BlackRock CEO Larry Fink sent his annual letter to investors on Tuesday in which he cited the "immense strain" on Social Security amid the aging of the U.S. population and the need to reform the retirement system given its looming insolvency. Fink explained the economics behind Social Security‚ which collects taxes from people who are working to pay those in retirement who are receiving benefits: "During your working years‚ the government takes a portion of your income‚ then after you retire...

One of the most popular health trends over the last few years has been staying as hydrated as possible‚ evidenced by the massive popularity of 40-oz Stanely Quencher cups. The theory among those who obsess over hydration is that‚ when you pee clear‚ you’ve removed all the waste in your body and are enjoying the incredible benefits of being 100% hydrated. Congratulations. However‚ according to Dr. Sermed Mezher‚ an NHS doctor in the UK‚ peeing clear isn’t always a sign of being healthy.“If you’re peeing clear‚ that means you’re having more than 2.5 liters (85 ounces) of fluid per day‚ which means your kidneys are working overdrive to keep that water off your brain‚” Dr. Mezher said. He goes on to add that when kidneys can't keep up with their water intake‚ it can cause water intoxication‚ which can lead to dangerous‚ even lethal‚ brain swelling.Stop Trying to Get Your Pee Completely Clear #hydration.  @drsermedmezher Stop Trying to Get Your Pee Completely Clear #hydration. The daily water intake recommendation for adults is crucial for maintaining proper hydration levels‚ which are essential for overall health and well-being. While there is a common guideline suggesting eight glasses of water per day‚ equivalent to around 2 liters or 64 ounces‚ individual hydration needs can vary based on several factors. Age‚ weight‚ activity level‚ and even climate all play roles in determining the appropriate amount of water intake. For instance‚ someone who exercises regularly or lives in a hot‚ humid climate may need to consume more water to replenish fluids lost through sweat. Listening to the body's thirst cues is also important in determining hydration needs. Thirst is the body's way of signaling that it needs more fluids. However‚ it's worth noting that by the time you feel thirsty‚ you may already be mildly dehydrated. Therefore‚ it's beneficial to drink water regularly throughout the day‚ even when not feeling thirsty‚ to maintain adequate hydration levels. In addition to water‚ other beverages such as herbal teas‚ fruit-infused water‚ and low-sugar electrolyte drinks can contribute to overall fluid intake. However‚ it's essential to be mindful of the sugar and caffeine content in some beverages‚ as excessive consumption of these substances can have adverse effects on hydration levels and overall health. Certain factors can increase the need for hydration beyond the standard recommendation. For example‚ individuals who engage in intense physical activity or exercise may lose significant amounts of fluids through sweat and increased respiration. In such cases‚ it's essential to drink water before‚ during‚ and after exercise to prevent dehydration and maintain performance levels. #kidneys #water According to Dr. Mezher‚ it's all about finding balance when it comes to hydration and the goal shouldn't be to pee clear all the time. "Of course‚ like most things in life‚ too much is not great‚ and too little isn't either‚" he continued. Two liters (68 ounces) [of water] is good for a healthy adult‚ and babies under six months shouldn't be given any water at all."The news came as a bit of a shock to some folks in the comments. "One minute it's not enough water‚ the next it's too much... I'm tired‚" Tiyana wrote. "I always thought the goal was clear‚" Mountain Witch added.If you have concerns about the color of your urine‚ please consult a doctor.

