Jason Colavito

Author, researcher. Pop culture, science, & history. Bylines @esquire, @NewRepublic, @CNN, @Slate, etc. My new book, "Jimmy," about James Dean out now!

[Jason Colavito @JasonColavito]

He was mostly joking, but only barely. Most of the machines had only 8 GB of RAM, and even the higher end ones were mostly at 16, while my old computer had 32--an almost unaffordable luxury now.

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I started shopping for a new laptop today, and it was depressing. The sales guy at one store asked if I often have more than one window open at the same time because they don't really sell affordable computers with enough memory for that anymore.

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I took my laptop to be evaluated, and the technician was trying not to laugh at me when he asked how I was still using it. It would need so many replacement parts that it isn't worth the repair cost.

[Jason Colavito @JasonColavito]

I took my laptop to be evaluated, and the technician was trying not to laugh at me when he asked how I was still using it. It would need so many replacement parts that it isn't worth the repair cost.

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My laptop is slowly breaking down, and I am disheartened by replacement options. One with comparable specs to my almost-seven-year-old laptop costs anywhere from 30% to 50% more than I paid seven years ago, and it's out of my price range.

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@rebirthofthewo1 Unfortunately, it is just old. The hardware is starting to wear out, and the technician I consulted said it would need a new motherboard among other things.

[Jason Colavito @JasonColavito]

My laptop is slowly breaking down, and I am disheartened by replacement options. One with comparable specs to my almost-seven-year-old laptop costs anywhere from 30% to 50% more than I paid seven years ago, and it's out of my price range.

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@RodT3 I'm going to take my old one to see if I can get it refurbished before I buy anything new.

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Was this really the best you could do, Facebook?

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@memizon Yes. It's hard even to find one with the same RAM and storage capacity as my 7-year-old machine.

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A Jell-O Halloween, 1985.

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I have some interesting and rare things, too. I have an original set of the NBC chimes from a century ago. I also own the settlement documents between James Dean and his male lover to end a lawsuit and keep their relationship secret. https://t.co/FjNjmtOG2r

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@metalknightufo I didn't say that this particular UFO was a hang glider, only that there are triangular things that aren't spaceships. But for what it's worth, UFO investigators themselves considered hang gliders in dozens of cases and took them seriously enough to try to refute the possibility.

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We have lots of triangular things that soar through the sky that I am sure most people never think about, which may be why they are so quick to jump to "alien spaceship" before "hang glider" or "kite."

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What were mysterious black, triangular craft doing over U.S. military sites? Newly released Pentagon UFO files detail the sightings, and former defense analyst Marik von Rennenkampff says the speed of disclosure is “pretty extraordinary.” @lauraingle

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@thistlemaniac * Are said to perform.
* Are assumed to move.

There are only witness estimates, which are unreliable.

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@DragN7_ @MvonRen I don't suppose it is worth pointing out that your premise was that no one had reverse-engineered UFOs or else they would be using the tech. I am pointing out that Disclosure advocates made the opposite claim.

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@DragN7_ @MvonRen It's literally in Jay Stratton's book.

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@DarkstarIE Do you know it really did that? How would you estimate 1800 mph visually, vs. 500 mph or 3000 mph or any other speed? Human observers have trouble even estimating the speed of passing objects of known size and velocity.

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@DragN7_ @MvonRen So, therefore, you concede that Jay Stratton and the Lue Crew are lying when they that we won't use our reverse-engineered alien tech and that it's worth losing the Iran War to avoid showing it off?

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@paulsanderson The problem with oral descriptions is that they are subject to the same problems as any other eyewitness testimony: perception errors, confusion, etc. You can say it APPEARED to do what they said from the observer's position, but not that it actually did it.

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@liteshaper2 Did I say it was hang-glider? No. Did I say there are lots of other triangles besides alien spaceships? Yes.

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@MickSeagull "That doesn't make any given UFO a hang glider..." I literally said that. I was giving examples of triangle-shaped things that are not alien spaceships.

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@david_jame90588 Do you know the triangles actually did that, or only that someone said that's how it looked to them? Balloons looked like hypersonic alien space monsters to several pilots, too, and that didn't make them that.