What are you watching?

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BBC (Duncan Campbell, 1987) 'Secret Society'


https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0815076/

6 episodes were planned, but the rug was pulled when covering Zircon (episodes found on his Vimeo https://vimeo.com/user8215679 )?

(The link titles don't match up with the order on IMDB though I'll correct them as I find alternatives.)
The titles differ from those shown here (which might be the original air sequence) : https://archive.org/details/@psilos_kube which I'll attempt to explain below.

1-We're All Data Now


2- In Time of Crisis


3 - A Power in the Land (The Association of Chief Police Officers)


4 - Skywatch (which is about the AWAC surveillance system)


Part 5 - Zircon (never officially aired, about the spy satellite program)


Part 6 (?) - Cabinet

This episode is the version that was aired (and seems to differ greatly, as the original version had the guy canned.)
https://archive.org/details/SecretSocie ... nstitution

(The above must have been a pilot episode that was redone and possibly aired only once and forgotten about, after the firing of the BBC Director General Alasdair Milne,) after which point it was then scrapped. You will notice with the Zircon episode, that they tried to hush it up as 'Zippy' when the actual topic was about a spy satellite (Zircon.) The Journalist Duncan Campbell would no longer introduce the episodes (as shown in his original version, and from that point on the episodes that aired were restructured with an adjusted format of the episodes.)

The sequence of all 6 episodes should then be:
1 - We're all Data Now (replacing the 'Cabinet' episode as first.)
2 - In Time of Crisis
3 - A Power in the Land (The Association of Chief Police Officers)
4 - Skywatch (which is about the AWAC surveillance system)
5 - Zircon (never officially aired, about the spy satellite program)
6 - Cabinet (Which may only have had a re-release for a different BBC channel since it appears to have not been released initially?)

(Cabinet is an episode as shown which has two very different-looking versions, the other of which is available in the 'Duncan Campbell' Vimeo account, but the episodes seemed to have been restructured while omitting the Zircon episode, and seemingly skipping Cabinet, since it never ended up airing again?)

The only similar parallel I can think of is the original Star Trek series which would have had a different Captain. . . but it didn't quite work out in the series's favor.

Some other stuff
https://archive.org/details/@the_duke_m ... _film_club

(admittedly, I'm shaking my head too when I look over the videos)
https://archive.org/details/bitchute_-_ ... yhead_2021




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A film that seems to go over people's heads (hint, this is far more than a movie,) and it also shows us the risk that things like AI poses when we underestimate the effects of what we perceive as "real," is a simulacrum.









The Guatemalan Handshake (2006)


Open Yale Course: European Civilization, 1648-1945 with Professor John Merriman
https://archive.org/details/OpenYaleCou ... rriman_794

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Quatermass and the Pit (Roy Ward Baker, 1967)


https://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/roy_ward_baker

He's also known for this Moon sci-fi and a Titanic movie.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064691/





It could be worse? (always look on the bright side of life?)


North Korea - Gigantic Parade with Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il





ITALIAN SPIDERMAN (2007) (Complete & Uncut)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2705436/



Edge of Tomorrow Wasn’t a Video Game, but It’s the Best Video Game Movie
https://www.escapistmagazine.com/edge-o ... ame-movie/

I was cynical going into this movie, though it's pretty decent.


Similarly, I had no idea that Nomadland became something of a critique of the gig economy, such as Amazon, and actually filmed there.
https://www.thewrap.com/how-nomadland-m ... mcdormand/







Parks and Recreation series
https://archive.org/details/2021-3-9-tmp0x-2f6cb699
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/parks_and_recreation

A Year in Space (ISS docu)
https://archive.org/details/2021-3-6-tmp0x-efafd0be

Derivative nonsense from Disney.

WandaVision (2021)
https://archive.org/details/2021-3-5-tmp0x-a6b620d1
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/wandavision/s01


The Croods
https://archive.org/details/2021-2-28-tmp0x-6699f64b




U.S. recovered non-human 'biologics' from UFO crash sites, former intel official says
https://www.npr.org/2023/07/27/11903903 ... ogics-uaps

Here are the 5 most memorable moments from Congress’ UFO hearing
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congre ... -rcna96476

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I've been trying to find an odd comedy that came out about a decade ago, involving a midget that likes pizza (one scene involved the pizza being too damp because it wasn't cooked hot enough,) but it seems to not show up on Google search, though I think it had a theme of a spy/ninja?

