Per the article the price only went down like 5%, and it’s only down 30% from it’s high in 2022, so doesn’t sound like they’re really going to stop being ridiculously priced.
Also, this part: “Additionally, the case for buying diamonds as an investment has dwindled, Daga said. Diamonds were seen as an asset and inflation hedge over the last 50 years, he elaborated. But that investment rationale has largely faded as prices plunge.”
I don’t think diamonds have ever been an investment? You buy a wedding ring and if you wanted to turn around and sell it you might get (completely guestimating here) 40% of what you paid for it.
Might help if you try to understand where people are coming from. This guy was stupid for video calling while driving, period. That said, if my license was supposed to be reinstated two years prior, I think I’d be driving too (while being very careful about avoiding any complications with law enforcement). Comparing that to sovcit stuff isn’t reasonable.
I’m a fan of jitsi. That said, like a lot of open source I think it lags in features and bug fixes. Joining from Linux I have a lot of issues with my webcam not being recognized or my audio being very low for other participants, while I don’t have those issues with the remedial Linux version of their app that Zoom put out.
I still use jitsi, I just don’t feel I can rely on it for mission critical applications, unlike say, VLC.
Lol I like how they put the author’s note at the beginning of the article, “this was a very special interview” as if it’s special because of the unique insights instead of special because it sounds coked up.
Thousands of people have donated about a quarter of a million dollars to a 90-year-old US air force veteran who has been financially supporting himself by pushing shopping carts at a grocery store in sweltering Louisiana – and now has the option of retiring if he wants thanks to the strangers’ generosity....
It sucks! I’d guess this was an attempt to get something on the books and maybe they go back for exemptions later. Article says an earlier bill only applied to wheelchairs and then later they expanded to include agricultural equipment.
I think this is the biggest problem I see in people trying to understand deeper fields of study, a concept is just too large or out of our perceived reality to even make sense without years of knowledge. I think people fall into the “woo woo” just because it’s easier to not really know versus becoming a doctorate in a...
Tough crowd for this one! I think I get it though - like magic in the sense there are unseen forces that do amazing things, but also like a wizard in the sense that if you study giant books, gather various artifacts and take the right steps in the right order you can harness the unseen forces.
Nice! Good for the reasons outlined in the article, and also I’d love to see more space competition from democratic countries. (vs say, China or Russia)
Identifying what plants are actually native to your area can be surprisingly tricky. A lot of info out there is state- (or even less helpfully, region-) specific, but if you live in a large and/or geographically diverse state what’s native in one corner may be completely foreign in another. There’s also a lot of information...
Please see my other comment in this same thread. It’s not like Tesla or Twitter where they’re clearing slipping and releasing bad product. Look at the actual accomplishments!
As much as we on lemmy might look down on consumers of conservative news, I’m really surprised by how similarly reflexive and uninformed a lot of the comments here are.
You wouldn’t say this if you were following the industry at all. Please see my other comment in this thread. SpaceX is dominating, for good reason, and seemingly in spite of musk.
SpaceX’s Starship took a beating but held on for first return from space (arstechnica.com)
Energy drink can used for scale, yet fruit used as unit of measurement (possumpat.io)
OpenAI Employees Say Firm's Chief Scientist Has Been Making Strange Spiritual Claims (futurism.com)
Who is watching this?! (lemmy.world)
Diamond industry 'in trouble' as lab-grown gemstones tank prices further (www.cnbc.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/16504047...
New York City postpones controversial, first-in-the-US congestion pricing plan (www.theguardian.com)
5 June 2024 (sh.itjust.works)
Clerical error was behind Michigan man’s viral suspended license hearing (www.theguardian.com)
Stealing everything you’ve ever typed or viewed on your own Windows PC is now possible with two lines of code — inside the Copilot+ Recall disaster. (doublepulsar.com)
CEO of Zoom: what if we take deepfake fraud, right, and make it a push-button feature of Zoom (www.theverge.com)
32000 bikes on Berlins Autobahn (i.imgur.com)
Part of an event called Sternfahrt where cyclists protest for policy changes by taking over the city on 20 routes covering 2000 km of public roads....
Donors raise $233,000 to give US cart pusher, 90, chance at retirement (www.theguardian.com)
Thousands of people have donated about a quarter of a million dollars to a 90-year-old US air force veteran who has been financially supporting himself by pushing shopping carts at a grocery store in sweltering Louisiana – and now has the option of retiring if he wants thanks to the strangers’ generosity....
I can't understand why it never caught on... (lemmy.world)
Can Trump still run for president now that he's a convicted felon?
If so, then why?
Colorado enacts right-to-repair law banning restrictions on parts pairing, mirroring Oregon's ban (www.cpr.org)
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You kinda have to believe in real magic to study science in-depth
I think this is the biggest problem I see in people trying to understand deeper fields of study, a concept is just too large or out of our perceived reality to even make sense without years of knowledge. I think people fall into the “woo woo” just because it’s easier to not really know versus becoming a doctorate in a...
Europe seeks to emulate NASA’s revolutionary commercial cargo program (arstechnica.com)
If you live in the United States, you should know about the USDA Plants Database! (plants.usda.gov)
Identifying what plants are actually native to your area can be surprisingly tricky. A lot of info out there is state- (or even less helpfully, region-) specific, but if you live in a large and/or geographically diverse state what’s native in one corner may be completely foreign in another. There’s also a lot of information...
show the system exactly the respect it shows you (slrpnk.net)
In an Historic Show of Labor Solidarity with Palestine, UAW Local 4811's Stand-up Strike Grows by 12,000 [Hannah Bowlus | May 28 2024 | In These Times] (inthesetimes.com)
The academic workers at UCLA and UC Davis will join 2,000 already on strike at UC Santa Cruz.
Building Relationships With Coworkers is the Precondition to All Good Organizing (industrialworker.org)
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Massive explosion rocks SpaceX Texas facility, Starship engine in flames (interestingengineering.com)