brianala

If you’re in the south or a warm climate - a whole house fan. You don’t typically find these in newer construction anymore but they can really save you a bundle on cooling costs.

The phrasing you reference is not intended to reference a theistic creator, rather as a way to acknowledge that it is not the role of government to confer rights to the people - we are owed them inherently. “Our creator” could just as readily be interpreted to mean a series of entirely natural processes that can be explained by scientific principles.

The founding fathers themselves explicitly acknowledged that the government was not founded on religious principles on many, many occasions. If you need more details on this, the anti-defamation league has compiled several good quotes here: https://www.adl.org/sites/default/files/documents/assets/pdf/civil-rights/religiousfreedom/PORF-StatsFF.pdf

You are free to believe (or not) in anything you like, but there is no place within our government for the consideration of religious beliefs in how we make or apply our laws.

I signed up for Mastodon awhile back but never really got into it since I don’t really do Twitter much either. I have been reading about lemmy but didn’t sign up until today.

It was a little confusing trying to sign up, the first instance I tried to sign up with had a waiting period for account approvals but I finally found one I could sign up with instantly and then I started poking around. I think I am getting the hang of it!

I have also downloaded Mlem to test on my iphone. It’s easy and simple to use, not a lot of features yet but it seems promising.

So far outside of a bit of focus time to figure out how to actually get signed up and find communities to subscribe to I’m cautiously optimistic. This seems more like how the older days of the internet were, before the enshittification of social media. Let’s see if this trend continues!