1. Is MV3 killing Adblockers like people say? while MV3 is more restricted than MV2, it will not kill adblockers.
   
2. Is Google killing adblockers? no, there is Adblockplus, Adguard and uBlock MV3 complaint extensions in the store.
   
3. Why do people say Google is killing adblockers then? It's based on not understanding how adblockers filters/rules work.
   
4. Will I see Youtube ads because Google is going to workaround how adblockers work? Not exactly, Google can't do anything about it, the method used in MV3 is the same way ads are being blocked in MV2, which is by injecting a JavaScript snippets. The only way Google can do anything is if they completely change the way they deliver their ads, for example, embedding them just like Twitch does it.
   
5. I heard adblockers can't update lists frequently like they do now because lists are included in the extensions and reviewing extensions take days, is that true? Yes, that's true, but recently google added a Skip review for eligible changes to extensions that will take care of that (you can read it on their 'developer chrome' blog), and Developers can publish SAFE STATIC RULES updates without needing to go through a review by the extension store. And Adblockers can normally update their lists and they will be available to users within minutes when extensions get updated (they will be a new version of the extension but without any change and only the lists). This only applies to extensions that use declarativeNetRequest API, and even google says in their blog they did this because "In Manifest V3, developers of content filtering extensions make heavy use of the Declarative Net Request API. These extensions rely on filter lists which can change often and need to be kept up to date for users. We already support dynamic rules and we are adding this option to make sure developers can continue to offer the same set of capabilities in MV3."
   

So how can these actions taken by Google, like improving MV3 DNR limits based on Adguard and Adblock Plus feedback, and this skip review for CONTENT FILTERING extensions, can translate to some people as Google is killing adblockers and Google this and Google that? It's not true.
This is not a post to defend MV3, but we have to accept it is the future in Chromium browsers. The purpose of this post is to explain how adblockers work and why MV3 while more restricted in what MV2 allowed extensions to do (Mv3 adds positive and negative things), there is still no problem for most adblocker rules to work, and that's what matters if Adblockers are working or not, even if they miss some other features they had, like an easy to use slider or a button.
This is also not to justify the creation of MV3, but MV3 wasn't made 'to limit adblockers', because it is the extension platform, so every extension will be affected. The theory of MV3 is to give Chromium browsers the power with native APIs to do the filtering and everything extensions do, they say it is for performance, battery and security reasons, but in terms of adblockers it doesn't matter if true or not.
Many arguments against Mv3 are also based on pure lack of logical and reason, like think about this, why would Google provide Declarative Net Request API, if they don't want extensions to do that? if they wanted to kill most of Adblocker effectiveness they would have done that, the browser can do it natively for developers so why provide an Extension API if the plan is to limit and kill adblockers? that's how some people's logic doesn't make any sense.
So this is more to let some people drop the fear and misinformation, with the concepts of Adblocking and the manifestv3 extension platform. It's okay to have some doubt and be uncertain about stuff, but making claims like "google is killing adblockers" or "Google will stop supporting adblockers" are just ridiculous.
And this is why:
First, Adblockers don't use 'magic' to do what they do, Adblockers fundamental idea is very simple in the way they do their job, this is because everything done by the Adblockers can be done by anyone using the same features to create websites and all, like Devtools, Block Network Requests, Modify or Add or remove CSS properties, attributes, classes, nodes, modify headers, modify CSP inject JavaScript snippets which would allow to have access to many APIs like remove or set cookies or local storage items, set functions or stop then from running, close windows, stop popups from opening... etc.
This means Adblockers can't be killed because if Google were to block Adblockers for doing simple tasks like that, most other extension would be blocked, for example: 7tv or Betterttv inject JS in Twitch so Twitch page replaces words by images. Dark Reader or midnight-lizard will modify the CSS to modify the way websites look. Something like Inssman or ModHeader will modify and add and remove the request and response headers, and make other advanced stuff that would work like what Adblockers do to do their job.
So for Google to block adblockers, they need to change completely the way web technologies are made, this is also because when you open devtools, a page is an open book, you can check anything a website does and modify it and even retain some changes after you reload the page when you use Sources -> overrides. So it is not possible for Google to do that.
If people think Google could block extensions based on name? Adblockers can just drop the use of "adblockers' in their name and move on. If people think Google could use the Static rules (in MV3 rules that come with the adblocker have to be reviewed by Chrome Extension Store), well, Youtube currently doesn't use any essential static rule for its adblocking, maybe for anti-track purposes but not really for the video ads, so even if Google were to block Adblockers based on other types of rules like Scriptlet injection, there will be an official list to load in the adblocker that will do the job. Adblockers are allowed to use custom rules, and since scriptlet injections rules are not counted towards any Dynamic rules limit in DNR, then you can add as many as you want, because the limits in DNR are for DNR not other types of rules that don't touch the API.
Yes, Adblockers support many type of rules to achieve anything they do, this is important because it seems for the way people comment or write their posts that they think Cosmetics are the same as a Network Request filter and they all obth are limited to DNR API, people should finally stop thinking thata rule can be treated the same as another, especially when we talk about DNR limits.
DNR API is ONLY about Network Request filtering, this is, anything that the browser connects to when loading a page, you can see all these connections in Devtools -> Network, and you can use the Network Request Filtering inside Devtools to achieve the same an adblocker would do (maybe better, since Devtools has access to anything, even extensions, while extensions can only see pages, no internal pages or other extensions.). These ones are the only rules that count towards the limits of declarativeNetRequest API which is replacing WebRequest API. Other rules, like cosmetics or scriptlet injections are not counted towards the limit, so basically, anything that looks like example^ or example$domain=test, example/ads/*$xhr,scriptare the only ones that have to do with DNR API, but if they are simple cosmetics example##.class or Scriptlet Injections example##+js(scriptlet), they are not going to use DNR.
This is very important to understand, because most people make Cosmetic filters either by using native CSS selectors or pseudo-classes or Procedurals (selectors made with JS), and something like Youtube and others use scriptlet injections to achieve the adblocking capabilities, not network request becasue the ads don't get delivered that way or because modifying the way ads are delivered will not get blocked easily by Youtube or any other provider.
So Google can't even do much about adblockers in Youtube, because they would have to change the way ads are delivered to achieve that, just like Twitch did, and even in Twitch there are still workarounds like a scriptlet that lowers the quality to 360p while the ads are running, or extensions to proxy the connection to countries were ads are not implemented. This is the only way they have been able to fight a little the way uBlock, Brave or Adguard implementation to block Youtube ads, by changing a little the JSON stuff, but in 8 months Youtube hasn't been able to do much.
Now, about Anti-adblock technologies, this is not new, any website have been using similar methods to try to scare people and annoy people to disable adblockers, some are more effective the ones, some are not avoidable by simple methods and you need to allow some connections, but basically browsers can't tell if you are using Adblocker or not, what developers do is they build a logic to assume you are using an adblocker. Youtube latest anti-adblocker trick, was to go to Easylist, see an element that is being HIDDEN by cosmetics, and tell the page "if this element has the CSS display: none !important; then display the anti-adblock notice" nothing that wasn't fixed in 3 seconds by filter mantainers, that's it, not anything big to combat adblockers, just what any other website has been using in years, but something like Youtube hasn't really done much to fight adblockers in months for the way scriptlets were made by Adguard and uBlock with tons of research behind them on how to effectively implement them.
So why are people still stuck in the idea that Google can do anything about adblockers? it is fime to stop. Yes, Manifestv3 brings changes some negative changes, but also some positive ones, also some limits and all that, but it's not going to kill adbockers, especially when Google keeps making the extension platform more powerful by adding more APIs, for example recently they added userScripts API, which seems to be amazing allowing extensions to inject JS code natively, easy, without sacrificing performance, and since the idea of Manifestv3 is letting the browser do all the job by native APIs, then the performance between MV3 extensions shouldn't be an issue anymore, now it will be about extensions offering or not specific features and how devs improve and expand the extensions without killing the browser or opening security issues or something.
BTW recently Google made some changes to improve DNR limits. - More Static Rules: Previously only 50 static rulesets could be added per extension and only 10 enabled simultaneously. they were increased to be 50 simultaneusly and 100 rulesets in total. - More Dynamic Rules: 5000 were the limit and it was increased to 30000, but this is only for DNR rules: block, allow, allowAllRequests or upgradeScheme, while other dynamic net request rules stay at 5000. This is the change that was made based on Adguard and Adblock Plus feedback, because between internal lists and custom lists the 5K was too low and hit easily. You could see other limits by finding MAX_NUMBER_OF_DYNAMIC_RULES in Chrome's documentation.
So the limites are not the end of the world either, even if you were going to add your own rules.
Adblockers have evolved, they are not simple network requests and then cosmetics to hide whatever leftovers display in the page, this has needed years of researching and implementations, but they are not going away, because there are already MV3 complaint extensions in Google Extension Store, some are more capable than others, some offer most of the MV2 counterpart rules parity, some need work but it doesn't mean the effectiveness of the adblocker is gone.
These are some of the rules adblockers relay on, of course some have more value than others.
But in Adblocking world, If a rule exists, it will only be valid if the Adblocker supports it, there is no magic here either, a rule is either supported or not, this is why lists have thousands of rules, manually updated by humans everyday and all adblockers I tested, and why it is important for adblockers to find a way to support most of the rules they previously supported, sometimes an adblocker might support a rule and not the other like injecting CSS code in any HTML element, so it's not a limitation of the platform and how developers didn't care to give that feature or not yet.
Of course, if you don't believe me, you and anyone can test these rules and see if their adblocker of choice is effective or not, or if the rules you need to achieve X or Y exist, their documentation should easily let you write your own rules, so anyone could easily write a rule and adapt it to each Adblocker's syntax and see if the adblocker has the support for those features or not. I have done this for years and have made lists, of course Adblockers are always adding new type of rules and evolving so it is hard to keep up, especially if a rule is not documented because it is experimetal and might or not be implemented in the end.
Anyway, these are the main types of adblocking rules so you can see the differences:
Network request: They will block anything you see in Devtools -> Network tab, the most basic one is example^ and they can use modifiers to filter them more and be more specific: document, domain/from, scrpt, 3p, image, xhr, css, popup, redirect, redirect-rule, to, other, media, all. The first part before the $ is the URL the browser sees, the modifiers after the $ are just ways to filter them to be more specific if necessary. So, it requires a bit of reading to know how to write rules but it is easy, especially cosmetics, but for example you can set up to block specific images in specific domains you use test.jpg$image,domain=example or a script when it is loaded as a third-party connection test$script,3p This is what blocks as an Adblocker, any other rule can block, but this is the main one in charge of that and modify or block network request.
Cosmetic: example##.test this are the ones with native CSS selectors and pseudo classes. All it does is whatever you 'select' by using CSS selectors and pseudo classes, will be added the property display: none !important, and that's it, they don't block, only hide whatever element is selected, which is always a misconception of people when they say "Adblocker X is not blocking ads" but it is a static image that just doesn't have a specific rule set up.
Scriptlet Injection: example##+js(scriptlet) these are one of the most important filters in recent years, increasing the importance because injecting JS is powerful, and allows to do too many different things. But for example you could use a scriptlet to stop visibilitychange and then videos won't detect you tabbed out and stop them, so it is a whole world on its own, it is the biggest type of rule, because it allows to do almost anything with a website by injecting JS and using APIs like any pages does, this is the future of adblocking and it's like a reverse-engeneering type of thing, so instead of you building a feature by using JS in a page by a web dev, the adblocker is going stop or remove or modify what was built with JS by using the same JS that is native to the browser, again, no different than what you can do in Devtools. I wonder if Mv3 complain extensions will allow us to use our own scriptlets eventually, userScripts API should be the new better official API way of doing it as far as I know, it only needs dev mode to be enabled and it should allow users to download or add their own JS code to inject in pages, but I am not an extension developer to know the exact details and the performance compared to what MV2 extensions do when injecting scriptlets, but I am positive about it especially when it is a API provided by the browser and all.
Redirection rules: example$redirect=resource or example$redirect-rule= or ABP would use something that has the syntax $rewrite=abp-resource:resource this basically will replace a network request and use a local modified resource, this means you can replace a JS file with a noop one. This is important becuase it's frequent to detect adblockers based on network requests not being delivered, so this will allow the page to think it got the file, but since it is useless, nothing trackers or ads will happen, so you can block the request and faking the deliver of the file.
Content Security Policy (CSP): example$csp=default-src;sandbox;script-src This is not used often but it is very powerful. It works for a whitelisting stuff from a page, so you will add what you want to whitelist depending what you want to do. There are similar ways to achieve that in some adblockers by using $to (at least both $CSP and $to are supported by Adguard in MV3).
Procedural cosmetics: example##.test:upward(:has-text(TEXT)) some use the :contains() instead of :has-text(). But these are just non-native selectors made by JS, they allow amazing things but are slower than native CSS selectors and pseudo classes, so make things easier depending on situation at the cost of performance.
Action operators: :style() example##.test:style(css property) (or in Adguard = example#$?#.test {css property}), :remove(), :remove-attr(), :remove-class(), pretty useful to modify the websites and remove elements instead of hiding them, when hiding is not enough, remove-attr and remove-cass are still available in the form is scriptlet injections, since you have to inject JS to achieve what they do, but using them with normal CSS selectors, looking like normal cosmetics gives more flexibility for the rules and how they are applied in a page, like if an element changes in the page.
There are also the Specific or Generic rules, Generic are the ones that will apply to every page, specific will apply to specific domain(s), and there are also the exceptions, so rules are not applied to specific domains or completely to override something that was added by a filter list, same as $badfilter and other rules that are used in filter lists but users rarely use.
Most of rules that were in MV2 have been implemented in MV3, and the more time that passes the more an adblocker will evolve one way or the other, which is exactly what adblockers have been doing for years.
But in the end, people can test all this and drop the idea of the Evil MV3, because there already 3 major adblocking extensions in the store that are MV3 complaint anyway, some have more features than others, some already support all the same supported rules that they had in Mv2, some will include advanced features eventually, so people should just wait and see, there is still time for Extension Store to hide Mv2 extensions, and for Browser to completely remove Mv2 support, so rushing to judge based on ignorance shouldn't be a thing anymore.
Extensions in the store:
Adblock Plus: This seems to be the only official mainstream MV3 adblocker at the moment, it replaced the MV2 version sometime ago.
It works fine, every previous rule that was reported in their documentation How-to-write-filters, it allows you to use your own Custom Adblock rules and lists, It also has a logger through devtools.
The only problem people will notice is that it is still the same freemium extension as before, maybe more aggressive now because you need a subscription to unblock some features/lists, but you don't need that because you use any list you want, and you can write your own filters, unless they add scriptlets or something restricted only to premium users, then there is no reason why you can't make them yourself.
Adguard: Adguard is a separated extension "MV3 Experimental", it offers more features than ABP, by features I mean, rules. The logger is only present if you build and sideload the extension though, no official support for that yet. It allows custom adblock rules and lists.
It seems to have the same issue as Adguard MV2, the performance of ExtendedCss (procedural) cosmetics is a little slower than what you woudl get in ABP (MV2 or MV3).
But it offers great features like being able to inject any CSS property you want by using #$?#.selector {style}, or you can use $csp to modify the CSP permissions in a page, and $to and many rules you can read in thier Github and the kb page How to create your own ad filters, and while it still doesn't support the great advanced list of rules the MV2 supports, it is closer and closer on each big release.
uBlock Origin Lite: This extension is also a separated extension from the MV2 conterpart, but it seems to offer good support for the rules.
There are one serious limitations though, no custom adblock rules or lists at the moment. But obviously it is not a limitation of MV3 when the other 2 extensions offer it.
It is really hard to test what exact features it supports or not compared to the MV2, for that single reason, no custom adblock rules.
But I made a reverse way of testing rules, a quick one because I didn't want to take hours doin it.
I opened the filter lists and searched for any random rule hltv.*##.leftCol > div [data-link-tracking-page="Widget"]:upward(.leftCol > div) that has :has() and :upward(). If the rule is not present in the domain, I would just create the HTML node structure and see if it works or not.
Well, they work, so it supports procedural cosmetic filters. The only problem I encountered that is not present in ABP or Adguard is that when I modified the rule, the rule has to be come invalid and show the element, for example an attribute, but when modifying the attribute the elements were still hidden with the display: none !important property, which is not what they have to do, like it's not watching the DOM correctly, but it is not an issue people will encounter, but more lika a behavior issue in how other adblockers work.
I also encountered some issues, where cosmetics are not being applied, if I go to cgpress you can see the right side has am ad leftover, but if you use devtools, you see that span[data-ez-ph-id] is in the list of cosmetics being applied, so it works but for some reason the other property being set by the page with display: block !important; is still being applied and not being overriden by what uBlock Lite is adding so you can remove the !important added by cgpress devs and the element will be hidden properly.
But this means it is not the adblocker not being able to do it, it is just it is not applying the cosmetic correctly in some cases, which is something the dev has to fix because ABP doens't have an issue for example.
uBlock Lite is also able to inject CSS with the action operator :style(), if you go to uBlockorg website, you shall see a message that says "uBlock is unrelated to the well-known uBlock Origin." in red, well, that's injected by the adblocker with the :style() action operator. So it supports most good rules, and while it is hard ot test without custom user rules, it's great and fast.
So... Will people still say Google can kill adblockers after reading this? probaly. Some people might think who am I to 'teach them anything' or don't care about what I wrote in this post and want to get stuck intheir ideas, but at least I am the kind of person who has found and reported bugs in how adblockers apply their rules, misbehaviors and limitations and workarounds and everything like that, this is because I meddle with adblockers enough to do all that. If someone needs a rule or a solution to a problem with a page, I am sure an Adblocker might be able to solve it. This is another thing about adblockers, they have evolved so much to do more than just adblocking or antitracking, you can use its features for so many thing, that you can completely change websites by modify their CSS, not just colors but position, size of the elements etc... I still hope some people learned something and how adblockers are easy to test and experiment with and even if MV3 Adblockers are still not feature parity with MV2, that doesn't mean they are going anywhere, or they can be killed by anyone like Google without changing the whole web.
Any questions about adblockers, I never have issues with that, any rule peopel need, I can help with that too. I know some people are weird on the internet, maybe too passionate to have a conversation, but I still hope someone learned anything from this post. I tried to cover everything I could to explain the details, so I hope I covered most of it so if people are interested they can go to each Adblocker documentation, see what feature they support and maybe learn how to write their own rules and how to fix their web by themselves if necessary.
Thank you very much for reading and have a good day.

Hey guys, if you haven't checked out my previous two posts ("Why Team Falcons Is The Best Team In Dota 2" and How To Win Every Lane By Trading Efficiently ), I recommend you do. I'm Sanity, a 9400 Peak Dota player who has experience in both tier 2 and a few tier 1 games. I will try to write something useful everyday if time allows.
We hear a lot in professional Dota 2 about the concept of "keeping the lanes pushed in", but why do people do that, most people don't really know or understand the idea behind it. As a viewer sometimes its hard to recognize what it means, so let me try to explain it in simple terms. So every 30 seconds creeps will spawn, and its the duty of X hero to clear the creeps. This X hero could be any of the 5 roles. But ideally a hero that is able to deal with waves easily e.g Pangolier would be much better to push out a wave because of his 2 spells, compared to a hero like Venge. As it will take Pangolier significantly less time compared to Venge to deal with creeps.
By pushing out each lane we achieve a specific advantage apart from just pressuring the tower:

• Mid-Lane - We gain access to power runes, the ability to rotate on side-lanes, farm our two camps (Dire and Radiant) , and the ability to use smoke with our supports (example shown later in the post).
• Safe-Lane- We gain access to the lotus, the ability to unblock small camp for pulling/pulling small camp/blocking enemy hard camp,
• Off-lane- Access to Lotus Pool, Ability to unblock hard camp for pulling/pulling hard camp

What happens? when you kill a creep wave. What do you gain?

• Gold
• Experience
• Tower Damage/ Tower Kill - it helps you secure a new area on the map,
• Enemy Hero Info - enemy hero will show himself, as creeps will give you vision of him while he is farming. For example if core shows on mid, you can make a guess that the other 2 cores will probably be on the other two lanes because all of them don't want to be farming the same area on the map.
• TP Status on Enemy - If someone has TP'ed to a lane , it will be on cooldown for 80 seconds.

Everything that happens on the map, IS NOT RANDOM, all of it is a chain emerged from shoving waves and tp usage. If you are able to understand these two things, you will understand where each and every hero should be placed on the map as if it's a game of chess. Where you are supposed to place your own self (you are a piece on the board , board is dota map), these moves are not random.
Lets discuss the 3rd point above: which is Tower Damage/Tower kill, every tower has its own importance in terms of map control.
Mid Tower: After taking mid tower, you get have an easier time securing power runes because the lane that you pushed on mid after mid tower, is now going to go into the enemy's tier 2 tower. If creeps will are shoved all the way back to enemy tier 2, they will not be able to contest you for the power runes, as they will be spotted coming to runes, if they do come they will lose farm.
Bottom Tower for Dire, Top Tower for Radiant [ Offlane Tower ] : Gives you control of Rosh area, because people cannot use TPs to fight for Rosh, they have to walk from tier 2 tower, also it kind of gives you control of the inner ancients but still it doesn't really help that much. Only for Rosh. However Tier 2 offlane, tower will give you access to enemy tormentor.
Safelane Tower: After taking the offlane tower, certain camps will be much easier to access, which is going to be the small camp and hard camp for dire.
Radiant**-** https://imgur.com/a/EmCF0RY
Dire- https://imgur.com/a/SajrgnJ
[ TEAM FALCONS VS GAIMIN FINAL QUICK RECAP ]
So why do I say its not easy for Dire to access the small camp of radiant, because something like this can happen, Ace overextends on small camp
As soon as Centaur walks to the small camp, Timber instantly TPs, this shows how important it is to have a tower, before you try to go for small camp, it is like literally 1 second of a mistake, and it was punished by Falcons,
Another reason why this worked is that even though timber went back to base, he did not use his Teleport. This shows the importance of not TPing back to lane, as this opportunity popped up and he was able to find an important kill to comeback in the game a little bit, as his own matchup vs OD was hard.
Malr1ne saving TP , and pinging bot lane even before it happened
Lets talk about another concept that is called Mirroring, this also happens in other games like chess, where when the opposing player trades a piece with you, knight for knight or pawn for pawn, similarly in Dota, when people are ganking your carry, it isn't always wise to tp as 4 heroes to try to help him, rather go together and kill the enemy carry, in this way the game remains balanced.
Look at this part of the game
Map Knowledge of Pros
Explanation:
Quinn quickly shoves mid lane , so he can smoke with his team, walks top because Axe has been free farming, to try to punish him. Even though Axe is dying, Team Falcons do not respond to top lane what they do instead is, that they start pinging bottom lane, Crystal Maiden tries to catch centaur but he retreats towards his ancient camp, because he realizes that none of the supports are showing top to help, which means they are moving bottom, to try to kill him. As soon as Outworld Devourer TPs mid to kill Timbersaw, Team Falcons instantly use this opportunity to dive Centaur and kill him, which helps them gain a huge advantage, and throughout the entire fight bottom, due to Quinn having no teleport, as he exhausted it on Mid, there was no need for them to take this fight on bottom Quinn on Outworld Devourer without having any choice, makes the best decision which is to pressure Mid Tower.
Solution for Gaimin:
instead they could've mirrored this move made by Team Falcons, and try to kill Ammar again on top-lane, because Quinn could connect top again after pushing the lane.
So every move that is made on the chess board ends up having some sort of effect on the rest of the game, if of course you make an active move, which means to smoke up and go somewhere. A reactive move means how Dyracho just tped bottom to try to help, Centaur live. Try to avoid reactive moves in your pubs and you will instantly see alot of success, try to have some meaning even if you are reacting, you can't be too late when you are trying to react otherwise you will miss the window for the play and it won't work. Each play has a time limit.
Let me show you another example of time factor when it comes to making a move
Falcons Preparing for Mid Tower
Explanation:
In this play Cr1t dies top, realises dk is hitting level 6 and clock is still showing on his lane, which means for the 6minute rune he can be useful, and even help DK take the tower. So both him and Sneyking are already in the river at 5:40, compared to Gaimin Sups who are showing on lanes. So no matter what they do on Gaimin there is no way, they can secure the runes now but they still reactively show up mid, which costs Tofu to use his TP back to base, which then allows the Weaver to free farm bottom, because he is in a 1v1 now, and at the same time, Clockwork also walks mid too late giving ATF a free minute or two against the Clinkz where he can free farm.
Solution For Gaimin:
Even after Gaimin's reactive move to mid, they lose whatever they wanted to protect i.e. Mid Tower and Power Runes, so a better play for them would be to mirror this pressure on to some sidelanes, and play for the enemy experience rune, it would be better for willow to just go top, with gates and try to kill Slardar and pressure top side, because that is the only play that has a higher chance of working, as soon as the falcons supports would react to this top lane aggression, they could then respond back to mid and defend the tower.
So I hope this give you some idea of how pros think, and to use this in pubs be mindful of how you TP on lanes, and realize that each tower in the game gives you some sort of control on the map, as supports its your job to control these areas, like in the video above, when cr1t was walking to mid-lane he placed a ward on the camp, to be able to see any rotations from enemy supports or Lesh, because with this vision they can instantly punish any hero that shows up on the ward.
So through this post I tried to explain rotations for both the cores, you can use this concept and watch more replays, and see why Skiter uses gates so much or how carry players are rotating, (probably because their camps are being controlled by wards or their towers have fallen)
Let me know in the comments below , what else would you like me to cover , or stuff that you struggle with.
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Hey guys, if you haven't checked out my previous two posts ("Why Team Falcons Is The Best Team In Dota 2" and How To Win Every Lane By Trading Efficiently ), I recommend you do. I'm Sanity, a 9400 Peak Dota player who has experience in both tier 2 and a few tier 1 games. I will try to write something useful everyday if time allows.
We hear a lot in professional Dota 2 about the concept of "keeping the lanes pushed in", but why do people do that, most people don't really know or understand the idea behind it. As a viewer sometimes its hard to recognize what it means, so let me try to explain it in simple terms. So every 30 seconds creeps will spawn, and its the duty of X hero to clear the creeps. This X hero could be any of the 5 roles. But ideally a hero that is able to deal with waves easily e.g Pangolier would be much better to push out a wave because of his 2 spells, compared to a hero like Venge. As it will take Pangolier significantly less time compared to Venge to deal with creeps.
By pushing out each lane we achieve a specific advantage apart from just pressuring the tower:

• Mid-Lane - We gain access to power runes, the ability to rotate on side-lanes, farm our two camps (Dire and Radiant) , and the ability to use smoke with our supports (example shown later in the post).
• Safe-Lane- We gain access to the lotus, the ability to unblock small camp for pulling/pulling small camp/blocking enemy hard camp,
• Off-lane- Access to Lotus Pool, Ability to unblock hard camp for pulling/pulling hard camp

What happens? when you kill a creep wave. What do you gain?