The stereotypical image we get of bachelor parties is a booze-filled evening of depravity and bad choices. Followed of course by a massive hangover…and some regrets. And granted‚ there are plenty of viral videos to show that this is sometimes the case. But there are also plenty of grooms who don’t see it as their “last night as a free man.” On the contrary‚ they see it as an opportunity to simply celebrate the next chapter with close friends.Case and point: a husband-to-be named Luke‚ who apparently couldn’t stop “gushing” about his bride‚ Sam. This‚ according to a woman also named Sam‚ who happened to be at the bar Luke was having his bachelor party at.In Sam’s now-viral TikTok video‚ she recounts how she had been at a bar in South Carolina over the weekend‚ where she met Luke and his friends. The way he could not contain his love for his wife compelled Sam to let this woman know how lucky she is."If your name is Sam and your fiancé's name is Luke‚ and he is currently in Charleston‚ South Carolina for his bachelor party and he was at a bar on King Street called Uptown Social tonight on Friday‚ March 22nd‚ I just want you to know that that man loves you so much‚" she said. "He could not stop gushing about you and how you are the love of his life and the most beautiful person he has ever met‚ and how he's the luckiest man in the entire world. He loves you so much‚ and I wish you two all the happiness in the world." Lastly‚ Sam shared the selfie taken with Luke and her friends—a request made by Luke that night—before giving an enthusiastic congratulations to the couple. @sb.reads we stan sam and luke #charleston #charlestonsc #bridetok #weddingtok #greenscreen ♬ original sound - sam Nearly 12 million people have seen this story so far‚ and many were surprised that it ended up being so wholesome. “At the beginning of this video I was like‚ ‘OMG not another one!’ But thank God I stayed and this turned out to be a great one! So Refreshing! Wishing Sam and Luke and the absolute best!” one person wrote. Another added‚ “ The plot twist we DIDN’T expect! This makes us all smile.” And because TikTok is TikTok‚ the video nearly immediately made its way to other Sam‚ the bride. And she made a follow-up video every bit as sweet as the original. "If you saw that TikTok‚ I'm Sam. Luke’s on his bachelor party right now and that was literally the best thing to wake up to‚" she said‚ adding "I haven't stopped smiling since my friend sent it to me when I woke up. He's the best‚ I'm very lucky.” @sambrooksphotos Hey im that sam #samandluke #sam #luke #charleston #weddingtiktok #weddingphotographer #marthasvineyardweddingphotographer #marthasvineyard #marthasvineyardweddkng @sam ♬ original sound - Sam Brooks Photos Sounds like Sam got a good one. Find yourself someone who can’t stop gushing about you…even to random strangers.

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Last week‚ Max‚ formerly known as HBO‚ dropped not one but two trailers for the second season of House of the Dragon‚ a series based off of George R.R. Martin’s Fire &; Blood. The show is a prequel to Game of Thrones‚ which aired its final season in 2019.  Unconventionally‚ the two trailers ask viewers to “pick a side” in the battle for the throne between the “Blacks‚” led by Queen Rhaenyra Targaryen (Emma D’Arcy)‚ and the “Greens‚” led by her half-brother King Aegon II Targaryen (Tom Glynn-Carney)‚ with the “blacking” of his mother and Rhaenyra’s childhood friend‚ Queen Alicent Hightower (Olivia Cooke). This strategy telegraphs a noticeable and welcome shift from the first season of the show and suggests that politics will further recede in favor of the character-driven action and drama that has been the mainstay of Martin’s world of ice and fire. READ MORE: The Next James Bond Polarizes Espionage Franchise reboots and adaptations have been having a rough go of it recently. The Star Wars sequel trilogy and subsequent Disney shows have all felt soulless. The Wheel of Time and The Rings of Power were both mediocre. After a promising first season‚ Netflix’s The Witcher went off the rails. Even the latter half of Game of Thrones‚ especially its final two seasons‚ simply didn’t measure up to the rest. But House of the Dragon has stood out by performing remarkably well. It has deep‚ realistic characters‚ a plot that is both engaging and easy to follow‚ and phenomenal acting. Were there problems with season one? Of course. The season had some janky pacing‚ with months or years passing between episodes and some characters‚ like Ser Criston Cole‚ never seeming to age a day. Book readers wonder how Prince Daeron the Daring became Daeron the Disappearing. The callbacks to the main series just serve to remind everyone about how poorly it ended; after all‚ the long night wasn’t all that long‚ the realm didn’t need to be united to overcome it‚ and it just wasn’t anything worth worrying about. While not “strangled by wokeness” as some feared‚ House of the Dragon has thus far been incredibly reluctant to have any of its female characters do anything morally condemnable‚ at least on purpose. Princess Rhaenys Targaryen’s decision to murder thousands of peasants for no discernible reason doesn’t count because they don’t qualify as people anyway‚ and it looked cool‚ at least according to the showrunners.  Alicent’s character was especially sterilized. Instead of believing that her children have a better claim to the throne than Rhaenyra’s “brood of bastards” and orchestrating the plot to crown her son‚ she’s shocked and outraged that the other Greens have been plotting to make him king. In addition‚ she thinks that Viserys wanted her son‚ Aegon‚ to be king because of some inconsistent and clearly delirious words he said right before he died. It just so happens that everyone around her was already planning on crowing Aegon anyway‚ so‚ because of this insane luck‚ she goes along with it. (The forced friendship between her and Rhaenyra is entirely an HBO invention that the show likely would have been better off without. When Alicent married King Viserys in the original story‚ she was 19 and Rhaenyra was only 9. Fire &; Blood tells us that they got along well enough‚ but the age difference between them makes it hard to believe that they were truly friends.) None of it makes her look like a good person. It just robs the dowager queen of all of her agency and paints her as a gullible idiot. Now‚ in spite of the objectionable way the ball got moving‚ it’s careening down the hill. Its inertia necessitates that it smash into things in ways equally horrifying and entertaining‚ and everyone‚ man and woman‚ seems set to get their hands dirty. Battles will be waged‚ dragons will fight each other in stupendously expensive CGI scenes‚ characters you love will do horrible things and/or die when you least expect it‚ and there will probably be quite a bit of nudity. This is HBO‚ after all. One notable area where the show seems to be making amends for the last season — and heeding the advice of some smart critics — is in its treatment of the Greens and Aegon II. As the actor who played him worried publicly‚ the king claimant was made too evil too quickly in season one. Portraying him as a rapist who enjoys watching his bastard children participate in child-fighting pits was a conscious deviation from Fire &; Blood that made any nuance going forward difficult. It was a too on-the-nose signal that you’re supposed to hate the guy. It appears‚ however‚ that this was a case of incompetence rather than malice. The writers have said: “We are very sympathetic towards [Aegon] because we were very conscious that we didn’t want him to be Joffrey [Baratheon from Game of Thrones]. He’s not a sadist.” What is done cannot be undone‚ but season two seems set to let Glynn-Carney play a more dynamic‚ less cartoonish antagonist. Given how little he had to work with‚ he gave a phenomenal performance in the first season‚ and I’m looking forward to seeing more. People often read A Song of Ice and Fire as a liberal or deconstructionist critique of The Lord of the Rings. There is something to that perspective; Martin himself has said: “I look at the end and it says Aragorn is the king and he says‚ ‘And Aragorn ruled wisely and well for 100 years’ or something. It’s easy to write that sentence. But I want to know what was his tax policy‚ and what did he do when famine struck the land? And what did he do with all those Orcs?” But a paradox that nobody seems to have grappled with is that the world and characters are certainly not “woke” in any modern sense. Instead of a Manichean good-versus-evil narrative‚ Martin writes about the human heart in conflict with itself‚ about how most of his characters are not fully good or fully bad but instead shades of gray. His approach is more Dostoevsky than Rousseau. All the dominoes have been set up. Now‚ it’s time to sit back and watch how they fall. As the trailer puts it so eloquently: to war‚ then! The post The House of the Dragon Goes to War appeared first on The American Spectator | USA News and Politics.

