So I have two turtles, a female eastern box turtle named Morticia and a male ornamental box turtle named Digger. Both are heathly weight, neither are exibiting signs of illness, and I custom built their enclosure to fit their range and environmental needs with the temp ranging from 70° to 80° f and humidity of between 70% and 90%. They have a pool that I refill, heat lamp, UVB lamp, variable terrain, rocks to climb, plants (for Digger to murder), spagnum moss, and gravel, coconut husk, and soil to dig in, as well as outside time when weather permits it. They have a regular diet of crickets, mega worms, vegetables, fruits, and occasionally cooked chicken bits and egg shell. All of this is to say, I've done my research and I'm pretty well versed on the care.
Digger is ADHD Incarnate. He runs laps, digs holes, fights rocks, murders every single plant that tries to grow, takes a warm bath and does it again. If I'm working on my computer he comes up to the air slots on the front of the tank and judges me for putting plants in his terf.
Morty sits. She has a spot equal distance from both lights with partial shade from a driftwood log and she will not move from that spot ever under any circumstances. If she's not sitting comfortably half shelled and watching the world around her, she's sleeping, splayed out like she's dead, head resting on the edge of the pool like a pillow. She will begrudging move to eat, but will take it back to her spot if. She does. I've checked, and there are no eggs under her. If you try to move her anywhere else she makes her way back to her spot. If you take her out of the enclosure she shells up until shes back in the enclosure, then goes back to her spot. She will only move with any level of urgency for Watermelon.
I have taken her to the vet about this and aside from stating that she's in good health, his only advice was to pick her up and move her so she has to walk back to her spot or put her food out of reach so she has to move towards it. It's so consistent that I'm worried about her health, it can't be good for anything to be that sedentary and Digger moving at the speed of sound just makes it look all the more concerning. The vet's only suggestion was putting her food further away or moving her around. What do I do about this?
Because decades of propaganda has conditioned us to do so. They couldn't attack communism because the ideals of communism are actually great to 99% of the population, so instead they painted communism with the blood that people abusing communism shed and told us all it was the nature of the beast.
I do not know if it's my genuine and jaded opinion or my programming as a USian, but I also have a distaste for Communism. The ideals are all that I want in the world but I can't think of any situation where it wasn't immediately transformed into authoritarian or destroyed from the outside. It feels half baked, so close to done but lacking the internal structure to transition from the representative system we've been using since gods ordained kings. Without that, bad actors will always have an easy access to power and like a cancer they are not so readily cut out when they metastasis.
Personally, I think the only way to organize more than 50 humans is to take humans out of the equation. Power will always encourage the darker impulses of man, so why let it be the option? I'd propose technocracy. None of this llm bullshit, no AI singularity, just statistics, data, and analysis processed by an open source, fully transparent, machine. We know population statistics to a fraction of a percent, how do you gerrymander if the computer can district a state to have functionally identical population distribution. A token representative body selected by the machine from each district for their abilities to maintain the machine and update it prevents cult of personality from putting the unqualified in power. Changes to regulation can be posed and voted on by text, no human hand to disqualify you for a hanging chad. Changes preferred are implemented in the best statistically possible way as long as they don't go against the core principle in the computer. All of this could be run on the server I use to run jellyfin, most of it has been proposed to the government multiple times over the last 50 years, but why would a man release power to a thing that would destroy him?