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Chernobyl Mini Series Review

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Imagine you put your hand in a fire, but this fire does not hurt, you can barely feel something warm from it. Meanwhile, you hand is melting off… Imagine instead of placing your hand into the fire, you were just close enough to only be burnt drastically if you stay there for a long enough time, and the person right beside you knew and did not tell you until it is too late and you were already going to lose your hand or maybe even worse… Radiation is a complex and horrific death process that is described in the HBO series Chernobyl Some of the greatest stories to be told in the history of the world are those that have been silenced or forgotten. Chernobyl is one of the best series I have had the pleasure of watching since Breaking Bad. Yeah I said it! It is a profound study of consequences in a horrific and truthful manner. Hundreds of thousands of people dead and a large majority of those were due to ignorance.  I think if there is something controversial about my opinion on

The Genie Effect: WWDC2019

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Apple is not a company build on maybe’s and should be’s, it did not go from underdog to industry leader with guessing and rushing. Apple is Apple because THEIR identity is defined, strong, and DRIVES them every day, product, keynote and update. Last week WWDC 2019 happened and we realized Apple listens, even when they make mistakes, even when they take more time than most wish… They are not your personal technology company. Why I open with that paragraph is simple: many or few years after people asked them Apple delivered and delivered BIG. Let me break down this statement to the specifics: watchOS 6: they listened to everyone asking for more and more independence of the watch with the App Store and the capability of apps to run locally leave the iPhone behind more every day. However, they also presented to us the HEALTH focus of this device. We never asked for it to save lives, to have an ECG, to help us become healthier and even to ask us if we are ok when we fall. But thos