• Gold
• Experience
• Tower Damage/ Tower Kill - it helps you secure a new area on the map,
• Enemy Hero Info - enemy hero will show himself, as creeps will give you vision of him while he is farming. For example if core shows on mid, you can make a guess that the other 2 cores will probably be on the other two lanes because all of them don't want to be farming the same area on the map.
• TP Status on Enemy - If someone has TP'ed to a lane , it will be on cooldown for 80 seconds.

Everything that happens on the map, IS NOT RANDOM, all of it is a chain emerged from shoving waves and tp usage. If you are able to understand these two things, you will understand where each and every hero should be placed on the map as if it's a game of chess. Where you are supposed to place your own self (you are a piece on the board , board is dota map), these moves are not random.
Lets discuss the 3rd point above: which is Tower Damage/Tower kill, every tower has its own importance in terms of map control.
Mid Tower: After taking mid tower, you get have an easier time securing power runes because the lane that you pushed on mid after mid tower, is now going to go into the enemy's tier 2 tower. If creeps will are shoved all the way back to enemy tier 2, they will not be able to contest you for the power runes, as they will be spotted coming to runes, if they do come they will lose farm.
Bottom Tower for Dire, Top Tower for Radiant [ Offlane Tower ] : Gives you control of Rosh area, because people cannot use TPs to fight for Rosh, they have to walk from tier 2 tower, also it kind of gives you control of the inner ancients but still it doesn't really help that much. Only for Rosh. However Tier 2 offlane, tower will give you access to enemy tormentor.
Safelane Tower: After taking the offlane tower, certain camps will be much easier to access, which is going to be the small camp and hard camp for dire.
Radiant**-** https://imgur.com/a/EmCF0RY
Dire- https://imgur.com/a/SajrgnJ
[ TEAM FALCONS VS GAIMIN FINAL QUICK RECAP ]
So why do I say its not easy for Dire to access the small camp of radiant, because something like this can happen, Ace overextends on small camp
As soon as Centaur walks to the small camp, Timber instantly TPs, this shows how important it is to have a tower, before you try to go for small camp, it is like literally 1 second of a mistake, and it was punished by Falcons,
Another reason why this worked is that even though timber went back to base, he did not use his Teleport. This shows the importance of not TPing back to lane, as this opportunity popped up and he was able to find an important kill to comeback in the game a little bit, as his own matchup vs OD was hard.
Malr1ne saving TP , and pinging bot lane even before it happened
Lets talk about another concept that is called Mirroring, this also happens in other games like chess, where when the opposing player trades a piece with you, knight for knight or pawn for pawn, similarly in Dota, when people are ganking your carry, it isn't always wise to tp as 4 heroes to try to help him, rather go together and kill the enemy carry, in this way the game remains balanced.
Look at this part of the game
Map Knowledge of Pros
Explanation:
Quinn quickly shoves mid lane , so he can smoke with his team, walks top because Axe has been free farming, to try to punish him. Even though Axe is dying, Team Falcons do not respond to top lane what they do instead is, that they start pinging bottom lane, Crystal Maiden tries to catch centaur but he retreats towards his ancient camp, because he realizes that none of the supports are showing top to help, which means they are moving bottom, to try to kill him. As soon as Outworld Devourer TPs mid to kill Timbersaw, Team Falcons instantly use this opportunity to dive Centaur and kill him, which helps them gain a huge advantage, and throughout the entire fight bottom, due to Quinn having no teleport, as he exhausted it on Mid, there was no need for them to take this fight on bottom Quinn on Outworld Devourer without having any choice, makes the best decision which is to pressure Mid Tower.
Solution for Gaimin:
instead they could've mirrored this move made by Team Falcons, and try to kill Ammar again on top-lane, because Quinn could connect top again after pushing the lane.
So every move that is made on the chess board ends up having some sort of effect on the rest of the game, if of course you make an active move, which means to smoke up and go somewhere. A reactive move means how Dyracho just tped bottom to try to help, Centaur live. Try to avoid reactive moves in your pubs and you will instantly see alot of success, try to have some meaning even if you are reacting, you can't be too late when you are trying to react otherwise you will miss the window for the play and it won't work. Each play has a time limit.
Let me show you another example of time factor when it comes to making a move
Falcons Preparing for Mid Tower
Explanation:
In this play Cr1t dies top, realises dk is hitting level 6 and clock is still showing on his lane, which means for the 6minute rune he can be useful, and even help DK take the tower. So both him and Sneyking are already in the river at 5:40, compared to Gaimin Sups who are showing on lanes. So no matter what they do on Gaimin there is no way, they can secure the runes now but they still reactively show up mid, which costs Tofu to use his TP back to base, which then allows the Weaver to free farm bottom, because he is in a 1v1 now, and at the same time, Clockwork also walks mid too late giving ATF a free minute or two against the Clinkz where he can free farm.
Solution For Gaimin:
Even after Gaimin's reactive move to mid, they lose whatever they wanted to protect i.e. Mid Tower and Power Runes, so a better play for them would be to mirror this pressure on to some sidelanes, and play for the enemy experience rune, it would be better for willow to just go top, with gates and try to kill Slardar and pressure top side, because that is the only play that has a higher chance of working, as soon as the falcons supports would react to this top lane aggression, they could then respond back to mid and defend the tower.
So I hope this give you some idea of how pros think, and to use this in pubs be mindful of how you TP on lanes, and realize that each tower in the game gives you some sort of control on the map, as supports its your job to control these areas, like in the video above, when cr1t was walking to mid-lane he placed a ward on the camp, to be able to see any rotations from enemy supports or Lesh, because with this vision they can instantly punish any hero that shows up on the ward.
So through this post I tried to explain rotations for both the cores, you can use this concept and watch more replays, and see why Skiter uses gates so much or how carry players are rotating, (probably because their camps are being controlled by wards or their towers have fallen)
Let me know in the comments below , what else would you like me to cover, or stuff that you struggle with.
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Hey guys, if you haven't checked out my previous two posts ("Why Team Falcons Is The Best Team In Dota 2" and How To Win Every Lane By Trading Efficiently ), I recommend you do. I'm Sanity, a 9400 Peak Dota player who has experience in both tier 2 and a few tier 1 games. I will try to write something useful everyday if time allows.
We hear a lot in professional Dota 2 about the concept of "keeping the lanes pushed in", but why do people do that, most people don't really know or understand the idea behind it. As a viewer sometimes its hard to recognize what it means, so let me try to explain it in simple terms. So every 30 seconds creeps will spawn, and its the duty of X hero to clear the creeps. This X hero could be any of the 5 roles. But ideally a hero that is able to deal with waves easily e.g Pangolier would be much better to push out a wave because of his 2 spells, compared to a hero like Venge. As it will take Pangolier significantly less time compared to Venge to deal with creeps.
By pushing out each lane we achieve a specific advantage apart from just pressuring the tower:

• Mid-Lane - We gain access to power runes, the ability to rotate on side-lanes, farm our two camps (Dire and Radiant) , and the ability to use smoke with our supports (example shown later in the post).
  
• Safe-Lane- We gain access to the lotus, the ability to unblock small camp for pulling/pulling small camp/blocking enemy hard camp,
  
• Off-lane- Access to Lotus Pool, Ability to unblock hard camp for pulling/pulling hard camp
  

What happens? when you kill a creep wave. What do you gain?

• Gold
• Experience
• Tower Damage/ Tower Kill - it helps you secure a new area on the map,
• Enemy Hero Info - enemy hero will show himself, as creeps will give you vision of him while he is farming. For example if core shows on mid, you can make a guess that the other 2 cores will probably be on the other two lanes because all of them don't want to be farming the same area on the map.
• TP Status on Enemy - If someone has TP'ed to a lane , it will be on cooldown for 80 seconds.

Everything that happens on the map, IS NOT RANDOM, all of it is a chain emerged from shoving waves and tp usage. If you are able to understand these two things, you will understand where each and every hero should be placed on the map as if it's a game of chess. Where you are supposed to place your own self (you are a piece on the board , board is dota map), these moves are not random.
Lets discuss the 3rd point above: which is Tower Damage/Tower kill, every tower has its own importance in terms of map control.
Mid Tower: After taking mid tower, you get have an easier time securing power runes because the lane that you pushed on mid after mid tower, is now going to go into the enemy's tier 2 tower. If creeps will are shoved all the way back to enemy tier 2, they will not be able to contest you for the power runes, as they will be spotted coming to runes, if they do come they will lose farm.
Bottom Tower for Dire, Top Tower for Radiant [ Offlane Tower ] : Gives you control of Rosh area, because people cannot use TPs to fight for Rosh, they have to walk from tier 2 tower, also it kind of gives you control of the inner ancients but still it doesn't really help that much. Only for Rosh. However Tier 2 offlane, tower will give you access to enemy tormentor.
Safelane Tower: After taking the offlane tower, certain camps will be much easier to access, which is going to be the small camp and hard camp for dire.
Radiant- https://imgur.com/a/EmCF0RY
Dire- https://imgur.com/a/SajrgnJ
[ TEAM FALCONS VS GAIMIN FINAL QUICK RECAP ]
So why do I say its not easy for Dire to access the small camp of radiant, because something like this can happen, Ace overextends on small camp
As soon as Centaur walks to the small camp, Timber instantly TPs, this shows how important it is to have a tower, before you try to go for small camp, it is like literally 1 second of a mistake, and it was punished by Falcons,
Another reason why this worked is that even though timber went back to base, he did not use his Teleport. This shows the importance of not TPing back to lane, as this opportunity popped up and he was able to find an important kill to comeback in the game a little bit, as his own matchup vs OD was hard.
Malr1ne saving TP , and pinging bot lane even before it happened
Lets talk about another concept that is called Mirroring, this also happens in other games like chess, where when the opposing player trades a piece with you, knight for knight or pawn for pawn, similarly in Dota, when people are ganking your carry, it isn't always wise to tp as 4 heroes to try to help him, rather go together and kill the enemy carry, in this way the game remains balanced.
Look at this part of the game
Map Knowledge of Pros
Explanation:
Quinn quickly shoves mid lane , so he can smoke with his team, walks top because Axe has been free farming, to try to punish him. Even though Axe is dying, Team Falcons do not respond to top lane what they do instead is, that they start pinging bottom lane, Crystal Maiden tries to catch centaur but he retreats towards his ancient camp, because he realizes that none of the supports are showing top to help, which means they are moving bottom, to try to kill him. As soon as Outworld Devourer TPs mid to kill Timbersaw, Team Falcons instantly use this opportunity to dive Centaur and kill him, which helps them gain a huge advantage, and throughout the entire fight bottom, due to Quinn having no teleport, as he exhausted it on Mid, there was no need for them to take this fight on bottom Quinn on Outworld Devourer without having any choice, makes the best decision which is to pressure Mid Tower.
Solution for Gaimin:
instead they could've mirrored this move made by Team Falcons, and try to kill Ammar again on top-lane, because Quinn could connect top again after pushing the lane.
So every move that is made on the chess board ends up having some sort of effect on the rest of the game, if of course you make an active move, which means to smoke up and go somewhere. A reactive move means how Dyracho just tped bottom to try to help, Centaur live. Try to avoid reactive moves in your pubs and you will instantly see alot of success, try to have some meaning even if you are reacting, you can't be too late when you are trying to react otherwise you will miss the window for the play and it won't work. Each play has a time limit.
Let me show you another example of time factor when it comes to making a move
Falcons Preparing for Mid Tower
Explanation:
In this play Cr1t dies top, realises dk is hitting level 6 and clock is still showing on his lane, which means for the 6minute rune he can be useful, and even help DK take the tower. So both him and Sneyking are already in the river at 5:40, compared to Gaimin Sups who are showing on lanes. So no matter what they do on Gaimin there is no way, they can secure the runes now but they still reactively show up mid, which costs Tofu to use his TP back to base, which then allows the Weaver to free farm bottom, because he is in a 1v1 now, and at the same time, Clockwork also walks mid too late giving ATF a free minute or two against the Clinkz where he can free farm.
Solution For Gaimin:
Even after Gaimin's reactive move to mid, they lose whatever they wanted to protect i.e. Mid Tower and Power Runes, so a better play for them would be to mirror this pressure on to some sidelanes, and play for the enemy experience rune, it would be better for willow to just go top, with gates and try to kill Slardar and pressure top side, because that is the only play that has a higher chance of working, as soon as the falcons supports would react to this top lane aggression, they could then respond back to mid and defend the tower.
So I hope this give you some idea of how pros think, and to use this in pubs be mindful of how you TP on lanes, and realize that each tower in the game gives you some sort of control on the map, as supports its your job to control these areas, like in the video above, when cr1t was walking to mid-lane he placed a ward on the camp, to be able to see any rotations from enemy supports or Lesh, because with this vision they can instantly punish any hero that shows up on the ward.
So through this post I tried to explain rotations for both the cores, you can use this concept and watch more replays, and see why Skiter uses gates so much or how carry players are rotating, (probably because their camps are being controlled by wards or their towers have fallen)
Let me know in the comments below , what else would you like to me to cover, or stuff that you struggle with.
Hope you guys liked this post and I will try to continue posting something useful everyday .
You can join my discord here for paid coaching and discussions: https://discord.gg/duYB3VdJs2
And contact me on discord here: sanityyyyyy
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13 minutes of Armenia coverage by Transcaucasian Telegraph. Follow for regular updates.

US-AM-TR-AZ

• U.S. NatSec Jake Sullivan and Erdogan's Advisor Kilic (not that Kilic) discussed a range of topics including the "importance of a peace agreement between Armenia and Azerbaijan."
• During a meeting dedicated to Turkey-Azerbaijan energy cooperation, Turkish President Erdogan welcomed the progress in the AZ-AM peace process and said he expects a peace agreement ASAP.
• Joe Biden's letter to Baku Energy Week forum participants: A durable and dignified peace agreement that ends decades of conflict would transform the South Caucasus and fundamentally change Azerbaijan's role in the region. The United States stands ready to support this noble ambition. We owe it to future generations to ensure peace and prosperity remain our guiding principles.
• Armenia has made amendments to the draft peace agreement and sent the 9th revision to Baku as part of the back-and-forth process.
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new or notable information from FM Mirzoyan's hourslong parliament presentation about diplomacy in 2023 and 2024:

• Armenia wants Turkey to display tangible progress on the ground by unblocking the border.
• Relations deepened with the US, UK, and France.
• Cooperation with the EU has expanded to include new areas including defense.
• FM Mirzoyan accused an ARF MP of parroting "imported" Russian "imperial" narratives after the ARF MP spoke against the border delimitation process with Azerbaijan.
• An ARF MP said the presence of the EU border mission makes Armenia more vulnerable. FM Mirzoyan countered it by saying there have been no incursions since the deployment of the EU mission. Mirzoyan accused ARF and its allies of "setting up a trap" for Armenia by advancing a dangerous foreign policy for decades which forced Armenia to be dependent on Russia. "It was a sweet strategy to ensure Armenia's captivity."
• A ruling party MP accused ARF, Levon Ter-Petrosyan's ANC, and Azerbaijan of being the only parties today that are attempting to revive the topic of Khojalu. The ARF MP disagreed. FM Mirzoyan said he sees synchronous activities between the Azerbaijani government, opposition-run media outlets in Armenia, and certain circles in Russia.
• FM Mirzoyan asked ARF MP to explain his vision for returning to Nagorno-Karabakh. The ARF MP said Nagorno-Karabakh must have a certain level of autonomy. Mirzoyan said that's what the Pashinyan administration was attempting to accomplish last year and that ARF rejected it. Pashinyan at the time said there was a need to lower the status bar from full independence to a lower level of autonomy in order to rally international support. That idea was sharply rejected by ARF and its satellites in Nagorno-Karabakh who controlled the parliament. FM Mirzoyan accused Nagorno-Karabakh's ARF wing of adopting a resolution that further entrenched maximalism and "from sea to sea Artsakh" during the blockade, instead of lowering the bar to increase international support.
• Armenia was able to significantly deepen relations with Georgia (Strategic Agreement in February) and Iran (economic relations).
• Relations with Russia are more transparent than ever.
• After decades of efforts, last year Armenia was finally able to establish diplomatic relations with Saudi Arabia.
• Unprecedented: Armenia's Foreign Minister participated in the Arab League's ministerial meeting this year.
• Unprecedented: Armenia took part for the first time in Manama Dialogue.
• Armenia and UAE established a visa-free regime in February.
• Armenia won the elections in 5 out of 5 international organizations (UN, OSCE, UNESCO, Francophonie, etc.) where it submitted a candidacy.
• Still frozen with CSTO. No new developments.
• New diplomatic offices in Tabriz and Serbia, and an embassy in Cyprus. Diplomatic relations were established with Botswana and Trinidad and Tobago. Armenia has relations with 182 countries.
• Armenia and Hungary continue to restore relations; resident embassies will open. Belgium, Canada, and Qatar opened embassies in Yerevan. GIZ and KfW opened offices. Etc.
• Armenia sees a problem in Azerbaijan's constitution and Azerbaijan sees a problem in Armenia's constitution but the topic of constitutional changes is not part of the AM-AZ negotiation agenda and Armenia does not believe these constitutional issues can obstruct long-term peace.
• South Korea and Armenia have agreed to open embassies and other offices.
• Yerevan and New Delhi have agreed to hold direct flights. FM Mirzoyan sees great economic potential. He urged Armenian businesses to trade with India and not export exclusively to the "traditional markets".
• Armenia expects non-lethal technologies and mostly military medical-related assistance from the EU's Peace Facility.
• Two main channels of cooperation with EU: 1) The upgraded CEPA is currently being discussed, 2) April 5 Brussels programs for Armenia's resilience. These talks include the European Peace Facility, the visa-free regime, etc.
• Certain things could get delayed because of the June elections in the European Union, said a ruling party MP.
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Armenia's Deputy FM Hovhannisyan about Armenia-EU relations

• The EU remains the largest donor for Armenia.
• EU provided €12 million in aid to Nagorno-Karabakh refugees.
• Active discussions are underway to upgrade CEPA.
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France was one of the countries blocking the visa-free regime between Armenia and EU: ranking ruling party MP tasked with EU affairs

YEGHOYAN: Certain EU states do not want to deal with the potential problem of deporting more Armenians in the event visa liberalization leads to increased migration and illegal stays. We are negotiating to change that. Lately, a series of countries that had concerns have changed their stance and during recent official meetings, they have not opposed the launch of the liberalization discussions. There is only one group of states, 1-2 countries, that still oppose it.
REPORTER: Which country shows the strongest opposition?
YEGHOYAN: At this time... it's not the country in your mind anymore. There is a process...
REPORTER: We have information that it was France that strongly opposed it.
YEGHOYAN: Not anymore. France has withdrawn its objections. Yes, they initially objected to the liberalization because of the large Armenian community but we negotiated with them and implemented reforms in Armenia. There is another group of states, again with high living standards, who are currently on the fence. In any case, their opposition is not as strong as Hungary's veto to Armenia receiving military assistance from the European Peace Facility. These countries instead want Armenia to remedy more problems so they can show their own populations that having a visa-free regime with Armenia won't lead to their taxpayer funds being wasted on deporting Armenians. This is more of an internal political issue for them, and we understand that.

