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Alan Cole

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Alan Cole

@AlanMCole

International and Federal Taxes @taxfoundation High Priest of #DBCFT Twitter

Washington, DC

Joined July 2012

Alan Cole
@AlanMCole
Aug 3, 2025
Rental car companies seem so insanely helpless at their one job. You show up at the airport, reservation in hand, and they’re like “wait really? You wanted a car? Sorry, you totally caught me off guard.”
Alan Cole
@AlanMCole
Nov 11, 2024
My non-online wife just remarked unprompted “seems like a lot of young people DoorDash restaurant meals for $60 and then complain about inflation.” I nearly jumped out of my chair. One of Econ Twitter‘s most annoying discourses breaking containment into real life.
Alan Cole
@AlanMCole
Jun 11, 2024
Oh hi I am Microsoft, the world's most valuable company, a title I have held intermittently since 1998. I am especially known for my dominant hold on enterprise software. You now have two email applications, named "Outlook" and "Outlook (new)." This is very professional.
Alan Cole
@AlanMCole
Jun 17, 2024
Oh my god, it's happening again. And it's the same pattern every time. They put themselves in the mindset of the red car, wanting to turn right, and they're like "why isn't the blue car moving?" It does not occur to them at all that maybe the blue car intends to go straight.
Alan Cole
@AlanMCole
Jun 17, 2024
Replying to @MattZeitlin
I had people defend this maneuver when I complained about it.
Alan Cole
@AlanMCole
Jun 25, 2023
It's still unbelievable ten years later that the "SimCity" franchise created an offering so terrible that it lost the SimCity game market, completely, in a single generation, to the upstart "Cities: Skylines."
Alan Cole
@AlanMCole
Aug 8, 2024
No.
GOV.UK
@GOVUK
Aug 8, 2024
Think before you post.
Alan Cole
@AlanMCole
Dec 27, 2024
An Amtrak train left DC without any of its passengers because of their famously dumb boarding procedure where they don’t let you wait on the platform. cc ⁦@mattyglesias⁩ ⁦@jbhenchman⁩
Alan Cole
@AlanMCole
Aug 26, 2020
Nobody who ever pressed Ctrl-V has wanted to "keep source formatting" in what they pasted. Ever.
Alan Cole
@AlanMCole
Apr 28, 2024
I cannot express just how out of control the situation is with AI fake photos on Facebook.
Alan Cole
@AlanMCole
Jul 5, 2025
If this scene were written today, the writer would have Sam Neill make some cool-guy quip to show that he's unflappable and even a dinosaur sighting doesn't break his casual jokey demeanor.
cinesthetic.
@TheCinesthetic
Jul 3, 2025
Sam Neill taking off his sunglasses in Jurassic Park (1993) —this is the objectively correct answer.
MD437
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Alan Cole
@AlanMCole
Jun 29, 2025
The fact that Railroad Tycoon 2, specifically, had a complete and coherent simulation of equity and debt finance for companies, M&A transactions, individuals who could short sell or purchase on margin, and similar, really makes me wonder about reverse Flynn effects.
David Bui
@ghosttyped
Jun 28, 2025
2000s tycoon games were deep strategy games that really forced you manage tradeoffs and balance budgets/spend/revenue 2020s tycoon games are almost all pay-to-win waiting/idle games
Alan Cole
@AlanMCole
Apr 21, 2025
I need you to understand that the combination of stocks down, bonds down, dollar weaker, in tandem, is not just markets doing market-y stuff unrelated to you. It's a very bad combination that's going to make you poorer in a variety of ways, some obvious, some more subtle.
Alan Cole
@AlanMCole
Jun 17, 2024
Replying to @MattZeitlin
I had people defend this maneuver when I complained about it.
Alan Cole
@AlanMCole
Jul 6, 2025
The absolute gall of dog owners to complain about other people having a loud hobby, lol
Michael Tracey
@mtracey
Jul 5, 2025
I can never fully get on board with a holiday that leads to the mass traumatization of dogs