Alternatively:



Little People, Big Woes in Hollywood: Low Pay, Degrading Jobs and a Tragic Death
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movie ... dy-922261/

Verne Troyer’s tragic death underlines the harm Mini-Me caused people with dwarfism
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/a ... tin-powers


https://indiefilmcafe.reviews/2018/03/1 ... ight-only/


It seems the cover art was used in the followup sequel (it should have had a different-looking preview image?)

The Impossible Kid of Kung Fu (Eddie Nicart, 1982) Weng Weng


And holy crap are their worse movies:
https://www.youtube.com/@sinclair1420

(For example, apparently, Ukrainian females get genocided by gay space-faring black men in this movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3nVF5Bp48Q )
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaynigger ... uter_Space

The Search for Weng Weng
https://tubitv.com/movies/525852/the-se ... -weng-weng








Blocking The Path To 9/11 (John Ziegler, 2008)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1305546/


In the Shadow of 9-11 (FRONTLINE, 2021)

[Roger Mexico]

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Hawa aka Wind (Mejbaur Rahman Sumon, 2022) Nazifa Tushi (has a nice tooshie. . . See for yourself https://www.facebook.com/NazifaTushiOff ... 57/?type=3 )
https://archive.org/download/MoviesMovi ... viesMovies
Subtitles are needed: https://subdl.com/subtitle/sd1665414/hawa

It's a Bangladesh film involving a fishing boat, while a British film came out with the same exact name in 2022 on Amazon, involving an albino.









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Peter Dinklage's early film The Station Agent (Richard Linklater, 2003) prior to Game of Thrones.


The tavern location (it must have had pretty good advertising, and the movie would have remained in the spotlight with his success as an actor.)
https://goo.gl/maps/MqMYszGpTbuyDP9x9

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Station_Agent
The Station Agent was shot on 16 mm film in 20 days with a budget of half a million dollars.[3]

Top 50 Modern Day Low Budget Movies
https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/top-50 ... et-movies/


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Full series about the American Revolution


Playlist https://youtu.be/QParA8h9UY4?list=PL75q ... E51zAxZgZo

A bunch of documentaries linked
https://topdocumentaryfilms.com/category/911/


Forensics
https://fb.watch/mfM1bwRfTc/?mibextid=NnVzG8p



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'Outdoor Fundamentals: Everything You Need to Know to Stay Safe' by Elizabeth K. Andre, PhD Professor, Northland College

https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses ... -stay-safe
The DVD set is cheaper on Amazon, though I would much rather just read a book on the topic (people really shouldn't be watching videos to learn about this topic, unless they actually need a visual representation of it, which most won't.)


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Project Veritas is a lying news agency, though here are some videos
https://archive.org/details/projectveritas



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Society favors the educated, but meritocracy is undermined by misguided ideas about what constitutes intelligence.

vid
https://iai.tv/video/the-myths-of-merit ... _auid=2020





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https://documentaryheaven.com/reality-a ... nded-mind/

Followup https://noetic.org/blog/reality-and-the ... ars-later/


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Norman Borlaug introduced farming techniques that assisted people to get out of famine.



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https://www.ranker.com/list/mean-orca-facts/eric-vega





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A Finnish person walking around Finland. . .



They seem to be walking around a well-known area:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%A4meentie

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The United States Couldn’t Stop Being Stupid if It Wanted To
https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/12/13/th ... wanted-to/








https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maharishi_Mahesh_Yogi

He's a con job. . .




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I recall finding one of those letters/cards in the mid-1990s that was addressed to the previous owner of the house (which my mom had bought after it had fallen into foreclosure) and I was tempted to wonder about the potential promise that a psychic would have of their prospective business decision. . . Evidently, it would only have been worse for him.

In Australia, someone who is a purported genius (and a member of many high-IQ societies who he also honors members of with his own brand of 'Genius of the Year' award, to people who likewise have the same misfortune as the previous homeowner had years ago) had suffered major head trauma as a child and claims that afterwords they developed amazing psychic powers, which weren't sufficient enough to give him insight into his wife's cancer which she died from. He continues to operate a psychic phone service for people to get ahold of 'Psychics' who will solve all of their life's problems. . . He may well be a genius in his own way.



