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@genmaicha I realize how alarmist and retarded a lot of people will think that sounds, but I have one piece of evidence that’s undeniable.

Tim Pool, the Jim Cramer of social analysis, is saying “Woke is dead.”

That should send chills down your spine.

@genmaicha I think the current “restoration of free speech” we are seeing with social media is akin to China’s Hundred Flowers Campaign.

It’s an invitation to get people to open up so they can compile lists of who to purge (and kill via mobs) when the real Cultural Revolution begins.

It’s probably more dangerous right now than it has ever been.

@genmaicha It’s a very good one. It’s a portrait of a family in the Cultural Revolution. A few years ago I was recommending it as required viewing to know what’s eventually coming in the West.

I believe the people saying Woke is dying and discredited are badly mistaken. I think this is more like a retreat before a terrifying assault.

It’s going to rebound hard when the economy falls apart and people see real hard times.

@lain Dig the embroidery.

@lain I quit playing when I never scored under 4,000.

@sun @genmaicha Where can I find one of the files and what you know about it so far?

@lain

@Soy_Magnus @dassauerkraut This is a very typical Portuguese cut.

You are more likely to see it on quartz and tips because they are large enough to cut this way. It’s hard to make that happen on the real estate of a 5mm sapphire

@dassauerkraut @Soy_Magnus Miners don’t like to break up rough because their main client is factories. It’s hard to get a full parcel of anything unless you have the money to throw $10,000 to $500,000 at one bag.

You can’t not make money on the material and the price.

The problem is your own customers. Can you make a business of cutting and selling nothing but whatever material comes in that bag? How long till you recoup your money? Do you want to be doing it?

@dassauerkraut @Soy_Magnus The big factories will send the best material to gemstone suppliers used by jewelers.

The mid-line material goes to factories mass producing cheap “silver” jewelry.

The low end stuff gets dumped on crystal shops and worse.

If you are a cutter specializing in really unusual shit or repairs or cutting matches to lost stones, you need a really diverse inventory of material so you can’t get into that wholesale game.

That’s where every bottom feeder tries to screw you.

@dassauerkraut @Soy_Magnus If I had to cut an emerald I’d buy material from a friend who lives in Southeast Asia and makes a business buying misfit stones to recut them.

It would cost a lot and that’s why I’d have to change the customer more, but it is the only way to guarantee quality of the material.

@dassauerkraut @Soy_Magnus Fairly close.

Large parcels are either bought by Indian cut houses or bought by a foreign dealer hiring the Indian cut hose to process it.

Either rejects get sold off in small parcels mixed with a few good stones to small scale cutters, or people steal rough from the factory.

That changes hands a few times till it ends up in a pile. That pile then sits in India or Pakistan (occasionally Thailand) while brokers online try to flip it to small independent cutters.

@Soy_Magnus I don’t buy them unless they are very green.

Emerald is one I rarely get to cut because I can’t afford good rough, and most of the ones needing repair also need oil treatment, which I don’t do.

Traditional oil treatment of emerald involves submerging them in cedar oil in a dish and putting g them under vacuum pressure to force the oil into the stone to fill voids。

Looks very pretty but breaks down over the years when exposed to detergents.

@dassauerkraut @Soy_Magnus A lot. Not alexandrite prices (a house for a bag), but a lot.

There was a big scandal last year where EVERYONE’S FAVORITE SUBCONTINENT was dumping “natural” rough on the market that wasn’t even oiled but fucking filled with colored resin.

I don’t want to play that game.

@kaia

@Sirpantangelini It’s a web tradition.

In 1998 there were companies letting you print coupons for whatever the fuck you wanted to pay, stores took them, investors paid for them, and ?????? profit?

Oh no, wait, they lost everything and now their name is used for a travel booking site.

@Hoss @CozyLife @fknretardlol @Owl @Orkin_Awk @NonPlayableClown When the boomer learns to actually be happy for them making it first, that’s when his soul will be healed and free of sin and prepared for heaven.

@Hoss @CozyLife @fknretardlol @Owl @Orkin_Awk @NonPlayableClown Punishment would be having to wait and watch from purgatory while every single gen alpha makes it through and out to heaven first.

@Orkin_Awk @Hoss @CozyLife @fknretardlol @Owl @NonPlayableClown One of the joys of being Catholic is you can believe in purgatory.

Boomers can make it to heaven: they’re just going to have a longer and bumpier ride past their sins than most.

ColonCloud got pwned along with a bunch of other providers all running Virtualizor. Apparently the clunky KVM manager everyone likes is made in India.

Saar strikes again 🇮🇳

https://lowendbox.com/blog/colocloud-breach-virtualizer-bugs-lead-to-wild-lowendtalk-thread/