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[–] Hackworth@piefed.ca 22 points 2 days ago (4 children)

I'm confused by the matte out. Is it to anonymize the ring? Something written on it, maybe?

[–] lemmyng@piefed.ca 46 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It was not copper. Look at the spacing on the text around the word.

[–] Hackworth@piefed.ca 20 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I'm embarrassed I skimmed right over that on a first glance. Looks like the original was hematite. I'm going to pretend I was making a bad LotR joke.

[–] Mk23simp@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The word "Copper" is clearly edited in as well, so it's probably covering a ring made by a different material.

[–] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 1 points 1 day ago

Maybe hematite? I seem to remember saying that about hematite when I was young and the whole neopagan and new age stuff had a moment.

[–] hansolo@lemmy.today 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The whole "copper absorbs impurities" thing is a long-lasting trope. Copper is very soft and doesn't break like this. Certainly not a ring in half. The matte out is MS Paint to connect 2 probably unrelated images.

[–] Hackworth@piefed.ca 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Ah, I'd never heard that. Found the image and it appears to have originally been hematite.

[–] hansolo@lemmy.today 2 points 2 days ago

Yeah, brittleness of a stone makes sense for a break like that.

[–] cannedtuna@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

We are censoring jewelry now /s

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 0 points 2 days ago

We are also censoring the name of the material it is made of.