Yes, I had a younger brother whose middle school math teacher just matter-of-factly taught the kids BASIC programming using a lab of Apple IIs in the early 80s together with the normal math concepts she taught. Why it took hundreds of millions of dollars from tech companies, tech-backed recruitment and 'training' of 100,000+ teachers, billions in Federal grant money (Dept. of Ed and NSF), billions in spending by school districts on hardware and software, and massive PR efforts, and constant lobbying of federal and state government officials to enact K-12 CS legislation from 2013-2026 to accomplish what seems to be less than what some math and science and social studies teachers were able to accomplish in an ad hoc fashion on a shoestring budget some 30-40+ years earlier is a rea head-scratcher.

The costs of nuclear are addressed all the time.

The problem is the nuke fanbois either ignore the costs or hand-wave them away: "Nuclear is only expensive because of protests and regulations. Next time will be different. Blah, blah, blah."

Even without considering the costs of waste and accidents, nuclear costs four times as much as wind or solar and has a 20-year lead time.

Tens of thousands of barrels of toxic waste were dumped near Catalina Island, but the vast majority are non-radioactive chemical waste.

DDT leaking from the barrels is a much bigger problem than nuclear waste and shows up in the local sea lion population.

Anyway, there's nothing realistic that we can do about it since any attempt to retrieve the barrels will likely make things worse.

Amazon Vine Review Recasts 'Coding Kids' Exposé as Learn-to-Code Primer for Kids

Can't do a book full justice in a brief Slashdot post, but she actually does go back and cover how Apple entered schools in the 80s in a chapter entitled 'From Tom Edison to Sam Altman.' She goes back even further into the history of tech and schools, including how Thomas Edison promised that movies would revolutionize education and replace textbooks - "They'll do all the teaching by moving pictures, all of it" he told the NY Times in 1912 - not unlike the current promises being made about AI.

It was called “Cliff-Hanger Justice.” It was a satirical legal story written by Joey Green for National Lampoon magazine.
The multi-part story ran sequentially in the August, September, and October 1982 issues.

Google AI:
> "The piece is written entirely as a formal courtroom transcript and legal filings. In it, Wile E. Coyote sues the Acme Corporation for product liability. He seeks damages for the severe physical and psychological trauma caused by their chronically defective merchandise—including faulty giant rubber bands, explosive jet skates, malfunctioning catapults, and defective dehydrated boulders."

Ian Frazier wrote a highly similar, famously anthologized essay titled "Coyote v. Acme" for The New Yorker in 1990.

Just thought I'd mention it.

If dark matter interacted with itself, you would expect to see its distribution change as the collisions cause it to clump together. Those clumps would tend to gather a bit inwards towards the core and you'd expect a distribution similar to that of visible matter (I.e. the stars, which underwent exactly that colliding and clumping process when the galaxy formed). We don't observe that: instead dark matter seems to form diffuse halos in galaxies, as you'd expect from something that interacts very weakly (or not at all). That said, some theories of dark matter do allow for stronger self-interactions, possibly creating an entire dark sector of physics invisible to normal matter. But those models tend to be considered more niche possibilities.

Just what the world needs.