There's this myth that automated spam detection is hard because spammers are all very clever masters of disguise.

No. Spammers are stupid as a shoe. They have dog shit for brains.

Automated spam detection is hard because the line between spam and "legitimate" marketing activity is a fiction.

me: my childhood was relatively normal, I mean it was weird Christian cult shit at times but it was mostly normal

also me: wait y'all don't know that half the Christians in the US think that nuking the middle east is an important first step in bringing about their desired apocalypse where Jesus will send all the people they hate to hell forever??? Y'all don't know they're serious about that? Huh

i just don't think that web browsers should be the same program you access USB ports with or write local programs in

this has been a message against Google's lobbying for "web standards" that have actively made software worse in the past decade