There are two answers. First, the algorithm obviously sucks. Maybe they have it programmed in a way that attracts other people to watch a ton of stuff, but it definitely doesn’t match your interests and personality. The second point is that as YouTube has changed how they pay content creators, they have disincentivized various types of videos. Depending on the content creator and the topic, it might make sense to have a relatively short video or possibly a quite long one, and yet it seems those are not getting the type of payment that they used to.

Another point that I have heard various YouTubers mention but I don’t know the details of involves how the algorithm will either hype you a lot or not hype you at all. Various channels used to get large amounts of visits routinely and then in a matter of 2 months those visits dropped to a few percent of what they once were. In other words, the algorithm appears to be very polarizing in certain cases.

There was a time not long before the railroads when time zones didn’t even exist and times were tracked locally. That’s what it was like for most of human history.

Of course we don’t have to behave tomorrow the same way that we behaved yesterday, but on the other hand, the system works fairly well for almost everyone almost all of the time. If we were to switch to what you’re proposing, there would actually have to be a lot of work done to recreate currently existing functionality, because people wouldn’t have any idea when it’s light or dark outside or when businesses are open. Of course we could do all of that. But again, why should most of us waste our time when we’re almost never troubled by time zone changes?

The other point is that although we do have to deal with time zone changes, in reality the situation is much simpler than it was 20 years ago, because a lot of our software is very savvy and automatically converts things for us.

What is the benefit of either way. For reading or writing the burden is a matter of microseconds. For speaking it’s still around a second, tops. So everyone communicates perfectly effectively.

Except of course when they don’t, and then the ISO standards mentioned by others are the real fix. Or if writing, write the month as a word.

So both conventions are great except when they suck, and in those situations they both fail equally.

Daily use? Cast iron fry pan from 2001. I have older things but don’t use them daily. Books and pocket knives and such.

I would be worried that this is one piece of an AITA post, and we’re missing the key info because you didn’t want to share it with us. If it is, YTA.

If it isn’t, then … occasionally, not too often, back when I had a girlfriend.

I think you can’t use the word cynical in that way. People can be cynical, but corporations can’t. Corporations don’t have that type of thought or feeling.

So I’m really not sure what you’re trying to ask. Are you asking which CEOs are the most cynical?