> The problem with building a bear-safe trashcan is that "There is considerable overlap between the intelligence of the smartest bears and the dumbest tourists"

> The problem with building a bear-safe trashcan is that "There is considerable overlap between the intelligence of the smartest bears and the dumbest tourists" Google can't create a good spam filter, because enough users actually want to receive spam. A machine can't distinguish between male enhancement pill spam and a newsletter recommending alex jones' supplements. Or between "join our MLM today" and emails from recruiters. Or between sales people sending cold emails and social engineering. Google should ban both, but if they did, there'd be a huge outrage from idiots that actually want to receive content that's basically indistinguishable. When pre-Musk Twitter tried to reduce the wave of fake news, they actually had to explicitly whitelist republican accounts because > Most fake news on Twitter is spread by […] Republican, middle-aged White women residing in three conservative states, Arizona, Florida, and Texas