Homeless tent communities seen in urban blue districts now a feature at America's southern border. A local reporter takes a look inside a makeshift tent city erected by illegal aliens along a border wall separating the US and Mexico in Tucson‚ Arizona. Adam Klepp‚ of ABC affiliate KGUN9‚ shows illegal aliens after unlawfully entering the country are living in tents near the wall in Sasabe‚ where they’re aided by NGOs as they await pick-up by Border Patrol Tucson Sector agents. “Crossings continue every day here in the Tucson Sector‚” comments Klepp‚ who has been extensively documenting the crisis in Southern Arizona. Live look at the migrant camp just outside Sasabe‚ AZ.Crossings continue every day here in the Tucson Sector. pic.twitter.com/TMA4c4Ow8w— Adam Klepp (@AdamKleppAZ) March 26‚ 2024 The tents are not unlike those seen occupied by homeless people in blue cities across America.Survival Shield X-3 is BACK at the Infowars Store! Get 40% OFF on the next evolution in activated nascent iodine HERE As seen on 📺 pic.twitter.com/OXygnKeGsi— Adam Klepp (@AdamKleppAZ) March 15‚ 2024 Footage of the makeshift tent city comes as administrators in Pima County‚ where Sasabe is located‚ have declared they will not have to follow through on a proposal to conduct “street releases” of illegals processed by Border Patrol agents‚ after receiving funding from a Homeland Security bill to continue operating illegal immigrant shelters. How long can America possibly sustain its welfare state free-handout system with the inundation of illegals constantly flooding the country on a daily basis?

