Take on a second job to fulfill your civic duty to De Beers.

  • @[email protected]
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    168 months ago

    Not sure if we’ve seen the same ad, but my local jeweler who does the same thing calls natural diamonds “earth-born”. Makes me want to vomit.

        • @YarHarSuperstar
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          58 months ago

          At least it’s a step up from bloodborne illnesses. Step down from Bloodborne the game though.

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        48 months ago

        Surely there’s some lab process where you could take actual blood and process it into a shiny bauble.

        I could see that as a romantic gesture.

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          58 months ago

          You can made lab diamonds from blood. Diamonds are just carbon and almost everything thing has carbon. You can right now get your dead relatives’ ashes made into a diamond. It would probably take a while to be able safely get enough of your own blood to make a diamond though. But that would make it more romantic, right?

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            I’m not sure about the amount of blood you’d really need though since I think all of these “ashes to diamonds” places add their own carbon, too. From one such website:

            We combine your loved one’s carbon, a microscopic Diamond seed, and generic carbon into a growth cell.

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              28 months ago

              TBH I was hoping for something less clear diamond and more garnet/ruby looking.

              The man-made rubies you can get off AliExpress are pretty nice, but they don’t quite scream “deranged blood ritual”