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This happens sometimes for me too. You can try opening it in browser, but I'll write a transcription for our screen-reader-using friends, too.
Transcription:
tlirsgender | Nov 6, 2020
Weird peeve time. Calling lab grown gemstones "fake" is stupid because it's the same shit just not formed naturally. An artificially grown diamond is the same shit as a natural diamond it is the exact same material bro it's all fuckign carbon
spacefroggity | 45m ago
It's carbon it's pretty and it didn't involve slave labor what's not to love??? Hi I'm having geology opinions tonight apparently. And I'm right
spacefroggity | 45m ago
There is so much bullshit in the diamonds industry to be mad about tbh. It also ties into the bullshit of the wedding industry as a whole but we don't have the time to unpack all that
val-ritz | Nov 29, 2020
not even going to lie, the day i learned i could get like 15 lab grown rubies the size of dimes for $20 is the day i spent $20 on rubies, and i have never once said to myself "man, i wish this cost $1,600 and the lives of eight children to produce
fuckyeahmineralogy | Dec 8, 2020
We are a pro-lab-grown mineral blog here, not only is it massively cheaper but massively more ethical as well in many cases.
thegreenpea | Mar 8, 2021
another very cool lab grown gem is Moissanite. It has a 9.25 on the mohs hardness scale where diamond is a 10. Moissanote also has a 2.69 refractive index in comparison to diamond's 2.419 and here is the difference
and the best thing about moissanite? It is all lab grown and it costs only a fraction of what diamond costs. So fuck the diamond indsutry and buy lab grown gems which cost significantly less
rubixpsyche | Aug 6, 2021
Also it's just cool to think of some mad scientist lookin person doing shit against the law of the universe and making pretty gems for you. Like cmon. This shouldnt be allowed probably. But humans really be like on gOD i want some shiny an just started MAKIN em
dadzathechaosgod | 46m ago
for years people wanted alchemy, well now we have alchemy and we're making gemstones out of it and suddenly "it doesn't count" anymore
Thank you. I wouldn't have been able to describe the image as well.
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While this picture does load for me, I also frequently run into those that don't on Connect for Lemme. I'm not tech savvy, but I suspect it's related to different instances or something like that.
For me, when a picture doesn't load on my Lemmy app (Liftoff), if I go back to the post about an hour or so later, it loads just fine. And as said, clicking on "view post in browser", then the picture will load just fine there, too. So it's a really weird problem that in my impression is specific to Lemmy apps.
For me viewing on browser doesn't seem to work either. Idk if it's the app I use or something else.
It loads for me, that's weird