Don't undersell all of the life lessons you learned from being the age you are.

Part of the reason why kids seem so dumb is because they don't have that life experience yet. They're still figuring it out. I'm sure that when I was a kid people looked at me and thought I was pretty dumb, just like many adults do to the kids now. blave has the right attitude about it; teach them. Someone has to. If everyone shrugs it off that someone will do it, then nobody does it.

Reversed Darwin. More and more of these.

But why add unnecessary complexity?
Like analog clocks are fine, they show time progress in a way digital don't.

But why read it in that more convoluted way? Like, I can tell you that you have 10100bin seconds to answer some question, and you can tell that's 20 seconds, but why the fuck do it that way. The only time it's "five minutes till quarter to four in the afternoon" rather than 15:40 is when writing an assay, perhaps.