... here is why visa lines are so long to travel to EU for tourism or business

REPORTER: Why does it take forever to get a visa to a European country today?
YEGHOYAN: Many Russians are coming to Armenia to get a visa to Europe, so the lines got long. To this day the diplomatic offices have been unable to keep up with the demand; we are trying to find solutions. On top of that, some tourism agencies can use programs to reserve large numbers of visas and resell them to others at a higher price. I asked embassies to stop granting visas to individuals with other names, so whoever took the spot must be the one to use it. I think the German embassy has chosen that option; we are working with them right now.
REPORTER: Could the developments in Georgia have an impact on Armenia and EU?
YEGHOYAN: Yes. We hope Georgia finds a balanced solution.
REPORTER: And what about right-wingers gaining power in the EU during upcoming elections?
YEGHOYAN: The Right is improving its numbers but they do not have the numbers to form the government. I can't predict how much influence the Right will have on the new government and it's something that also depends on the performance of Right in their respective countries.
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Armenia's economy ministry is drafting a new export strategy; notable parts from Minister Papoyan's presentation in parliament

• The new Strategy is almost ready and will soon be presented to relevant committees.
• Every product with export potential has been examined by Armenian and foreign experts with the help of EU and USAID. The export potential and possible destination of each product were calculated.
• The experience of similar countries was studied. If Armenia currently produces A-B-C, the study reveals that certain countries similar to Armenia also produce D, so the advice is to expand the scope of production and exports, to include items not currently part of the chain.
• Armenia and Turkey are engaged in active trade via 3rd countries despite closed borders. The ministry doesn't expect a "shock" if it opens. What we need from them and what they need from us is more or less already being traded, at a higher price.
• The first truck arrived from China to Armenia through the Silk Road and Crossroads of Peace in 20 days. This is down from 35-40 days if the route is through Russia and other routes. The new route is much faster, said Papoyan.
• The Armenian government is taking steps to receive unobstructed access to seas with the help of WTO and EU. Armenia is a landlocked country so the access must be granted by WTO members Turkey and Georgia. Economy Minister Papoyan criticized the former governments for spending their diplomatic efforts on "other things" [genocide recognition] but not holding a dialogue with Turkey to grant Armenia access to the sea. Minister Papoyan implied that the ministry has employees who are going through a shock because of the rapid shift in policy to improve ties with Turkey.
• Georgia, too, is not properly complying with its WTO obligation of providing unobstructed access to Armenia to seas, said Minister Papoyan.
• Minister Papoyan explained why the Black Sea ferry project did not materialize. There was a time when Armenia was the one that desperately needed the ferry to transport the goods to Russia. Then Russia became the one that needed the Armenian goods, so Russia quickly expanded the Upper Lars capacity to accept the Armenian trucks. The ferry was no longer needed.
• To implement CEPA's economic component, a committee was formed, managed by the economy ministry. This committee consists of 3 sub-committees: geographical indication (GI) sub-committee, economic cooperation sub-committee, and customs sub-committee.
• The committee held a meeting on October 17 in Yerevan. They discussed 12 roadmaps for the implementation of CEPA.
• One of them is the renaming of Armenian cognac into Armenian brandy. Other topics relating to geographical indication and customs were discussed. The next meeting of the committee will be held this October in Brussels.
• The GI sub-committee recently discussed "cognac" and "champagne", the AM-EU legal framework around GI, etc.
• The economic cooperation and customs sub-committees held meetings in March 2023.
• Economic cooperation sub-committee has 12 roadmaps: trade of goods, customs, technical barriers, phytosanitary, services & electronic sales, payments and movement of capital, intellectual property rights, state purchases, trade & stable development, competition, state organizations, and transparency.
• Armenia informed the EU in October 2023 that it plans to rebrand Armenian cognac to Armenian brandy, which will be registered as an Armenian GI. This will allow Armenian producers to export and advertise domestic brandy. The EU has provided $2.9 million for the transition, which is in progress.
• Labs will be required to check the quality of exported brandy. The government must have a procedure for checking and certifying the quality.
• To sell a product under the GI Armenian Brandy, the company must meet the quality standards and use specific mechanisms of quality control during production. Every Armenian company that advertises its brandy as Armenian Brandy must meet these standards.
• Ruling QP MP urged the Government to ensure companies do not use cheap wheat spirit to produce low-quality alcohol and sell it as "brandy" under the new GI. The MP urged Armenia's inspection agencies to increase oversight of the wine industry as well.
• Some Armenian alcohol producers are taking additional steps to certify their goods to unlock exports to the EU, and this has raised their prices by ֏40 per liter, said Minister Papoyan. He wants the state to support Armenian laboratories that undergo processes to receive international accreditation. Many lab services are not available in Armenia, including due to a lack of specialists, so domestic producers are forced to send their products to European countries for certification, wait a long time, and pay a hefty sum.

Favorable tax policies for Armenian goods exported to the EU

• A QP MP asked if it's possible to revive or sign a new GSP+ preferential trade system. Armenia lost access to it after exiting the list of poor countries. Economy Minister Papoyan said there is currently the ATM (Autonomous Trade Measures) for some other countries, and as a result of Armenia's policy of strengthening ties with the EU, there could be an opportunity for Armenia to use ATM to export certain types of agricultural and industrial products without taxes. Armenia is negotiating for the EU to add Armenia to the list of beneficiaries of ATM.
• ATM would also allow Armenia to avoid major issues in the event of force majeure [if Russia cuts economic ties with Armenia].
• Countries that apply to receive tax waivers under ATM must submit a list of products they want to export to EU and negotiate with relevant EU agencies. Certain agricultural and industrial exports can be exported at 0%, and without quantity limits.
• Armenia has prepared a list of goods it wants to export to the EU under ATM and it will be submitted to the EU soon.
• The Armenian government and EU's Ambassador to Armenia recently discussed Armenia's possible inclusion in ATM.
• The GSP+ is a thing of the past unless Armenia becomes poor enough to once again qualify for it. The GDP per capita in Armenia is $8,200, which is above the average, let alone in the poverty zone [$4,000?].

Where does the EU plan to invest €2.6 billion in Armenia?

• €500M to 30,000 small and medium enterprises for a stable and competitive economy.
• €600M for North-South highway, tunnels, bridges.
• €220M digital transformation, science, and tech.
• €110M Syunik resilience.
• €170M to make Yerevan smart and green.
• €530M for accessible education.
• €470M water reservoirs, irrigation systems, landfills.
• The SME and infrastructure projects are still being developed. Some programs are already being implemented.

... Armenia is receiving technical assistance through the European Commission's TAIEX instrument

• TAIEX helps Armenian government bodies bring their legislation and standards closer to the EU.
• TAIEX sends expert groups for advisory and evaluation.
• The economy ministry developed and submitted TAIEX requests in 2023 to improve agriculture, capital markets, textile, tourism legislation, consumer protection, etc. Five have been approved and two have been fully implemented.
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PM Pashinyan receives the director of the European External Action Service

Pashinyan emphasized the consistent development and expansion of Armenia-European Union cooperation in political and economic directions.
Michael Siebert emphasized the EU's commitment and readiness to develop cooperation with Armenia. According to him, the EU will continue to actively contribute to the full implementation of the agenda for the expansion of relations with Armenia.
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Pashinyan forms an interdepartmental working group tasked with improving Armenia's position in the World Bank's Business Ready report

Business Ready (B-READY) is the World Bank’s new flagship report benchmarking the business environment and investment climate in most economies worldwide. The first B-READY report will be launched on September 25, 2024.
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pro-Russian opposition movement co-leader Bagrat Galstanyan says he discussed the situation in Armenia with ex-President Levon Ter-Petrosyan 15 days before the movement to oust PM Pashinyan

Galstanyan revealed that he is being advised by ex-President Levon Ter-Petrosyan's team on how to lead the movement.
REPORTER: Have you ever met any of the former presidents?
GALSTANYAN: I'm friends with the ANC party members and have close relations with many of LTP's associates. Throughout this process, they have given me advice on what to do, how to speak, where to place the emphasis, and I have followed it. I received advice on internal and external issues. They came and shared their stance; I accepted some and rejected others. I had relations with them prior to 2018 as well.
REPORTER: Do you plan to meet LTP?
GALSTANYAN: I met him before this movement. We held extensive discussions about the situation.
REPORTER: How long ago was that?
GALSTANYAN: About 15 days.
REPORTER: 15 days before May 9?
GALSTANYAN: No, [15 days] before Kirants. //
Bagrat Galstanyan went in front of the Human Rights Defender's office and demanded to meet her. She agreed to meet him and a group of protesters to discuss the issues in privacy. The meeting did not take place because Galstanyan demanded the meeting to be live-streamed.
In response to famous actor Hovhannes Azoyan's repeated criticism of his movement, Galstanyan urged journalists to wash their mouths after speaking Azoyan's name. He quickly apologized for his statement, before proceeding to call Azoyan a satan.
Authorities charged a protester with assaulting a police officer while the latter was attempting to remove a roadblock on the Yerevan-Meghri road. The incident happened earlier.
One protester is arrested for 1 month after the Friday clashes with the police in front of the foreign ministry. Another 4 are charged.
source, source, source, source, source, source, source, source, source, source,

Russia is no longer an attractive place for many Armenian migrant workers: Central Bank President Martin Galstyan

The share of remittances in GDP has gone from 18% a decade ago to 4.1% last year.
Last year the inflow was $5.7B (+9.7% YoY). Sources: $4B from Russia, $663M from USA, $141M from Switzerland, ...
Last year the outflow was $4B, so the net inflow was $1.7B.
source,

500-year-old Armenian church in Diyarbakir, Turkey, will be renovated

It was damaged during the 2023 earthquakes. The renovation project, approved and funded by the Turkish Culture and Tourism Ministry, aims to revive the church and will officially begin this month. The process will be supported by the Armenian community's resources and contributions.
source,

2 of the 8 sections of the railway destroyed during floods have been restored with the help of the Russian company that manages the Armenian railway: VIDEO

video, source,

at the request of the Armenian government, Switzerland deployed specialists to assess the structural strength of bridges and infrastructure in flood-affected areas

source,

Georgia's ruling party introduces another Putin-style law, this time to ban queer ‘propaganda’, gender affirmation treatment, and prevent queer people from adopting children

source,

Armenia and Serbia discussed defense cooperation

Defense Minister Papikyan met Serbian Ambassador and Defense Attaché. An agreement was reached to carry out work to sign an agreement between the Governments of Armenia and Serbia on defense cooperation. Topics regarding reforms being carried out in the Armenian Armed Forces and regional security were also discussed.
source,

the Road Department has acquired devices to check the reflectiveness of road paint and traffic signs: VIDEO

The M2 highway was checked to see if it meets the standards.
source,

anti-corruption: a customs agent is charged with extorting money from 11 Iranian cargo drivers

Pay or else you'll have problems.
source,

Armenian consumers continue to spend more: May 2024

Number of transactions with receipts: 60 million (+8 YoY)
Total value: ֏87 billion (+12% YoY)
source,

bear attacks a man picking plants in the field in village Arates

He noticed a bear and scared it away by making loud noises. However, he didn't notice the second bear nearby, which attacked the man, causing serious injuries. He is expected to survive.
source, source,

Hey guys, on my recent post, "Why Team Falcons Is The Best Team In Dota 2", I received a lot of positive feedback from you guys, both on reddit and in private, so I was motivated to post more things that I've learned personally that helped me improve.
There is another concept called Target Priority. The question is how to prioritize our autoattacks in lane. If you have the choice between CSing a creep, denying a creep, and hitting the enemy hero, which one do you pick?
There is nuance, but in general the correct priorities (or the priorities you can never 'go wrong with') are last hits > denies > autoattack enemy.

• Last hits - Only way of obtaining gold/XP. (Creep priority)
• Denies - Prevents enemy from obtaining gold/XP.
• Auto-attacking the enemy- makes it difficult for him to last hit or deny, which are the goals in lane.

Mid: This knowledge, along with last-hitting practice, is all you need to succeed in the lane. Here is an example of this concept in practice: https://imgur.com/a/ZzFtgTX.
Another actionable step to improve as a core, is to practice last hitting Training Polygon Arcade Game, just buy the starting lane items you buy, and try to last hit against the sniper, you can do it both with support heroes and core heroes to understand your attack animation and get used to it. Its like an exercise you get better overtime everyday, play a little you will feel the difference.
https://imgur.com/a/JZoQfiL
Cores in sidelanes:
There are 2 concepts you must know: aggro/deaggro.
Aggro means A-clicking the enemy so that creeps come close to you. De-aggro means A-clicking your own creeps, while creeps are aggroed, so that they will stop chasing you and instead chase the target closest to them.
Also, its important to note that you can combine your spells, in order to secure last hits, for example if you are playing Luna you can beam the enemy and deny ranged, or beam the creep that you can't reach. Combine your spells in order to achieve what is necessary to accomplish your goal of the priority on the lane.
Supports:
For supports, your priorities are secure ranged/flag -> deny -> hit enemy. Two things that can make these easier are good camp priority, and precise lane positioning.
Camp Priority - First, realize that you cannot control both camps. You must prioritize one. If you are ranged vs melee, prioritize blocking the enemy camp over unblocking your own. You can already hit him freely if you are mindful of positioning, you just need to not be dragged to his camp where he can close the gap on you (Tusk, for example).
Lane Positioning - Good lane positioning mostly depends on the support matchup. It means simply to know whether to stand on the left or the right side of the lane, if you are a position 5, playing against a melee position 4 on Radiant it would be better to stand on the right side of the lane, and hit the enemy offlaner, because there will never be a time in the lane, where the melee position 4 can break the distance between you and him, and if he tries to , he will always walk into creeps, in a bad position and lose all of his HP,
Against ranged heroes, you are supposed to stand on the left side, while playing Radiant why because you don't want the ranged hero to constantly hit your carry, and for him to lose farm or die, so you want to prioritize denying, and then hitting enemy position 4, now you kind of understand lane positioning so, for other lanes it might be opposite, and for Dire this concept will be completely opposite in terms of your positioning.
Example:
https://imgur.com/a/UaKoQJI
https://imgur.com/a/jHpWif2

Some Decent Learning Resources:

**THE TOP 10 BROKEN ITEMS OR BUILDS ITS ALL BS CLICK BAIT CONTENT DONT WATCH THAT STUFF*\*
Good resource to learn mid-laning:

The video below inspired me to make this, I believe babitich deserves a lot of credit for the content that he posted I'm sure the mid-laners will love this video, and I hope he posts more content!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Li6s4Bwpnk4&ab_channel=babitich
Good channel to learn support:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PulkHVKQuPk
Good channel to learn carry:
https://www.youtube.com/@PainDota
Haven't come across any decent off-lane content might upload my own here:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAYtmpXSa4ixGo272ioLT9Q
Website to learn/find replays:
https://dota2protracker.com/
Everyone close to top immortal, I'm 9400 MMR and I use this to check the item builds of heroes, and to find replays of my favorite heroes, to see trends in the meta etc. Also you can join their discord and learn matchups for different heroes.
How to self-learn from replays:
Through this post, whatever concepts you've learned try to compare them to any pro in any replay, you will find them doing all of this stuff, so learn from them when is the best time to hit enemy, how to secure CS with spells and how to aggro/ when to aggro, you will improve SO MUCH.
Feedback:
If anyone wants to add something to this post, which they find useful, it will be very helpful, imagine everyone in the community has all resources to be the best, then the whole skill of the game becomes so high that people start discovering new concepts, share what you think might add to this post, will be appreciated :D .
ALSO, a big thanks to high_shaggy for helping me improve the writing on this post, and for giving me some better ways to explain stuff, you can contact him here:
https://discord.com/invite/8cH2Qzs5HE
Coaching/Contact Me:
A lot of people wanted to contact me, because of my previous post for coaching , so here are my socials.
Discord: https://discord.gg/S23px4mj
Discord ID: sanityyyyyy

Hey guys, on my recent post, "Why Team Falcons Is The Best Team In Dota 2", I received a lot of positive feedback from you guys, both on reddit and in private, so I was motivated to post more things that I've learned personally that helped me improve.
There is another concept called Target Priority. The question is how to prioritize our autoattacks in lane. If you have the choice between CSing a creep, denying a creep, and hitting the enemy hero, which one do you pick?
There is nuance, but in general the correct priorities (or the priorities you can never 'go wrong with') are last hits > denies > autoattack enemy.

• Last hits - Only way of obtaining gold/XP. (Creep priority)
• Denies - Prevents enemy from obtaining gold/XP.
• Auto-attacking the enemy- makes it difficult for him to last hit or deny, which are the goals in lane.

Mid: This knowledge, along with last-hitting practice, is all you need to succeed in the lane. Here is an example of this concept in practice: https://imgur.com/a/ZzFtgTX.
Another actionable step to improve as a core, is to practice last hitting Training Polygon Arcade Game, just buy the starting lane items you buy, and try to last hit against the sniper, you can do it both with support heroes and core heroes to understand your attack animation and get used to it. Its like an exercise you get better overtime everyday, play a little you will feel the difference.
https://imgur.com/a/JZoQfiL
Cores in sidelanes:
There are 2 concepts you must know: aggro/deaggro.
Aggro means A-clicking the enemy so that creeps come close to you. De-aggro means A-clicking your own creeps, while creeps are aggroed, so that they will stop chasing you and instead chase the target closest to them.
Also, its important to note that you can combine your spells, in order to secure last hits, for example if you are playing Luna you can beam the enemy and deny ranged, or beam the creep that you can't reach. Combine your spells in order to achieve what is necessary to accomplish your goal of the priority on the lane.
Supports:
For supports, your priorities are secure ranged/flag -> deny -> hit enemy. Two things that can make these easier are good camp priority, and precise lane positioning.
Camp Priority - First, realize that you cannot control both camps. You must prioritize one. If you are ranged vs melee, prioritize blocking the enemy camp over unblocking your own. You can already hit him freely if you are mindful of positioning, you just need to not be dragged to his camp where he can close the gap on you (Tusk, for example).
Lane Positioning - Good lane positioning mostly depends on the support matchup. It means simply to know whether to stand on the left or the right side of the lane, if you are a position 5, playing against a melee position 4 on Radiant it would be better to stand on the right side of the lane, and hit the enemy offlaner, because there will never be a time in the lane, where the melee position 4 can break the distance between you and him, and if he tries to , he will always walk into creeps, in a bad position and lose all of his HP,
Against ranged heroes, you are supposed to stand on the left side, while playing Radiant why because you don't want the ranged hero to constantly hit your carry, and for him to lose farm or die, so you want to prioritize denying, and then hitting enemy position 4, now you kind of understand lane positioning so, for other lanes it might be opposite, and for Dire this concept will be completely opposite in terms of your positioning.
Example:
https://imgur.com/a/UaKoQJI
https://imgur.com/a/jHpWif2

Some Decent Learning Resources:

**THE TOP 10 BROKEN ITEMS OR BUILDS ITS ALL BS CLICK BAIT CONTENT DONT WATCH THAT STUFF*\*
Good resource to learn mid-laning:

The video below inspired me to make this, I believe babitich deserves a lot of credit for the content that he posted I'm sure the mid-laners will love this video, and I hope he posts more content!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Li6s4Bwpnk4&ab_channel=babitich
Good channel to learn support:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PulkHVKQuPk
Good channel to learn carry:
https://www.youtube.com/@PainDota
Haven't come across any decent off-lane content might upload my own here:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAYtmpXSa4ixGo272ioLT9Q
Website to learn/find replays:
https://dota2protracker.com/
Everyone close to top immortal, I'm 9400 MMR and I use this to check the item builds of heroes, and to find replays of my favorite heroes, to see trends in the meta etc. Also you can join their discord and learn matchups for different heroes.
How to self-learn from replays:
Through this post, whatever concepts you've learned try to compare them to any pro in any replay, you will find them doing all of this stuff, so learn from them when is the best time to hit enemy, how to secure CS with spells and how to aggro/ when to aggro, you will improve SO MUCH.
Feedback:
If anyone wants to add something to this post, which they find useful, it will be very helpful, imagine everyone in the community has all resources to be the best, then the whole skill of the game becomes so high that people start discovering new concepts, share what you think might add to this post, will be appreciated :D .
ALSO, a big thanks to high_shaggy for helping me improve the writing on this post, and for giving me some better ways to explain stuff, you can contact him here:
https://discord.com/invite/8cH2Qzs5HE
Coaching/Contact Me:
A lot of people wanted to contact me, because of my previous post for coaching , so here are my socials.
Discord: https://discord.gg/S23px4mj
Discord ID: sanityyyyyy

Hey guys, on my recent post, "Why Team Falcons Is The Best Team In Dota 2", I received a lot of positive feedback from you guys, both on reddit and in private, so I was motivated to post more things that I've learned personally that helped me improve.
There is another concept called Target Priority. The question is how to prioritize our autoattacks in lane. If you have the choice between CSing a creep, denying a creep, and hitting the enemy hero, which one do you pick?
There is nuance, but in general the correct priorities (or the priorities you can never 'go wrong with') are last hits > denies > autoattack enemy.

• Last hits - Only way of obtaining gold/XP. (Creep priority)
• Denies - Prevents enemy from obtaining gold/XP.
• Auto-attacking the enemy- makes it difficult for him to last hit or deny, which are the goals in lane.

Mid: This knowledge, along with last-hitting practice, is all you need to succeed in the lane. Here is an example of this concept in practice: https://imgur.com/a/ZzFtgTX.
Another actionable step to improve as a core, is to practice last hitting Training Polygon Arcade Game, just buy the starting lane items you buy, and try to last hit against the sniper, you can do it both with support heroes and core heroes to understand your attack animation and get used to it. Its like an exercise you get better overtime everyday, play a little you will feel the difference.
https://imgur.com/a/JZoQfiL
Cores in sidelanes:
There are 2 concepts you must know: aggro/deaggro.
Aggro means A-clicking the enemy so that creeps come close to you. De-aggro means A-clicking your own creeps, while creeps are aggroed, so that they will stop chasing you and instead chase the target closest to them.
Also, its important to note that you can combine your spells, in order to secure last hits, for example if you are playing Luna you can beam the enemy and deny ranged, or beam the creep that you can't reach. Combine your spells in order to achieve what is necessary to accomplish your goal of the priority on the lane.
Supports:
For supports, your priorities are secure ranged/flag -> deny -> hit enemy. Two things that can make these easier are good camp priority, and precise lane positioning.
Camp Priority - First, realize that you cannot control both camps. You must prioritize one. If you are ranged vs melee, prioritize blocking the enemy camp over unblocking your own. You can already hit him freely if you are mindful of positioning, you just need to not be dragged to his camp where he can close the gap on you (Tusk, for example).
Lane Positioning - Good lane positioning mostly depends on the support matchup. It means simply to know whether to stand on the left or the right side of the lane, if you are a position 5, playing against a melee position 4 on Radiant it would be better to stand on the right side of the lane, and hit the enemy offlaner, because there will never be a time in the lane, where the melee position 4 can break the distance between you and him, and if he tries to , he will always walk into creeps, in a bad position and lose all of his HP,
Against ranged heroes, you are supposed to stand on the left side, while playing Radiant why because you don't want the ranged hero to constantly hit your carry, and for him to lose farm or die, so you want to prioritize denying, and then hitting enemy position 4, now you kind of understand lane positioning so, for other lanes it might be opposite, and for Dire this concept will be completely opposite in terms of your positioning.
Example:
https://imgur.com/a/UaKoQJI
https://imgur.com/a/jHpWif2

Some Decent Learning Resources:

**THE TOP 10 BROKEN ITEMS OR BUILDS ITS ALL BS CLICK BAIT CONTENT DONT WATCH THAT STUFF*\*
Good resource to learn mid-laning:

The video below inspired me to make this, I believe babitich deserves a lot of credit for the content that he posted I'm sure the mid-laners will love this video, and I hope he posts more content!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Li6s4Bwpnk4&ab_channel=babitich
Good channel to learn support:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PulkHVKQuPk
Good channel to learn carry:
https://www.youtube.com/@PainDota
Haven't come across any decent off-lane content might upload my own here:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAYtmpXSa4ixGo272ioLT9Q
Website to learn/find replays:
https://dota2protracker.com/
Everyone close to top immortal, I'm 9400 MMR and I use this to check the item builds of heroes, and to find replays of my favorite heroes, to see trends in the meta etc. Also you can join their discord and learn matchups for different heroes.
How to self-learn from replays:
Through this post, whatever concepts you've learned try to compare them to any pro in any replay, you will find them doing all of this stuff, so learn from them when is the best time to hit enemy, how to secure CS with spells and how to aggro/ when to aggro, you will improve SO MUCH.
Feedback:
If anyone wants to add something to this post, which they find useful, it will be very helpful, imagine everyone in the community has all resources to be the best, then the whole skill of the game becomes so high that people start discovering new concepts, share what you think might add to this post, will be appreciated :D .
ALSO, a big thanks to high_shaggy for helping me improve the writing on this post, and for giving me some better ways to explain stuff, you can contact him here:
https://discord.com/invite/8cH2Qzs5HE
Coaching/Contact Me:
A lot of people wanted to contact me, because of my previous post for coaching , so here are my socials.
Discord: https://discord.gg/S23px4mj
Discord ID: sanityyyyyy

I'm an ABC and I haven't been back in a few years because of COVID and phones have becomes super widespread now and from my understanding are pretty important in daily life in China, from ordering at restaurants to scanning subway tickets. I am going to visit my grandparents this summer since the country opened up. I have a few questions about this:

1. What apps should I download for this trip? I have WeChat already, should I get DiDi too?
2. Will some chinese apps be unavailable since my phone is an apple phone purchased in the US?
3. How many of my current apps with get bricked due to the firewall? I know Insta, youtube, google, disc, reddit and all those are blocked, is iMessage still unblocked? I like to watch youtube a lot, is there some alternative that is available in China that I can watch?
4. Is there a way to legally obtain a VPN? I know a lot of foreigners use a VPN illegally but I don't want to get into any trouble

The following 13 minutes are brought to you by Transcaucasian Telegraph.

