It is weapons-grade stupid that this is a thing.
Seconding? No firsting.
Um just search lab rough or synthetic rough online. It'll depend where you're located what a good deal is. Aliexpress, eBay, gem dealers around you etc.
e.g. if you live in the terrible empire: https://www.gemsngems.com/product/lab-created-blue-sapphire-rough/
The latter, it's tiny stuff atm. Industrial. May find ways to improve growth.
It's in the article lol.
No! good question though, but it misses a detail of their molecular geometry/energy structure.
They're both allotropes (different forms) of carbon but the way they are arranged atomically is different. Like soot is basically just random balls of carbon (??? bonds), graphite is rings bonded in a plane (3 bonds, a single layer of which is called graphene), and diamond is a network that extends in 3 dimensions with each atom bonded to 4 carbon atoms.
When you grind them up you are more making smaller and smaller shards of the base material than changing it's energetic structure, although at the edges it is changing. If you grind pathologically I suppose you would eventually reduce it all to soot.
The physical properties of stuff is in part altered by the surface configuration when we get extremely small, but in general we just consider the bulk as even tensie tiny fragments of stuff are thousands (tens, hundreds of depending on geometry) of atoms, of which only a handful have different bonds at the edge.
I find your story very interesting. On your main point:
I think you can understand, realy understand, that what you are doing is wrong and still make the decision to continue with doing it.
I'd like to ask a few questions. It's a potentially sensitive topic, I hope you understand I'm not trying to like beat you up here but uh what was it like? I mean I've done things I know I shouldn't but they're usually done with a lack of real understanding. Like behaving selfishly and later, when seeing the result, being tormented by a deep feeling of shame and self loathing when forced to really confront the consequences rather than the abstract in my imagination.
Given that you're vegan, I would assume you view non human animals as at least almost if not equally significant in moral weight to human animals. Is that a fair assessment? If it is, do you think you could have gone a year like killing and eating humans? Does it haunt you or is it something you otherwise deeply regret?
Has how you think about the life of a non human changed since transitioning?
If you give me your address and pay shipping. Although if you want sick gems the coolest thing you can do is buy rejected lab rough (grade inferior for lasers and shit), and then take it to your local lapidary club and facet it yourself.
I faceted this into trillion but it's too dark to have much brilliance.
Before synthetic gemstones were trendy and they were truly worthless I bought 5 massive sapphires for like 3 dollars each.
They're on my desk, I see them every day. Every time I play with them I muse about how not so long ago people murdered each other for gems so large and so perfect. Now that anyone can have them though, they're toys.
Gems were always about status, nobody aside from nerds every wanted them because they were beautiful, or because their physical properties and fascinating. Showing how much 'better' you are than someone else was worth more than human lives.
I don't think new methods for making diamond will really help anyone, the nutters will just find new ways to flaunt their power.
My sister's kids had a birthday yesterday. There was so much food and everything was vegan. It was so nice having an overflowing table of food and just being able to enjoy it all.
Every single meaningful change I've made in my life has been hard cuts. Temptation is the motivation killer, if you expose yourself to reasons to fail then you will fail more. I'm a big believer in just pulling the bandaid off and getting on with life.
Besides, you are not days away from dying of malnutrition. You can eat like shit for months before it really becomes a problem provided you get enough vit C which is in abundance in plant based diets. Like pasta with peas and soymilk will sustain you for an extremely long time, or oats and peas, or just tofu and greens lmao. Even if you end up eating like how carnists think vegans eat with like a garden salad and block of tofu you will simply be bored.
If being a bit bored with food is too much to handle for a rights movement then I don't know what to say but that's an extremely difficult position to respect.
It's not a plug. It's reporting on a costing study. It's true gas is cheap, because the costs are externalised.
The interesting finding is that wind and solar, with solar thermal, are almost as cheap and much less bad.
The elites don't want you to know this but msg is a completely safe and naturally occuring chemical. You can just add it to food to make it taste more satisfying.
Also kelp is a good foundation to thin savoury stock.
Is it manual fertilising? They're always covered in bees when I do. Was it the pH? The heatwave?
Were they just throwing a tantrum and wanted some attention?
Who knows, but they're popping off!
This is the most straight forward thing ever. ARRRRGH
Just potting around before the next week of rain.
They're small and idk 3 weeks old, no signs of deficiency aside from blossom end rot.
Was set up with Manutec 1L Hydroponic NK Plus For Fruit And Veg. Water is about half depleted, has been hot so possibly nutrients are concentrated?
pH had risen to about 7 from 6.5. I readjusted it to about 6.5. In dirt this range would be fine for calcium transport.
Oh hydroponic wisdom people, enlighten me. Should I just remix new solution? Add a supplement? Is pH for transport different in hydro?
Mixed results, not enough sauce, ran out of time to grill the taters crispy as the pasta started to dry due to lack of sauce.
"recipe"
If you thought the title was funny you should look into a Tom Lehrer whom I am ripping off.
Got some hydro going, which is good as a bad week of depression combined with a hot sun killed my ground veggies.
There's uselessly tiny gem fragments in them thar ancient alluvial gravel beds.
Model is bought from: https://cults3d.com/en/3d-model/various/gold-sluice-box-v2-modular-expandible-included-4-mats-classifier although easy enough to design yourself. It works great though and the price is fair if you do want one.
Sluice body is petg, mats are tpu as I thought it would make cleaning easier. TBH petg would probably be a better candidate as long as you did a high contrast material. The flex doesn't add much as it's short sections that fit in a pan anyway.
Basically arcanepotato but also like I have IBS. A plant based diet that's practical to do means I spend a fair bit of time quite uncomfortable.
Boo hoo. It is not a given that is it true that you can uphold the moral baseline and feel great all the time. God hates us, life is suffering, stop being a child and face it is basically how I feel.