mineralfellow @ mineralfellow @lemmy.world

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Seems to be a lack of mineralogists here.

Gemstone is a market term. There is no division scientifically between a gem and a mineral.

Minerals form in specific geological settings as a result of temperature, pressure, and the composition of the materials reacting. On the surface of the Earth, we tend to mostly have low temperatures and low pressures. Most minerals are made of only 8 elements, one of which is carbon.

“Gemstone quality” is based on whether or not a mineral can be attractive when faceted. Most minerals do not pass this aesthetic.

To say that a mineral is common or rare is extremely dependent on context. Garnet, for instance, could be the gem that is targeted, or could be waste material that is an annoyance. Most diamond mines throw away massive amounts of garnet.

So, the statement in the title needs a lot of caveats.

Not entirely true. I grew up fundamentalist, learned scientific reasoning, and got out of it.

My wife's last name is not the same as her paternal grandfather, because he criticized the Soviet leadership and was exiled to Siberia. His wife had to change the name of the rest of the family to keep from also being exiled.

My mom always got upset when my brother and I fought. "Take it outside!" she would say. One day, as we started to fight, my brother reminded me what she said. So, we calmly walked to the front yard, then we went at it.

Somehow it still didn't make her happy.

There are plenty of people calling for violence right now. Find a few disaffected male 20-somethings already leaning towards those ideas, groom them to see if any will go further, coordinate a plan with them, and you can have an "unscripted" but predictable attack. I don't think that part is unbelievable, although I don't personally have a strong feeling on if this particular attack was staged.

I was involved with a project trying to simulate growth of a crystal cluster a couple of years ago. The guy doing the coding said it would be easy. It never worked and never came remotely close.

I crossed my eyes, but I don't see the picture.

Organize going out and invite them. If they all say no, go out anyway, spend a little time out, and don't sweat it. Organize again. They will eventually both go with you and invite you to their stuff. That's more or less how society works.

Geology: laughs in multiple working hypotheses.

This is a conspiracy theory. The quotes in the article, from NASA and from each individual interviewed, make it obvious that there is no larger pattern. Scientists, like all people, die. These cherry-picked examples have been weirdly strung together by the internet and then paid attention to by the administration for no apparent reason.

Staring at the wall has been huge for my productivity.

I still use Google Scholar, but I have recently seen that it is also being enshitified. What's the next best option?

In South Africa, I have seen plenty in the big cities, but nothing on the countryside.

And an entire football league.

An ideal police force is full of Andy’s. They seem to be full of Barney’s.

A backpacker is traveling through Ireland when it starts to rain. He decides to wait out the storm in a nearby pub. The only other person at the bar is an older man staring at his drink. After a few moments of silence the man turns to the backpacker and says in a thick Irish accent:

"You see this bar? I built this bar with my own bare hands. I cut down every tree and made the lumber myself. I toiled away through the wind and cold, but do they call me McGreggor the bar builder? No."

He continued "Do you see that stone wall out there? I built that wall with my own bare hands. I found every stone and placed them just right through the rain and the mud, but do they call me McGreggor the wall builder? No."

"Do ya see that pier out there on the lake? I built that pier with my own bare hands, driving each piling deep into ground so that it would last a lifetime. Do they call me McGreggor the pier builder? No."

"But ya fuck one goat.."

He quoted “Jesus wept.” Hardly inappropriate.

This is one of the funniest things I have read all day.

That would be unequivocally bad.