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A bullet is a projectile. It doesn't contain gunpowder in any amount. You don't even know what youre talking about.
Before claiming someone doesn't know what they are talking about, you should confirm that you in fact do. In this case, you do not.
The projectile, sometimes called the bullet tip, is part of the bullet... when you buy bullets, they contains all the parts including the gunpowder.
https://www.gunnersoutlet.com/v_21/news/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/bullet-parts-1024x585.png
I do know what I'm talking about. Your link is incorrect. What you're showing me a photo of is an ammo cartridge. A cartridge contains a bullet, a casing, gunpowder, and a primer. The part labelled projectile is the bullet. Not all projectiles are bullets, but all bullets are projectiles. The (typically brass) casing houses the gunpowder and the bullet is seated in the opening of the casing, with the primer at the closed end. All these components together is called a cartridge. You can buy bullets on their own, sure, but if you just buy a box of bullets all you are getting is the projectile. If you buy a box of ammo, you are buying a box of cartridges.
I'm going to guess this depends on where you live or something.
In the English speaking world, not really, no. People with little firearms experience incorrectly refer to cartridges as bullets, but they are exactly that: incorrect.
Oh, you are the master of the English speaking world now. Or is the world just what you can see.
I could start listing people I know with more experience then you probably are years old that call the bullets. Once ina while they also call it a cartridge. But it's like 9 times bullet, 1 time cartridge. Oh yeah, and we all speak english and live in part of the english speaking world. You might need to got out a little more often before you speak for people you have no knowledge of.
Literally not what I said. Its fucking amusing though you telling me I'm wrong because you found a mislabelled image online when you clearly know jack shit about what you're talking about. Just because you're able to find someone who speak incorrectly on the subject, that doesn't make it correct. Educate yourself, please, before you embarrass yourself any further.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartridge_(firearms)
Now kindly fuck off.
What was it I claimed you said but you didn't?
The difference here is when I found that you clearly have experience with people calling it a cartridge vs my experience of people calling it a bullet, I said maybe it varies by where you live. You on the other hand claimed I was incorrect, and started to insult me personally rather than admit that people use different words for things in different areas. You went further to claim to be knowledgeable about how it is referred to in the entire "english speaking world".
One of us is willing to admit that the world is bigger than just us, the other not so much.