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I rarely unsubscribe as I figure it confirms that the email address is legit and active.

I think that's mostly an issue with actual spammers, of which there are few. Anyone using a modern email system will unsubscribe you.

And as I want to remain active in political races that I can actually vote in, I don't want to just block them all. I also want to get the updates from my representatives with the exception of the one who pisses me off every time I read or hear anything he says.

My goal is not to tune out of politics entirely, but it's to tune out politicians I cannot vote for or against (and presidential politics).

Tim Ferriss always talks about making the one decision that avoids a hundred downstream decisions.

Having made a handful of political donations and having given my email address to various politicians when contacting them on issues, it seems that they share it like crazy. So years ago I made a decision to never donate to anyone who calls on the phone, since that's the most disruptive. That makes it easy to field calls.

But I still get email pitches from all sorts of politicians who do not represent me, most of whom I have never heard of. I have a new simple rule - any email that comes from someone for whom I am not a potential constituent, immediately gets unsubscribed. No figuring out whether or not I support their cause or oppose it.

And as a secondary thing, if it is not a one-click unsubscribe (like they make me fill in my email address in order to unsubscribe), then it gets marked as spam, even if I wholeheartedly support their agenda.

I've finally gotten to the point where I get few such messages and most of those go straight to the spam folder.

"I am very intelligent and very devoted to my work in the camps. I struck at least two prisoners every day.”

— Wanda Klaff at her trial for crimes against humanity committed at the Stutthoff concentration camp, for which she was executed in 1946 at the age of 24.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wanda_Klaff

Ford hits pause on 3.5 billion dollar battery plant in Michigan

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/ford-pauses-work-35-billion-battery-plant-michigan-2023-09-25/

It’s also interesting considering

This morning, I discovered an interesting statistic, “America Has Been At War 93% of the Time – 222 Out of 239 Years – Since 1776“,  i.e. the U.S. has only been at peace for less than 20 years total since its birth

BTW, it’s not that much different for France.

https://freakonometrics.hypotheses.org/50473