sammer510 [none/use name]

A little of both. I do research online and find like old maps and directions from forum posts and stuff like that to find specific spots that are already known to others. Once you go out to a few spots and know what the desirable stuff looks like you’ll start to notice it when you see it even when you’re not in an area specifically known for having the material. I collect a lot of agate nodules that grew in amygdaloidal basalt and they have a very distinct look on the outside. So once I went to a few places that have tons of them all over now I notice them when I’m walking around in the hills and stuff. Luckily for me I live near the greater Los Angeles area which has lots of relatively accessible areas where you could spend all day digging up bloodstones and geodes and selenite and howlite and opal and even fossils

Yeah I like dig up rocks and cut and polish them. Mostly agate and jasper

Lapidary art

I was replying to an open and proud Nazi, I figured it would be obvious. I guess his comment got deleted tho. So I’ll clarify: STALIN SHOULD HAVE KILLED MORE NAZIS AND NAZI COLLABORATORS. EVERYONE WHO WAS SAVED BY OPERATION PAPERCLIP SHOULD HAVE INSTEAD BEEN SHOVED INTO THE BARBARA PIT. WERNHER VON BRAUN SHOULD HAVE BEEN TORN APART BY RABID DOGS

He literally said Putin is worse than Hitler in another comment so I’m thinking maybe Bandera is his hero because he was a Nazi

Bandera died like a dog ❤️

Putin is worse than Hitler

This might be the funniest thing I have ever read in my life. Stalin didn’t kill enough of you people

because we are not barbarians

Except for Azov, Banderites, and all the other assorted trash you allow to thrive in your shithole

Nah lots of people believe him actually. You’re just very clearly stuck in a pro Western echo chamber, as all libs are. The longer this war goes on the more Ukraine loses lmao. So by all means, keep encouraging this to continue.

Ukraine is a fascist state. You are a fascist for supporting it.

The US doesn’t need any help looking bad

The fucking ridiculous natural beauty everywhere? I live in the most soulless of the soulless suburbs of Los Angeles and if I left my house right now and didn’t stop for anything I could be standing beneath the biggest tree in the world in just 4 hours. Or if I want to see the oldest trees in the world I can go roughly the same distance and do that instead. I could be at the trailhead to climb the highest peak in the contiguous US in 3 hours and on my way there I would see an ancient basalt waterfall where obsidian litters the ground, the Grand Canyon of the Mojave where semiprecious gems flow out of the mountains, lakes, rivers, the Sierra Nevadas, Death Valley, it’s ridiculous. Every fucking state has traffic and suburbs but I’ll go to my grave arguing that we can’t be beat for scenery.