Nikol Pashinyan's final message to the nation as a Prime Minister ahead of the May 26-28 revolution by the former regime

PASHINYAN: Starting from today, the border guards of Armenia took over the protection of the 1.9 km section of Berkaber settlement, 4.9 km section of Voskepar and Baghanis settlements of the state border of Armenia. Protection of the 5.8 km demarcated section of Kirants will be carried out by a transitional scheme until July 24, 2024.
This border demarcation process is understandably the most discussed topic of recent months, and I consider it important that each of us has a clear answer to the following questions: what is happening in our country, what is happening with our country, why is it all happening, what are the possible scenarios and alternatives after this point?
The key factor from which the current processes derive is the strategy that the government of Armenia has put on its table. That is the strategy of Real Armenia, the strategy of Armenia, the gilded map-image of which I show you at every opportunity. That's the Armenia I am talking about.
And why should this map cause debates and inflame passions? For a simple reason: not only in the previous 33 years, but also before that, the subject, goal and destination of our social psychology was not this Armenia.
And there were objective reasons for this. The most important of those reasons is our national misfortune of not having a state for centuries, which in itself should keep the dream of restoring statehood alive in our consciousness and subconsciousness, which has been the most important component of our national identity.
But while dreaming of a state, we relied on the memories that came from the state tradition we had in the past. Armenia of Yervanduni dynasty, Armenia of the Artashesian dynasty, Armenia of Arshakuni dynasty, Armenia of Bagratuni dynasty, Cilician Armenia. Those Armenias were not identical and comparable with each other in terms of their territory and sometimes geographical location, which became an objective obstacle for the concretization and objectification of our ideas about Armenia.
This may seem not essential, but imagine you want to build a house, but you are not sure in which area, in what location, what size house you want to build. Until your understanding of these matters becomes concrete, you cannot build that house and your efforts to build it will never come to fruition. The most you will have is chaotic actions, because you do not decide in which area you want to build a house, in what position, in what size.
During the short period of existence of the First Republic, we did not manage to become concrete in our ideas about the Republic of Armenia.
The Second Republic was the Soviet Republic, which was not a sovereign state, but a country within the USSR, and due to this fact, it was a hostile environment for thinking about independence and an independent Armenia. Those with such thoughts and ideas were subject to criminal prosecution and were a threat to the integrity of the Soviet Union.
One of the methods of the Soviet Union's struggle against the strong national self-awareness of the Armenians was to direct the independence dreams of the Armenian SSR outside the territory of Soviet Armenia and the Soviet Union, sometimes geopolitically, and sometimes in order to weaken and eradicate the perception of the Armenian SSR as a potential area for the re-creation of Armenian statehood. The Soviet Union promoted the formula of seeking a homeland outside the Armenian SSR among Armenians.
Due to this and a number of other factors, the search for the homeland became one of the pillars of our Armenians' subconscious. This formula of searching a homeland from inside the homeland was harmless for the Soviet Union, because it directed the dreams of re-establishing statehood from the Armenian SSR, sometimes even outside the territory of the USSR, which also became a geopolitical factor that the Soviet Union could use in its international relations.
And those who still tried to connect the feelings of Armenian statehood with Soviet Armenia, ended up in prisons and on the political margins as carriers of anti-Soviet activities, that is, their supporters did not multiply.
Here, it is in the conditions of the mentality of searching a homeland, a state outside the homeland, that the Third Republic of Armenia was formed, which positioned itself not as a means of ensuring the freedom, security and well-being of its own citizens, but adopted a vision that fully and completely fit into the Soviet-Armenian formula of the search for a homeland.
This is where we found ourselves in the situation described above, when we are not sure on what territory we want to build a state, in what position we want to build it and in what size.
And the search for homeland was reaffirmed as the key socio-psychology of the Third Republic.
A huge part of the deep problems of the Third Republic is related to this.
I cannot boast that I had this understanding and realized these conceptual nuances all the time or throughout my prime ministership. I have dealt with this agenda in a systematic way after assuming the position of the Prime Minister of Armenia, seeing in depth and practically the threats that hang not only on the security of Armenia, but also on the existence of our state in general.
And therefore, the conceptual question, the solution of which I have considered vital as the prime minister, is as follows: how are we going to ensure the lasting and prosperous future of the Republic of Armenia?
Strategic thinking on these issues led me to the Peace Agenda and the vision of Real Armenia, which are deeply interconnected.
If our strategic vision is not the Real Armenia, the already difficult peace will not be possible at all, because our environment will consider us a threat and therefore will do everything to either physically destroy our statehood or prevent its development.
And secondly, when we do not spend our limited resources and energy on the strategic needs of Real Armenia, we do not have the results we could have and the development of Armenia, the future of our children is hindered doubly. And the peace that the Republic of Armenia needs so much is becoming more and more unattainable.
Under these conditions, the sovereignty of our country is significantly damaged, because when your ideas about the motherland do not exactly match with the internationally recognized legitimate borders of your country, you are forced to open the door for the disproportionate influence of others, because it seems to you that in this way you get strength and support to advance your agendas that do not coincide with legitimate borders.
So here we are again in the Soviet-Armenian model of patriotism. It is this model that separated the concept of homeland from the concept of state, solving the practical problem that the Armenian people should not consider the state of the Armenian SSR, even if incomplete, as a homeland, because the next step after considering the state as a homeland would be deepening the consciousness of independence.
Contrary to various assessments, our government is not separating, but trying to re-unite, to equate the concepts of homeland and state, because this is the only way to accomplish and strengthen the Republic of Armenia, otherwise we will spend our already limited resources on the search for a homeland, jeopardizing the future of the motherland-state.
As one of you who received a mandate from you to work on the formulas to ensure the future of Armenia, I spent years thinking about this epoch-making agenda, this tangle, before and after the 44-day war. And my thoughts have brought me to the unequivocal conviction that our duty to the future and future generations, as well as to the real people living in the Republic of Armenia today, requires us to do everything to make sovereign and democratic Armenia with demarcated borders a national and state ideology and concept.
And the discussions that are taking place in our country are not a surprise to me, because I have personally gone through that painful path, from the psychology of Historical Armenia to the psychology of Real Armenia, and we are going through that same path together now.
We are going through that path and at the end of that path is our Promised Land, the Republic of Armenia, with the difference that we are already here, but very often we do not notice our Promised Land, and because of not noticing it, we continue our search for the Promised Land. Today, our country is not perfect, also because of our endless search for the Promised Land inside the Promised Land does not allow us to make concrete and formulate the answer to the question of which area, in what position, of what size we want to build a home-state, and the demarcation process formulates the answer to this question column by column.
And together we must go through this path, which is not covered with a red carpet, but passes through thorns and pitfalls, hard and difficult decisions, disappointments and misunderstandings, but it is the only one that has a horizon ahead of it and leads to the real Promised Land, Real Armenia: the Republic of Armenia. This is a crucial road. One philosopher says that the best path is the one that gets you where you are. This path brings us to where we are, the Republic of Armenia, and gives us the opportunity to look at our reality from a completely different perspective. And it is only from that point of view that the future and the route to that future can be seen.
There is only one guarantee to complete that road. popular knowledge and conviction in the mission of the political leadership.
Our political team and I live with that mission and we see that we have put a formula on the table that will guarantee the 29,743 km² of the internationally recognized legitimate territory of the Republic of Armenia and the borders that surround that territory, and our task is not only to lead, but also to inspire the people, the citizens of the Republic of Armenia with that vision and formula, because this is a formula, a movement that leads us to real independence and sovereignty, territorial integrity and inviolability of borders. This is a formula that will give our talented people, each and every one of you, the opportunity to concretize and enjoy the results of their work in the person of a free, fair, safe, prosperous and happy Armenia.
I presented in detail at the May 7 press conference how, in what sequence of steps we will achieve this goal, and I don't see the need to repeat the same in other speeches and in this format.
The main purpose of this message is to clarify, comment on what is happening in our country, with our country, and why it is happening.
The establishment of the real Armenia is taking place in our lives and in our consciousness. It is a difficult, painful process that we go through and must go through together. It is a movement for independence and sovereignty that we must bring to its final destination, and my political team and I consider this our mission. Our mission is to make the state, independence and sovereignty a means that serves the citizens and not vice versa.
Both in 2018 and 2021, the proud citizens of the Republic of Armenia have given us a mandate to ensure the future of the Republic of Armenia, and this mandate must be fully and completely implemented.
Glory to the martyrs and long live the Republic of Armenia.
And long live our children who will live in Free and Happy Armenia.
source,

border guards of Armenia and Azerbaijan take over the newly delimited borders in Tavush-Gazakh

This area has a total length of 6.8 km and neighbors the Armenian villages of Berkaber, Voskepar, and Baghanis. As for the more complex 5.8 km section near Kirants, they will be deployed on July 24.
source, source,

several showbiz figures will join the mega-rally of May 26-28 to oust PM Pashinyan and his team: VIDEO

A video compilation of several TV personalities urging their supporters to join the protest led by Archbishop Galstanyan and the pro-Russian former regime.
ARAMO (սրտաճմլիկ): On May 26 at 4 pm I will be at the Republic Square because I don't want to lose OUR culture, OUR language, OUR church, OUR religion. Armenian, Armenia, Homeland, and God. //
In other news. Pashinyan recently urged the members of showbiz to build their own roads if they continue to oppose paying taxes on income generated from tours.
video,

are you even an Armenian if you don't attend the mega-rally on May 26?

Film director Vahram Sahakyan has a few words for you:
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singer Sona Shahgeldyan complains about being pressured to join the May 26 mega-rally

The singer says a journalist from one of the outlets called to ask why she chose not to join the ex-regime's protests. The singer refused to answer. "Ո՛չ մեկը ինձ չի կարող ստիպել անել մի բան, որը չեմ ցանկանում". She doesn't trust anyone in politics so she wants to be left alone. She also threatened to sue some outlets for "defamation".
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authorities arrest 3rd person suspected of bribing people to join the ex-regime's protests against Pashinyan

AUTHORITIES: A media outlet published a phone conversation indicating that two people were planning to bribe residents to attend the May 26 protest. The investigation reveled that the conversation was held on May 22-23 between two persons who have been identified. They discussed bribing 15-20 residents and transporting them to Yerevan on May 26. One of the parties to the conversation is under arrest.
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Belarus leader Lukashenko has a "plan"

He met Putin after the recent visit to Baku where he had praised and described Ilham Aliyev as the leader of Transcaucasia.
While meeting Putin, Lukashenko said he has "very interesting proposals regarding the security in Caucasus", and that he has already discussed them with Aliyev.
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Russia recalls Ambassador to Armenia for consultations days after Pashinyan accused Russia and Belarus of aiding Azerbaijan with 2020 war preparation

Pashinyan's remarks were a response to Lukashenko's revelations about a dinner conversation he had with Ilham Aliyev before the war.
Yerevan refused to comment on why Russia recalled its ambassador. Russian FM Lavrov said it's a routine process for their ambassadors to visit Moscow for consultations.
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Armenia expressed support to Estonia after a border provocation by Russia: Tallinn

The European Union has denounced Russia's removal of buoys marking the border with Estonia on the Narva River.
The Foreign Minister of Estonia says Armenia's FM Mirzoyan expressed support to Estonia during a conversation.
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PM Pashinyan did not participate in a session of the Russian-led CIS Council of Heads of Governments

A low ranking official was dispatched instead.
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Armenia turns down offer to host CIS Games in 2027, citing a busy schedule

Armenia is already set to host a number of other games in 2027:
• World Weightlifting Championship
• European Artistic Gymnastics Championship
• French Francophone Games
• Pan-Armenian Games
However, Armenia might discuss hosting the CIS Games in 2029. The CIS Games were first held in Russia in 2021.
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Armenia and US discussed the reopening of roads in Transcaucasia

FM Mirzoyan and US Senior Advisor for Caucasus Negotiations Louis Bono discussed the remaining issues on the draft peace treaty, the unblocking of roads, the ongoing border delimitation, and topics in the AM-US bilateral agenda.
Azerbaijan has agreed to host Bono to discuss the peace process.
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a fire broke out in the high-rise condo apartment belonging to the son of ranking ARF MP Artsvik Minasyan

The family moved there last week. An electrical problem caused a fire at night while everone was asleep. They woke up and couldn't escape so they had to hide in the balcony before the rescuers arrived. No serious injuries were reported. The apartment is gone gone. Neighbors' properties were also damaged.
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authorities press charges against a former opposition member of Yerevan Council for allegedly fabricating a kidnapping story

Details in January 24 news digest. Narine Hayrapetyan's phone was searched and authorities at the time believed she was lying about being kidnapped. She moved to Russia after the "incident" and claimed it was for her safety.
On Friday, Armenian authorities moved forward with charges against her for filing a "false report". They inspected security cameras, questioned several witnesses, spoke with people present at the location where she was allegedly kept, and concluded that the kidnapping story was made up.
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a modern dairy factory opens in Yerevan

Yeremyan Projects and PM Pashinyan marked the opening ceremony on Friday. The plant, which can produce 150,000 liters per day for now, was built with a $32 million loan from the Eurasian Development Bank to "ensure food security and sustainable economic development of Armenia's agro-industrial sector."
Pashinyan hopes the plant will raise the standards in Armenia. He said the prices rise when the standards are raised, but he believes that's what Armenia needs today so people will know they are buying "real" dairy when they pick up a product from a shelf.
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US announces sanctions on unnamed Georgian politicians behind the "Russian-style" anti-NGO law

Several officials "complicit in undermining democracy in Georgia" and their family members will be barred from traveling to the US.
The US will also conduct a comprehensive review of bilateral cooperation with Georgia but remains hopeful that "Georgia’s leaders will reconsider the draft law and take steps to move forward with their nation’s democratic and Euro-Atlantic aspirations."

... What is the difference between a similar "foreign agent" law in the US and the one approved in Georgia?

Unlike the U.S.’s Foreign Agent Registration Act (FARA), simply receiving income from overseas would be sufficient to be branded an “organization pursuing the interests of a foreign power,” whether that is true or not. Combined with a new proposed ban on “LGBT propaganda” and increasingly anti-Western rhetoric from Georgian Dream, there are fears the country is backsliding on human rights.

... Georgian government's response

Tbilisi insists the law is needed to protect against foreign influence. They condemned the US visa restrictions, calling it a "policy of blackmail and threats, incompatible with the Georgian-US strategic partnership."
Tbilisi stopped issuing new gun licenses to Georgian citizens two weeks ago and there still appear to be "technical issues" with the system. They also condemned an EU official for invoking the recent shooting of pro-Russian Slovak PM Fico.

... US Congress is preparing another sanctions package

A bipartisan resolution titled the Georgian People’s Act envisages sanctions on Georgian officials, a review of foreign assistance, and a reassessment of the existing bilateral relations. It calls on Tbilisi to release protesters from jails.
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anti-corruption: ex-mayor of Nagorno-Karabakh's Askeran is placed under house arrest in Armenia over alleged embezzlement of a ֏5 million car

Authorities say Hayk Shamiryan forged documents in January to embezzle a LADA NIVA NIVATRAVEL by transferring its ownership to an associate, and when they searched the residency, they allegedly found possible evidence of another similar theft.
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anti-corruption: the number of Yerevan transport passengers suddenly jumped by 40,000 after the city took steps to cut fare theft by drivers and Autobus officials

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joint Armenian-Japanese expedition discovers a prehistoric cattle camp in Armavir province: PHOTO

Located near Lernagog village, the camp indicates that a community lived near this area in the 8th-7th century BC.
They were mainly cattle farmers and could build clay structures. It's one of the oldest cattle camps ever discovered in Transcaucasia.
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BREAKING: ice begins to melt at -153°C, not ~0°C or even -70°C (premelting)

Researchers at Beijing University "settle centuries-old debate over ice surface". They wanted to understand why ice is so slippery.

A group of Chinese researchers has observed the atomic resolution image of an ice surface and discovered that the ice surface begins to melt at minus 153 degrees Celsius
Previously, the understanding of the ice surface was limited due to a lack of experimental methods at the atomic scale.

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Jarek.
I was going through my google photos and I went down a rabbit hole of trying to find footage of us at the Enrique Iglesias concert in 2018. I found a 17 second video of us screaming to a song awaiting the singer to come out, and there it was, me and you, probably the last time we were genuienly happy in each others company. I can't believe we never got to become close. I did not look out for you how I was supposed to. You were my best friend when I was born, and when you went off to college we drifted apart and that never fixed itself. We fought so much. Physically fought too. I regret every single time I called you a name, I regret every single time I did not stand in your defense, rather in the contrary, I regret everything I did wrong.
Our parents were shit assholes and I knew it, but I was so caught up in my own issues I forgot to see you. I moved away as far as I could, I cut contact with dad for 2 years, I ended up being strung along an emotionally manipulative relationship for 3 years just to numb the pain of my entire existance and when you needed me the most I cut you off too. I can't even remember the last thing I said to you. I can't remember the last words you said to me. I chose not to talk to you and block you on almost everything for a year before your death, and I will never forgive myself. Dad is blaming mom for this event. It wasn't her fault (entirely).
I can't believe it has been 6 months since you have died. In november I decided to stop my anger towards you and I unblocked you, and had a friend contact you because I was too embarrassed. In december you were dead. We don't know when it happened. You were gone 3/4 weeks by the time they found you. My parents got the news on the 1st around 6pm and immiediately called me. I, being hungover from going out for New Years, was showering, and a friend who was in the apartment visiting me for it, told me my dad was calling. Me, oblivious, I let it ring out, then my mom was calling, then my dad again, then my mom again. I got suspicious at this point and immiediately thought of that scenario. So I stepped out, in just a towel, and I did not even get a chance to ring back a text came in entitled "Jarek is dead".
Time stopped. I cried for 4 hours straight. My boyfriend, who only started dating me about a month before stepped out in shock and comforted me. I don't remember what happened until I got really hungry so we ordered pizza. I was supposed to have a shower, and then we were supposed to move to my new house. We were supposed to be finished by 9/10pm. We only started at 12am, and finished at 5am. When my mom called me at 8am, I no longer slept that night. The friend who came to visit me, dropped me home 3hours drive, to my parents house and then everything after that was just flight or fight. Race against time to clear your belongings. Rage for how much clutter and absolute junk there was. Flights after flights of stairs, bin bag after bin bag of endless recycling, and endless messages on facebook marketplace trying to sell your furniture as there was no place to keep it in the parents house. We only had a couple of weeks to clear your belongings, and we did the best that we could.
I tried to get in contact with people after you died to gain access to your social medias, but that urge has now passed. You were buried 1 week after we found out, but my parents wished against the news to be made public. They also said no to your name being published on rip.ie. Almost nobody knows about your death and it makes me hate my existance. People deserved to know you were gone, people deserved to be able to come to mourn you. You were a whole person with your whole unique life, and my parents treated you like if they owned you when you died, ashamed you committed suicide. In fairness I would also be ashamed if I was them. But not for the reasons they are. I would be ashamed that I try to keep this so quiet. Why are they pretending to the world that nothing has changed? EVERYTHING has changed.
I used to think you were strong. I used to think you did not give a shit. I thought you had anger issues and you were arrogant because I thought you thought the world owed you. Now I realise there might have been some truth to that. Looking back, I can see all you ever wanted was to be loved, was someone to be proud of your achievements, was someone to treat you like a human being, yet your own family bullied you. I don't know how you talked about me behind closed doors but I know I did not talk nicely about you. I resented you. When you fell into drugs, and it had finally reached us the news, we were all shocked. Looking back, I think you tried to kill yourself that night. You were found with 3 different drugs in your body, in crashed in the middle of a field in Germany. We tried to help you, my parents did anyway, I don't really remember being present. I did not understand your pain. That happened 5 years ago I think. December 2019. Not long after Covid came around and well... your life was just a constant downhill.
You got fired from your job, and then couldnt hold one down for longer than a few months. Financially it became an issue for you, but myself and the family were hesitant on helping, we were too afraid it would go down for drugs. It didn't help any time we tried to have any conversation with you you would shoot us with the : that's none of your business.
I miss you. And words are not enough to describe how I feel. I no longer have a brother and its hard to come to terms with that. I feel so much that if I just did more, if I was less selfish, if my family was actually loving you would still be here. It feels surreal. It has only been 6 months since you died, yet I feel an eternity older. I am so depressed. All i think about i doing the same and joining you. This week I called into work sick twice, went in two days, and I was supposed to work today, yet I slept through it all. They didn't call me, but now I am so embarrassed. I don't know how to face myself anymore. I've gained 10 kg since last year, I have not done one thing that makes me happy since last year. Not one hobby. All my time goes down towards watching facebook and youtube videos meaninglessly. I have not talked with anyone other than my boyfriend since, I forget who my friends are and I'm afraid to reach out. I feel so alone. My parents are just screaming at each other, my mom shames my dad for feeling sad and crying, my dad just blames her for my brothers death, it's a very unsettling environment.
I feel like I am falling apart. I don't feel like me. I feel ugly, and fat, and motivationless and stupid. I am sad. I am so fucking sad. If I could take the chance to apologise to my brother for everything I did wrong, for everytime I made him feel less, for everytime he felt alone and just hug him and understand I would in a heartbeat. But theres nothing I can do, and life goes on, and I feel so incredibly stupid to still be a part of it. I feel so incredibly sad, because I was the one who always wanted to run away, get away as far as I could from my family, and here I am at 25, and I feel stuck to my toxic parents now. They beat us when we were kids, never showed us any love, and laughed when my brother came out and said he had a traumatizing childhood. My parents once caught me, after having stolen the family computer, it was in my room and I was playing games, they told me to pack me things and they are giving me away. So I did. I packed a bag quickly, with maybe a toy, put on some shoes and they drove me to the police station. I cried but I was not sorry. I was happy to finally get away from them. They got mad at me that I wasn't upset. I was maybe 9 or 10. Even back then I knew that running away from my parents will be my goal.
I went off on a tangent. I never ever wish my experiences on anyone else. I feel I will never be happy. I feel a burden on my boyfriend, he deserves to be with a girl who will bring him joy, and permeates joy, and I feel I will not be that person.
Jarek I miss you, and I am so fucking sorry I wasn't there for you when you needed me, and I hope some part of you had forgiven me before you took your life. I wish you had left a note. I will be reunited with you at some point. Until then, keep the spot warm for me please, as I try to remember everything that made you, you, and try to celebrate you.
Lots of love, Your stupid little sister. Ela

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Armenia's military industry is developing

HOST: The share of the domestic arms industry in the armed forces has been rising in recent years. The state has decided to create easier conditions for the development of the industry.
HIGH-TECH MINISTER (Mkhitar Hayrapetyan): Whatever is possible to produce in Armenia with the use of Armenian scientific potential and manufacturing capacities should be done domestically to minimize reliance on imports. The myth that Armenian producers are incapable of creating high-quality products has been shattered.
At the moment, there are ֏170 billion ($438 million) in contracts signed between the defense ministry and 27 representatives of domestic industry. We expect to bring it to ֏190 billion ($490 million) by the end of this year by involving two more companies.
Most contracts are about communication tools, control systems, radio-electronic warfare tools, drones, modernization activities, etc.
LEONID NERSISYAN (expert): It's not a secret that hefty investments were made in the manufacturing of drones. We've also seen a production of 122 mm and 82 mm shells; it's necessary to expand to 155 mm because we are purchasing new [Indian] artillery that uses those.
HIGH-TECH MINISTER: (1) The state is enacting legislative reforms to make the industry attractive for investments. (2) We are promoting R&D for new technologies and the generation of new ideas. We are financing research activities, the creation of prototypes, and their experimentation. The chain ends when a company's product passes the state experimentation process and enters serial production.
HOST: In 2018 the scientific-research budget was ֏2.4B. Today it's ֏4.1B ($10.6M), with an additional ֏1.5B dedicated for prototypes.
MHER MARKOSYAN (expert): We need more laser tech experts. The state must cherish mil. industry employees and encourage young scientists to gain experience.
HIGH-TECH MINISTER: As part of the 2024 budget, we do have a component to train and retrain industry experts. New specialists must enter this industry.
MHER MARKOSYAN: The war in Ukraine has made it more difficult to import components. Something that would normally take 1 week now requires 5 months. There are also horrible logistics problems. We do find solutions to import products but these solutions are expensive.
LEONID NERSISYAN: Even countries under the UN's embargo are able to import weapons so it's a matter of price. For example, it turns out that 70% of the electronics inside North Korean missiles are American.
HOST: Some Armenian manufacturers have reached international levels and could soon begin to export their products. However, there are logistic complications here as well. For example, in 2021 Armenia faced difficulty transporting the mockups of larger weapons to the Abu Dhabi expo [Moscow forced the jet carrying Armenian products to be unloaded and kept delaying the cargo's transfer to Abu Dhabi].
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the National Academy of Sciences has received a device that uses powerful lasers to melt metal and ceramic dust to create 3D objects for space and other industries: VIDEO

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India's Ambassador about defense cooperation between India and Armenia

AMBASSADOR: Our defense cooperation is proceeding very well. Defense cooperation is not only defense technical cooperation, but also we are looking at capacity building. On both fronts, we are proceeding very well.
REPORTER: During a joint press conference with MOD Papikyan, the Greek Minister spoke about the possibility of Armenia-Greece-France-India quadrilateral cooperation in the defense area.
AMBASSADOR: All 4 states have very good relations but at the moment it is still premature to talk about a quadrilateral format. But yes, there are convergences.
REPORTER: The Indian government said it's going to appoint Defense Attachés to Armenia and several other countries to strengthen the military links. What can you tell us about this?
AMBASSADOR: PM Modi has a very clear-cut policy and initiative of “Make in India”, including in the defense sector. We are now seeing that many countries in the world are buying Indian defense equipment. Defense Attachés are being posted to coordinate the process.

