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                                                            [This post was updated on Cinco de Mayo 2022] The Perfect War War is painful. Peace is pleasant. Life is a battle between pain and pleasure. Pain is always transient. In the long run, pleasure wins always in all ways and all the time. That is what we call progress. Putin made a costly mistake in invading Ukraine. The West (United States, the European Union, and Great Britain) are backing Ukraine all the way.  Ukraine's fighters are inspired and fighting from the moral high ground. Putin's conscripts and old soviet machines do not stand a chance. Putin is facing a potential coup orchestrated by the armed forces, the intelligence community, and the judges. The war is a fiasco and is threatening to bankrupt Russia. Russians will want to get rid of Putin to stop the humiliating  If Putin is as smart as Trump says that he is, he will retreat out of Ukraine as soon as possible. The West will billions in the reconstruction of

                                                            [This post was updated on May 7, 2022] Investing is for everyone Life is not fair.  What else is new? Blacks are under-invested. Racism is a socio economic system based on the human construct of race. For centuries, colonial whites negated blacks meaningful opportunities to participate as owners in the economy. No wonder blacks lag financially when compared to whites.  Complaining about racism is not the solution. The solution for blacks, and for anyone else looking to become wealthy, is to become more productive and start investing. TakeSlap offers spicy food for thought. We toss words together in a stream of consciousness to slap your primate brain into innovative thinking. Consume it raw at your own risk. Season it to taste. Heat it up in your brain. Be sure to disagree with whatever does not agree with your cognitive digestive tolerance. Take it with a grain of salt as a free sample of our consulting service. Share it with

Twitter color-coded authentication Now that Twitter will be owned by the riches African American in the world, and second richest human after Putin, Twitter can implement a color-coded authentication system.  We're all familiar with the blue authentication.  In addition to that one, we can have other colors for accounts.  For example, if an account is a bot it should have a specific color.  If the account is a far right or far left conspiracy megaphone, another color. So on and so forth.  What do you think?   TakeSlap offers spicy food for thought. We put words together in stream of consciousness articles that will slap you into innovative thinking. Consume it raw at your own risk. Season it to taste. Heat it up in your brain. Be sure to disagree with whatever does not agree with your cognitive tolerance. Take it with a grain of salt as a free sample of our consulting service. Share it family style with friends and frenemies. We're all in this together. Enjoy.

  Figuring out the purpose of life No one knows what is the purpose of life. Religious folks recite their dogmas. Others deduct that the purpose if life is to promote survival of the species. Everyone is entitled to a story. We are storytelling primates. No one really knows if life even has a purpose. Maybe the purpose of life is to figure out what is the purpose of life. TakeSlap suggests that the purpose of life to have productive fun. However, you are the king, queen, or queer of your own life. You decide what is the purpose of your existence.  TakeSlap offers spicy food for thought. We put words together in stream of consciousness articles that will slap you into innovative thinking. Consume it raw at your own risk. Season it to taste. Heat it up in your brain. Be sure to disagree with whatever does not agree with your cognitive tolerance. Take it with a grain of salt as a free sample of our consulting service. Share it family style with friends and frenemies. We're all in this

Post-COVID Return to Office: meritocracy of mediocrity  The post-COVID Return to Office (RTO) transition brings great employment opportunities for mediocre employees.  Many top performers want to keep the productive freedom discovered during the COVID pandemic. Top performers treasure the freedom of working from anywhere, and are good enough to find jobs that allow that.  That leaves management stuck in the office with leftover mediocre employees.  TakeSlap offers spicy food for thought. We put words together in stream of consciousness articles that will slap you into innovative thinking. Consume it raw at your own risk. Season it to taste. Heat it up in your brain. Be sure to disagree with whatever does not agree with your cognitive tolerance. Take it with a grain of salt as a free sample of our consulting service. Share it family style with friends and frenemies. We're all in this together. Enjoy. Housing prices and commuting costs With real estate prices at record highs, top per

