Discredited may be an overstatement on my part, but it is a flawed measure of someone’s complete abilities and strengths.

Reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence_quotient#Validity_as_a_measure_of_intelligence

While IQ tests are generally considered to measure some forms of intelligence, they may fail to serve as an accurate measure of broader definitions of human intelligence inclusive of, for example, creativity and social intelligence. For this reason, psychologist Wayne Weiten argues that their construct validity must be carefully qualified, and not be overstated. According to Weiten, “IQ tests are valid measures of the kind of intelligence necessary to do well in academic work. But if the purpose is to assess intelligence in a broader sense, the validity of IQ tests is questionable.” [emphasis mine]

There are other criticisms in that section of the Wikipedia article too.

I see, thanks. I’ll see if I can find it.

I think the first thing to recognize is that there is absolutely no single measure of intelligence. IQ scores are (a) seriously flawed and discredited (and narrowly focused measure of human abilities). Human intellectual powers have many dimensions. Someone may be weak in speech and articulation but on the other hand be an absolute genius mechanically, artistically, or in some other aspect of human intellectual pursuit.

I’m sorry to hear that you had that experience. I can imagine that the tendency of some people online to pile on is only magnified and strengthened when socialists and communists who feel that their ideology has been unjustly maligned and distorted for the last several decades finally find a group of people who think like they do.

Understood. If it is as you described and some of their responses were disproportionate relative to your posts, then that’s regrettable.

I don’t understand. Are you referring to another comment on this thread? I don’t find another comment here doing a search for either daily or soothing. Link?

Oh, I agree if you’re talking about addressing homelessness. That makes sense. If you’re advocating free social housing for every single person in the country, I’m not sure how that could be done or if it’s ever been done anywhere ever? I would be curious to hear about possible solutions though.

Good to hear about any moves in the right direction anywhere.

Do you know if house prices are still a problem there?

Most definitely. Southern California in general has some of the highest housing prices in the US. I think the AirBnB regulations are only part of the equation. They need to drastically reduce the barriers to construction of higher density housing, for instance.

LA actually has “vanlords”, people who rent out old, beat up vans parked on the street to homeless people, for hundreds of dollars a month. Some real dystopian shit if I’ve ever seen any.

Lemmy users are Lemminators, so the site has been Lemminated.

I think I had heard of the idea before, so I didn’t come up with it. I just did a quick search and one of the first results says LA does this. There are probably other cities too…

https://www.steadily.com/blog/airbnb-short-term-rental-laws-regulations-los-angeles

No doubt!

I don’t know, and based on a quick search, it doesn’t appear that it’s been done. California is currently working on a law to limit corporate ownership to 1,000 homes, lol.

In addition to only renting out single rooms, I also thought of the scenario where someone goes to visit a relative and rents their whole apartment while they’re away, perhaps when there is some major event in their town that causes all hotels to be sold out. Both of those scenarios would be addressed by the rule I proposed to only allow renting out the primary residence on AirBnB.

There seem to be several theories/concepts that posit this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Crunch

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Bounce

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclic_model

Thanks for providing a bigger picture of the pattern.

But that’s another complaint without providing actual examples. I could just as easily complain about the same things from liberal lemmy.world posters.

Ok, I understand you feel that way and believe that you’re being sincere. I just rarely get to see actual examples to back up all the complaints. Like someone else commented on some other thread I read today, I see 10x more complaints about hexbears and tankies than I see actual bad behavior from them.

I hope so too.

Thanks for helping me understand.

If any other instance were to have such behaviour collectively, they would probably get defederated as well.

I suppose that’s reasonable.

That LW, SJW, lemmy.ca, feddit.org (https://feddit.org/post/41472) and smaller instances like startrek.website (https://startrek.website/post/15928569) all defederate them shows something.

Not necessarily when the topic is anti-western sentiment, since much of the West is pretty ignorant about why much of the rest of the world feels that way.

Another example I saw a few weeks ago, with things like “the French deserve a thousand charlie hebdos” (terrorist attack) https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/24552489.

Ok, that’s the best example I’ve seen so far of what you have been talking about. Wishing terrorism on all French people is going too far. It would have been much more productive for them to take the opportunity to remind and educate people about France’s (and other Western powers’) terrible legacy in the middle east instead.

Nice for 0.19.5, let’s see how it goes!

For sure!