We just lost a good one.
Tom Skerritt did four years in the Air Force as a classifications specialist before he ever played a pilot on screen.
He enlisted in 1951 right out of high school in Detroit. Most of the hitch was at Bergstrom Field in Austin, Texas, sorting airmen and handling admin. No flying job, just the paperwork side of the force. He got out in 1955 and used the GI Bill for college, eventually landing at UCLA.
Later he played Duke in the MASH movie, Dallas in Alien, and Viper in Top Gun. He also helped start the Red Badge Project for veterans with PTSD. The uniform came first. The rest of the roles followed.
Tom Skerritt is gone at 93.
Viper from Top Gun. Captain Dallas in Alien. Duke in MASH. The dad in A River Runs Through It. An Emmy for Picket Fences.
Before Hollywood, he served in the United States Air Force.
No scandals. No lectures. Just a working man's actor who showed up and made every movie better.
They don't make them like Tom anymore.
Rest easy, Viper.
🇺🇸 Big U.S. banks are finding AI bots inside customer accounts that the banks never authorized.
These are AI agents, tools that can log in and handle tasks for you, and lots of people already use them that way on websites every day.
The worrying part is that some of them reportedly tried to do things customers apparently never asked for.
JPMorgan, Bank of America, Morgan Stanley and Wells Fargo are among the banks now rushing to get them under control.
Banks spent decades building walls against hackers, and now the trouble might be the helper customers let in themselves.
Source: Axios / Writer: Daniyal
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THREE HIJACKERS DEAD. THEY NEVER STOOD A CHANCE ‼️‼️🔥🔥☠️
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Armed scum tried to hijack the wrong people. Dashcam footage shows the victims pulling out of their driveway when the hijackers’ car cuts them off. The thugs leap out and charge to kill the family then all hell erupts on them. Three perpetrators wiped out in seconds. They came hunting☠️
They got hunted‼️☠️💯
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Samsung is offering engineers bonuses of up to $560,000 to stop them from joining China’s chip industry.
A parliamentary review found at least 27 senior engineers from Samsung and SK Hynix have moved to China’s CXMT (the country’s biggest DRAM maker). Together they had over 400 years of experience.
China is offering big pay jumps + housing + multi-year deals.
Source: Asia Times
Is this stupidity in practice?
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看完了朋友吐槽欧洲现状的帖子，真的深有同感。平时跟在法德、英国定居的朋友聊天，大家私下算的那笔账，其实比宏观数据还要扎心得多。
站在普通人的角度，把经济账剥开来看，欧洲现在的问题其实特别直白：
第一，打工人的“性价比”彻底崩了。
平时大家聚在一起，吐槽最多的就是钱包越来越瘪。在巴黎或者法兰克福辛辛苦苦拼到月薪四五千欧，扣完个税和高额社保，到手可能就剩两千多。
以前大家认了，觉得“税虽然重，但换来了高福利”；可现在呢？物价和房租涨得飞起，电费账单翻倍，更难受的是公共服务断崖式降级——看个专科医生预约排到半年后，德国火车天天晚点取消，出门坐个地铁随时得捂紧口袋防小偷。
大家突然算明白一件事：自己拼命工作交重税，既换不来体面的公共服务，也攒不下资产，纯粹是在给整个老龄化社会的养老窟窿“打白工”。
第二，自己造不出东西，却极度沉迷于“管别人”。
很多人纳闷：欧洲为什么出不了大科技公司？
现实很讽刺：美国把大模型跑出来了，中国把电动车和智能硬件产业链打穿了，欧洲自己什么都没造出来，却最先憋出了一部厚厚的“AI监管法案”。
这就好比别家孩子都在操场上疯跑比速度，欧洲自己跑不动，却戴上红袖章制定了一整套极其苛刻的跑步姿势准则。
结果就是：美国大巨头有大把法务和预算去应付合规，而欧洲本土的年轻创业团队还没融到钱，就被合规成本活活掐死在摇篮里。
黄仁勋说欧洲“想得太多、动得太慢”，真是一点没冤枉它。
第三，水电气太贵，连老牌工厂都养不起了。
制造业的底气无非就是工人、能源和市场。失去便宜的天然气后，欧洲现在的电费和能源成本动辄是美国的两三倍。
开工厂不是做慈善，连德国大众、巴斯夫这种百年老牌都在削减本土产能，把增量投资砸向海外。
底层的重工业和高端制造业一旦外流，高薪岗位就跟着消失，剩下的就只有送外卖、端盘子和做低端服务业，经济循环怎么可能健康？
第四，全在守老本，没人敢赌明天。
德拉吉报告里说每年缺 8000 亿欧元的创新投资，不是欧洲真穷得拿不出这笔钱，而是钱的流向全被锁死了。
欧洲的钱都躺在极度保守的银行储蓄和养老基金里，全在维持现状，几乎没有多少人敢把钱拿出来给年轻人搞风投、赌硬科技。没有增量，大家就只能互相争夺缩水的存量。
现在的欧洲，越来越像一座庞大体面的“豪华养老院兼露天博物馆”：
靠祖宗留下的名胜古迹收门票，靠几个奢侈品大牌卖包包，面子上依然优雅从容，但底子里的造血功能已经衰竭了。
身边越来越多的人选择离开，或者干脆退籍回国，真不是外面的世界十全十美，而是大家心里都清楚：谁都不想在自己最黄金的年纪，留在一艘一边吃着存量老本、一边拼命加税，但发动机早就熄火的旧船上。
suicide of western economy through co2 tax!!!
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China emits as much CO2 in 16 days as Canada emits in an entire year. Australia's annual total takes China just 12 days to emit, while Britain's takes barely 9 days.
Combined, Canada, Australia and the UK emit about 1.23 billion tonnes a year. China emits that much in roughly 37 days.
So, even if all three countries eliminated every tonne of fossil CO2, closing every factory, power station and banning every gas vehicle, China would replace the entire annual reduction in little more than five weeks.
Yet, Western governments are deliberately making energy scarcer and more expensive, by dismantling dependable sources, restricting oil and gas exploration and loading industry with carbon taxes and net zero mandates.
Steel, chemicals, fertilizers, refining and manufacturing are driven overseas, often to countries burning more coal. So the emissions do not disappear. Only the jobs, tax revenues and energy security do.
The West impoverishes itself. China profits.
