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Cake day: July 8th, 2023

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  • Tax act used to be good. TLDR, tried to sell to HR Block, then appointed Intuit(TurboTax) Ex CEO as president. Scalping of value and enshittification continued:

    "…In October 2010, H&R Block said it would pay $287.5 million in cash to acquire the parent firm of TaxAct.[3] In May 2011 the U.S. Department of Justice attempted to stop the acquisition in an antitrust lawsuit.[4][5] In November 2011, a federal judge sided with the Justice Department, and both companies mutually terminated the contract.[6][7]

    In January 2012, 2nd Story Software was sold to Seattle-based Blucora (formerly Infospace, Inc.) for more than $287 million.[8][9][10] In 2013, the name was officially changed to TaxAct Holdings, Inc. Subsequently, in October of the same year, TaxAct acquired Balance Financial, the company that specializes in personal finance tools and services.[11]

    In 2018, former Intuit executive Curtis Campbell was appointed as the President of the company.[12]

    In November 2022, private equity firm Cinven agreed to acquire TaxAct for about $720 million. Cinven announced it would combine…"





  • You nailed Ketchup.

    Also, mayonnaise is fucking disgusting. I worked at subway in high school and we had to install wide-nozzle tubes on our mayo dispensers because the morbidly obese customers would say things like “I don’t want to be able to see the sandwich, just bury it in mayo” and it would hold up the sandwich line.

    Let’s get down to it: top 3 hot sauces? I go Valentinas, green Tabasco, sriracha. Honorable mention, gochujang, tapatio