Wait why was one bullet $2500 dollars? Ok... but do we really need to be buying sterile bullets for this?

Reddit is old enough to vote and has several orders of magnitude more users. You can't create that much content organically overnight. As more content gets added it will attract more people who are interested in that content. In turn those users will contribute even more, even if it's just in the form of engagement and upvoting posts they like.

Lemmy is already experiencing some growing pains because the decentralized, user hosted nature of the platform will never be able to react quickly across all instances. We deal with it because we don't want to be controlled by one overarching entity and this is the ONLY alternative. Are there issues? Yes. Are there fewer issues than other social media sites? I don't know, but the problems are at least different and potentially more fixable in the long run.

The gurus normal people trust have this pesky tendency to have advanced degrees and call themselves things like "doctors" and "therapists" as if either is better than being screamed at by a car salesman in a room full of sweaty divorces.

I find it telling that a direct quote from the article you linked is "a complete distortion" since I thought I included enough text to give context. We aren't missunderstanding each other so much as we just have vastly different moral prerogatives. Even by your own claim, that revises the number down even more than the article you linked, 200 people died that night. I don't understand how you minimize that so easily.

The Chinese government estimates more than 300 fatalities. Western estimates are somewhat higher. Many victims were shot by soldiers on stretches of Changan Jie, the Avenue of Eternal Peace, about a mile west of the square, and in scattered confrontations in other parts of the city, where, it should be added, a few soldiers were beaten or burned to death by angry workers.

Even the article you linked says china admits soldiers gunned down over 300 people. I guess calling it the "Avenue of Eternal Peace Massacre" would have been a little confusing. Unless 300+ people being shot in the street isn't a massacre in your opinion.

I'm not sure, I've always had a paid account. The free version has all the features but the models are stored in a public cloud. It's kind of a weird system but I think it's a decent compromise to let hobbiest use it for free but incentivize businesses to upgrade. I wish the free tier had a way to make specific projects private even if it were a small fee to save it.

Fusion 360 is the bane of my existance. I moved to Onshape and it's amazing.