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[-] Sharkwellington@lemmy.one 16 points 8 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.

[-] GluWu@lemm.ee 10 points 8 months ago

Gimme that blood diamond, make it extra bloody.

[-] ivanafterall@kbin.social 10 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

We're so close to Bloodborne diamonds.

[-] YarHarSuperstar@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago

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

[-] HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 8 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.

[-] GluWu@lemm.ee 5 points 8 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?

[-] cybervseas@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

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.

[-] HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 8 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"

[-] pete_the_cat@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago
[-] owatnext@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

ihatestevensinger (dotcom) holds true IMO.

[-] klemptor@startrek.website 2 points 8 months ago

Ugh I can see those billboards in my head, annoying font and all.

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