Favorites July 7 2021

Many climate activists oppose gas taxes because raising the cost of gas is regressive but support closing oil wells/ stop oil drilling which would do the same thing. It's kinda bizarre how people seem to think of production and demand as unrelated phenomena.
With very obvious parallels to housing.

So @lmanul quit Google and released a bunch of internal-only Google comics, and I have a favorite.
goomics.net/50/

Since I’ve worked now for 6 years on an 18 month system migration
By the way, I had never actually seen the banana revenge fantasy that this joke is from until this evening, but it’s quite good. I was also trying to figure out how to use That’s My Boat, but it felt too complicated.
It's not that I still miss Reader, it's that I'm upset about how it's loss restructured traffic patterns for news.



Rob Pyers @rpyers
You'd think California would learn our lesson and change the rules after the last circus of a recall election.
Did you know that river otters can stand up on their hind legs like this? They sorta look like meerkats.