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Its pretty much a well known fact that some people choose to bully and this can come even with no abuse at home. I think this can be example of just straight up sadism. Sadism is the enjoyment of others pain and suffering and its on a spectrum with and we even have a type of sadism called everyday sadism. We don't know what causes sadism although it could be a combination of genetics and and life experiences. Even if parents are moral people and try to teach their kid in the best direction those with moderate to severe sadism might still choose to act cruel simply because their brains see cruelness as rewarding. This could also be Antisocial Personality Disorder were these people's empathy center is naturally turned off leading to a brain that's only stimulated by reward. Even if someone was raised right you still can't change these people because their brain wasn't designed for empathy only reward and once these people's brains find being an asshole rewarding its pretty much hard to stop that association with reward. For these people being an asshole isn't seen as wrong, its seen as just a reward. what are y'all thoughts on this take.

We all know the Island of Sodor doesn't exist even though it dose feel like a real place especially in the earlier seasons of Thomas the Tank Engine but what if the Island of Sodor did exist. How would if affect the railways of Britain and steam preservation in general

We all know what happened to Chrysler's Turbine Cars. the footage of the scrapping was one of the most heartbreaking things I''ve ever seen. I can't even go through the whole video without just clicking off to something happier. But what if, Chrysler decided not to scrap the turbine cars and instead paid for the turbine cars to stay in the U.S. so that they wouldn't have to either be crushed or sent back to Italy?

Christian Nationalism and Islamic Extremism are two very dangerous ideologies that call for nothing more than to have as much Earthly power as possible because as humans, when we think of having a kingdom and power we tend to think of an Earthly Kingdom were we can immediately get power to fuel our egos rather than a heavenly kingdom. Here is a comparison between the two.

Similarities:

Both Christian Nationalist and Islamic Extremist believe it is their duty to create an Earthly Kingdom where their values are imposed onto everyone which dose not lead to a happy populus.

Both Christian Nationalist and Islamic Extremist think they're better than everyone else because they're narcissist who have inflated senses of self worth and egos often trying to mask their feelings of inadaquacy called insecurities.

Both want nothing more than power often times because they think having power can heal their pain but their false belief actual can cause harm to others.

Differences:

Christian Nationalism pushed the idea of forcing Christianity onto everyone through power because of a power hunger driven by deep seated insecurity and also Christian Nationalism is mostly a far right movement.

Islamic Extremism pushes the Idea that Muslims should fight the non believers in order to achive the goal of making Islam global. Many parts of the Quran depict prophet Muhammad telling followers to kill those who resist Islam and those who refuse to pay tax to continue their faith if they refuse Islam and prophet Muhammad did conquer many people and Although he did allow protections for Jews and Christians, that was only if they paid the tax to continue their faith.

Many Islamic Extremist also lack education and pain driven by a lack of education can make for a deadly poison that can lead to severe consequences for both the extremist and the people they hurt.

This is my Comparison between Islamic Extremism and Christian Nationalism. what are y'all thoughts on it.

We all know that in the mid 20th century around the 1950s and the 1960s steam locomotives were withdrawn in favor of diesel locomotives causing many classes to go extinct such as the Pennsylvania Railroad duplexes, New York Central Hudsons, and in Britain various tank engine classes such as the E2s and a weird locomotive built by the Southern Railway called the Leader Class and we also know that many classes of steam loco also went extinct before dieselization but what if we decided to preserve at least one member of every steam locomotive class in the world. I could see us getting more locomotives to haul excursions and more locomotives ending up in museums

we all know that Amtrak formed in the 1970s to fill in the void left behind by the dying passenger railroads of America. But what will happen if Amtrak was never created? what would have happened then? Would some private company eventually create a passenger rail company or would we just be forced to use the Interstates?