Can they operate a telegraph?

  • KFCDoubleDoink [any]
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    1 year ago

    Oh you don't know how to use a fax? smuglord

    No sorry I've never had to verify out of state child support payments before.

    • ratboy [they/them]
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      1 year ago

      This is one of the exactly 7 uses of a fax machine, I know, I have to fax shit all the time.

      • kristina [she/her]
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        1 year ago

        I remember when I was younger I thought every fax machine had a tube in it that sucked the paper to its destination

        • ratboy [they/them]
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          1 year ago

          That's so much cooler! All correspondence should be transferred via pneumatic tube. They would obviously make super satisfying shoomp noises you just can't get with a boring ol fax machine

            • ratboy [they/them]
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              1 year ago

              If you know about how they work lay that knowledge on me, I'm actually super curious now. I got to see one in action at the drive thru lane for my bank once and witnessing thay was the most excited I'd been in a long time.

      • KFCDoubleDoink [any]
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        1 year ago

        I know we've had a few comrades talk about their struggles parenting before and I definitely don't mean them but... yeah.

        • ratboy [they/them]
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          1 year ago

          Ah I was just joking. The only known uses of a fax at this point are to send crap to DHS, social security, or to send medical records. That's it. The beaureaucrats won't let it die!!

      • FourteenEyes [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        I know one of the other 7 is verifying a Volkswagon lease payoff with a non-Volkswagen dealer because they refuse to send them any other way so we just stopped taking VW leases

        • ratboy [they/them]
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          1 year ago

          Yep, sounds just about tedious enough to warrant a faxin'

          what-the-hell

      • Mindfury [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        number one is just anything to do with medical records or doctors in general

        those motherfuckers love a fax. it's like the first technological advancement came along that would replace literally posting or having someone personally courier documents and they said "yep, this is the one"

    • dreugeworst@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      I'm an older millennial, never used a fax machine in my life, wouldn't know why I'd ever want to learn how either

    • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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      1 year ago

      I'm looking at getting a replacement birth certificat and the fuckers at the vital records department want me to send them a check.

      Like fuck, sure I guess I'll also send you a big string of cash and maybe a negotiable bearer bond and some cowries.