Initiative that started “as a group of faculty members volunteering individually to help with the influx of migrants" soon “evolved” into “a course for students across the Health Sciences.” Arizona State University (ASU) is offering college credit to students who help a Catholic charity activist group facilitate illegal immigration. Yes‚ really. A university website explains that any student enrolled in an ASU Health Sciences program and some students from the ASU School of Social Work are eligible to “provide aid to migrants looking for a better life” at Casa Alitas in what the university calls the “MILAGRO Collaborative.” The university claimed the initiative started “as a group of faculty members volunteering individually to help with the influx of migrants‚” but then soon “evolved” into “a course for students across the Health Sciences.” Casa Alitas is a project of Catholic Community Services‚ which is a subsidiary of Catholic Charities‚ which has contracted with the City of Tucson since 2019 to provide shelter for illegal aliens.Introducing Next Level Foundational Energy from Dr. Jones Naturals starting at 30% off! This cutting-edge dietary supplement is designed to elevate your energy levels and support your overall well-being. Journalist James O’Keefe of O’Keefe Media Group last month infiltrated a secret government compound in Tucson run by Casa Alitas that was converted from a Ramada Hotel to house illegal aliens. BREAKING: O’Keefe Media Group infiltrates SECRET converted illegal immigrant compound CASA ALITAS Ramada Hotel in Tucson.This secret operation is funded by Catholic Community Services of Tucson and enriches groups like‚ “Las Palmas.”O’Keefe disguised himself as a homeless… pic.twitter.com/RTB4ea86az— James O'Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) February 7‚ 2024 O’Keefe found the group running a similar illegal immigration racket out of an old Bank Building in the Arizona border town of Nogales in January‚ also on the taxpayers’ dime. The group has also been identified by Wisconsin Rep. Tom Tiffany (R) as one of four major groups “aiding and facilitating illegal immigration” into Arizona. Tiffany blasted ASU’s illegal immigration outreach program on Tuesday‚ calling it “beyond unacceptable.” Arizona State University is offering students COLLEGE CREDIT in exchange for aiding Casa Alitas in facilitating illegal immigration.This is beyond UNACCEPTABLE. pic.twitter.com/SDQFVQ05vX— Rep. Tom Tiffany (@RepTiffany) March 26‚ 2024 Liberal colleges are now encouraging and recruiting students to aid and abet illegal immigration under the guise of humanitarian outreach while the shady NGOs they assist collect millions in taxpayer dollars. H/t Tom Pappert Follow Jamie White on X | Truth | Gab | Gettr | Minds

Alex Jones opens up the phone lines to hear from experts about what really happened to the Francis Scott Key bridge in Baltimore. Alex Jones opens the phone lines to talk with barge experts on what could have possibly happened to the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore‚ Maryland.

AI effortlessly generating e-commerce babes‚ hailing a new era of soulless advertising. Social media is going wild over a woman advertising body wipes for men. The only thing is — everything about the woman‚ from her voice‚ to her eyes to her hair‚ are entirely AI generated. In a head-spinning example of a new AI advertising platform known as Arcads‚ which creates ads using “AI actors‚” a woman appears as though she’s delivering a social media lecture on male hygiene. However‚ it soon becomes clear she’s reading a pre-written script pushing a product‚ and her eyes don’t exactly match up with the cadence of the words she’s saying. “You’re not gonna believe this‚” wrote one X user. URGENT! Keep Alex Jones in the fight against the NWO! Please pray &; contribute at DefendJones.com today! “It’s all AI. And you can leverage this in your marketing too‚” he wrote‚ adding‚ “Imagine what we will be able to do 1 year from now.” You’re not gonna believe this. it’s all AI. and you can leverage this in your marketing too. imagine what we will be able to do 1 year from now pic.twitter.com/RQ8DJNYRzW— Linus ●ᴗ● Ekenstam (@LinusEkenstam) March 26‚ 2024 Other X users also took notice of the technological advancement‚ with another writing‚ “This is AI. It’s actually so over.” This is AI. It’s actually so over. pic.twitter.com/ZgsMAzLTTK— Ate-a-Pi (@8teAPi) March 26‚ 2024 “It’s terrible but I still think it’s wild that this can all be done with AI. Imagine in 6 months‚” wrote another X user. It’s terrible but I still think it’s wild that this can all be done with AI. Imagine in 6 months… pic.twitter.com/L1ycB3IkAk— Beck 🎈 (@beckylitv) March 25‚ 2024 The video is an example of the Arcads platform at work‚ explained in the video below: Gone are the days of badly generated AI videos of Will Smith eating spaghetti and fake pizza restaurant commercials. Henceforth‚ videos of people online may have to be viewed with a certain level of skepticism. The future of AI is here and it’s alarming!