Former President Donald Trump mocked Vice President Kamala Harris’ staged endorsement call from Barack and Michelle Obama at his campaign rally on Wednesday. Speaking to a crowd of thousands in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Trump said the “radical Left Democratic Party bosses have installed a puppet candidate to fight only for themselves.” “Kamala Harris got zero votes,” Trump said. “She’s totally scripted, owned, and controlled by the donors and the power brokers who created her campaign. Who rip off our government and make billions and billions of dollars.” “Unlike her, I cannot be bought and I cannot be controlled. I have no interest in that,” he added. “Because everything about Kamala Harris’ roll out, it’s phony and it’s fake,” Trump continued. “Did you see when President Obama and Michelle called, ‘Hello, hello, yes, yes, who is this? Oh, this is Michelle and Barack. Oh, so surprised to hear. They got four cameras in front.” Trump continued mocking Harris, acting surprised to hear from the Obamas, noting that the call was on speaker phone.  “‘Oh, I’m so surprised,’” the former president said, imitating Harris’ call. “‘Listen, we just wanted to congratulate you on destroying Joe Biden. I mean, on winning the….” Trump went on to discuss Harris’ failure as the border czar, allowing the U.S. to be flooded with illegal immigrants. He also discussed the Biden-Harris administration’s failure to keep Americans safe, control inflation, and improve the economy. It was Trump’s first time in Pennsylvania since Thomas Mattew Crooks attempted to assassinate the former president at a rally in Butler on July 13. Crooks shot Trump in his right ear, killed one of Trump’s supporters, and injured two other attendees.  Related: ‘Let Me Bring It Back To Modern Day’: Trump Flips Script On Jan 6 Gotcha Question

Finding ways to get a fussy toddler to eat can be challenging. Bryanna Gray has some interesting and effective mom hacks to get her fussy toddler to eat. Bry’s vlog is cram-packed with great parenting advice, tips, and tricks for raising kids in a busy household. The single mom has a great grasp on how her kids’ minds work. She shares these mom hacks and how to get a toddler to eat in several installments. @bryplustwo This is for those people who just think I have a child whos happy to eat everything #foryou #mumsoftiktok #kidsoftiktok ♬ original sound – Bry plus two Today, she is feeding her toddler burritos. Her genius mom hack begins with not acknowledging him when he says he isn’t going to eat it. She doesn’t ignore him, and she just goes on with food prep without acknowledging his reluctance. She makes faces on the tortillas using the ingredients for their burritos, beginning with some glue (sour cream). Image from TikTok. On her own burrito, she uses tomato slices for the eyes. Encouraging her son to join the fun, he opts for many eyes. The building continues with the addition of a nose, which might be a chicken nugget. She convinces her son that his “monster” might need a second nose. She adds funny hair using a shredded carrot, and her son follows along. The whole time he is building his burrito, he repeats that he isn’t going to eat it. Image from TikTok. Bry keeps going, rolling her burrito and taking a bite. Her son has some issues rolling his, so she leans over to help. She picks up the burrito, and in a tiny, high-pitched monster voice, she says, “Don’t eat me! Don’t eat me!” As she guides the burrito toward her son’s mouth, he opens wide and takes a huge bite! She helps him finish the entire burrito while also taking time to eat her own lunch. Mom Hacks To Help You Everyday Bryanna shares many genius mom hacks and great tips on her TikTok channel. There are at least six different methods to get your toddler to eat. This mom talks about many of the concerns young parents of toddlers have. She shares activities and trips and touches on dating, shopping, and budget management. As the mother of two small children, Bryanna has a great grasp on life and how to raise happy, thriving children. Follow her on TikTok and share in her genius mom hacks. To get her toddler to eat, Bryanna uses different techniques each time to ensure her toddler has a good diet. You can find the source of this story’s featured image here. The post Mom Shares Clever Yet Simple Hack For Getting Toddler To Eat All His Food appeared first on InspireMore.

