Venkatesh Rao@vgrN=283. Even with temporal discounting I'd say 2016 wins by a landslide (71%) as 'weirdest year' hereQuote TweetVenkatesh Rao@vgr·Dec 13, 2016Poll: what in your opinion has been the weirdest year for humanity within your personal living memory?Show this poll2:01 AM · Dec 15, 20163 Retweets7 Likes
Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Dec 15, 2016Replying to @munin and @puellavulnerataNo it doesn't. Obviously *some* rare events would have happened. It just happened to be Cubs.1
Martin J@mjambon·Dec 15, 2016Replying to @vgrI find this disturbing. The end of the Cold War - heck the Cold War itself - was weirder than tv celebrities creeping into politics.
R_Ganesh@r_ganesh·Dec 15, 2016Replying to @vgrA legit verdict on 2016 as weirdest year would come in such a survey held 5-10 years later1
Joel@polyparadigm·Dec 15, 2016Replying to @vgrIts weirdness is extremely foreshortened, though: we haven't had much time to normalize anything from it.