more difficult than that iirc

https://www.gia.edu/hpht-and-cvd-diamond-growth-processes

Jewelers use magnification to read the laser inscription on the rocks and trust what it says. Most jewelers don’t have the equipment to detect the trace gasses and impurities that identify mined rocks.

It’s possible to make lab grown gems with those impurities, but you end up with the shittier product that is mined diamonds

Does that include a way for them to return after the conflict settles?

The story may be true, but regardless we need to link to better sources than this site. There was a problematic article the other day as well.

That’s true regardless of which side you’re advocating for. Post good sources and the truth will help the innocent people suffering all around.

Edit: looks like DoomBot5 deleted their other comments

I agree with unpinning entirely, it’s an odd fit

I’m not sure if slack has a new meaning, but it might be one of those misspellings where the person really means “flack”

“To give flack” fits the context here

That’s a good tip

Could we get a new pinned comment for this. Some of this is our of date now and it would be nice to discuss.

Apps, interfaces, browser extensions, scripts

atheists give you slack for being agnostic

I find that to be really odd behavior tbh. One of the issues with organized religion is when a group shuns or hates on someone for their religious/ spiritual views. That’s also something that can happen with atheism, even if it’s not really seen as a “religion”.

Just be accepting of other people

Yea especially when tourists often don’t know about the local risks. Warning signs are mostly for people who aren’t from a particular area

Don’t want a ‘boy who cried wolf’ situation

That’s the idea behind it, but it causes more harm to that cause than whatever the gains from it are. Other forms of protest/raising awareness are more effective in the long run.

While I don’t know much about the specifics of “culture is trying to force change in areas where people don’t want that change”, my gut says that the vast majority of people already oppose those changes. An inflammatory ‘burning’ protest isn’t helping much.

Another example that comes to mind are the different types of climate protests. A lot of the public already supports positive changes. So when certain climate groups block roads or access to hospitals, while it’s a loud and clear message, it might hurt the cause more than it helps.

Ehhh, letting a protest devolve into chaos and violence will only cause more protests/chaos/violence afterwards

Her defence team argued the deaths and collapses were the result of “serial failures in care” in the unit and she was the victim of a “system that wanted to apportion blame when it failed”.

What

I agree people should have the right to burn it.

What’s important I think is that burning ANYTHING that people like / consider culturally important is going to make them upset, regardless of what the contents actually are. People absolutely shouldn’t get violent over that, but I don’t like how some comments (not yours) on these threads are fanning the flames to the conflicts. Hoping for things to escalate just to prove a point is… a bad look.

This next bit is opinion on the burnings: I don’t think the burnings are that productive and they don’t get much of a meaningful dialogue. Instead they just escalate tensions, deepen divisions / resentment, and when it happens it undermines the goals of the entire thing.

That’s not the point of the recent discussions, which are around if it should be legal. I guess I’m trying to say “it’s legal, but the act still harms everyone involved”

related example: Burning the Canadian flag is a valid form of protest, and it’s legal to do / should stay legal. However, it’s usually not productive