PhlubbaDubba comments on Honestly, fuck the diamond industry

[–] PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 26 points 3 years ago (5 children)

Saw a story about a wedding ring where instead of a diamond the ring was jeweled with the couple's birth stones fit together into the shape of a heart, which honestly I think is WAY better and probably WAY cheaper too.

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[–] cucumber_sandwich@lemmy.world 6 points 3 years ago (3 children)

What are birth stones?

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[–] LogicalDrivel@sopuli.xyz 9 points 3 years ago (1 child)

Birthstones are like the zodiac signs of geology. Each month gets assigned a gemstone.

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[–] feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world 2 points 3 years ago

One of which is diamond, annoyingly enough.

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[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 8 points 3 years ago

There's some religious history to them, but in general these days people are talking about the list of stones that American jewelers came up with in the early 20th century to try to sell more shit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthstone?useskin=vector

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[–] somethingsnappy@lemmy.world 3 points 3 years ago

As long as one the birth months isn't April.

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