tbh the diamond industry has wrought such horrors relative to the length of time the tradition's been in place that even lab stones or other clear rocks seem bad as an engagement ring.
@maya Especially since the tradition owes its existence to the diamond industry.
@ghost_bird yeah there are a lot of traditions that derive their meaning from, like, centuries of practice that are potentially valuable separately from contingent/problematic origins... but w/diamond rings we're talking what, 5, 6 generations max?
@ghost_bird s/separately/separably/ I guess
@maya Itβs cool. I hardly ever post without mangling at least one important word or phrase.
π¬π§·: microblogging has neither the social immediacy of chat nor the considered aspect of email. while I still accept responsibility for the impact of what I write, until this crap gets an edit button, it may not ever be what I *meant*.
@maya I say we should do [[append only]].
^ edit function is coming to Mastodon, which already had delete & redraft, making it better than @Twitter in writing experience
@maya yes, I fully agree. This is why in the Agora I'm trying to have first class support for linking and optionally importing arbitrary resources.
I think [[ctzn]] had this right, with a long form essay optionally associated to each micropost. I was saddened to see it be deprioritized, although I understand the author.