Motley Kamuka

I'm pretty sure I'm going to mindlessly go to Reddit and then catch myself. It will be hard to pull myself away on Monday and Tuesday, but pull myself away I will. Reddit was born in 2005, and I joined in March 2012. I know because the app tells me when my "birthday" is. I have almost 30k in karma, a useless carrot that counts the reward of others upvoting your posts and comments. There was a time when I was karma chasing, and I work hard to not to that, but at times I find I do have feelings about being downvoted. The Buddhist community I dwelled in steered away from superficial and perhaps literal interpretations of karma, but of course karma is the idea that you plant the seeds of what happens to you with your own agency in the sea of circumstances. It helps you to take ultimate responsibility for your life. Reddit was created in 2005 by two University of Virginia students, Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian . August 2017, Reddit’s major shares were acquired by Adv...

I know they are an owned company and Chinese invested so what's going on in Hong Kong may have been slightly repressed by rerouting for some to a pro-Chinese r/Hong_Kong instead of r/hongkong, and there are problems that occur in society as well, like meanness and childishness. But I was reading through the various responses on r/ireland about whether Conor McGregor represents Ireland and there's such a fascinating range of opinions and discussion. I wondered if in America someone is either categorized as a pie eyed dreamy liberal or a bible thumping gun toting hypocrite. But that's not true. People have nuance, and can see all the wrinkles if they want to. When you choose not to see wrinkles, it's usually in service of battening the hatches for the storm. I love seeing pictures of baby animals and goats jumping. There are heartwarming stories and you can ask for compliments if you want to. You can ask for anything, though of course that doesn't mean you wil...