... India's Ambassador about AM-IN economic ties and trade

REPORTER: What was the volume of trade last year, and what trends are seen in the bilateral export and import markets?
AMBASSADOR: The $200 million trade we made was far below the potential. India is the Pharmacy of the World with more than 60% of the vaccines worldwide coming from India, including those supplied through the WHO and other mechanisms like GAVI. So we see more potential here. Both sides are working towards increasing the import of Indian medicines and vaccines into Armenia. We are also looking at the high-tech sector.

... India's Ambassador about Pashinyan's "Crossroads of Peace" trade unblocking project

REPORTER: The Government of Armenia proposed the “Crossroads of Peace” logistics project. There were opinions that it matches with India’s vision in the South Caucasus. What is India’s opinion on this initiative?
AMBASSADOR: When countries need to prosper, connectivity is the key. And connectivity is something that we, in our own region, have been working very closely with our neighboring countries. So similarly, we find that for any region, if you want to move to the next level of prosperity, you need to have connectivity projects. Naturally, we see this “Crossroads of Peace” project of the Armenian government in that light, that it would be a win-win situation for all the regional partners. So indeed for us there is no other way than to have more connections between countries, whether it is in terms of roads, railways, etc. We look at it positively and enthusiastically.

... India's Ambassador about international trade through Iran's Chabahar port

REPORTER: India plays an important role in the development of Chabahar port. You mentioned that the prospects of facilitating the use of Chabahar port for Armenia are being considered as well. What are those possibilities?
AMBASSADOR: The Chabahar port is jointly developed by India and Iran. In our discussions with the Armenian side, they have manifested an interest in using the Chabahar port. Armenia's Minister of Territorial Administration visited the Chabahar port in December. We are waiting for the details from the Armenian side and we will consider it once we receive concrete proposals.
REPORTER: What role can Armenia play in the development of a communication route from India to Chabahar to the Black Sea?
AMBASSADOR: This goes back to my comment about connectivity. Armenia being a landlocked country definitely needs more connectivity projects. If it materializes, I think it would help Armenia to overcome the fact that it is a landlocked country.
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experts at the European Training Foundation will assess Armenia's secondary vocational education system

The European Training Foundation is a European Union agency that helps transition and developing countries harness the potential of their human capital through the reform of education, training and labour market systems, and in the context of the EU's external relations policy.

A group of experts have arrived for the May 21-23 assessment. They will hold consultations with state agencies, students, employee unions, and others.

by 2030, 90 percent of school and college graduates should be able to find jobs and work according to employers' requirements.

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Yerevan and Paris reached an agreement to cooperate in urbanization, transport, and waste management over the next 3 years during a visit by Yerevan Mayor Avinyan to Paris

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Yerevan subway is diching Soviet-era physical zhetons (tokens) as part of transport reforms and switch to a universal payment system

OFFICIAL: We are updating a total of 49 entrance gates; it will be completed next month. You'll be able to use the old gates with tokens for now. Soon you will pay with a QR code, Telcell mobile wallet, bank cards, etc. ... last week over 15,000 passengers used the electronic payment methods.
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Yerevan municipality launches a process to move garbage containers underground

A public tender is launched to design a pilot program. In October the city said they studied the international practice for collecting the trash from underground bins and found two methods: lifting the bins to allow Yerevan's existing tech to collect the trash, or remove the bins. The latter would be more expensive.
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government launches the construction of two roads for Tavush border village Kirants: VIDEO

PASHINYAN OFFICE: The 3 remaining coordinates of Kirants were pinpointed with the use of a computer and the border posts will be installed later. The rest [another 8 posts in Kirants] are already there. The good news for Kirants is that around 25 hectares of land that have been unreachable for 33 years will be returned to the village. The border resembles the 1976 line.
As we said earlier, yes, there is a need to build a bypass road, which can be accomplished in 2-3 months. We will also rebuild the road between H-26 and Acharkut and Kirants, which is an alternative road for Kirants. As for property issues, the volumes are small and the government will compensate in such situations. //
The 3 remaining border posts were reportedly installed in Kirants on Monday. Here is how the road issue will be addressed:
Azerbaijan is located between Kirants and Sarigyugh villages. Kirants is currently connected to Sarigyugh with two roads: a direct connection through the interstate road, and a secondary road that connects Kirants to nearby Acharkut before reaching Sarigyugh.
Approximately 300 meters of the direct road falls under the Azerbaijani side, so the government will build a 750-meter bypass road parallel to it. Preliminary construction activities have begun; they are working on the details.
As for the secondary road passing through Acharkut, the government has begun rebuilding and widening it to allow cargo trucks to use it.
So there are currently two construction projects, with one connecting Kirants to Sarigyugh directly, and the second connecting Kirants to Sarigyugh through Acharkut. Both roads are expected to be ready in 3 months.
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Final battle? The opposition co-leader Bagrat Galstanyan will hold a "decisive" massive rally on May 26 to oust PM Pashinyan

GALSTANYAN: Պատմե’ք մարդկանց մայիսի 26-ի մեր հանրահավաքի մասին, այն վճռական է լինելու: //
Former mayor of Yerevan Hayk Marukyan called for Pashinyan and the ruling party to resign. "այլևս անելիք չունեն, նրանք պետք է հեռանան"
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Serj Sargsyan's HHK party co-leader is against forming an anti-Pashinyan alliance with Edmon Marukyan and Sasna Tsrer

Edmon Marutyan's LHK, Ruben Vardanyan's Aprelu Yerkir, and the Sasna Tsrer (BEVER) whose followers committed terrorists attacks on police stations in 2016 and 2024 have decided to join the ongoing anti-Pashinyan protests led by Kremlin's favorite Archbishop Bagrat Galstanyan.
HHK's Edward Sharmazanov is against forming an alliance with Edmon Marukyan's LHK because they did not actively campaign against Pashinyan's reelection in 2021.
As for Sasna Tsrer, they committed attacks on police stations and called HHK "evil", so Sharmazanov is against working with them.
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update: threats after bribes

One of the several low-income residents of Vanadzor who last week reported receiving bribes to join the former regime's ongoing anti-Pashinyan protests says someone called and threatened their family for reporting the bribe to the police. Authorities are investigating the call.
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a fight broke out between protesters and students who refused to join the "Holy Struggle" led by Archbishop Galstanyan

AUTHORITIES: On Wednesday we received reports about a fight between the students of Yerevan's Manuk Abeghyan School and protesters. The participants engaged in a fight, disturbed peace, and used slurs. Eight students (all under 18 except for one) were detained.
SCHOOL DIRECTOR: It started after a group of protesters used loudspeakers to encourage our students to join them. After realizing that students didn't want to join, they began to hurl insults at the students. Several students left the building and a fight broke out in the backyard.
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82,000 Armenian drivers take advantage of a new law that absolves them of old citation debt if they pay 50%: VIDEO

It was part of a package law that slashes the size of future traffic citations by almost half if the driver pays electronically within the first two weeks of the violation. Some 21,000 drivers have already signed up at police.am to get a discount on their future citations.
It's meant to reduce the financial burden on drivers, the paperwork burden on police, and improve the payment discipline.
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Armenian poet and 18th century TikToker Sayat-Nova's statue is unveiled in Turkmenistan during an international forum of Culture Ministers: PHOTO

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Armenia circulates gold collector coin dedicated to Charles Aznavour’s 100th anniversary: IMAGE

Obverse: monument to Charles Aznavour in Gyumri
Reverse: portrait of Charles Aznavour, the number 100 in the form of stylized musical notes, piano keys and microphone.
Minted in Poland. The coin is worth ֏10,000 ($25).
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International Criminal Court wants to arrest Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Gallant, and the Hamas leadership

PROSECUTOR: On the basis of evidence collected and examined by my Office, I have reasonable grounds to believe that Benjamin NETANYAHU, the Prime Minister of Israel, and Yoav GALLANT, the Minister of Defence of Israel, bear criminal responsibility for the following war crimes and crimes against humanity committed on the territory of the State of Palestine (in the Gaza strip) from at least 8 October 2023:
(1) Starvation of civilians as a method of warfare as a war crime
(2) Willfully causing great suffering, or serious injury to body or health
(3) Willful killing, or Murder as a war crime
(4) Intentionally directing attacks against a civilian population as a war crime
(5) Extermination and/or murder, including in the context of deaths caused by starvation, as a crime against humanity;
(6) Persecution as a crime against humanity
(7) Other inhumane acts as crimes against humanity
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Iran's President Raisi and Foreign Minister Amirabdollahian die in a helicopter crash while returning from a meeting with Ilham Aliyev to inaugurate the opening of a new dam on the Iran-Azerbaijan border

Shortly before the crash:
RAISI: Maybe someone doesn't like our meeting and joint successes with Azerbaijan. It doesn't matter to us. The important thing is that we implement together whatever is in the best interest of our people. The enemies do not want progress in Azerbaijan and Iran, but we believe that any progress in Azerbaijan is our progress, any threat to the borders of both countries will be a loss for both countries.
ALIYEV: Today the world is witnessing how great the friendship is between Azerbaijan and Iran. We support each other in all international structures and will continue to in the future. No one can divide us. //
Memorial services will be held in Yerevan's Blue Mosque on Thursday.
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Azerbaijani dissident activist Arif Yunusov about Iran helicopter crash

REPORTER: Will there be radical changes in Iran after the death of Raisi?
YUNUSOV: I doubt it. The real power is in the hands of Khamenei. Now there are reports about his son [replacing him in the future]. As for the internal disturbances caused by opponents, as you know, there are periodic waves in Iran. These protests are sometimes ethnicity-based. If in the past it was Azerbaijanis, today the protests are by Kurds. There is also the youth that's tired of being ruled by religious mullahs. The death of Raisi doesn't change anything in internal or foreign policies. They will just change the President's last name.
REPORTER: I have a feeling Iran will soon blame Israel for the helicopter crash.
YUNUSOV: I have already seen that on Iranian Telegram channels but official Tehran won't rush with that. They will conduct an investigation and conclusions will be made. If Tehran blames Israel, then there must be good evidence for it because credit where credit is due - Iran usually conducts such investigations quite well. If you remember the liquidation of the father of Iran's nuclear weapons, Israel still denies participation but Iran found enough evidence that Israeli agents used the territory of Azerbaijan to infiltrate, carry out the project, and return through Azerbaijan. Let's wait and see the conclusion of the crash investigation. The accusations by Telegram channels and analysts "don't count".

... Arif Yunusov about AM-AZ border delimitation

REPORTER: Is the ongoing Tavush-Gazakh delimitation really a bilateral process, as Baku claims?
YUNUSOV: No. The U.S. is still interested in the delimitation process and influences both parties behind the curtains. There was a high-profile Azerbaijani visit to Washington. Although the official press release didn't share details, we can safely assume they discussed the AM-AZ relations. If this delimitation continues in spite of Russia that means the U.S. is currently a moderator in this process. This is not purely a bilateral process despite Aliyev's efforts to present it that way.
REPORTER: Is the U.S. a guarantor that the delimitation won't end in Tavush?
YUNUSOV: Not a "guarantor" but the U.S. is the force that is really trying to accomplish something and is actually doing something. The full demarcation will last a long time. The main objective of the U.S. at the moment is the signing of an AM-AZ peace agreement. I don't think they'll be able to sign it before November, however.
REPORTER: How is the Azerbaijani public reacting to the border delimitation?
YUNUSOV: Positively. People truly want to have a demarcated border. The Azerbaijani regime often mentioned "Western Azerbaijan" and the return of Azeris there, but in reality, nobody in Azerbaijan took that seriously because they all understood it was an attempt to pressure Armenia. As soon as information came that the border was partially delimited, it was met with a positive response by the public. The Azerbaijani public understands that it's normal for Azerbaijan to gain and lose control of territories during this process, just as we did during the delimitation with other neighbors.
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SYNOPSIS: Walking your OP monster girlfriend home is easy. No one messes with you. Getting back to your house on your own? That's the tricky part.
What's worse than an eldritch building? How 'bout a bigger one?
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Norman took one look at the towering building to his left. Then he took off.
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“̷̵̵̷̶̷̶̶̸̶̶̸̴̡̛̮͉̹̪̼̙̤̲̤͔̗̮̥̣̜͓̟̞̃̔̈́̑̈̍͌̂̂̐̋͛̉̓G̵̶̸̷̴̸̵̵̴̶̸̷̸̴̶̨̢̧̞͈̠̜̳̪͎̬̜̱̫͚̝̩̑̒͐́͆̃̿̉̆̉̃̓̀̎̐͂̎̒̕̕͘͝͝Ǵ̷̷̷̴̸̸̷̷̷̷̵̨̢̞̥͓̰͖͙̰̝͖̩̺͍͎͉͌̽̂́͐̓̀͒̐͗́M̴̷̶̵̴̷̵̶̵̴̷̷̢̡̧̢̛̫̲͕͇̗̯͚̥͙͓͓̀̒͑͒̂̊̅̐͛̂̄͌̈̚͝M̴̷̶̵̴̷̷̶̷̬̼̭̗͍̺̳̩̱͍̂̄̾͂̔̽̇̀͝͝͝͠M̶̯̙̥͕̞̰̗̗͐̔!̸̞̞̬̼̖̩̈́̇͊͐̾͑͋̉!̷̧͈̘̬̆͑͝!̶̤̜̔̓̆̅̔͆͘͝”̸̨̧̼̭̫̒͜

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The new hunting cry boomed through his body. It was much louder than the first building’s, albeit shorter, like a tap on the shoulder from a titan proclaiming its presence to the world.
Of course, the tap of a titan could flatten a man.
Norman fell. His legs had simply stopped working. Jaws clenched, he forced his will into wobbly muscles. His palms slammed into the waterlogged street, stopping the fall. With a sharp push, he sprang back to his feet and ran on.
Norman yanked out the remaining two flash grenades on the go, strung them together, armed and drew back for a throw.
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“̷̬̳̙̍̎̆G̴̥͇̥͔͕̫̈̀M̵̛͇̜͙͇̫͔̭̩̝̜̓̈̏̓̓̀͛̚͜͝͝M̷̩͈͉̘͙̿͌̃̽͂̃̏̏̓̾̈́͌̈́̉̅̄̉͘!̷̢̧̢̤͓̭̖̝̏̏̄̓̾̉̆͋͘͝!̵͍̱̼̮̯̺̲͙̖̮̗͓̻̓̊͂̒̔͐̎͘͘̚!̵̙͍̟̌͒̃͂̎͠”̶̡̛̠̱̭̞̹̟͉̒̎̎̂͂̐̈́̓̄̚̕

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That quick boom pounded through him. His fingers faltered. The flash grenades slipped from his grip and fell. He was still recovering from the sound when they went off at his feet. The nightsight filtered the flash, so he didn’t go blind. He’d gutted the flash grenade’s speakers, so he didn’t go deaf. The peeping building could deafen him all on its own … no, this wasn’t a peeping building. He’d slew a peeping building. They were small fries by comparison.
This was an eyescraper.
Tentacles the width of busses unsheathed from its sides. Even if he’d managed to launch the grenades and bathe it in smitelight, he suspected that wouldn’t be enough.
Norman sliced at its eyes with a focused beam. It barely flinched. Maybe if it got close enough, he could affect it a bit. By then, it would be too late.
Throbbing chuffs thundered from the monster. It sounded like a laugh.
Norman shot it a defiant glare. He bolted. Not fast enough. He could feel the giant closing in. So, he moved faster. Then faster, and still faster. His muscles blared their warnings. Rain lashed his face. He felt the air begin to resist his movements as he reached a speed at which it mattered. It was in his way, so he pushed through it too. No one was there to tell him he was moving far faster than any human known to history. All he cared about was hearing that thing fall behind him, and so it did. The tremours of its tremendous movements grew fainter.
At the end of the street, an apartment building came into view. Norman threw himself against it, climbing with the reckless abandon of a madman. He was halfway to the top.
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“̷̧̨̭̹̘̥̮͖̤̻̥̬̌̀͒̔͌̊̀̚͜͜͠Ǧ̶̨̨̧̺̘̰̗̘̥̝̗̦̩͖͎͋̈͑͐̒̽̉̔͛̾̒́̕ͅM̴̨̉́̾̉͂͆̔̿̀̃̇̎̍͆̂̽͗̔͘͠ͅM̷̝̻̱̆̍͜!̴̮̬̯̮̦̖́͂̆͋̿̇̎̄̄̅̂͑̎̀̕͘͝͝͝!̸̲͎̲̼̠̮̱͖̥̭̤̩͓̘̜͈̟̖̮̰̦͖̀̂͗͂̽̈́̋͌͂̐̓̈̕!̸̜̆̿̋̔̽̕”̷̢̦̜̰̼̳̝͓̆͗̈́̆̆̑̃̾͑̀͗͒͆́͐͒̈́̿̽̕̕͜

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His grip went limp. He fell. Struck the ground. His head bounced. The world grew fu...z z y.
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• LEMMY.OUTA.HERE: (Stupse) Well, he ded.
• BAJANETTE11: ARN74, JUST GO AND FIND HIM!!!
• ARN74: HE DIDN’T SEND ME DE PIN! DIS BAAARE STRESS! NORMAN, YOU PUNK! YOU EMOTIONALLY INVESTED ME IN THIS CHANNEL! IF YOU DIE NOW I’M GONNA KILL YOU!

Something was yapping in the background, but it wasn’t important. He felt fine. Everything was fine. Why not rest? Why was he even-?

_CHAT

• ARN74: YOU PROMISED ME YOU WOULDN’T LEAVE AMY!!

What? No he didn’t! Promises weren’t for trolls! Why would he leave Amy anyway?
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“̸̼͔̖̜̫͍͚̊́̽͆̓̂̋̋͐̕Ģ̴̢͕͉̯̺̗̖͔͙̪͓̻̯̫̭̙̱͕̠̭̩̌M̸̨̧̘̟̹̖̻̲͍̭͓͉̰͙̦̣̜͉̻̎̅͗̇̈́̈̏͌̓̾̀̈̈́͜M̵̢̢̖̯̦͍͕̝̯̥̹̪̠̥̰̝̖̊͛̀̇͜!̵̢̡̡͚͕̘̟͕̥̦̪͆̈́̿͆!̴̛̹͈̜̥͔̬͎̪̩͚̦̯̟̘̩̰̳̍̑̂́̌͌̎́̒͋̽̿̑͌͝͝!̴̛̥͕̪͂̂̂̈̓͆͗̇̄̈́̌̅̎͂̕̚̕͝͠”̷̧̧̛̠̝̰̞̘͙̥̖͎̭̞̜̳̟̓͆̌̊̃̔́͒͋̇̈́͘̚͠͝ͅ
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Oh, right. There was a skyscraper running him down. To think he lived in a world where that made any sense. He rubbed his throbbing head. It was hard to think, though.

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• ARN74: TRY AN CLIMB DE TING OPPA!

Brain fog would have to wait.
In two twos he jumped onto the side of the building and kept going up and up without breaking the momentum of the leap. Adrenaline had challenged gravity. Gravity lost. There was no pause to assess handholds. There was no rain stinging his face. In his mind, there was only ‘CLIMB, CLIMB, CLIMB!’ Crest the rooftop. ‘RUN, RUN, RUN!’ Descend the other side ‘JUMP!’ Gravity greedily reclaimed Norman, dragging him 4 storeys down at breakneck speed. He hit the ground in a parkour roll. Bruised a bone. Nearly fractured a shoulder. Wrenched his spine. Joints, muscle, ligaments almost popped. They didn’t.
He was running again.
Norman had never heard a building shred like paper. He’d never thought to wonder what it sounded like.
*( ( BMMM! ) ) ( ( BMM! ) ) ( ( BOOM! ) ) \*

SHHHHHRRRRRRMMMM!

Now he knew.
Those booms … was it the eyescraper’s tentacles breaking the sound barrier, or punching holes through the apartment building? Maybe both. It didn’t matter. What mattered was that it was tearing the building in two with the ease of one parting curtains. Buildings were not designed to be parted. Two became legions as the sundered building collapsed.
Norman rushed for an abandoned truck, slid beneath the trailer. Not quite fast enough. Most of the rubble didn’t reach him directly, but upon hitting the ground? It pulverised into a blast of cloud like a sandstorm. Hissing beneath the trailer, the dust stung at his ankles. He ignored it, racing for the truck’s cabin at the front. Perched on the step beneath the door, he braced as the dust raced beneath, around and above him. The cabin was his shield. He flinched to a duck when its windows shattered as the dust cloud blasted straight through them. The truck rocked and slid slightly, bombarded by wind and dust. It lurched as a chunk of debris finally reached it, crumpling the trailer like cheap foil.
Time to move.
Particles prickled Norman’s eyes, finding their way through the nightsight. He took a fresh glimpse of the path ahead before clouds of grey engulfed it all.
Memorised.
He dashed on. A split second later, the cabin was levelled under a larger slab of concrete. More sporadically thundered down around him. His eyes were squeezed shut, denying entry to any more particles. He scrambled through the street, dodging obstacles from memory. As for the concrete rainfall that couldn’t be seen? He had some prayers about that, but it probably came out like half-baked gibberish.
Norman chanced opening his eyes. They watered like crazy. At least most of the dust was gone. Behind him, the eyescraper’s menacing silhouette was picking through the rubble. Finally, an unblocked street was in sight. He rounded the corner.
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“̵̨̢̮͕̻̲̺́͠G̵̣̒́̓̽̅̊͘͝Ọ̷̝̣͓͙͔̀ͅͅǪ̷̜̺͚̲̯̭̈́̍͂͑̋̋̅͂̅́M̷̨̤̭͈̯̤͋̾̏̈̅̉̀̏͘M̵̡̢̙̱͌̊̓͒́͌Ḿ̸̳͗̀̀͐͒͗́͠ͅ!̷͍͉̣̪̫͙̳̲̤̎̀̾̅̈́̔̎̑͘͜͝͝!̴̨͈͖̘̖̅͛̋̽͠!̸͎̩͓̫̥̼̫̊”̵̫̗̞̣̝̃̅̕͘͜͜͝ͅ
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Another peeping building, rumbling in from the new street. Alright. Straight it was.
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“̷̢̧̻̹͚͔̾G̵̳̭̾̃̎̍̌̂̈́̂͛͘M̶̧̠͇͔͚͉̮͈̰͒͊́̏̔̄̾̊͐̒͂͜M̸̳͓̋͋̔͑̔̔̕͝Ő̷͓̟̱̮͓̍̂̾̽̇͘͠Ô̸̧̫͉̮͚̥̥̯̈̾͋̅͂͘̚M̶̢̫̥̰̮̪͙̬̙̗̺̽͒͐͌̋̈̄͆͝M̴̢̧̧̛̗͔͓̫̭̳̱͑̉!̵̡̛̛͍̲̓̅̑̈́̿̏͘̕͠!̸̧̖͔̣̩̏́͋̀͛͂̏̀̇̑͐!̴̧͕̝̮̤̱͈̬͋”̸͓̉̈́̑̎͊̌
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Maybe not. A third building emerged from the rainfall ahead. All streets blocked. He glanced about. All alleys still blocked. This really was a hunting net, but this much energy for a tiny human? Predators weren’t usually like this.
He ran for the nearest building that wasn’t occupied by eldritch calamari.