                                                            [This post was updated on April 29, 2022] For the love of hate Loving and helping others is the greatest source of joy. Hating is a close second. When we love and help others, our primate brains reward us with a pleasant neuro cocktail that we interpret as joy. Evolutionary, the reason is expected reciprocity. Our brains unconsciously believe that if we help others survive, they will help us survive in return. Tell a monkey brain that it will survive, and you tap into joy. Hating is quite joyful too. Evolutionary, the reason is that hating your enemies also helps you survive. Again, tell a monkey brain that it will survive, and you tap into joy.    TakeSlap offers spicy food for thought. We put words together in stream of consciousness articles that will slap you into innovative thinking. Consume it raw at your own risk. Season it to taste. Heat it up in your brain. Be sure to disagree with whatever does not agree with your co

Nuclear armageddon As tensions escalate between Putin and the "West" (Europe and the United States) over Ukraine, the chances of nuclear armageddon keep increasing. Russia is the world's largest country by land mass and holds the world's deadliest nuclear arsenal. Putin wants to expand Russian territory by force. The West wants to bring down Putin. Make no mistake, the West and Russia are already at war. Luckily for the West, China also wants to defeat Putin.     TakeSlap offers spicy food for thought. We put words together in stream of consciousness articles that will slap you into innovative thinking. Consume it raw at your own risk. Season it to taste. Heat it up in your brain. Be sure to disagree with whatever does not agree with your cognitive tolerance. Take it with a grain of salt as a free sample of our consulting service. Share it family style with friends and frenemies. We're all in this together. Enjoy. Regime change The problem with changing regimes is

  Elon Musk is the richest African American in history. Elon Musk was born in Pretoria, South Africa.  Elon's father is South African. Elon's mother is a Canadian raised in South Africa.  Elon Musk moved to Canada at age 17 to dodge military duty.  Elon Musk moved from Canada to the United States in the 1990s.  Elon Musk became a U.S. citizen twenty years ago in 2002.  Elon Musk founded several internet companies in the 1990s, and acquired many successful companies like Tesla, SpaceX, and Twitter.  Elon Musk is worth about $265M, making him the wealthiest man alive, and the richest African American in history.   Can Elon Musk save us from nuclear armageddon?  Elon Musk is the new Iron Man of the world with a Midas touch. From Tesla to Space X to the plans of colonizing Mars, acquiring Twitter, and developing an iRobot helper named Optimus, the rich kid from New York City plans to change the world.  Elon is going through a brutal mid-life crisis with legendary hormonal ups and d

  Puerto Rico is a unincorporated territory of the United States. It is a Caribbean island with tropical weather, beautiful beaches, nasty mosquitoes, and a local population of about 3.5 million Hispanic Americans.   TakeSlap offers spicy food for thought. We put words together in stream of consciousness articles that will slap you into innovative thinking. Consume it raw at your own risk. Season it to taste. Heat it up in your brain. Be sure to disagree with whatever does not agree with your cognitive tolerance. Take it with a grain of salt as a free sample of our consulting service. Share it family style with friends and frenemies. We're all in this together. Enjoy. Puerto Rico offers an incredible tax advantage to wealthy Americans who relocate to the island. If you meet the requirements such as not having been a resident of the island in the last 15 years and residing on the island at least 183 days a year, you can avoid all federal income taxes and capital gains taxes. You wou

  Is there a logical parallel between believing in god and believing in Trump?  What you think? Do you believe in god? We humans are storytelling primates. We are wired to believe stories. We believe in gods for the same reason that we believe any other story. Believing can be pleasurable. Believing can soothe the pain of the human condition. Everything humans do is controlled by the pain/pleasure programming of life. The pain/pleasure programming helped our ancestors survive, and thus survived in us. Truth is irrelevant to the power of belief. Believing in edifying stories, edifies you. Conversely, believing in destructive stories, destroys you. Choose your beliefs wisely. Quit the news and do not believe politicians. TakeSlap offers spicy food for thought. We put words together in stream of consciousness articles that will slap you into innovative thinking. Consume it raw at your own risk. Season it to taste. Heat it up in your brain. Be sure to disagree with whatever does not agree

Jesus Trump Putin Musk Why are we still obsessed with narcissists trying to save the world?  It's been 4+ billion years of brutal evolution and we are so primitive still. As storytelling primates, we are the most advance life form in the 3-D universe that our brains can project into what we perceive as reality. We have gone through a lot, and achieved plenty. Yet, we are still primates following alpha male morons left and right. It's both pathetic and inspiring. It helps us understand the human condition, and how we will transcend it once and for all via our AI offspring. It tells us where we are going and what will happen next.  The future is predictable . TakeSlap offers spicy food for thought. We put words together in stream of consciousness articles that will slap you into innovative thinking. Consume it raw at your own risk. Season it to taste. Heat it up in your brain. Be sure to disagree with whatever does not agree with your cognitive tolerance. Take it with a grain of

