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[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 28 points 2 days ago

Ew no. I might get some kind of disease.

[-] dragonfucker@lemmy.nz 13 points 2 days ago
[-] shneancy@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago
[-] JadenSmith@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 days ago

Finally, someone else who knows of this very obscure community!

The artworks are wild.

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 9 points 2 days ago

Now you're talkin' my language! ๐Ÿ˜Ž

[-] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 2 points 2 days ago

okay ๐Ÿค—

[-] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

You mean those wealth hoarding lizards that fire people and don't pay taxes?

Isn't that basically the same thing?

[-] dragonfucker@lemmy.nz 12 points 2 days ago

Gold and gems aren't wealth. They have no practical value. They're not useful for anything. Therefore there's no harm to society if dragons hoard gold and gems.

[-] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Gold has some uses. Diamonds have a few industrial applications as well. Some other gems too in optics I think, but natural ones would probably be useless there.

[-] kaboom36@ani.social 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Both gold and a lot of gemstones have a great many uses in industry and electronics, garnet for example is used in water jet cutting and if you have a smart watch there is a good chance its touch screen is made of sapphire

And then there is the sheer amount of gold we use in plating soooo many of our printed circuit boards and connectors

[-] troyunrau@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 days ago

With the exception of gold, all of your above examples are usually either abundant and cheap (garnet), or are cheaper and better when made in a lab. For example: Sapphire is just aluminum oxide -- no one is cutting phone screens from mined gems. And lab made diamonds are pennies on the dollar.

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