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A controversial team of physicists say they are about to conduct a series of quantum tests to try to determine whether we are living in a simulation or not. We live in a real universe, as far as we can tell – but to be fair it's a pretty weird one. In the quantum world, things really get strange. One particular oddity is shown in the double slit experiment, which has been puzzling physicists for nearly a century, and which the team plans to exploit in their test of whether the world is really real.When you shine a light through two slits on a screen, it creates an interference pattern where the waves interfere with each other on the other side of the slit. When it was first discovered, this was evidence that light behaves as a wave. But if you fire photons (or electrons, or even some molecules) individually at the screen, which scientists have done, eventually you will still get an interference pattern. It's as if a single photon went through both slits as a wave, which then collapsed itself.               It gets weirder. If you design your experiment with detectors so that you know which way the photon passed through, the interference pattern does not emerge. Physicists have been puzzling over this for a long time, and have a number of explanations, each with their own degree of weirdness. In the many worlds interpretation, for weirdest example, every time we measure a system in a superposition of many different possible states, we see only one version when we measure it, and the rest plays out in another universe. In others, such as pilot wave theory, the particle we measure rode in on a wave.Quantum mechanics is difficult, but is our best interpretation of the small world, and physicists continue to work on the problem. Some believe that observation is important to the collapse of the wave function, while others think there is a physical solution which we haven't got our heads around just yet. We see weird results all the time, and many of them are misinterpreted.               But one controversial (and likely incorrect) idea is that reality is a simulation, and that we only see it when it is rendered to us. In 2017, a group of physicists proposed a few methods of finding out in their paper "On Testing the Simulation Theory" with varying degrees of complexity. Their idea rests on the assumption that the simulation would have limited resources, and so isn't simulating everything in the universe all at the same time. As such, the simulation would act much like a computer game, only rendering the parts of the simulation that are being observed by a "player" at the time. Sort of like how in some video games, the entire observable universe off-screen is not rendered to save on computer power (a wise move).The key to finding out whether we are in a simulated universe or a real one, according to the team, is to find out when information becomes available to us, the observers."To save itself computing work, the system only calculates reality when information becomes available for observation by a player, and to avoid detection by players it maintains a consistent world, but occasionally, conflicts that are unresolvable lead to VR indicators and discontinuities (such as the wave/particle duality)," the authors wrote in the paper, posted to pre-print server arXiv. Should it only be at the time of observation by an observer (and not the apparatus), the team suggests this would be evidence that it is only being "rendered" at the point of observation, meaning that we are living in a simulation. By using a series of abstractions, they propose that it might be possible to find (should we live in a simulation) that the information is only given to us at the point of observation. To do this, they aimed to create versions of the double-slit experiment that would show us when information becomes available to us.“Two strategies can be followed to test the simulation theory," the team, led by Thomas Campbell, a former applied physics scientist for NASA and the Department of Defense, explains in the paper. "1: Test the moment of rendering. 2: Exploit conflicting requirement of logical consistency preservation and detection avoidance to force the VR rendering engine to create discontinuities in its rendering or produce a measurable signature event within our reality that indicates that our reality must be simulated."In one of the simplest of their proposed experiments, the which-way data and screen data are collected on two separate USB drives, and not seen by an experimenter. Keep doing this, and you have a lot of flash drives that contain which-way data, and screen data. You then destroy the which-way data USBs based on a coin flip."Destruction must be such that the data is not recoverable and no trace of the data is left on the computer that held and transferred the data. For n even, one can replace the coin-flipping randomization by that of randomly selecting a subset composed of half of the pairs of USB flash drives containing which-way data for destruction (with uniform probability over such subsets)," they say in the paper."The test is successful if the USB flash drives storing impact patterns show an interference pattern only when the corresponding which-way data USB flash drive has been destroyed."So, if you open up the screen data and see wave patterns when the corresponding which-way USB stick has been destroyed, that would mean that the simulation had rendered reality at the point of observation (you opening the file) and not when observed by the detector. The team proposed other more complicated versions of the experiment, which are available in their paper. While a fun idea to think about in science fiction, the team actually raised money via a Kickstarter to actually perform the experiment. It is not clear which experiment they have chosen to go ahead with, but the team explained that the tests are being carried out at California State Polytechnic University (CalPoly), Pomona. A Canadian university also involved in the research has chosen to stay anonymous, according to a press release."The idea here is that consciousness is not a product of the simulation — it is fundamental to reality,” Campbell said in the press release. “If all five experiments work as expected, this will challenge the conventional understanding of reality and uncover profound connections between consciousness and the cosmos.”While big talk, it would take some seriously impressive and replicable results to upend anything, let alone provide evidence that we are living in a simulation. Results, in the unlikely event that they are interesting, will be open to interpretation, just like all the other strange results of quantum experiments. Quantum mechanics is weird, and people have gotten very carried away while thinking about the double slit experiment, and thought experiments like Schrödinger's cat. These things are difficult to interpret, but there are a rich variety of explanations for what we observe better than that we are in a crummy simulation with a limited amount of power, rendering reality to us at the moment of observation. 

