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  • uglyduckling81@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.mlHonestly, fuck the diamond industry
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    9 months ago

    I bought my wife a 'fake ’ diamond ring for the engagement ring.

    She couldn’t tell her snooty friends that though, so she went and bought herself a very expensive ring with real diamonds.

    She had the ring I bought her melted into my wedding band. I hate jewellery though so had no intention of wearing it. I agreed to wear it for a week after we got married. I’ve never worn it again. I haven’t even seen it since that first week. Over a decade. I wonder if it’s just lost, or she has it somewhere still.

    I don’t care enough to ask.



  • It’s a short sighted argument to say baddies don’t follow the rules so your only restricting honest people.

    In Australia assault rifles and automatics are just outright banned. You need a licence to own any type of gun, which takes 6 months waiting for background checks to be done. Guns must be kept in Safes etc.

    So whilst a baddie might want to get an assault rifle and go on a kill rampage he can’t. There just aren’t any around. You can’t break in to a house and steal one.

    Can organised crime get them? Sure. But that’s not what this is trying to stop. It’s preventing the impulsive bat shit crazy person going on a rampage.

    It absolutely helps, as proven by Australias lack of mass shootings.

    People who want to go hunting still can.







  • My employer told us all the rumours were true. Layoffs were happening. They called it “difficult conversations” instead of firings.

    About 1/5th of a team of 1000 people.

    Apparently they hadn’t decided who yet.

    Meanwhile we just received the biggest bonus in the companies history due to historic profits.

    Then the CEO told investors that they expect a big pickup early next year and will need to hire a bunch of people to handle the demand.

    So they are firing a bunch of people for 6 months to hit financial targets in the back half of the year before hiring people again.

    Everyone that is to be fired is still waiting to find out who will be axed.