( ( BOOMM! ) )

The eyescraper’s tentacle crossed his path. Its supersonic shockwave sent him flying.
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Norman came to. Rain poured against his face as he lay on his back. How long was he out? Why was it so cold? The atmosphere didn’t quite feel right. It didn’t look right either. Something about the colours, or subtle lack thereof. Everything seemed a bit desaturated. Norman sat up and coughed his lungs out, evicting a mix of dust and rain water collected in his slackly gaping mouth. Buildings towered above him on every side, a bit too close for comfort.
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“̸̮̼͍̻̯̲̹͓̬̻̓̍G̷̛̖̙̰̰̟̓Ḿ̸̧̨͊̊̔͒͌̆͆͘͠͝M̷̧̺̏̿̆͑͆͋̅͌̕͝G̵̰̺͇̺̯̲͇̠͖͂͜M̸̡̨͕̹̗̥̎͑́̾!̸͇͙͚̝̩͕̙̒!̵͙̬̮̪̏̍!̶͔̪͉̙̘̃̐̄͝”̶̡̡̥̫̻̝̜̫͙̩͛ͅ

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Oh, right, those weren’t just buildings.
Norman raised a finger, gesturing to wait. “Could you *kaff!* quit subwoofin’ at me for, like, ten seconds!”
“Plucky.̵͚͐͝ for all seasons I .̵̦̺͐̅see,” came a skin-crawling voice from behind him.
Norman swung back his smitelight. It barely moved half a foot, then it stopped. Rather, something stopped it. That ‘something’ was cold. So cold. His wrist felt the chill without even touching it.
Norman turned, slowly, so as not to trigger further attacks. He found himself looking up.
Eight feet tall. Dark grey skin. A grin that went a little too wide. Dagger teeth. An open-chested jacket, revealing sinewy muscles with luminous markings like tattoos. His ebony eyes bore penetrating white pupils. Of all his traits, the dreadlocks stood out most. They belonged in a nightmare, dancing through the air with a life of their own. Somehow, they looked blacker than black, absorbing every ray of light or heat that came their way. That icy chill in the air shifted with the movements of his dreadlocks. They seemed to drink life from the air itself. Norman almost found it hard to breathe. One dreadlock clutched Norman’s smitelight, only by the tip, but its grip was iron.
Norman stared the tall man down.
The nyctal’s grin grew by a smidgeon.
Taking a calculated risk, Norman released the smitelight. Perhaps a peace offering would do good.
“Good.̷̧͋͌̎̿ boy,” the tall man nodded, admiring the smitelight as the dreadlock rotated it. “Clever.̴̧̤̩͈͓̖͂ͅ toy.”
Norman noted an understated Jamaican accent in his voice.
More dreadlocks slithered across the smitelight, as if tasting its every nook and cranny.
Norman did his best to look casual as he scanned for an escape route. The eyescraper’s tentacles had wrapped around the street, fencing him in.

_CHAT

• BAJANETTE11: 😳
• DARCIE222: okay, i’m back
• HARD-BACK-M8N: who you is again?
• DARCIE222: i left after the twilight angel sleep paralysis
• LEMMY_OUTA_HERE: And you’re back for more?
• DARCIE222: wonna know it impossible to stay away from a channel like dis

Norman looked at the tall nyctal again.

_CHAT

• DARCIE222: 😲 WHO IS THAT?!? AND WHY IS HE KIND OF …??? 😍
• MUNSTER-VERSER: I KNOW!!!
• BAJANETTE11: HE LIKE A VAMPIRE RASTA MAN! ❤❤❤
• ENTO_MOLLY: MOVE OVER MIGUEL O’HARA!! 😍🥰😘
• BAJANETTE11: NORMAN ASK FOR HE NUMBER!!!
• NORMAN: I HERE ABOUT TO DIE AND WONNA WANT HE PHONE NUMBER!?!

The nyctal’s eyes shifted to Norman inquisitively. He frowned, raising an eyebrow as the comments piled up. Finally, he smirked mischievously.
“Your fanbase has peculiar tastes,” purred the tall man.

_CHAT

• ENTO_MOLLY: 😳 Is … he talking about us? HE CAN SEE THE CHAT???
• DARCIE222: THE WAY HE SAID IT!!!
• DARCIE222: HBVJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJKL;K''
• LEMMY_OUTA_HERE: Did she just pass out on the keyboard?
• LIKKLE-BOY: lol!
• ARN74: you’re simping. Norman’s about to die, and you’re simping

The tall man handed Norman his smitelight.
Norman’s suspicious gaze flicked between the nyctal and the weapon. Finally, he reached out and took hold of the smitelight.
It crumbled in his fingers like ice-cold ashes. If not for the insulation gloves, he might have gotten frostbite.
The nyctal laughed.
Norman didn’t find it particularly amusing.
The tall man sauntered towards the eyescraper. Beyond it was a darkness even the nightsight had difficulty piercing. He beckoned Norman as if it were an afterthought.
“Please come in, .̵̭̻͌̓̂Norman.̶̲͕͇̅̑̚,” the nyctal instructed.
Norman stared stubbornly, hands in his pockets as he rocked on his heels. He felt for his smartphone. It wasn’t there. When had he lost it?
Without looking back, the nyctal held up Norman’s phone. It disintegrated between his fingers as he rubbed them together.
Norman glared. At least the guy hadn’t pickpocketed deeply enough to find other things.
“Hey. To whom do I owe the … pleasure?” Norman almost had to push the last word through his teeth.
The nyctal stopped in the eyescraper’s doorframe. Shrouded in shadow, little could be seen of him, save the piercing white pupils peering out. Then the glint of his Cheshire grin.
“.̴̜͓̭̻̤̍̈́̆͑͑John Crow.̸̻̮̓̈́̏̓͘,” he answered, before receding into the darkness.
The eyescraper’s tentacles dragged in across the street, corralling Norman towards the building. With an exasperated groan, he trudged towards the main entrance.
“I want my bed,” grumbled Norman.
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DO NOT COMMENT ON LINKED POSTS. I am NOT OP. Original post by u/OddDot5178 in AITAH
trigger warnings: possible transphobia, possible mental health issues, manipulation
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NOTE: Because everyone will wonder, I am addressing this right now. While OOP's child identifies as non-binary, she uses "she/her" pronouns and presents as a female. This is why OOP refers to her as her daughter.

AITAH For Not Wanting To Raise My NB Daughter's Baby? - Feb 7, 2024
My daughter came to me at 16 and said she was non-binary, but only sometimes. Like, some days she would feel more male than female and some days she would feel like neither. She wanted me to ask her every day what day it was and then refer to her as that pronoun of the day.
I told her that wasn’t going to fly. Growing up, I spent a lot of time on LJ (Livejournal) during the ol’ ‘bun-self’ and ‘zen-self’ ‘zir-self’ days. People who think this is new to this generation are fooling themselves. I told her that I would call her the pronoun she wanted, and do my best to remember it day to day, but she was going to have to tell me what she wanted for that day. I wasn’t going to play a daily guessing game.
This went on for about a week or two until she finally seemed to grow tired or bored and just said I could call her ‘her’. Though she still identifies as non-binary. Fine. (At least when it was going on she wanted ‘she, he, or they’ — I’m sorry but I couldn’t have done fox-self/fox-them with a straight face).
So that’s the pronoun story and looking back where I think things started to go off the handle. Here’s my real question.
My daughter is now 18, pregnant, and seems to have lost her god damned mind. Or I’m an asshole. You choose.
This year has been a struggle. She wanted to take a break year before she goes to community college, but can’t keep a job. Apparently, retail situations are too phobic against her non-binary state. (My child looks/acts/dresses exactly as a young adult female btw. When I ask how people are being phobic against her, she gets as prickly as a cactus so I really don’t know the details.). She’s been through 4 or 5 jobs this year, quit all of them. She won’t consider call centers that aren’t face to face because she doesn’t like to talk on phones, and is apparently looking for a remote job without any luck.
She’s been unemployed since Thanksgiving (she quit her last job on Black Friday, in fact) and I was on the verge of laying down the law, telling her she either needs to go to school this upcoming semester full time or get a full time job or move out with her friends.
But now she’s come to me and she’s 5 months pregnant. She’s very angry at me, says it’s my fault because:

• I didn’t put her on puberty-blocking hormones when she came to me 2 years ago.
• She believes I am in fact trying to ‘feminize her’ by getting her birth control. (The pill.). She’s been throwing her prescription away.

This is where I might be the asshole. I called her a little idiot. We don’t use that sort of language in my house, and I never call people names — especially my own child — but at that moment I could just see red.
The hormone thing is a non-issue IMO because this is the first time I ever heard of her wanting hormones. What was I supposed to do? Go back in time?
As for the birth control! It’s also the first time I’m hearing anything about this! There are non-pill options that don’t have estrogen. If that was her want, all she had to do was ask and I would have driven her to the doctor myself! Or she could have taken the car she has and done it. She has her own medical card, even! Though to be fair, I don’t know how she would have managed the co-pay without a job. I know for a fact her old high school gave out free condoms like candy because her friends were always giggling over flavored sample packs and even blew a few of them up like balloons and left them around the house one time. She had all the birth control she could ever want and used none of it.
It gets worse.
We’re way past the date of abortion (again, I would have helped her if this had been her wish! We live in an abortion protected state and can afford it!). She’s known she was pregnant since about 2 months and has come to think of her baby like a sibling. She expects me to raise it like it was mine. That this is my duty, in fact, because she says it is my refusal to accept her non-binary state that led to her being pregnant. So she was going to get a brother or sister and I was going to have another child.
You can say my language grew … sterner to versions of ‘Get your head out of your ass’ and ‘Congratulations, mommy, you have some hard decisions to make’, and I said I would absolutely not raise her baby for her.
She also refused to say who the father was. Now that I’ve cooled down, I’m really hoping she has a secret boyfriend. She does have some friends who were born male, but now also don’t identify that way. We didn’t even get there as I lost my mind when she said she thinks of her own baby as a sibling and wants me to raise it like my own child.
She’s locked herself in her room loudly wailing, I feel like crap warmed over. She’s been in there for 12 hours, and as she has an attached bathroom, probably won’t be coming out until she gets hungry. Considering it’s been half a day I think she has snacks stored.
I also don’t know where to go from here. Being pregnant sucks and messes with your head, so I’d like to blame that and the fear she must be feeling, but … I have the bad feeling I either raised a spoiled brat or someone with an emerging personality disorder.
So I need to know from people who aren’t emotionally involved, and maybe some people who are more in tune with this whole nonbinary thing than I am.
What do I do to help while also making her responsible for her own child? How can I help my daughter accept she must do basically the most feminine thing you can do (give birth and possibly breast-feed) while being sensitive that she’s non-binary? Am I just a big asshole here?
Typing all this out it feels like my daughter is lost in crazy town. I'm still not raising her baby but at what point do I drag a legal adult to the hospital?
Edit: You might disagree with my choices or wording, but I'm reporting people who call this bait. It's not.
Edit2: It's the middle of the night and she has decided to pack some of her clothes and stay with one of her friends. (One who I suspect is the baby daddy). Before she left she told me that she already called the police and let them know that she was 'leaving of her own free will and was not in danger'. Like I was going to report an 18 year old adult as a runaway or something? It was insulting.
I told her she needs to work out details if she wants to adopt with the father, and she was welcome back home when she had a plan in place.
It was short because I heard her on the way out. I think she just meant to leave without saying anything.
Thank you for your kind comments and advice, Reddit. I'm going to sleep.
Commenters agreed that OOP's child wasn't thinking straight:
Comment 1:
NTA.
I hate to say this, but; I sincerely hope OP's daughter chooses to give up this baby for adoption, because she's a confused hot ass mess. I don't blame OP for not wanting to step on the crazy train and raise this baby.
Comment 2:
Let’s be honest: If OP says yes to raising this child as her own, it will be the first of several. Daughter won’t take BC, so she will continue to have unprotected sex and get pregnant. She decided a couple years ago that she’s NB, expected her mother to understand that and know everything about it, and is now rewriting history to blame her mom for her now being pregnant. My head is swimming, and she’s not my daughter! There will be more babies.
Comment 3:
NB here OP.
You are SO NTA. I feel sympathy for your kid because they sound like they are so confused, maybe have body dysphoria and are now facing a life altering situation with no way out. They must feel so trapped. So they turn on you. It's easier for them to yell at and blame you instead of accepting responsibility. They are looking for a way out. We all keep changing and growing and your kid is SO young they seem to not know who they are yet and now they have to face looking after a baby when they know deep down they can't even really take care of themselves.
But my GOD the thing they did that was really stupid was chucking BC away. That is actually wild. Your kid needs to learn the difference between gender enforced stereotypes and actual biology. With biology it unfortunately doesn't matter what gender you are, the biology doesn't care, it still works the same. They NEED to learn that and differentiate.
Like I said, NTA OP. What a shit situation. I hope it gets better. I really do.
Comment 4:
NTA, your child is in fact a little idiot, with behavior that would be an absolute nightmare had you not been their parent. Also birth control isn’t a form of feminization, it’s a form of responsibility when you’re born in a body with a uterus and want to have sex that can result in pregnancy.
OOP's response:
Ugh, I wish I had those words when she hit me with that one. I sort of sputtered for a few minutes.
Comment 5:
Oh man, this is a can of worms within itself.
I wish I had better advice but just...I feel for you and the position you are stuck in.
The ONLY thing I can think of is, referring to breast feeding as "chest feeding" might make your NB daughter accept it more.
But like...there's a whole other level of things you need to get through first.
First and foremost, therapy, ASAP for your kid. Because she needs to get her head sorted out. Assuming you will just take this kid and raise it for her is...problematic to say the least. And she's got a deadline coming obviously, so therapy ASAP.
Also appointment for pregnancy checkups asap!! Has she had any? An unmonitored pregnancy can lead to complications
You might also be able to get her a social worker to go through pregnancy checkups, birthing extra.
Your kid needs a big sit down conversation about accountability for your own actions. And about how she might feel like part of YOUR actions lead to this, there was also many many choices she could have made to prevent this, that she chose not too. And at the end of the day, it was HER choices that led to this, not you.
OOP's response:
Thanks for this tip. I've written it down. The reason I mentioned she was NB because using 'breast' instead of 'chest' is the exact type of thing to send her into a pissy-fit when she's in the wrong mood. I know this may sound like a little thing, but she's always been... well, dramatic.
Because it's the internet and things are anonymous I'll admit that I am absolutely dreading pregnancy and afterbirth mood swings. Especially since it will all involve very womanly things in every intimate way. On top of the sheer stress of a newborn? Yes, I'm not looking forward to it at all and am already preparing to endure the storms.
Our conversation wasn't productive (it was an argument and she's still not out of her room) but I don't think she has had any prenatal care. That will change if I have anything to do with it.
Thanks again.
OOP commented with some of her concerns:
Yes. My worry and regret have so many places to go and a big part of it is for the baby.
This has been a bad day. :(
Responding to a comment regarding her child's entitled attitude:
Oh believe you me I have been kicking myself up and down on top of everything else. I don't know how she got to this point, but she's there now.
I wish I did have that time travel machine she clearly expects me to have.
She also clarified her overall views on the matter:
I'm on the fence. If she acted at all like she didn't have a gender (I believe that's what NB is) then I could take it more seriously. But she dresses as a woman. She puts on makeup, wears dresses during the summer, enjoys feminine things? We watch horse videos on youtube and squeal over the new foal videos. She's never been a tom boy, even.
But I was like, okay this isn't hurting her. I'll let her have this and express herself. Maybe it'll turn into something, maybe it won't. And after the first few weeks, she even dropped changing pronouns every day.
Her mentioning being NB faded and then started up hard again when high school ended and she started working retail.
I try to be understanding. Retail is hell and I'd personally only work it again if I was at my last resort. But recently it does seem to be an excuse not to work. And now she has a baby on the way.
This may not be the place for it, but I'm just worried she's regressing to a more child-like state. I don't know if she's struggling with being NB or if she's using NB as an excuse to shield herself from the world. Ugh. I guess the internet won't know, but I'm just flat out worried.
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Update: My NB Daughter Wants Me To Raise Her Baby - Feb 17, 2024
Hi,
This is an update to this post (Long story short my 18 year old NB daughter wanted me to raise her baby, and she told me she thinks the baby as her sibling. We had a blow-out, she locked herself in her room for most of a day, and then took off with her friends/her lover)
So this happened a few days ago but I didn’t update because I needed to get my head around it. It still doesn’t make sense.
Daughter finally unblocked me. She and the person who got her pregnant wanted to talk to me at a public place. We chose iHop.
Although I suspected I knew who her lover was, I was disappointed to find out because they have been a part of my daughter’s friend group since high school and was the only one I ever had a problem with and kicked out of my house.
They are trans now but two years ago the friend group was watching a movie in the living room, and every time I’d pass by, he (he was a he then) would lock eyes with me and make really obnoxious, loud, orgasm sounds like that scene in Harry Met Sally. I told him to knock it off and grew sterner when he did it again.
Then when I was in the kitchen, he somehow snuck up behind me and was miming jack-off movements with his hand. I turned around and caught him at it. He was still fully clothed, but it was startling and freaky. I kicked him out.
So now I’ll just call them Sperm-donor because that’s what they are.
I’m still calling my daughter ‘my daughter’ and ‘she’ because I still haven’t been told not to by her otherwise. So get off my case on that.
Anyway, the iHop meeting was a shit-show. Sperm-donor sat with my daughter and went on the attack. Sperm-donor’s points were:

• I was poisoning my daughter by “making” her take birth control. (I only helped her get the prescription and would have done everything I could if I knew she didn’t want to take the pill. There are other methods!)
• It will take years to “fix” my daughter after all I did. (Not giving her hormones even though I had no idea that was what she wanted. She dropped even wanting to change her pronouns after a few weeks.)
• Abortion is a sin and I am a monster for suggesting it. (It’s past the date anyway.)
• I am further abusing her by not taking care of the baby while she fixes herself. (I guess they meant it as a temp situation which was also new to me.)

