I don’t mean automatically replicate anything, that would be pointless. But I’m still a reddit user myself, and from time to time I stumble onto something interesting, and I’d like to let it live on Lemmy as well.

I don’t know how ethical it would be, and maybe it already exists, but a tool to replicate a Reddit post directly on a Lemmy instance could be useful

There’s no such thing as a “dating league”. People are selective, but the nature of that selectivity depends on the individual.

Exactly this. I can’t deal with anymore “rating” of people’s attractiveness, as daily seen on Reddit and the such. Beauty, attractiveness, and overall interest a person generates is highly (if not solely) dependent on said interest’s other end.

There is something deeply flawed in trying to put people into small, numbered boxes.

this. that’s why a model is as good as its known margin of error and limits

and it’s important to remember models work well outside of edge cases ; in your speedometer example, if you brake on ice and your car drifts out of control, the speedometer will show no speed, when you’ll probably have one … but in most cases, it’s a good enough model

And keep in mind that cutting ALL sugar out of your diet (which, luckily enough, isn’t that easy to do) will starve your brain and make you feel increasingly stupid. It’s only after my last week-long fast that I’ve read that our brains can’t really work on glycogen (ketosis-produced “sugar”).

live a few more years

And see more of your children, maybe even your grand-children. Sounds like a fair deal to me.