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Re: Learn something: A place for random knowledge [Re: Lithop] 2
#28432240 - 08/13/23 11:38 AM (5 months, 12 days ago) |
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Really good stuff, love the twin peaks theme! How it's unmade is great, "powerful fans keep them cool." lol. Reminds me of Huggbees
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Re: Learn something: A place for random knowledge [Re: cozmyc] 1
#28432277 - 08/13/23 12:07 PM (5 months, 12 days ago) |
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Re: Learn something: A place for random knowledge [Re: Lithop] 2
#28450163 - 08/28/23 04:30 PM (4 months, 28 days ago) |
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How old could the oldest aliens be?
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Re: Learn something: A place for random knowledge [Re: cozmyc] 3
#28464151 - 09/10/23 09:55 AM (4 months, 15 days ago) |
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This is absolutely mind-blowing!
Gives me a couple ideas for cool room lighting
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Re: Learn something: A place for random knowledge [Re: cozmyc] 2
#28469512 - 09/15/23 05:06 AM (4 months, 10 days ago) |
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Re: Learn something: A place for random knowledge [Re: Lithop]
#28469860 - 09/15/23 10:22 AM (4 months, 10 days ago) |
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He'll, yea. Love the mellotron! I was thinking small tubes like for neon lights so the solution can be sterilized, and make little lamps out of them
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Re: Learn something: A place for random knowledge [Re: cozmyc] 1
#28470155 - 09/15/23 02:50 PM (4 months, 10 days ago) |
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cozmyc said: He'll, yea. Love the mellotron!
Unique sound.
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cozmyc said: I was thinking small tubes like for neon lights so the solution can be sterilized, and make little lamps out of them 
That'd be cool my mind first went to a handheld, oil lantern style instead of a desk or standing lamp.
 Could set loads of rows up and manipulate the colour spectrum to some music as a visualiser.
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Re: Learn something: A place for random knowledge [Re: Lithop] 2
#28470227 - 09/15/23 03:49 PM (4 months, 10 days ago) |
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How the hell have I been missing this???
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Re: Learn something: A place for random knowledge [Re: the_chosen_one] 2
#28470337 - 09/15/23 05:45 PM (4 months, 10 days ago) |
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Re: Learn something: A place for random knowledge [Re: cozmyc] 1
#28471459 - 09/16/23 05:57 PM (4 months, 9 days ago) |
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Some botany for yo faces! Nice.
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Re: Learn something: A place for random knowledge [Re: cozmyc] 2
#28472064 - 09/17/23 08:35 AM (4 months, 8 days ago) |
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cozmyc said: Some botany for yo faces! Nice.
*Nice.* Good one, I really rate all Crime Pays videos that I've seen.
 Have you seen some of his mushroom excursions with Alan Rockefeller? Outisde of those, my favourite recent was probably this one!
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Re: Learn something: A place for random knowledge [Re: Lithop] 1
#28472154 - 09/17/23 09:42 AM (4 months, 8 days ago) |
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They're the best!
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Re: Learn something: A place for random knowledge [Re: cozmyc]
#28479679 - 09/23/23 09:45 AM (4 months, 2 days ago) |
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Re: Learn something: A place for random knowledge [Re: cozmyc] 1
#28485895 - 09/28/23 03:31 PM (3 months, 28 days ago) |
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Raw gems don't have a lot of value until they're cut and as such they act like liquid assets. This is because the price of cutting them can be undercut with cheap foreign labor like the lapidary factories in Vietnam.
Fossicking for gems yourself isn't profitable, you need a mining claim and a lot of capital to start anything. The real way to make money is to buy cheap raw gems, ship them overseas for cutting, and sell them at major profit.
It might cost $70 to cut a gem in Australia, but under $10 in Vietnam.
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Re: Learn something: A place for random knowledge [Re: sudly]
#28485912 - 09/28/23 03:49 PM (3 months, 28 days ago) |
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That's insane! I'd love to find an opal in the wild. Without child labor.
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Re: Learn something: A place for random knowledge [Re: cozmyc] 2
#28485968 - 09/28/23 04:43 PM (3 months, 28 days ago) |
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It's the same with opal, you could find a good single piece, but the seams are often 40ft below potch. The capital needed to invest in a mining claim is 6 figures. You can meet local miners and trade raw material for cheap, still thousands, then refine and polish the pieces and create a large markup.
A high quality $3000 raw piece can be sold for $7000 once polished.
This does take time and attention to detail to accomplish and is a higher value lapidary skill.
I think it highlights how raw jewellery operates as a business. I also am starting to believe that is is a good thing to have as much aware of what making a good business decision involves. To learn how a business operates, what practices they specialise in, and by what means they balance productivity.
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Re: Learn something: A place for random knowledge [Re: sudly] 4
#28509900 - 10/18/23 07:51 PM (3 months, 8 days ago) |
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Welp. I guess my front garden is gettin a makeover.
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Re: Learn something: A place for random knowledge [Re: cozmyc] 2
#28509949 - 10/18/23 08:34 PM (3 months, 8 days ago) |
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Dude sounds like David Attenborough  One of my heroes alongside Musashi, Peart, Mr Rogers and Mr Myagi.
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Re: Learn something: A place for random knowledge [Re: the_chosen_one] 1
#28510251 - 10/19/23 06:19 AM (3 months, 7 days ago) |
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Lol, he does. One of the steps could have been walk into traffic and I would do as I'm told.
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Re: Learn something: A place for random knowledge [Re: cozmyc] 1
#28510499 - 10/19/23 12:50 PM (3 months, 7 days ago) |
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Yeah, to my American ears it's one of the most soothing accents out there. I'd probably do the same for Jeremy Irons and in a perfect world Jessica Henwick. 
Man I must have been high last night lol. Forgot the all time great Bob Ross!

*edit come on dude get the right Bob lol
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