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They’re referring to the ‘one-drop rule’, which was a real law here for way, way too long, and is still used by too many Americans as a basis to judge others.

Yes, but you live in reality. In the land of Fox News, God-Emperor Trump had the pool redone perfectly by a loyal servant, and then the evil Antifa LGBTQ saboteurs snuck in disguised as normal tourists and ruined everything!

Update: most likely Quartz, Azurite, and Malichite, all mixed together to get that weird crystal and color pattern.

Finally got around to talking to a gemologist.

Huh. How the heck do they justify that?

Including what he actually says?

Maybe, but you’ll notice how the Republicans were able to take over their party and turn it into exactly what they wanted; a loony tunes racist circus. Don’t see why Democrats can’t do the same.

And it’s endangered in most of its range!

I’m pretty sure it’s mostly his tone of voice and presumptuous attitude. But all that aside, given how many people in this country have said they want to see me and mine dead lately, I will be hanging on to my firearms, thank you very much, and if that makes me a ‘gun-toting readneck’ then so be it.

That’s the part that I think perhaps wasn’t communicated well enough. So much focus is put on the women getting it that their little pea brains decided that women were the only ones affected.

…Or maybe not. They disapprove of sex outside of marriage for men too… officially.

In reality they have a much more complicated relationship with it; a man who doesn’t sleep around isn’t virile enough, but in their eyes marriage is sacred, so boys are told ‘don’t have sex before marriage’, with a pretty hefty nudge-nudge-wink-wink and boys-will-be-boys attached.

But if they get sick for it, oh well, they were warned!

They knew. They knew that it prevented something that a woman could get during sex. So obviously getting it would just encourage girls to have sex, because they knew they were safe!

I guess that’s kind of like dozens…

Thank you!

I preface this by saying that I’m just a very amateur hobbyist, and even an expert would never 100% call a stone without physically seeing it, so if you really, really want to know I’d ask a gemologist. The ones in my area throw fairs a few times a year, and I’ve found many jewelers can actually be quite helpful about id-ing a stone, especially if you approach them on a slow day.

But to me the crystals look entirely wrong for agate and don’t seem quite the right shade of green for Prasiolite. The crystals don’t seem quite right in color or shape for Brochantite either.

Aurichalcite is a possibility for the stones in the second pic, although the crystals don’t look as orderly as Aurichalcite usually does.

The left stone in the first pic looks a bit like low-quality beryl, actually. Although I might see banding? Which would be more a calcite or fluorite thing. It’s hard to tell in the photo if it’s actual banding or just light play off broken crystal.

The right stone in the first pic might be chrysocolla, although usually it forms nodules rather than crystals like that. Calcite or fluorite might make more sense for that one too.