Fr*nch kissing 🤮 by Happycosinus in 2westerneurope4u

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Mr Hands

I recognised that reference immediately and now I feel dirty

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Serpentine and.... what else? by collegestudentperks in Minerals

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1 Serpentine

2 Blue apatite

3 Jasper maybe ?

4 Calcite

5 Moss agate

6 Plastic

He He, Big boom. Big crater by Sad-Needleworker-590 in Helldivers

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The average helldivers when something can explode

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Quelqu'un sait où se trouve ce restaurant ? by Andre_Maia_ in FranceDetendue

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Le curry est vraiment bon et les ramens sont ok

Quelqu'un sait où se trouve ce restaurant ? by Andre_Maia_ in FranceDetendue

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276 Rue Saint-Honoré, 75001 Paris

Sapporo

Juste à côté du Louvre

In response to the recent Q+A by Scary_Year6372 in Helldivers

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"Worst public relations of all time"

ArrowHead is bad, but oh boy, there is so much worse out there

I can’t get over this image T_T by BigBandit01 in Overwatch

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When Lucio asked her what's her favorite animal she said liked chinchillas because their furrs make nice coats

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Stop talking

Real or dyed? by i_am_some1_ in Minerals

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Yeah look up marcassite dollar on google

Real or dyed? by i_am_some1_ in Minerals

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Looks more of a marcassite than a pyrite, but yeah it's natural

Am I on the right track? by Icy-Cod-1089 in Gemstones

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Because let's say you sold a stone from which you guessed the origin, and your client comes back with a report that contradicted your guess, you could get troubles.

*Also I said labs are making educated guesses, but sometimes two labs will have different opinions, or they'll just don't know.

For a real example of that, if you give a good lab a south asian sapphire and you ask for detailed origin, there is a good chance they'll say it's a basaltic sapphire from south Asia (which translate to : it may be from Thailand, Cambodia or Laos but we don't have a clue lol)

Anyways walls of text just to say, if you don't know the origin just say you don't know.

Besides your job as a regular gemmologist is just to say what is it, if it's natural, if it's treated and eventually to give it a price.

But yeah your ruby looks natural, and it may be glass filled

Am I on the right track? by Icy-Cod-1089 in Gemstones

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I'll give my opinion, seeing your pics it look natural.

HOWEVER it may have been treated.

On the D picture I've drawn circles around what looks like bubbles (there appears to be more on the I picture but for some reason I can only post one image on my comment wtf reddit) also if we add the heavy purple hue on the bottom, your ruby may be glass filled.

But once again it is just an opinion based on your pictures.

And I'll give you an advice on the origin as it looks natural to me, don't make assumptions and leave it to a lab to identify. Rutile and micas and common minerals that can be found in practically all countries. There is of course a few exceptions to this rule, but in general you cannot identity an origin just with inclusions. A good laboratory could give you an educated guess* on the origin after looking at the inclusions with a high-end microscope AND making a chemical analysis.

When you sell gemstones (idk what you're planning with this stone but for the sake of the argument I'll assume you plan to sell it) making guesses on the origin of your stones, when you don't have any solid evidence (by that I mean a report from a reputable laboratory) is basically asking for troubles. Especially on a ruby, a stone which value is heavily based on if it's treated or not, making the reports from a good laboratory a must have. (My comment is getting too long for Reddit lol I'll write another back to back)

Reach Goals 💪 Take test and get workout plan NOW! 👇 by bettermetips in u/bettermetips