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I have multiple versions of the same damn games, such as Batman Arkham Asylum/City/Knight, and
DEUS EX: HUMAN REVOLUTION - DIRECTOR'S CUT, which I never got around to playing to get to the DLC, so to clear it off the hard drive I would rather just watch the video.



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4:20 the McClouds lost their heads? "There can be only one!" ?


While falling asleep and waking up to this next video, I assumed the video creator was just a really bad writer, only to realize it was in fact Manly P Hall who wrote about the Mayan's and Aztecs, where he repeats himself and seems to get really confused about both the Mayan and Aztecs (enough to make me nearly go into a rage and do my own research to clarify what seemed to be shoddy research on there part.

The Secret Destiny Of America - Manly P. Hall



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More urbex channels (found on Facebook, they had just did a live stream of what appears to be 'Five Sisters Freeport Shopping Village' opened in 1996 and following the opening of a 'Livingston Designer Outlet' indoor mall in 2000, became empty within a year, and closed in 2004. https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/i ... e-25787442

The video has yet to be posted on Youtube, though I'll probably go over some of them.

https://www.facebook.com/mrairbornefoot ... tid=ZbWKwL
https://www.youtube.com/@MrAirborne/videos






Gargoyles (1994)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108783/
https://archive.org/details/gargoyles-1080p-ai-upscale




Batman -The Animated Series (1992-1995)
https://archive.org/download/dump832794e23
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103359/

I just realized Season 4 only has 5-6 episodes on the IMDB (though actually continues on nearly the same number of episodes as the other seasons, though 20 of which are attributed to a rebranded 'Batman and Robin' depending on which channel was broadcasting it.



Aside from this list (which summarizes three series starting from the 1993 production of 65 episodes and 20 more other episodes attributed to 'The Adventures of Batman & Robin' as season 2 (which I can't seem to find much reference to online apart from video games and the live-action movie that would come out) with a new series starting from 1997 being The New Batman Adventures which not many care about.
https://batman.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_ ... s_Episodes
https://batman.fandom.com/wiki/Batman:_ ... ted_Series




A longer cartoon related to the series is here:




The X-Men animated series was also decent.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103584/
Original - https://archive.org/details/x-men-the-a ... eries-1992
AI upscale (same apx 9 gig) https://archive.org/details/x-men-the-a ... ale_202204


Spider-Man Unlimited (1999) **is really bad**
https://archive.org/details/spider-man- ... 999_202211
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0207120/


Futurama 1-5 seasons
https://archive.org/details/futurama-s1 ... ai-upscale
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0149460/


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Babylon 5 (1993) **I need to get around to this one**
Seasons 1-3 https://archive.org/details/babylon-5-1993
Seasons 4-5 https://archive.org/details/babylon-5-1993-part-2
Pilot and longer "movies" https://archive.org/details/babylon-5-1 ... als-extras
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105946/

A good guideline to determine what episodes should be focused on:
https://mpierre.com/index.php?id=23


The best post (with comments) on the series



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X-Files side projects:
Millennium (1996) https://archive.org/download/tt0115270
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115270/

The Lone Gunmen (2001) - https://archive.org/download/tt0243069
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0243069/




Alternatively a Friday the 13th: The Series (1987) (mostly unrelated to the movies, and more of a curio shop theme?)
https://archive.org/details/friday-the- ... eries-1987
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092357/


800 gigabytes of a TV program called Dark Shadows (1966–1971) I hadn't even heard about until now
https://archive.org/details/dark-shadows_202210
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059978/

Insanely it has 1,230 titles from those few years. . . Each episode file is as big as most movie files.

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A British crime drama called Line of Duty (Season 2-3)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2303687/ep ... t_eps_sn_2
Season 1 - https://archive.org/download/Test2234234
Season 2 - https://archive.org/download/test9821732802
Season 3 - https://archive.org/download/tes3084238432

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I recall when the story broke the stepmother was being suspected in the disappearance, though it very evidently has nothing connected to her (though I figure, when she was having her discussion with the stepdaughter and fell asleep, only to find her near her writing on a piece of paper, there could have been a bit of interest in what she was writing, or a followup when she left in the early morning hour?)



