Mar. 15th, 2024
I get an email every once in a while with the top contributions in Next Door. By its charter the entries are from our area and so, occasionally, of interest. Car breakins, rattle snake migrations, and such. Mostly I like to read them for the comedy. People getting riled up over the most insignificant thing until it becomes a national debate. So when I saw this headline in my email I had to read the top entries:

As you might imagine things got out of hand almost immediately. I won't even bother to list the comments but bouncing off the premise that Google is 'sponsering' (sic) a Chinese based company you get the idea. It was a very entertaining run down the intellectually lined rabbit hole that is central Texas politics.
Somehow it did not morph into a debate about Tic Toc, not sure how, or freedom of speech that is the PornHub debacle.
We're having some fun now days in Texas.

As you might imagine things got out of hand almost immediately. I won't even bother to list the comments but bouncing off the premise that Google is 'sponsering' (sic) a Chinese based company you get the idea. It was a very entertaining run down the intellectually lined rabbit hole that is central Texas politics.
Somehow it did not morph into a debate about Tic Toc, not sure how, or freedom of speech that is the PornHub debacle.
We're having some fun now days in Texas.
I had a fax account when I had my business and every now and then had to use it. Pissed me off every time.
BUT we are trying to get my wife a new CPAP set up and they want her to fax the prescription. Can we email it? Yes. So we did. Two weeks later we call back and, no, you can't email it. You have to fax it.
SO I'm now waiting as the fax service that I had to sign up for, managefaxservice, is 'rendering' her prescription. I'll verify that they got this fax then cancel the service.
I did check. The Pony Express is no longer available or we'd likely have to use that.
BUT we are trying to get my wife a new CPAP set up and they want her to fax the prescription. Can we email it? Yes. So we did. Two weeks later we call back and, no, you can't email it. You have to fax it.
SO I'm now waiting as the fax service that I had to sign up for, managefaxservice, is 'rendering' her prescription. I'll verify that they got this fax then cancel the service.
I did check. The Pony Express is no longer available or we'd likely have to use that.