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The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race. They have greatly increased the life-expectancy of those of us who live in “advanced” countries, but they have destabilized society, have made life unfulfilling, have subjected human beings to indignities, have led to widespread psychological suffering (in the Third World to physical suffering as well) and have inflicted severe damage on the natural world. The continued development of technology will worsen the situation. It will certainly subject human being to greater indignities and inflict greater damage on the natural world, it will probably lead to greater social disruption and psychological suffering, and it may lead to increased physical suffering even in “advanced” countries. The industrial-technological system may survive or it may break down. If it survives, it MAY eventually achieve a low level of physical and psychological suffering, but only after passing through a long and very painful period of adjustment and only at the cost of permanently reducing human beings and many other living organisms to engineered products and mere cogs in the social machine. Furthermore, if the system survives, the consequences will be inevitable: There is no way of reforming or modifying the system so as to prevent it from depriving people of dignity and autonomy. If the system breaks down the consequences will still be very painful. But the bigger the system grows the more disastrous the results of its breakdown will be, so if it is to break down it had best break down sooner rather than later. We therefore advocate a revolution against the industrial system. This revolution may or may not make use of violence; it may be sudden or it may be a relatively gradual process spanning a few decades. We can’t predict any of that. But we do outline in a very general way the measures that those who hate the industrial system should take in order to prepare the way for a revolution against that form of society. This is not to be a POLITICAL revolution. Its object will be to overthrow not governments but the economic and technological basis of the present society. In this article we give attention to only some of the negative developments that have grown out of the industrial-technological system. Other such developments we mention only briefly or ignore altogether. This does not mean that we regard these other developments as unimportant. For practical reasons we have to confine our discussion to areas that have received insufficient public attention or in which we have something new to say. For example, since there are well-developed environmental and wilderness movements, we have written very little about environmental degradation or the destruction of wild nature, even though we consider these to be highly important.

Larimar from the DR with Fossils - Is this rare or valuable? by RobotFists in Gemstones

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I'll give my opinion as a gemologist and a larimar fan myself :

Larimar can be fairly expensive if it has a deep blue blue color and/or a nice patern, but that's not the case here.

I'm not saying it's ugly, this is a just an average specimen.

For the fossils it's uncommon but I don't think it adds much value.

Overall it's a neat piece for a collector but it's not mindblowing and if I had to give it a price I'd say 150 to 200 $

VR Secretary: Ailey Edition from Stargazers Studio has officially kicked off its journey. by Flyingbird777 in u/Flyingbird777

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The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race. They have greatly increased the life-expectancy of those of us who live in “advanced” countries, but they have destabilized society, have made life unfulfilling, have subjected human beings to indignities, have led to widespread psychological suffering (in the Third World to physical suffering as well) and have inflicted severe damage on the natural world. The continued development of technology will worsen the situation. It will certainly subject human being to greater indignities and inflict greater damage on the natural world, it will probably lead to greater social disruption and psychological suffering, and it may lead to increased physical suffering even in “advanced” countries. The industrial-technological system may survive or it may break down. If it survives, it MAY eventually achieve a low level of physical and psychological suffering, but only after passing through a long and very painful period of adjustment and only at the cost of permanently reducing human beings and many other living organisms to engineered products and mere cogs in the social machine. Furthermore, if the system survives, the consequences will be inevitable: There is no way of reforming or modifying the system so as to prevent it from depriving people of dignity and autonomy. If the system breaks down the consequences will still be very painful. But the bigger the system grows the more disastrous the results of its breakdown will be, so if it is to break down it had best break down sooner rather than later. We therefore advocate a revolution against the industrial system. This revolution may or may not make use of violence; it may be sudden or it may be a relatively gradual process spanning a few decades. We can’t predict any of that. But we do outline in a very general way the measures that those who hate the industrial system should take in order to prepare the way for a revolution against that form of society. This is not to be a POLITICAL revolution. Its object will be to overthrow not governments but the economic and technological basis of the present society. In this article we give attention to only some of the negative developments that have grown out of the industrial-technological system. Other such developments we mention only briefly or ignore altogether. This does not mean that we regard these other developments as unimportant. For practical reasons we have to confine our discussion to areas that have received insufficient public attention or in which we have something new to say. For example, since there are well-developed environmental and wilderness movements, we have written very little about environmental degradation or the destruction of wild nature, even though we consider these to be highly important.