▲ 66 ▼ Happy Freedom Day...I guess. (lemmy.world) submitted 3 years ago by nothingcorporate@lemmy.world to c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world 39 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] eltimablo@kbin.social -1 points 3 years ago (2 children) How can America have 25% of the world's prison population of the entire country doesn't make up even 10% of the world's population? permalink fedilink source hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 1 point 3 years ago Well see, that's kinda the point of the post. We're "the land of the free" but also the land of the most non-free people. permalink fedilink source parent [–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 1 point 3 years ago I have a bag and in it are 100 coloured tokens. 90 are black and 10 are red. What percentage of tokens are red? 10 out of 100, which is 10%. Now I pull two tokens at random. In my hand is 1 red token and 1 black token. I can say red tokens make up 50% of the tokens in my hand. But wait? How can the red tokens make up 50% of the tokens in my hand if they only make up 10% of all the tokens in the bag? permalink fedilink source parent
[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 1 point 3 years ago Well see, that's kinda the point of the post. We're "the land of the free" but also the land of the most non-free people. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 1 point 3 years ago I have a bag and in it are 100 coloured tokens. 90 are black and 10 are red. What percentage of tokens are red? 10 out of 100, which is 10%. Now I pull two tokens at random. In my hand is 1 red token and 1 black token. I can say red tokens make up 50% of the tokens in my hand. But wait? How can the red tokens make up 50% of the tokens in my hand if they only make up 10% of all the tokens in the bag? permalink fedilink source parent