(around 7 minutes in) I can't seem to find any info on her being brought to Tonopah, NV, though it seems like a likely location if someone picked her up from that area ( US-6, Chalfant Valley, CA 93514 ). 'The World Famous Clown Motel' in Tonopah seems like one of those places, that once you enter, you can never leave.

https://www.theclownmotelusa.com/

KARLIE LAIN GUSÉ missing October 13, 2018
https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/kidnap/karlie-lain-guse
https://storiesoftheunsolved.com/2020/0 ... rlie-guse/

The stepmother (who was present before her disappearance) was assaulted by the husband about a year after these video interviews

This video was 2 years after her missing, from 2020.


Karlie Gusé: Dad of missing California teen girl arrested for ‘corporal injury to a spouse’ [Police]
https://www.crimeonline.com/2021/03/01/ ... se-police/



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4 minutes in:




A well-known grifter that still gets a platform on Youtube:
https://www.gripeo.com/patrick-bet-david/



FBI is withholding documents about Epstein.

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The Act Of Killing (Joshua Oppenheimer, 2012) (Indonesian documentary titled Jagal aka Butcher)


Searching For Sugar Man (Malik Bendjelloul, 2012 documentary about Sixto Rodriquez)







https://archive.org/details/breaking-ba ... lot_202208
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0903747/




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McMenu (original McDonalds recipes) pdf
https://archive.org/details/mcmenu/page/20/mode/2up


Lard grease is actually healthier.
"Lard is higher in monounsaturated fats-the good kind. Vegetable oil, on the other hand, is high in polyunsaturated fats which is why they are liquid at room temps and also likely bad for you."




I temporarily worked/trained at a gated community where the Exxon-Mobile CEO and other executives, along with wealthy athletes, etc lived. I soon after quit because of how the security company operated (and the people that were entrusted with the safety of people were either imbeciles or sociopaths.)


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Pokemon S01-S019 + Movies + Pikachu the Movie (30 Gigs)
https://archive.org/details/pokemon-s01 ... -the-movie

Dragon Ball Z Resurrection F: The Super Cut (2016, Fanedit combining content from different versions and English dubbed)



A collection that includes Star Trek, Star Wars, Creed (Rocky sequels,) Spider Man, etc
https://archive.org/download/wake-up_202306/

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I'm going to try looking for more videos like this (just video of scenery without any music or narrative.)


Anthony Fucilla (the video creator is an author of unpopular books)



Star Trek Documentary: WHAT WE LEFT BEHIND: LOOKING BACK AT DEEP SPACE NINE
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/what_w ... space_nine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHixW9PLsAc&t=10s
alt: https://archive.org/download/wake-up_202306/Movies/W/

Police Academy movies were all pretty horrible
https://archive.org/download/wake-up_20 ... ion%201-7/
https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/rankin ... my-movies/

Same for the Rambo movies (though just like Rocky, the first movie spiraled out a bunch of sequels because it was promising.)
https://archive.org/download/wake-up_20 ... 2-2008%29/
https://archive.org/download/wake-up_20 ... t%20Blood/

Robocop (and similarly any other franchise) has the same problem
https://archive.org/download/wake-up_202306/Movie/R/

GasLand (Josh Fox, 2010)


While looking up one of Rutger Hauer's favorite films, one was Position Among the Stars (Leonard Retel Helmrich, 2011) I found another film by the Director (note, these don't seem to have English subtitles available online, and they mostly seem to only have Dutch. The one below is still worth flipping through.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shape_of_the_Moon



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I ignored Kill Bill until now and had to force my way through both Vol 1 and 2 (which was initially one 3 hour crap fest but was divided up by Harvey Weinstein "because he thought it would be too difficult to watch in one sitting, but it was really an excuse to justify monetizing a horrible movie) though alas I did watch it.

The main inspiration for the film (in addition to many others, since Quentin Tarantino is very derivative) was this movie, Lady Snowblood (Toshiya Fujita, 1973)


Also, the actor that ended up dying as different characters in both Vol 1 and 2, Gordon Liu was starring in a film called The 36th Chamber of Shaolin (Liu Chia-Liang, 1978.)


