I believe it’s synthesized, and a quick glance at the internet seems to back that up and that it’s similar to a diamond in refractivity and appearance. The only thing I can figure is that it’s accessible to more people than diamonds, so it’s bad? (Not that I think it's bad. Them. You know the ones .They think that. I…

I never got the prejudice against lab grown stones. What makes natural ones so special? Is a CZ a lab grown stone, or cut glass?

Much of my adult life has me going around correcting people. I do concur, I am the asshole everyone perceives me to be.

Oh believe me, back when working at NAPA, customers would come in, see where a product was made (a lot of our electronic parts, and O.E. European parts were made in Taiwan), and begin shooting their mouth off about how it’s going to be a piece of shit, fuck those people/chink/insert asian racial slur, and I would come…