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Striking that the major stories that occurred this year weren't mentioned anywhere in any of the top voted comments, or where mentioned in exactly the wrong way
by ak_111 5y ago
Striking that the major stories that occurred this year weren't mentioned anywhere in any of the top voted comments, or where mentioned in exactly the wrong way:
ordered by my subjective level of importance:
- Increased spread of covid variants right until the end of 2021 (along with prolonging of lockdown measures).
- Official recognition by the Fed that inflation is no longer transitory
- State Capitol attack.
- Increased confrontation with Russia.
- Taliban taking over Afghanistan in a blink of an eye.
- Stock market smashing all time high after all time high.
- Evergrande collapse.
- Lira collapse
- The Great Resignation
- web3, nft and metaverse dominating tech discussion.
- arturkane7 5y agotbf some of these are quite contradictory no way anyone could have predicted them and not look like a fool, which is a sign of the crazy time we live in. Evergrand and Lira collapsing with the markets barely reacting for example.
- emteycz 5y agoActually I think that's a property of most significant predictions that came true - and it's nothing new. Reality is and always was much crazier than our imagination and sense of what is normal/possible.
- mellosouls 5y agoThis is an excellent list though I think the last two have little impact outside of tech-heavy fora like this (tbf you specifically mention "tech discussion"). Most of the others actually mean something in the real world.
- mam4 5y agoNo one cares about the capitol attack
- cdaringe 5y agoMy community cares deeply about it, but action is taken pretty much only via donations and the ballot box