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.