UTC

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"Okay class, child labour, a few thousand poor people dead, terrorist groups starving hundreds of thousands, destroying schools and libraries. That is where diamonds come from. How many would still want a natural diamond because diamonds are forever?" The elephant in that lecture hall was probably the hypocrisy. I think if you still raise a hand after hearing all that, the issue isn't branding at all. It's narcissim,…

Don't apply logic to fashion choices. Why do some sneakers sell for thousands? It is all about the attached backstory. Two identical shoes, but one was owned by a celeb. The backstory, the notoriety of owning the embodiment of that backstory, is the value. Some people want to own something 'from the earth'. Some would even pay more for an object that people suffered to produce. Lots of people certainly pay more for o…

Post by gbear605 » Tue, May 04, 2021, 1:06 PM UTC

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> Actually helping these people means improving their existing options, or giving them new better ones. Yes. A basic income for which one doesn't need to go into the diamond mines, for example.

How do you implement UBI without any centralized government and in some cases a functioning currency?