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20 years ago, Pirate Bay's response to legal threats from DreamWorks (sh.itjust.works)

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[-] Sauerkraut@discuss.tchncs.de -1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

That is sort of like complaining that people think of the US when they hear "school shooting": The US has something like 20% of the world's prison population and we likely use complete solidarity confinement more than any every other (developed) country combined together... So the term is rightfully US centric because, like school shootings, solidary confinement is far more of an issue in America.

[-] cheddar@programming.dev 6 points 2 months ago

Our brains don't think in terms of statistics, we are very bad at numbers. That's a scientific fact, see Daniel Kahneman's "Thinking, Fast and Slow". So to say that if 20% of the world prison population is located in the US then it's normal to think about the US when you hear "solidarity confinement" is plain wrong. There's no media bias like with school shootings either, you don't read about US prisons in European media every week. Even the mainstream US media don't talk about US prisons much. Somehow you fail to see that in the discussion about Danish and Swedish prisons one should probably consider Danish and Swedish prisons.

[-] Ilandar@aussie.zone 0 points 2 months ago

That is sort of like complaining that people think of the US when they hear “school shooting”:

No it's not, because in this case it was quite clearly solitary confinement in Sweden and Denmark. If you read that and thought "oh they mean US solitary confinement" then you are retarded.