So apparently even though I’m an abusive monster, a bad mother, and so on, I’m even worse for not taking in their baby. At least no one suggested that I raise it like my daughter’s sister anymore. That might have been my daughter’s thought on it.
Sperm-donor did most of the talking while my daughter just sat and glared at me, nodding along.
It was kind of a whirlwind, Sperm-donor pounded the table a few times, and even the waiter knew not to bother us after drinks, lol. I’m surprised we weren’t asked to leave.
There was a lot said, mostly by the sperm-donor who really seemed to be steering the ship. I asked why sperm-donor couldn’t take care of the baby and sperm-donor said their parents were even worse than me. I guess my daughter and sperm-donor taking care of the child they created is out of the question.
I told them that I would not be raising their baby for them and that adoption is the best bet. They said that if I don’t agree to raise it, they’ll make sure I’ll never see the baby ever.
I won’t raise their child for them. So that’s that, I guess.
I feel so many flavors of worried and angry and then worried all over again. I’ve been around the block and it’s never a great sign when the person you’re with makes an enemy of your family. That’s what sperm-donor has done by painting me as an abuser and failed mother who also won’t take in their baby. Sounds like sperm-donor has cut themselves off from their own family too. So I’m worried my daughter is in a very controlling relationship with someone who convinced her to stop birth control because they think hormones are too feminizing somehow and that she needs to be “fixed”. But they still want me to raise their baby.
I’m angry that my daughter can just hear this crap and nod along like, yeah, that makes total sense. She is not stupid. I think she’s love blinded.
I’m sad and worried for the baby. A couple commenters suggested I wanted nothing to do with the baby because I wouldn’t agree to raise it as my own. No, in a perfect world, I would want a normal grandmotherly relationship. Or at least know that the child is safe and has been adopted into a loving family.
I don’t care what my daughter does with her gender, or her body as long as she doesn’t hurt herself. I want her to be in a happy relationship with someone who values her for who she is. Sperm-donor kept using the word ‘fix’ which I see as another terrible sign.
It’s bad all around. My house is empty. It feels like my adult daughter has run off to join up with some weird church/cult thing who tells her that up is down. That not using birth control and not getting an abortion and then expecting others to take care of the child is all a-okay. Oh and that she’s a problem and needs to be “fixed”.
I texted her and said I would be there for her, but sperm-donor was still not welcome in the house. I think I’m blocked again.
She’s a legal adult. I’m not sure what else I can do at this point? In my low points, part of me thinks maybe I should agree to take the baby and then immediately make sure it’s adopted into a loving home. But I get the feeling that sperm-donor won’t make that easy, and right now my daughter does what he says. Also I’m not sure if that plan is even possible. It sounds Hollywood.
I have an appointment to speak with a councilor, but the soonest I could get is April. Some of my friends think I should take the baby in either to get them away from the parents or because they think it’s my duty, or both.
The only silver lining in this was that they both seemed sober. I don’t think there’s drugs involved.
Am I reading this wrong? Am I the asshole here?
Commenters agreed that sperm donor's comments made no sense, and that OOP's child was probably stuck in an abusive relationship:
Comment 1:
For your safety, I would change the locks and put up camera, Sperm-donor seems unhinged. I’m a firm believer in better safe than sorry.
Comment 2:
This baby will be used as a pawn in his never ending psycho drama. If they do not and cannot raise their baby, the best solution is adoption. Otherwise, the father will make your life a living hell.
NTA
OOP's response:
I couldn't figure out a polite way of saying this, but yes. That is my suspicion if I take in their baby. Sperm-donor implied it would be temporary while earlier my daughter said it would be permanent. I think sperm-donor will refuse to sign over paperwork when the time comes or try to leverage it in some way.
Comment 3:
NTA also it sounds like your daughter is in an abusive relationship with this person. Sorry your daughter has been brain washed by this crazy person. I would definitely contact this sperm donors family and if they seem sane warn them about how crazy both of spoke to you.
OOP's response:
That is my fear, and not a bad idea to contact sperm-donor's parents. This has all happened so far, I feel like I'm in shock and I'm very worried.
Comment 4:
Pretty wild that a trans person is saying abortion is a sin. None of this is anything like what you're going to hear from any healthy LGBT community, who are quite careful to make sure not to support people in delusional or antisocial behavior. Definitely get therapy, sounds like your kid has some serious mental health problems if they're being influenced by whatever wackos put these ideas into their head. You're going to need support in coping with this madness. NTA by a country mile. You are in no way "abusing" your kid by refusing to take responsibility for their bad choices.
OOP's response:
Thank you and yes, I don't want to minimize my daughter's role in it but the hard anti-abortion thing surprised me too. A lot of what they said contradicted itself. It felt like I was sitting across from two people who were in their own wacko bubble.
I know it's not a LGBT thing. I wish someone from their community would knock some sense into them, if its even possible at this point.
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Trigger Warnings: infant abuse; spousal abuse; drug use; stalking; kidnapping attempt
Mood Spoiler: utterly terrifying and disturbing
Original Post: March 16, 2024
My husband (42m) and I (35f) tried for so long to have our boys and girl. Due to a health issue my husband suffered he developed fertility issues and we had to get medical assistance to be able to have our children because if we didn’t he’d probably never have kids. So we went through fertility treatment. He desperately wanted his own biological children and we spent a fortune just to bring them into the world and now he’s jealous and distant with them?
He’s constantly in competition with his own infant children. If I hold the children he gets frustrated. Any time they take my attention away he gets completely pissy. He’s always in a foul mood, irritable and just down right nasty. I don’t understand it. Why is he like this? Our children are barely 6 months and they won’t stop crying every time he’s near. I feel like they can sense his negativity. I tried talking to him. Ive suggested he take interest in the kids and spend more time with us as a family. I know it can sometimes take a little longer for parents to bond with their children but this is down right scary to experience. He’s full of jealousy and envy. He sees our children as competition to my time and affections.
A few times now he has made comments about feeling frustrated that I still breast feed our children. The thing is we mix feed so he has had ample opportunity to feed them and he just doesn’t. He also said that this (meaning our life&our marriage after children) wasn’t what he thought it would be like. I mean what did he expect? A singular baby cries and three of them cry a lot.
We’ve been together for 8 years and married for 7 years. He wanted these children. He pushed for them and now this. I never thought this would ever be me. I am scared. I am scared for my children. I have tried talking to him but he just brushes me off. I’ve suggested counseling. He refuses. He tells me it’s all in my head. I want to save this marriage but I am scared I won’t be able to and maybe it’s not worth saving.
He comes home later everyday. He avoids us on the weekends and any time he has off. I’m not ashamed to say that I went through his phone and there are a lot flirtatious text between him and a “Jessica”. I don’t think anything has happened between them but it sure looks like they are building up to it. I haven’t said anything because I’m afraid. Where do I go with three children, with no money and no family that can help me? I haven’t worked in two years and I’ve spent all my savings on having these children. My mind is in a complete meltdown. I can’t sleep I can’t think and I’m always exhausted.
What the hell happened? Is this him now forever?
Edit: Some of you are some real evil bastards ! Stop blaming me for him mistreating me! I do not deserve to be treated this way and neither do my kids! Stop messaging me evil things!
Relevant Comments:
Examples of 'competition':
If I’m with the kids and say I’m feeding them he gets upset I’m focusing on them and not him, or as he likes to say I’m fussing over them. He expects they sleep through the night and gets upset when I’m with them instead of in bed with him. He has even made weird comments about me loving them more than him.
Did he really want kids or did YOU want kids?
Due to my husband’s fertility issues he was the one pushing for us to have kids. He knew early on that he had a health condition and wanted us to have children way earlier but I asked if we could wait but then his condition worsened so we agreed to get treatment before he couldn’t have any kids. He desperately wanted to be a father and they are biologically ours. His desire to be a father was one of the qualities I liked about him when we started dating.
I’ve always worked and the plan was for me to stay home for the first 2/3 years and perhaps work part time until the kids were school aged. But that’s out the window now because I don’t want to ever be this vulnerable! I’ve been brushing off my cv and scouring the internet for a job. I will never allow myself to be this vulnerable again.
Does he help at ALL? Do you have a support system you could go to?
He doesn’t help me at all. I take care of our kids on my own. My parents are long gone and my sister is abroad. She stayed with us for the birth and a month after the children were born. She lives in France but she’s due to return home this summer. So I know I’ll have her help when she’s back. But I’m trying not to bother her as she’s going through a divorce.
I’ve suggested couples counseling and he refuses. He says everything is in my head.
I’m actually even crying writing this but I do have a small to go bag in the trunk of my car. Just incase. I feel like I’m not being rational because he doesn’t hurt me or the kids but I feel like I’m constantly walking on eggshells. Like what happened to my happy go lucky husband? Who’s this person I’m afraid of?
Are they his biologically? Did you guys go to a support group for infertility treatment?
We didn’t use any sperm or egg donations. The kids are his and mine biologically.
We also went to a support group, two support groups actually. One of them was for couples and the other for men experiencing infertility. He also went to individual therapy to deal with his emotional issues around infertility.
Update Post: March 19, 2024 (3 days later)
Title: He’s (42m) been pinching my (35f) babies?
Thank you to the person who said I should watch his interactions with my babies more closely and frequently. Not even hours after I posted here asking for advice I caught him pinching my son!
While I was scrolling on here and replying to people I decided to check my baby monitor and I watched my husband enter our children’s room and insult them in a hushed and whispery tone. I couldn’t make out much of what he was saying but he was without a doubt telling them that he hated them and wished them dead. Then he pinched my son and my baby boy didn’t even cry which made me think he’s done this many times before.
It all happened so fast and by the time I could make sense of what was happening on the monitor he was already walking down the hallway and down the stairs. At the same time I had lept off the sofa and pretty much tackled him as he came off the stairs. We got into a physical and verbal altercation, we fought, argued and shouted for hours. I guess the police were called by the neighbors because the next thing I know the police are banging on my door. I explained the situation to the police and the officers said that they could not prove that my baby was harmed since he didn’t have a bruise and my baby monitor was only on live feed and not simultaneously recording. Eventually they got my husband to agree to pack a bag and leave. He left reluctantly.
He has since been blowing up my phone begging for forgiveness, talking about how he’s been depressed and stressed by the babies, and that his anxiety and jealousy got the best of him. I just responded once telling him to go fuck himself. I’ve also been in contact with a lawyer and she’s advised me to leave him unblocked incase he further incriminates himself. I don’t even recognize who this man is! Where did this all come from?
How did this happen? Has any other parent experienced this? How did you handle this?
Before y’all start jumping down my throat I am absolutely getting a divorce and I will do everything in my power to get full custody. I did take my children to our family doctor and they are in good health and there are no other signs of abuse. I’ve filled a report with the police and my lawyer is dealing with it. I’m also about to start the process of divorce.
Relevant Comments:
Commenter: He just wants more and better access to his victims. This is someone who gets off on hurting children. Actual human beings who are stressed and depressed do not sneak around abusing children for their dopamine hits.

OOP: Exactly! I’m tired, stressed, depressed and I’m physically still not fully healed from the pregnancy and the cesarean birth but not once have I thought of hurting anyone let alone a baby! I don’t buy his bullshit excuses. He clearly knew what he was doing was wrong otherwise he wouldn’t have been sneaking around and being all hush hush. I do not believe him for one second. He’s a goddamn beastly man.

Update the monitor to one that records:
I’ve set the monitor up to record now! I’ve also ordered a home security system and will be installing it real soon!
On what OOP is doing to protect them:
I’m doing everything I can to protect them! This all happened a few days ago but I am in the process of getting a temporary restraining order. My lawyer is handling it and I understand it takes some time to actually get one and in the meantime I’ve been advised that I can just deny him visitation until he gets a judgement from the courts that forces me to grant him access to my babies but that takes time. So in the meantime he can’t force me or my babies to see him.
I’ve recorded every call and saved ever text. Literally documenting everything. Thankfully he’s saying and texting a goldmine of incriminating things that I hope would be sufficient information for a judge to give me and my babies a restraining/protective order and for family court to grant me primary and sole custody.
Did you tell him you saw the pinch?
Yes. He at first told me I was imagining things. Then switched to saying he was just frustrated our son wouldn’t go to sleep. Then he started saying that he was angry that our son was interrupting our “personal time” and that he was doing it on purpose because the other babies were asleep so why wasn’t he?
Honestly nothing he says makes sense to me. Like my baby boy was just laying there sleepy and he would’ve fallen back to sleep by himself that bastard actually woke him up with his pinching and insults.
He says he went in their room to check up on them and I call bullshit on that he went in there to torment my children. Who in their right mind whispers death to two sleeping babies and a another half asleep baby?!
Did he tell you that over phone or text?
This was on a call which I’ve recorded!
*****Update Post 2: April 10, 2024 (3 weeks after OG post)****\*
Title: How did it go so wrong? For my (36f) birthday he (42m) broke into the house?
Every conversation with him (42m) feels like I’m (36f) losing my mind. The only thing that has kept me semi-sane and able to track what he has been doing is my audio journal and my posts on here.
Last week it was my thirty sixth birthday. Actually I had forgotten it was my birthday and was reminded by my sister that it was in fact my birthday. I decided I couldn’t mope around the house and I got my kids dressed to go shopping and get groceries. We got back and I put away half of the groceries but my babies were fussy and so to tire them out and ready them for bed we went for a walk. When I got back home he was in the kitchen cooking and putting away some of the groceries I had left out. He greeted me and acted normal. I didn’t react because his entire demeanour was freaking me out so I played along. I went upstairs and got the kids down. I did think of walking out the front door but he was kind of anticipating it and so he was following me around and I thought in the moment that the best thing I could do was to get my kids upstairs and away from him. He said he wanted to talk and clear the air because this has “gone on too long”.
We had a long conversation and it started out reasonable but eventually spiralled out of control. We got into physical confrontation because I refused to let him stay. He tried to physically intimidate me and he, well hurt me. While he was hurting me I was still able to contact the police. It took them a excruciatingly long 20/25 minutes to get there.
So here I am sitting with two completely black and blue eyes, a busted lip, swollen face,massive knots on my head and bruises all over. I don’t know what happened to my life or how I got here but here I am. I can’t even look my neighbors in the eyes. I can’t go outside without seeing the shocked faces of people.
I have never felt so ashamed, so humiliated, so hurt and so utterly stupid. I thought I made all the right choices in life. What did I do wrong? When did it all get so fucked? I mean I think I did everything right? Like I created a stable life for myself then picked a man that at time was a very loving partner, I married that man and waited five years before even going through the process of having children with him and now once I’ve had his children he’s just beating on me and our babies?
Edit: My sister is now aware of what’s been happening and she is supporting me as best as she can. I have plans to move out but since I’m not working right now I need some time to save up.
His family is also aware. His family refused to believe that I saw him hurt our child but they can’t deny this attack now that they’ve seen my bruises. Also yes he was arrested and he was bailed out by his brother. He’s currently staying with his brother.
Relevant Comments:
I’m in contact with a dv organization that my lawyer has put me in contact with. I did have a locksmith come out and I have new locks. I also have a couple of safety locks for my windows, and security cameras around the house and I changed our security code but honestly he doesn’t give a shit.
He despite it all broke in and beat the living shit out of me.
Making the audio journal:
I really didn’t make my audio journal to use as evidence. I literally made it because he makes me feel like I’m insane! I never know which version of him I’ll get at any given time. I also keep my journal to keep track of what he says. Every conversation with him makes me lose grip of my fleeting sanity.
Leaving the house:
The biggest reason I haven’t left my home is because he would without a doubt say I abducted the children! I’m already withholding my children from him since I caught him hurting my six month old son.
On advice of my lawyer I have stayed put. It’s my best option for now and it shows that I’ve been reasonably measured in my actions.
Restraining order?
I am in the process of getting one.
Update Post 3: April 25, 2024 (15 days later, almost 6 weeks from OG post)
Title: It was all for the love of another woman? Who barely knew of his existence? He (42m) hurt my (36f) children to further his own selfish desires
I say all of this without exaggeration. I am certain he was getting ready to kill us. After nearly 8 months of turmoil I’m finally close to understanding.
My soon to be ex husband is in love with a woman he came across on social media and he has been obsessing over her for at least a year. She also happens to be a sex worker and he was paying her for her time and attention. In his mind he believed they could have a future together if only he could get rid of my children and me. Even though this woman gave him no inkling that she even wanted to be with him. He has spent so much of our money on this woman. I am at a loss for words that could accurately describe the situation. I can barely believe half of the things he’s been up to.
I’ve spent the past few weeks playing detective and I finally decided to contact “Jessica”. This is obviously not her name but I need to call her something. I contacted Jessica and at first she was very reluctant to speak to me but I literally begged her to and she was kind enough to get on the phone with me.
She told me that she had been seeing him for awhile but she stopped seeing him because he started to scare her. He was sending her unhinged messages and voicemails. He had been stalking her and trying to convince her to be with him. Jessica eventually stopped seeing him and had him blocked and I guess this is when he started to escalate from emotional abuse to physically abusing my children and myself. He was looking for a way out and in his crazy mind, killing us would free him because the only reason Jessica wouldn’t be with him was because me and my children were in the way.
During our long call I also explained to Jessica what had been happening to me and she was genuinely kind and helpful. She also agreed to speak to my lawyer and to send them the thousands of unhinged texts, voicemails and voice notes he sent her. For a little while after our conversation a part of me genuinely hated Jessica and wanted to blame her for everything but the rational part of me pushed out those unreasonable and dangerous thoughts especially after I read his disturbing texts and heard his voicemail/notes to Jessica. She has also been victimized by him.
Honestly there is nothing like listening to your husband and father of your children talk about how you and your children mean nothing to him and how he wishes you were dead. He could’ve just asked for a divorce or just got up and left. I sent him a few texts asking him why? (this was a one time thing and since then I’ve stopped all contact) Why do all of this? Why torment my babies? Why not just walk away? He responded with a message saying any conversation between us should be through our lawyers. His parents have him lawyered up. They know what he’s been up to and they’ve chosen to protect him. His father came to see me and in a not so direct way suggested he could pay me if I stopped talking about what his son has done and was planning on doing. Ever since he broke into the house and pretty much tried to kill me I’ve told anyone who’d listen what he has done. At this point even his colleagues know.
Relevant Comments:
I have emergency custody of my kids and a protective order. I’m in the process of getting two trained guard dogs haven’t gotten very far though and I have a security system.
I’m also seriously considering a gun. More than seriously actually I’ve applied for a permit. Of course I do plan on taking lessons in gun safety and training.
Be careful with the dogs, he may just kill them:
He probably would but the few seconds to minutes he needs in order to do that is perhaps the chance I need to save my children and myself.
This may seem horrible to you but I rather have them as a buffer then my children getting harmed. I of course don’t want this to happen but I’m in a situation now where I need to do everything I can to protect my children.
His parents:
Oh they really are bastards and refuse to believe their precious son could ever do the things he’s done despite the fact that I installed security cameras after I caught him abusing my babies and despite the fact that my neighbors have signed witness statements attesting to the fact that they saw him break into my house and attack me. They’ve seen the police report. They’ve seen the pictures of my battered face and bruised body. They are feigning ignorance but they know, and I know they know.
You don't want to give him ammunition in the divorce- maybe stop telling people?
Actually me telling people has been the best thing I’ve done so far. It’s what has kept me safe. My neighbors now look out for his car and call the police if they see he’s anywhere near the house.
What was he like before all of this? Were there any signs?
We’ve been married for nearly 8 years. Will actually be 8 years in 2 months. We never had any issues. Sure we had minor squabbles but that was few and far in between. Never did I have any issues that would lead me to think that he’d try to hurt us let alone kill us.
It was during my pregnancy and birth that he became verbally and emotionally abusive, this is also the time period he met Jessica and started fantasizing about running away with her. He was angry and jealous that my attention was more on the pregnancy and the babies and this built resentment towards me and my children. It also pushed him more into his obsession with Jessica and when he was also rejected by her, he spiraled into this insane mindset. At the same time he escalated into verbally and physically abusing our infant children and when I found out he hurt my children, I attacked him. I caught him hurting my son and we physically fought and my neighbors called the police and he was escorted out of the house. Then he came back and broke into the house, he attacked me and beat me into a bloody mess. He was arrested for this. I’ve since attained a lawyer and I’ve been granted emergency custody and a protective order.
Again- why isn't he in jail?
He’s out on bail.
Update Post 3: May 11, 2024 (2+ weeks later)
Editor's note: This post was deleted by reddit. I have transcribed it from this youtube video and this tiktok video
Title: My (36f) husband (42m) has been arrested for stalking and attempting to abduct his former “mistress”.
Last week Thursday at approximately 2:00 AM in the morning, my (36F) husband (42m) of nearly 8 years was arrested outside of Jessica's house, (the sex worker he met online and used to pay to spend time with him until he started to creep her out by his stalking and obsession.)
When he was arrested, they found in his truck small baggies with drug residue and they also found tools of abduction. I honestly do not know what these are exactly.
My soon to be ex FIL called me at around 4:45/4:50 AM to tell me that his son was arrested. My FIL was the one who used the term tools of abduction. When I asked him what the hell that means, he said he didn't have time for my interrogation tactics. He then asked if I could help them find a lawyer for him and to stand by his son throughout all of this. When I said to him "how the hell am I supposed to find a lawyer this early in the morning," he lost his shit and then was just screaming.
My soon to be ex MIL took over the phone, telling me that I'm a goddamn b****, and that all this is my fault. I hung up before she could say anymore.
I never knew this man to take drugs. Sure, he drank occasionally, but hard drugs? I honestly don't know what's happening anymore or how I got here. I mean it does make sense he was on cocaine the past 7/8 months now that I look back at things.
I mean, I don't even know anything about drugs to be able to recognize the behavior pattern, but once I researched it, it seemed clear. The moodiness, the disappearances, the lies, the anger, the sudden outburst and the violence- it all points to drug usage, as well as him being an abusive piece of shit.
His parents and the rest of his family had called and texted me so much abusive shit and they occasionally switched to begging me to go see him or pick up his calls, but I've mainly ignored them. I don't have the time, the energy or the love that is needed to be there for this man and his parents. I've given him eight years of my love and affection, and he spat it back into my face during the hardest and most vulnerable time of my life
Also, why would they think I'd help him after everything he's done? Especially since I think he deserves to be in jail for not only hurting my children, but also for hurting myself and Jessica.
I hope and pray he's jailed for the rest of his natural life. I mean I've tried being a good wife, but he has attacked my children. He has attacked me. He has lied and tormented us, and I'm supposed to help him?
I don't even know how I got here. How did we get here?
I've packed everything up and I'm leaving. I'm disappearing with my kids, and anything else between me and these people can be handled through my lawyer. The only person who knows where I'm moving to is my lawyer and my sister. I mean what else can I do to protect my children? His entire family blames me. And how do I keep my head high when I'm now being treated like I'm an evil and disgusting person by pretty much everyone I once called a family? These people are trying to destroy me inside and out, and I don't know how to survive them. How am I supposed to rebuild my life when they won't stop tormenting me?
In less than a year of their birth, I've managed to fail my children...
TLDR: My soon to be ex-husband was arrested while stalking his former mistress/sex worker and during his arrest they found drug residue and tools for abduction
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Change your surname/the kids' surnames:
My kids and I have double-barreled surnames (my surname and their dads) but when I can we will drop his and we’ll all go by just mine.
People blaming OOP:
The sad fucking thing it’s not only his parents. It seems like everyone is blaming me.
OOP's response to a crappy (now deleted) comment:
“ You need to discover the reasons why you failed to notice or do anything about everything that was going on with him. You have to build skills so you can take full ownership over your own life.”
This genuinely has me fucking raging right now! I feel like everyone keeps blaming me!
And I don’t know why everyone keeps blaming me for his shit! We didn’t have any problems in the previous 7 years of our marriage. He started doing drugs during my pregnancy and this is when he started to behave abnormally. I tried to get him help because I thought it was depression or the stress of being a new parent.
When I noticed his irritablity, combativeness and generally shitty behavior was more than just depression or jealousy of me spending more time with my new born children, I kicked him out, I got a lawyer and involved the police because there no way in hell I’d stay with someone who hurt my children or let him get away with it and I also made sure to get emergency custody of my children. This is also around the same time when he spiralled into using more drugs. I don’t know what else I could’ve done but I know I took all the right steps when I noticed his escalation!
I’m so sick of everyone acting like I was making him do drugs and like I’m suppose to know that he’d ruin my life after having had a good marriage before he started taking drugs and going out of his mind.
What has your lawyer said about disappearing?
I currently have emergency custody. My lawyer is the one who suggested to disappear (meaning moving to new house and not letting anyone know) because she says this is a time of great danger and I heartily agree. Since my ex-husband first went to look for me at the house but me and my children went to stay somewhere else for a few days because I was scared he’d come back after he broke into the house previously and attacked me.

• Transphobic video using the word "tr***y"
• Referencing drag queens as clowns
• Doesn't disclose that reviews were really paid ads Edited her body for an Aerie ad, which is a brand that supposedly prides themselves on using real bodies.
• Was blocking and ignoring customers who purchased her Glamlite Paht 2 collection, never received their order, and asked about it. All of this while Glamlite was siphoning stock to CVS and also ignored customer inquiries about their overdue orders.
• Along with CVS, broke their "Beauty Unaltered" pledge by creating a display unit that is obviously filtered of the Trash Goblin’s face.
• Committed fraud by pledging that 50% of the proceeds from the Paht 2 collection would be donated to women's healthcare after the Dobbs decision. When anyone commented to ask about it, they were banned from her socials. This one is the most egregious, as there are people who might have purchased solely based on her pledge. She lied about not getting paid yet to make the donation just as the CVS distribution happened.
• She's myopic and doesn't care about her supporters, as she continually discusses her ED without the common courtesy of a trigger warning like most creators do for subjects like this. Her explanation for why she doesn't give a TW? "It doesn't trigger me, so fuck all of you." She's so disrespectful of Cody's sobriety.
• Does giveaways by making followers jump through engagement hoops to boost her profile but then didn't deliver on the giveaways.
• Begging... BEGGING.. followers on her broadcast channel to drop an emoji as a comment to inflate her engagement rate, as comments are engagement rate gold for getting paid.
• Claims she donates extra product to women's shelters, and then went on Instagram asking for suggestions on where in her area she can donate women's clothes. She's so fucking dense that she either doesn't realize the same places she supposedly donates product to is a good first start, or she outed herself as never donating before like she said she did if she doesn't know where to donate clothes locally.
• She's a terrible brand ambassador, which is on her and DBA. She went on a free Paris trip sponsored by Caudalie, and she shit talked how broken out her skin got on the trip (with the assumption she was using their products and services) and never once really hyped the brand that was paying for her to be there.
• Took money from Briogio for a campaign and at the same time posted videos about her hair falling out. She's so dumb she doesn't realize that she caused a causation comparison.
• She's lying about having clients, paying clients that aren't her friends and family. She is not a MUA or a certified in MA to do makeup.
• She brigades brands who don't do her bidding like a brat. Pottery Barn in the middle of the pandemic had shipping and quality issues. She sent her followers after them and then begged PB for more free stuff.
• She has her friends like HeartofGreg comment on her videos, which she then stiches the comment to review a product. She then takes that video and shops it to the brand to get them to sponsor the video.. and a few weeks later the video resurfaces as partner, paid partnerships, sponsorship.
• Tax fraud when handling gratis, expenses, and giveaways
• Did a giveaway for Chanel bags with Chris Appleton (Color Wow) and the Boston's Children's Hospital, which was against GoFundMe's Terms of Service. She never gave the winners their prize.
• Dogs a brand who sent her free items but then turns around and praises the brand when they pay her (She did it with Essence and KVD).
• Did a bunch of fake "pick out my wedding makeup" when she 100% knew what she was using including the fact that e.l.f. sponsored her wedding as a brand event. She says that's not true, but I can guarantee e.l.f. writes off the expenses they incurred for her wedding as a business expense.
• Lied about her YouTube page being her page. She feverously uploaded videos when she took her 5:19, baby tantrum, pity party break from TikTok but still needed to earn money. She uploaded her TikTok videos to YouTube, lied that it was her channel, and made money. If it wasn't her channel, you know she and DBA would file a cease and desist .. and win it.. to get the channel removed. It's her channel.
• Her filter usage is fraud. Period. There is no debating it. When you are getting paid to review products and apply a filter on your face and body, you are committing fraud. The viewer thinks it's the product making that effect and not really the software engineering team that created the editing app.
• With the PeeeLouish collab, they were caught pre-applying swatches from the P.Louise palette. She's also not really applying makeup in her videos. Cheeks, bronzer, and eyes are being applied off screen and she's swiping a brush making it look like she's applying it. Another sign she can't do professional makeup at all. It's all fake.
• Every ”in the wild” picture that’s not filtered shows the truth.
• She constantly lurks on other creators pages to find commenters to block when they shit talk her. Insecure much? She’ll unblock people to snark them and lurk, then block them again. We know she does this with Rich Lux.
• She supports James Charles. The grifting carnival barker loves the groomer trash.
• Community Contribution: She shits on her estranged half sister to her millions of followers, when all the evidence points to her sister being frozen out of their family at the age of 14. She claims her sister walked out of their lives because she “wasn’t the precious daughter of the family anymore” after Mikayla was born, and also talks badly about her sister for being on disability. Mikayla is an aunt to two girls, but I doubt she’s ever cared nor met them. Her sister also lived and lives right down the road from Mikayla’s parents home.
• She’s a known bully and coming from someone who’s now being regarded as an ED spokesperson. She told her friend that drinking hot chocolate would be “200 very unnecessary calories”, and that she was “just trying to help since you’re trying to lose weight” with that comment. She’s a mean girl, and she always has been.
• She cries about shade range while she brags about being soooo pale (um, really?). She releases collabs that are not inclusive for POC. She then brags about buying out and hoarding darker foundations and concealers to use as bronzers meaning the very little stock available for darker skin tones becomes even more scarce when her idiot stans buy up the product. She also blackfishes.
• She can't admit when she's wrong and aggressively lashes out to those trying to point it out. She called a comb and brush, and when corrected in her comments, she was incredibly rude to her own followers. You know, the people engaging with her content that's paying her mortgage. She is incapable of saying, "oops, my bad." Her integrity is crap for this behavior.
• Just like the above, the unwillingness to admit a simple mistake turned her into an ableist POS. There are those with low vision or no vision who listen to TikToks and rely on accuracy in speech and closed captions. Her "go fuck yourself, bro" attitude when called out about the comb incident made her incredibly ableist.
• She creates rage bait content to generate engagement gold via angry comments. This makes her a carnival barking grifter.
• She begs for engagement on her broadcast channel trying to force things to go viral like "nice and shaaaahhp." It's actually pathetic watching her do this.
• Used a derogatory term used to reference Travelers/Romani people and doubled down on it when people called her out and educated her on the use of the word.
• Lied about creating some Mother's Day shopping spree for a "family in need" saying that when she heard their story, she knew she just had to help. When asked in the comments about the story, she played the, "It's not my story the tell." Come to find out, the story is that the child goes to the school that Mikayla's mom works at. There was a raffle at the school, and one of the prizes was a $500 shopping trip with MikPickMe. The girl's mom paid for 40 entries to win the raffle, and she did. The only reason the shopping was done on Mother's Day was due to conflicting schedules. This was not a shopping spree for a family in need. It was a prize from a raffle that Mikayla's mommy had a hand in.
• MikLieHole took Rael's money and trip and went in days earlier with her emotional support animal, Codypendency, and did meetings with a competitor, Tirtir. Tirtir gifted her a Birkin while in South Korea, too.
• Purposely lied about and independent WoC owned brand (PIMBY) saying they use Vaseline for their swatches in an attempt to ruin said brand to make Glamlite look better.