It's worth mentioning a film just came out that was also inspired by a Japanese film, Living (Oliver Hermanus, 2022) is British adaption of Akira Kurosawa's film (based on a book) Ikiru, starring Bill Nighy.

Quentin Tarantino's films are the kind that, if I'm the only one watching it and I have control of the pause button, I have a VERY difficult time wanting to pay attention to it without pausing. It didn't help perhaps that I needed to find subtitles that filled in the foreign language content, but even then when I found it for both movies, I apart from some humor for about 5 minutes, the majority of the content completely takes you out of the immersion, enough that you have to really be high on something to disengage from anything cerebral.

Lady Snowblood vs. Kill Bill Vol. 1
https://www.flickchart.com/discussion/2 ... D8398CF486

Once upon a time in Hollywood was basically an apologetic of Roman Polanski.

It’s Not Just Tarantino: Hollywood’s History of Defending Child Rapist Roman Polanski
https://www.thedailybeast.com/its-not-j ... n-polanski



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Monkeys With Car Keys clip from Northern Exposure



I thought this was some kind of joke, but it's actually real:

"Originally shot in 1984 and not finished until 2021, New York Ninja is about a sound technician for a news station (John Liu) who becomes a vigilante ninja in New York City after his pregnant wife is murdered."

The original sound and script was completely lost, so they had to reconstruct (or invent it.) It only adds to the hamminess of it all.

New York Ninja (2021)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15358226/
https://archive.org/details/new-york-ninja-2021

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Liu


Something else worth checking out was released in 1987 that resembles a lot of Kung Fury, and it only became popular more recently.

Miami Connection (Woo-sang Park, Y.K. Kim, 1987)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092549/?r ... ims_tt_i_1








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Klaus 'Kinski Paganini' (sometimes just called Paganini) from 1989 was a pet project directed by Augusto Caminito, and funded by Klaus.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098052/

120-minute long Portuguese dubbed (not Italian?) Medusa release
https://fb.watch/mrLT7z9KKd/
matching srt file on Subdl (requiring download which is a bit of a pain for FB videos)
https://subdl.com/subtitle/sd1623447/kinski-paganini

Longer/original/English (134 minutes)
https://fb.watch/mrL9CXb_qX/

This movie is very rare and a bit infamous (Werner Herzog is generally where Kinski gives his best performance, though it might have been because he knew how to deal with him better. The director, Augusto Caminito, might have struggled to keep his mania in check.) The film originally recorded for a 12 hour TV miniseries but edited down to the version shown above. . . It probably wasn't cleared for a TV release, and the entirety that is shown is just eventualities of a manic violin virtuoso which tended to have with it the reputation of Casanova.


The movie might be a good indication of "life imitating art. . ."




Pola Kinski: 'Klaus Kinski repeatedly raped me during my childhood, claims daughter'
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/ ... s-daughter


The weird thing is Nastassja Kinski was also in a film starring Marcello Mastroianni (from 8 1/2 and Dulce Vita fame,) titled, Stay as You Are (1978,) which wasn't too different from Marlon Brando's Last Tango in Paris. I doubt the sort of thing was normalized, though it does reflect a seedy aspect of the movie industry exploiting minors and making such behavior (which is far worse if it's incest.)

I didn't even know what the film was about, only that it was "very bad" which apparently applies to more than just film production standards.


I would prefer Herzog's work:

Even Dwarves Started Small (Werner Herzog, 1970)





AI stages of development

Spoiler

Show

stage 1: rule based AI systems (0:22)
stage 2: context awareness and retention systems (1:17)
stage 3: domain specific mastery systems (2:44)
stage 4: thinking and reasoning AI systems (4:05)
stage 5: the birth of a new mind: Artificial general Intelligence (5:25)
stage 6: artificial super intelligence (6:48)
stage 7: AI singularity (8:18)

Hybrid Human - AI Human hybrid - Digital Consciousness - AI Engineered Realities - Immortal AI - Leaving Physical Realm



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ARIEL PHENOMENON DOCUMENTARY: A JOURNEY WORTH TAKING
https://thedebrief.org/ariel-phenomenon ... th-taking/

And James Fox, The Phenomenon can be found free online, and is more broad.