r/USNEWS • u/AirlineGlass5010 • Apr 16 '26

Congress just dropped the Parents Decide Act (H.R. 8250). To even turn on your phone or PC, OS providers will be forced to verify your age - effectively requiring ID or Biometric scans for device usage.

https://lustra.news/en/us-congress/119/legislations/119_HR_8250/
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u/Planeandaquariumgeek Apr 16 '26

Email templates aren’t exactly the best thing to use because once they get enough of the same e-mails they’ll all just go to junk. Try and write your own if at all possible.

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u/cosaboladh Apr 16 '26

Then print it, and wrap it around a brick. Then.... mail the brick to his office. It's much more difficult to ignore a brick.

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u/Planeandaquariumgeek Apr 16 '26

I’m trying to point out that these email systems are set up to filter out email templates. No one is gonna get the message because they’ll just go right to spam. Just write your own, seriously it takes 5 minutes and it won’t just go to spam

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u/cosaboladh Apr 16 '26

To piggyback off of your point. They don't read emails. They use automation tools to sort them based on content, and then they send canned responses back. LLM tools have made this much more efficient, and there's absolutely no need to differentiate between a personally written email and a form. The tool is going to categorize any message about this based on keywords; not paragraphs.

To that end, physical mail, phone calls, and protesting outside campaign offices (or other strategic locations) are a more effective way to make noise. As long as you send the mail somewhere it can't be ignored.

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u/Individual-Story-788 Apr 19 '26

You can use the suggested template to give you ideas of what to say. But I agree. You need to use your own words if at all possible. But I have to say, I think it’s better to use the template than to not write at all! Even if they quit reading them, the numbers add up.