I've been getting a lot of those "your parcel couldn't be delivered" phishing attacks lately and if you're a human with a phone, you probably have been too. Just as a brief reminder, they look like this: These get through all the technical controls that exist at

From 2024, but funny to read…

What makes this situation so ridiculous is that while we’re all watching for scammers attempting to imitate legitimate organisations, FedEx is out there imitating scammers!

  • MangoCats@feddit.itEnglish
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    1 day ago

    fascism genreally is stupid

    Strange thing about sociology / political games: stupid works.

    In the runup to world war II both the UK and USA were studying Fascism as a potential way of “getting more” from their populations to compete better in the coming conflicts…

      • MangoCats@feddit.itEnglish
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        22 hours ago

        I don’t know if this ties in well or not, but many times over the years I have talked with otherwise reasonable people who had already, or were about to, make really stupid decisions, and I called them out as such: “this is a really stupid thing to do” - to which they all responded “are you calling me stupid?” - I never succumbed to the temptation of “well, if the shoe fits…” - truth, and what I said, was: “about this particular decision, yes.” They always had some particular goal in mind which overrode all other considerations in their mind, and they couldn’t step back and see how their goal wasn’t 100% all important overruling all other considerations.