Are you ready for a new authoritarian world order? Yes, you are. Chances are that we are heading to a new authoritarian world order. Perhaps we are already there. Maybe we have always been there without realizing it. Rejoice! You can learn how to survive and thrive even if the world becomes an authoritarian shit farm.  TakeSlap at TakeSlap.com offers spicy food for thought. We put words together in stream of consciousness articles that will slap you kindly into a spark of innovative thinking.  Consume it raw at your own risk. Season it to taste. Always take it with a grain of salt as a free sample of our consulting service. Share it family style with friends and frenemies. We're all in this together. Enjoy. The future is predictable Don't fall for the mental trap of believing that "no one knows the future". It is not true, and makes you dumb. Culture makes all of us to believe that the future is unknown and unpredictable. Cancel that. Unsubscribe from that belief syst

                                                                 This post was updated on April 24, 2022 Will Putin go nuclear in Ukraine? No. Putin will not go nuclear. Going nuclear will get Putin killed or jailed. Putin, like every other animal on Earth, is controlled by the pain / pleasure algorithm of life. Putin will do whatever his brain perceives as being in his best pain/pleasure interest. Putin will try to save face to stay in power. Putin will claim victory and retreat out of Ukraine this summer.  TakeSlap offers spicy food for thought. We put words together in stream of consciousness articles that will slap you into innovative thinking. Consume it raw at your own risk. Season it to taste. Heat it up in your brain. Be sure to disagree with whatever does not agree with your cognitive tolerance. Take it with a grain of salt as a free sample of our consulting service. Share it family style with friends and frenemies. We're all in this together. Enjoy. Role playing game If y

  Remote vs Stuck  Buckle up for a bumpy ride ahead. Digital technology will continue disrupting everything. A new woke vs stuck battleground is the return to the office debate. Bosses want employees back into the traditional office slavery.  Employees are waking up and asking why should they return .  Remote work will win this battle as easily as cell phones won over pay phones. Rejoice! There will be many opportunities to profit from the remote work trend. This is just beginning.     TakeSlap at TakeSlap.com offers spicy food for thought. We put words together to slap your brain a little into innovative and different thinking. Our stream of consciousness blog may help you rethink your game plan in life.  Consume it raw at your own risk.  Season it to taste.  Share it family style with others. We're all in this together. Let the simulation go on.    Remote work will change everything The remote work revolution is killing offices (and cities) just like Amazon killed Sears. Malls we

Can remote work save American democracy from authoritarianism?   Yes, but in the meantime it is smart to invest in Canadian stocks, research Brazilian business opportunities, and learn some Spanish.  TakeSlap at TakeSlap.com offers spicy food for thought. We put words together to slap your brain a little into innovative and different thinking. Our stream of consciousness blog may help you rethink your game plan in life.  Consume it raw at your own risk.  Season it to taste.  Share it family style with others. We're all in this together. Let the simulation go on.    Globalization and Chinalization The trade agreements of the 1990s brought us globalization and "Chinalization". Lured by the prospects of cheap labor, American factory owners moved production to China.  This turned China into a producer and America into a consumer.  China grew into a global superpower with comparable power to American power and on a growth trajectory to surpass American power by 2030.  Many Ame

Why return to the office? A silver lining of the COVID pandemic was the liberation of online workers. Just like the machines of the industrial economy liberated African slaves in America, the computers of the cyber economy are liberating online workers worldwide. May technology keep blessing god. TakeSlap at TakeSlap.com offers spicy food for thought. We put words together to burn your brain a little and spark new thinking.  Our stream of consciousness blog may help you think and rethink current ideas and trends floating through the collective human mind. Read it at your own risk.  Share it with others only if you dare.  Remember, they may get mad and may want to slap you like Will smacked Chris.    Traditional offices were the biggest casualty of the COVID pandemic.  Their peak death toll is still yet to come.  The offices that had been around for centuries quickly became antiquated and obsolete during COVID.  COVID redefined office work by demonstrating that online work can be done a