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Miss Shell wrote: ↑

Dec 02, 2021

OnTheEdge wrote:Truth be told, if I was walking down the street and this dude was walking towards me I'd jaywalk to get to the other side to avoid him.  And this comes from a guy who generally has this happen to him....  Jus' sayin'....

Glad you're showing your prejudice

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Totally.  White middle aged dudes are the devil.

Edit: And, to be 100% clear, yes I am 100% prejudice against the devil.  I know it's not PC in this day and age of the woke to be prejudice against anything (even Satan)....  Of course I'm saying all of this with a healthy dose of humor....  Jeeze no one has a sense of humor anymore....

Couldn't even get block.com off crypto scammers smh.

OnTheEdge wrote: ↑

Dec 02, 2021

Truth be told, if I was walking down the street and this dude was walking towards me I'd jaywalk to get to the other side to avoid him.  And this comes from a guy who generally has this happen to him....  Jus' sayin'....

When your personal net worth is a little over $10,000,000,000, you can pretty much look any f**king way you want to look.

^Suggesting this is a bit like Alphabet (Soup) and Meta(stasis) doesn't really make it seem like a less than Block (Headed) idea. I think we all remember that Google owns YouTube, Picasa, Blogger, and Android even after the smoke and mirrors. (And I don't think it's the presto-change-o that made folks forget they didn't always.) Do they think the name change will help to insulate their primary product when one of their acquisitions goes south? I can see the logic, I suppose, but I'm skeptical it would work.

The company had been working on this change for a year, just to quiet anyone who might think this was reactionary to Meta or Jack leaving Twitter.

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pattimagee wrote: ↑

Jan 14, 2022

Square is getting into the tax game? 

Ooo! I may have to try this, this year. I always use Turbotax but they have gone hella fee crazy in the last couple of years. It used to be great and simple. 

We bought out Credit Karma. This is why H&R Block is suing the company over the new name of Block.

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SRQ2STL wrote: ↑

Jan 14, 2022

pattimagee wrote: ↑

Jan 14, 2022

Square is getting into the tax game? 

Ooo! I may have to try this, this year. I always use Turbotax but they have gone hella fee crazy in the last couple of years. It used to be great and simple. 

Use freetaxusa.com. Sounds like a scam I know, but you get the same functionality as Turbotax for a fraction of the price. I started using it when Turbotax wanted to charge me almost 500 bucks for filing taxes in two states, this website did it for like 20.

It’s pretty nice being a focus city for a company that has multiple branches of finance hustling to keep up.

SRQ2STL wrote: ↑

Jan 14, 2022

pattimagee wrote: ↑

Jan 14, 2022

Square is getting into the tax game? 

Ooo! I may have to try this, this year. I always use Turbotax but they have gone hella fee crazy in the last couple of years. It used to be great and simple. 

Couldn't agree more!

Miss Shell wrote: ↑

Jan 14, 2022

We bought out Credit Karma. This is why H&R Block is suing the company over the new name of Block.

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More accurately, you bought out Credit Karma Tax. Intuit (who owns TurboTax) bought Credit Karma last year for $7.1B, but they had to divest Credit Karma Tax because the sale was being upheld by the DOJ for antitrust reasons (comparable to how Disney had to sell off the Fox Sports regional networks after acquiring Fox because they already owned ESPN).

They should be running ads for this. Maybe Block can get into the Super Bowl commercial arms race. I'll do my taxes on their platform this year. Gotta support local 

Don't they own like three big parking lots (the main one across tucker, the one SW from there on MLK where a building was somewhat recently leveled, and the one just north of their main lot, between the office and McDonald's)?

Hopefully they can offload some of that and maybe we can fill in some of that ugliness. It looks like work is being done to the access systems on at least a couple of their lots.

I'm not sure Block owns them, but we can park in the lot directly across Tucker as well as the lot north of that. The lot north of the building is used by the apartment complex, I think. They're replacing the arms with gates at the entrances right now.

But the downsizing doesn't surprise me. The office is severely underutilized. The highest attendance day was just shy of 250. It's honestly depressing going in, but it's nice to get out of my apartment once in a while. If Covid never happened, that place would be hopping.

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These are the lots I was referring to, all listed as owned by 900 N. Tucker Building LLC.

1314 MLK Drive. This one seems to have never been used since the building was demolished and the lot was created a couple years ago.

1001 N Tucker (just north of Cole). This one is very, very lightly used

Plus the lightly used main lot.

This is near the area where the parking commission wants to build their new 1000-space mega garage at 1000 Lucas St because parking is "desperately needed"

An analyst has ripped Block, and shares have plunged nearly 20 points.

^ ripped is generous, they accused block of knowingly committing fraud and helping criminals

Immediately after the plunge Cathie Wood of Ark bought 21 million in Block stock.  I think Block will be fine.