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average monthly nominal salaries and YoY change in Q1 2024

Yerevan +8% to ֏324K/$836
Syunik +7% to ֏295K/$760
Shirak +7% to ֏142K/$366
Yerevan had the highest wages. Syunik had the highest wages among provinces, while Shirak had the lowest.
REPORT: While the average nominal monthly salary does not always show the level of economic prosperity in a region, its rise has made a tangible difference in Syunik.
SUREN PARSYAN (economist): Syunik has higher wages and strong employment. It is the most prosperous province with the lowest unemployment poverty rate in Armenia: 24% in Armenia, 15% in Yerevan, and 2% in Syunik.
REPORT: Over the last 5 years, the average monthly nominal salaries have risen by 40% while the inflation was 21%.
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Armenian army launches command staff exercises

They will exercise the practical implementation of deployment and combat plans, evaluate the commanders' skills, improve the synchronized work between various groups, develop the officers' moral characteristics and practical skills during preparation and combat operations, etc.
They will use automated control systems and modern technologies during the exercises.
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Armenia and India will form a new working group for defense cooperation

Defense ministries of AM and IN held a meeting on Tuesday. They discussed the 2024-2025 cooperation plan and the creation of a new working group to coordinate the cooperation.
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from PM Pashinyan's speech at Copenhagen Democracy Summit:

PASHINYAN: Democracy has indeed become a reality in Armenia. Before the 2018 Velvet Revolution, massive electoral frauds were the usual companion of elections in Armenia. There was no trust among the citizens that there was a real chance for them to elect the government.
Now the situation is totally different; citizens know that they are powerful enough to decide. The two general elections that were held in Armenia after the Velvet Revolution have been acknowledged as democratic, free, and competitive both by the Armenian society and the international community.
Armenia made huge progress in strengthening the democratic institutions, an achievement reflected in reputable democracy indexes:
(a) Now we are the 43rd in the Reporters Without Borders’ Freedom of Speech index, compared to 79th place in 2017.
(b) Categorized as having partially free internet in 2017 by Freedom House, now we enjoy the status of a country with free internet.
(c) In Transparency International’s Corruption Perception Index, Armenia is now 62nd instead of 107th in 2017.
(d) In the Economist Intelligence Unit’s democracy index we are 84th compared to 111th in 2017.
In order to assess this progress, it's essential to note that alongside democratic reforms, Armenia has been contending with external security challenges: the 44-day war in Nagorno-Karabakh, Azerbaijan's invasion of Armenia in 2021 and 2022 and the occupation of over 200 km² amid inaction by [Russia's] CSTO, the forced displacement of over 100,000 Armenians from Nagorno-Karabakh, have cast doubts among Armenian citizens weather democracy is the right choice. So, democracy needs to prove its efficiency while dealing with security, economic and humanitarian challenges.
We are pleased with the deployment of EU monitoring mission alongside the Armenian-Azerbaijani border, and we welcome EU’s decision to expand its capacity. On the other hand, we hope for the inclusion of Armenia into the European Peace Facility and in this regard, we rely on the support of all EU member states [Hungary].
A new set of commitments aimed at strengthening Armenia’s economic resilience, state institutions, and addressing the humanitarian needs of refugees has been taken on by the European Union and United States during the high-level meeting on April 5 in Brussels. The rapid and effective implementation of those commitments is of utmost importance.
Despite all the challenges, we believe that the real and most aspiring companion for democracy is lasting and sustainable peace. My government took the share of its responsibility for this. Recently we reached an agreement with Azerbaijan to launch the delimitation of our interstate borders on the basis of the Almaty Declaration of 1991. That means that during the delimitation we should simply reproduce the Soviet-era administrative borders. This is the implementation of the agreement reached in Prague in 2022. Now it is time to incorporate and reflect those agreements in the peace treaty and have it signed.
Another key point for our regional stability is the «Crossroads of Peace», project, initiated by my government. This project implies that Armenia and Azerbaijan restore and open transport and other communications in accordance with the sovereignty and jurisdiction of the countries through which they pass, and comply with the principles of equality and reciprocity. These elements of the concept were agreed upon during the July 2023 meeting with Ilham Aliyev and Charles Michel. //

... Politico reporter's Q&A with Pashinyan

REPORTER: [Ex-NATO leader] Anders Fogh Rasmussen called your neighbor an autocracy. You are in a very difficult geopolitical and geographical position. How do you solve the security problem in that environment?
PASHINYAN: I would not like to comment on the internal situation of our neighboring countries. Democracy fully corresponds to the mentality of our people. It is a strategy for our government, it is our political belief, it is also our political identity. The members of our political team have spent most of their lives fighting for democracy, the rule of law, and freedom of speech. Now we have the opportunity to realize all these values in our country.
The security situation was complicated because of the regional and global situation; the world order is collapsing at the moment. My assessment is, and I have had occasion to say this publicly, that the 2020 war was a prelude to further developments. And now the main issue is security.
What is our strategic point of view, how are we going to guarantee the security of our country? Recently, I gave a speech in our parliament, where I said that the most important tool for ensuring security is a foreign policy based on legitimacy. This is the reason why we so often speak about the 1991 Almaty Declaration.
It is very important that during the 2022 Prague meeting, two very important agreements were reached. Armenia and Azerbaijan recognize each other's territorial integrity and sovereignty on the basis of the Almaty Declaration and will use it as the basis for the border demarcation. This is the reason why I said that we are not drawing a new border, we just need to reproduce the existing one on the ground. This process is happening right now, and I hope that we will continue it steadfastly.
REPORTER: The border conflict that has occurred in recent years has had a negative impact on relations with Russia and Russia's role for Armenia. What would you say about this?
PASHINYAN: Armenia is a member of CSTO. We are officially a CSTO member, but I have announced that we have frozen our participation.
REPORTER: So are you still a member or...?
PASHINYAN: It is a matter for further discussion, but it is very important to record the current situation. A crisis arose in our relations after Azerbaijani troops invaded Armenia, and according to CSTO procedures, the Organization and its member states had to support Armenia in this situation. But even after the formal application, the CSTO refused to take any concrete steps, and in fact, that is the main reason for freezing our participation in the CSTO at all levels.
REPORTER: Do you expect the West to occupy the current vacuum and ensure your security?
PASHINYAN: We are diversifying our foreign relations in all spheres. Now we are developing defense cooperation with India, France, and other countries. We have a certain cooperation with the European Union because as I mentioned, we are happy about the deployment of the EU Civilian Observation Mission on the border. It is a civilian mission but in a way, it is a new factor for the security of our region. This is the first time that the European Union participates in the security agenda of Armenia.
REPORTER: Would you like to become an EU member?
PASHINYAN: We are waiting for the EU's decision to include Armenia in the European Peace Facility. We also hope to start visa liberalization negotiations, and last year I announced in the European Parliament that Armenia is ready to be as close to the European Union as the European Union deems it possible. This is our position.
REPORTER: Can you elaborate on what initiatives Armenia is taking in the fight against corruption?
PASHINYAN: We have made huge progress but have not eradicated corruption from Armenia. We must continue to be persistent in the agenda of democratic reforms. This is the reason why cooperation with the European Union is of utmost importance for us because today the European Union is our main partner in the implementation of our democratic reform agenda. We hope that the European Union, as well as the USA, will increase their support to Armenia in the implementation of democratic reforms, because, as I said, democracy is a strategy for us.
By the way, in 2019 we started a Strategic Dialogue with the USA, and today we see the strengthening of our cooperation with the European Union. We recently had a tripartite meeting with the participation of the USA, EU, and Armenia. It was an unprecedented format, where we adopted a huge agenda of institutional and economic reforms. It is also very important that we receive more tangible support from the EU and the US to address the humanitarian needs of the Nagorno Karabakh refugees because it is a very sensitive and emotional issue for us.
REPORTER: In which year would you like Armenia to become a member of the EU?
PASHINYAN: This year [as soon as possible]. //
Pashinyan met Anders Fogh Rasmussen. The latter emphasized the importance of the “Crossroads of Peace” project in the context of unblocking the regional infrastructure.
Pashinyan discussed various topics with the PM of Denmark. The latter accepted his invitation to visit Armenia.
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former regime continues to hold protests and briefly shut down roads in Yerevan with demands for PM Pashinyan's resignation

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Dozens of participants were detained and released the same day for blocking roads. The detentions decreased from 170 on Monday to ~63 on Tuesday. They want Pashinyan to resign or to be impeached. The protest organizers visited universities to gather student supporters, some of whom joined them with a dance. The organizers also stopped by at a bakery where they were given free food.
A felony investigation was launched after a police vehicle, "with the sirens on", struck a reporter on the street. In another instance, an investigation was launched against a protester who brought a long sword. One other case was launched over alleged threats made on Facebook by a Galstanyan fan who wants scores of people to be beaten in dalans and exiled from Armenia, "մենակ էտ դեպքում էս սրբազան հողը կմաքրվի էս տեսակ շան ծնունդներից, ուրիշ ձև չկա!!!!"
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A ruling faction member of Yerevan City Council complained about "harassment" by opposition figures who are attempting to convince ruling party members to join the protests and the impeachment.
RULING MEMBER: That is not how it works. No one will join you with that conduct. People will join if they see you have a legitimate agenda with trustworthy leaders. Instead, you are "ethnically cleansing" the citizens of Armenia [referring to one opposition speaker telling non-Armenians to leave] և հեռու չէ են օրը երբ դուք գուցե ասեք որ հայ լինելու համար պետք է Հայկ նահապետից տեղեկանք բերել: //
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Yesterday the protest co-organizer Archbishop Bagrat Galstanyan said he received a report suggesting that the Deputy Rector of Yerevan State University supposedly urged deans and others to retaliate against students who joined the protests. Galstanyan said he was unsure whether the report was true, but decided to read it out loud anyway. On Tuesday he rallied his supporters to the backyard of the University where he demanded to speak with the Deputy Rector for clarification.
The Deputy Rector went downstairs and greeted Galstanyan, who shook her hand but wouldn't let it go for an uncomfortably long period, prompting her to ask him to let go of her hand. The Deputy Rector declared that whatever Galstanyan read about her was a defamatory lie.
GALSTANYAN: I never believed it myself.
DEPUTY RECTOR: Then you should not have said out loud something you did not believe.
GALSTANYAN: Listen, there is a recorded fact...
DEPUTY RECTOR: Where is that "recorded fact"?
GALSTANYAN: It was on the media. As I said yesterday, I had no verification that it was true, which is why we came here to clarify it. If it's false, then I apologize.
DEPUTY RECTOR: Thank you. //
The Deputy Rector urged the protest organizers not to enter the building or disrupt the classes, and that "anyone who wants to follow you can follow you, anyone who wants to stay in classrooms should stay in classrooms".
The angry Deputy Rector left. Another university official criticized Galstanyan for not checking the information before reading it to his followers. Galstanyan said he stands behind his words, and that he was "just reading what was on the media", but reiterated that he had no intention to insult the Deputy Rector.
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Galstanyan and his supporters visited the monument dedicated to Operation Nemesis. He praised the figures behind Nemesis for "assuming personal responsibility". In front of the crowd, Galstanyan introduced Hambig Sassounian who recently joined his movement. He pointed to the Nemesis monument and said Sassounian is "one of the successors, one of the brightest people." In related news, on Sunday a ruling faction MP complained about receiving death threats with reference to Operation Nemesis.
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DANIEL IOANNESIAN (NGO chief): When this protest dies down, we need to discuss the following: (1) The transparency of political and media funding. There are some regulations in place, but they are incomplete and easily bypassed. For example, I'd like to know who paid for Archbishop Galstanyan's giant stage in Republic Square. In 2018 Pashinyan organized a fundraising for it and disclosed a detailed report. (2) Should the media organizations that do not respect the rules of financial transparency enjoy all the mechanisms for the protection of journalists? (3) Are the customs authorities confident that the church is not facilitating the business activities of certain figures disguised as donations? (4) Is it fair for the church and clergy members not to pay taxes? Should they be able to have a Bently and LX570 without paying taxes? [The "Bentley" is based on a true story.]
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Archbishop's fans spotted Miss Armenia 2003 and a H1 host Lusine Tovmasyan drinking a coffee at a Yerevan café and approached her.
PROTESTER: (unintelligable)
LUSINE: I was here drinking coffee yesterday, and a year before that.
PROTESTER: Why have you not joined the holy struggle?
LUSINE: Լավ եկեք թարգեք, շատ զզվելի ա, էնքան զզվելի ա․ //
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Pro-Kremlin propagandist Alexander Dugin praised the pro-Russian forces' protests in Armenia and criticized the pro-EU protests in Georgia.
Pro-Kremlin Russian politician Semyon Baghdasarov praised Archbishop Bagrat and the ongoing "uprising" in Armenia against the "traitor" [Nikol] who "rigged" the elections with the help of "Turkey, UK, and US". Nikol is a Turkish MI6 agent. video,
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Video of a protest recorded from above: video
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Armenian government has upgraded other diplomatic channels to reduce reliance on ARF's diaspora structures in the US, says pro-West NGO chief

KHURSHUDYAN: The status of the Armenian Ambassador to the U.S. [Lilith Makunts] has been significantly upgraded. I won't go into specifics because it's tied to our neighbors, but she plays an interesting role there. We have great conditions for the U.S. Congress to pressure Azerbaijan. This is outside of ARF's lobbyist groups in the U.S.
REPORTER: ARF Hay Dat's recent conduct has been shameful.
KHURSHUDYAN: And its influence on the Lemkin Institute was obvious. //
Yesterday Kurshudyan accused the Lemkin Institute of caving to ARF's pressure and meddling into Armenia's internal affairs to assist the protests by the pro-Russian former regime.
KHURSHUDYAN: Lemkin Institute accused Pashinyan's April 24 genocide remembrance day statement of containing "victim blaming". Lemkin did not comment on Pashinyan's statement for several weeks, waited 15 days, and as soon as these pro-Russian protests began in Armenia, they gave them a պաս:
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Armenia's four most prominent pro-West opposition parties announce the formation of a unified platform

Republic Party, led by ex-PM Aram Sargsyan.
Hanun Republic Party, led by Arman Babajanyan.
European Party of Armenia, led by Tigran Khzmalyan.
Christian-Democratic Party, led by Levon Shirinyan.
Have the following agenda...
(1) Promotion of Western values in Armenia and Armenia's membership in EU and NATO.
(2) United front against threats and risks of destabilization coming from Russia.
(3) Vetting judges to clean up the courts, and resolution of issues left unaddressed by the Pashinyan administration.
(4) Continuation of border demarcation based on 1991 Almaty.
(5) The use of international law to achieve a fair resolution for Nagorno-Karabakh residents.
The platform is open for like-minded forces to join.
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Armenian army chief denies being a Russian citizen

A statement released by the defense ministry denies media reports that CoGS LtGen Edward Asryan is a dual citizen of Russia. His wife is an ethnic Russian with Armenian citizenship and his kids are dual citizens, but Asryan only has citizenship in Armenia. The whole family has resided in Armenia since 2006, said the statement.
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Georgia passes controversial ‘foreign agents’ bill despite widespread opposition

The law will require organizations receiving more than 20% of their funding from abroad to register as “agents of foreign influence” or face crippling fines.
The bill will be sent to the President who is expected to veto it, but her veto is expected to be overruled by the parliamentary majority later.
Georgian PM Kobakhidze had an "honest conversation" with U.S. deputy foreign minister James O'Brien, telling him that the Georgian government is interested in deepening the partnership with the U.S., "which requires mutual efforts and relations based on fairness."
James O'Brien demanded to speak with the manager - Bidza Ivanishvili. The latter refused to meet O'Brien, saying he won't hold any meetings under "blackmail".
The White House said the U.S. will review its relations with Georgia if the bill becomes law.
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how many of the 101,000 Nagorno-Karabakh refugees have left Armenia and haven't returned yet?

As of...
Dec: 6.6K
Jan: 6.9K
Mar: 8.0K
Apr: 9.1K
May: 9.9K
The former Ombudsman of Nagorno-Karabakh said many of them have family members and friends in Russia who invite them to move.
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temperatures are rising rapidly in Armenia

REPORTER: The rainy May is not going to be enough to alleviate the negative consequences of the rapidly rising temperatures in Armenia. With a ~3 Celsius anomaly, Armenia had the second-highest increase in temperature over the last 6 months among a group of monitored countries.
WEATHER CENTER: High temperatures increase the evaporation of water and reduce the amount of snow in the winter. In December and January, we recorded rain instead of snow in certain mountainous regions, which is bad for water resources.
REPORTER: A conference was recently held in Yerevan within the framework of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification.
UN official: Around 40% of global soils are degraded. Millions of people will be forced to migrate from their communities by 2050 as a result of climate problems. Emergency action is needed to reduce the rate of rising temperatures. //
Armenia joined the Convention three decades ago and has assumed the responsibility to restore degraded soil by 2030. The government is promoting drip irrigation systems for farming and wants to plant more trees.
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is the decline of Lake Sevan levels finally slowing down?

see the YoY chart

Yerevan Municipality to receive a €25 million loan from European Investment Bank to raise energy efficiency

It's part of the implementation of Eastern Partnership programs. The Armenian government and the EU are co-financing it.
The goal is to raise energy efficiency and carry out seismic retrofitting in 6 medical clinics and 32 kindergartens run by the municipality. The length of the program is 4 years.
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Gagik Tsarukyan is inside you

there is a bit of Tsarukyan inside all of you
see it to believe it

Gagik Tsarukyan says the new Jesus statue is ready and will be installed by the end of 2025

It will be a tourist attraction site. There will be a ropeway. Also, Tsarukyan needs you to know that he is a man of God and an avid believer.
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Armenia and Slovakia discussed AM-EU visa liberalization

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Armenia's Economy Minister Papoyan met the U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Energy Resources Geoffrey Pyatt

In a Washington meeting participated by the Armenian Ministry delegation and Armenia's Ambassador, they spoke about the Crossroads of Peace logistics project proposed by Armenia, several topics relating to Armenia's energy and economic security, and the Armenian government's ongoing efforts to classify Armenia as a "market economy".
source,

Armenia and Iran discussed the construction of a second bridge over the River Araks

The first bridge began operating in 1996. It came to replace the floating bridges on the river.
Iran says the AM-IR traffic through the Meghri checkpoint significantly increased last year. Coupled with the fact that Armenia is building a modern North-South highway, they believe it's necessary to have a second AM-IR bridge to handle the rising traffic.
The parties are currently discussing the formation of a working group consisting of experts to discuss the topic.
source,

a new study on mice indicates that more exercise might be better than more sleep for clearing brain of toxins

They injected a dye into a brain and tracked the speed of its movement during sleep and exercise.
The findings show that the clearance of the dye was reduced by 30% in sleeping mice compared with mice that were kept awake. This has not been confirmed on humans yet.
Previous research has suggested that sleep is important for preventing dementia as it is during this time that toxic proteins are cleared from the brain.
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SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS NUMEROLOGY DECODE

Since we all know exactly who and what Spongebob is, I am going to do a Numerology decode.
When it comes to Numerology, there are many different things you can look into. I am going to look into the letters, patterns, and Numerology personality numbers.
SPONGEBOB has a personality #6. 6 is the number of compassion, work ethic, criticism, cleanliness, and productivity. In the funny show, we see that Spongebob is a workaholic. He has a 5 destiny number which shapes who you are overall. 5 is connected to youthfulness which explains the silliness of the Spongebob character. He is always laughing and doing things funny. The 5 energy indicates this. 5 also points to people, places, and things that are unique. He has an 8 soul urge which explains his undying ambition and creativity.
We can see that SPONGEBOB has 2 O's which has the numeric energy of 15 and numeric value of 6. 15 is the creative use of energy for productivity. Again, 6 is the number of routine, work ethic and productivity goes with this. This energy is not only his personality number, but also it is within his name. It's really in him.
SPONGEBOB HAS DOUBLE NUMERIC VALUES IN HIS NAME WHICH ARE, 7,6,5, AND 2. This explains why he is able to show his emotions and have moments of sensitivity(2). Very compassionate(2) but also childish and silly(5) and able to come up with plans that work(7). Since these #s has double influence, we must considered what they equal. 7 twice equals 14/5 which shows how he is responsible and can make work fun even though it is a duty(6). 6 twice equals 12/3 which shows his social skills, life, and creativity. Another youthful energy as well. 5 twice equals 10/1 which points to his bravery and capability to take action. 2 twice equals 4 which is home,family,responsibility, and structure on the home front and he would make everyone feel comfortable for the most part.
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