A 12,000-year-old human skeleton found along the banks of the Tigris River may have belonged to a shaman who was believed to connect the natural world and the supernatural world. If that interpretation is on point, it would be the earliest known example of the complex cultural behavior reported in this part of the world.The body, known as ÇH 2019/05, belonged to an adult female aged between 25 and 30. She discovered at the Neolithic settlement of Çemka Höyük in southeastern Türkiye under the floor of a building that was covered with limestone slabs.Most unusually, she was laid to rest alongside the bodies of several other animals, including the remains of sheep or goats, partridge wings, marten legs, and the skull of an aurochs (the extinct wild ancestor of modern domestic cattle).Dating to over 12,000 years old, the burial is exceptionally old, stemming from a period when all humans in the world were living as hunter-gatherers. However, bear in mind that this part of the world is full of archaeological surprises that show early developments of human culture, such as the world’s oldest temple Göbekli Tepe in southeastern Türkiye.Given that agriculture hadn’t emerged yet, the animals must have been undomesticated and wild. Since the grave had been sealed, it’s highly unlikely the bones ended up there by accident.Furthermore, it appears animal remains were consciously placed on different parts of the woman’s body. For instance, the main part of the aurochs skull was situated on her chest, while the jaw bone was laid by her feet. An illustration from the study showing how the body was found alongside different bones.Image courtesy of Ergül KodasIn a new study, archaeologists and anthropologists from Mardin Artuklu University took a deep dive into this curious burial, concluding that the person was a shaman or perhaps had been buried by someone practicing a shamanistic ritual. Shamans are people believed to possess the ability to communicate with spirits and guide their communities through rituals involving chanting, art, song, and the use of psychedelics. Many Neolithic cultures also dabbled with animism, the belief that all things – from animals and plants to rivers and weather – have a spiritual essence and, in a sense, are living. Animals, in particular, were often seen as powerful spiritual beings and guides. They were also potent symbols that represented abstract concepts, like strength, power, and bravery.Considering this context, the researchers conclude that they “strongly believe that burial ÇH 2019/05 at Çemka Höyük fits within the definition of shaman burial traditions.”“[W]e can mark that she was treated differently than the other members of the community. [The] circumstances of this unique burial may indicate that she played a role in the relationship between the world of humans and animals, which could be understood that she may have been practicing what we relate nowadays with the practice of animism and shamanism,” the study authors write in their paper.“On the other hand, we do not know what made her ‘special’. Perhaps she just was a ‘mad’ or ‘crazy’ person touched by the ‘spirits’ of the other world and therefore feared by the majority of the community and the Aurochs remains and the limestone slabs should ensure that she is not returning from the dead,” they write.The study is published in the journal L'Anthropologie.

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A Republican primary recount is being held Thursday to settle whether John McGuire, a state senator backed by former President Donald Trump, narrowly defeated incumbent Rep. Bob Good, R-Va., a conservative who chairs the hard-right House Freedom Caucus.

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