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Resource-based economies control the essential raw materials needed for manufacturing and high-tech industries. This gives them leverage over nations that rely on these resources. China's dominance in gallium production is a great example as it's essential for making advanced semiconductors.

Real power resides at the top of supply chains, where raw materials originate. Controlling these resources allows countries to dictate terms and disrupt industries further down the chain.

Sanctions enacted by higher-level supply chain economies often fail because resource-based economies can retaliate by restricting access to essential raw materials. This renders sanctions ineffective and can even harm the sanctioning nation's economy.

BRICS economies, who control many of the essential resources, will continue to develop domestic industries to process and utilize their own resources. Doing so reduces reliance on imports and creates new economic opportunities.

Access to critical raw materials provides a significant advantage in developing and manufacturing key technologies like semiconductors, telecom equipment, and renewable energy systems. This ultimately leads to technological leadership and economic dominance in those sectors as we're seeing happening with China.

Economies higher up the supply chain become vulnerable to disruptions and price fluctuations caused by resource-based economies. This dependence weakens their negotiating power and hinder their economic growth in the long run.

I just came across a post talking about this and I haven't seen it anywhere else. Anyone wanna talk about it? It seems big. There seem to be really many protests right now in Serbia.

On 1 December, a silent march was held in Novi Sad to commemorate one month since the collapse.
By early December, Serbian students had begun organizing 24-hour blockades at some school campuses.
By mid-December, more than 50 university campuses and multiple secondary schools had suspended classes due to student protests. On 11 December, students demonstrated at the headquarters of television station RTS, for their broadcasting of President Aleksandar Vučić's claims that demonstrators are being funded by Western countries who seek to destabilize Serbia. On 13 December, farmers in central Serbia blocked a road with tractors.
As of December, protesters continue to gather in large numbers, demanding justice for the victims of the collapse and greater transparency in governance. Police presence in the city has been significantly increased, and there have been sporadic clashes reported. Efforts at dialogue between protest leaders and government officials have so far failed to de-escalate the situation.[citation needed]

Extra articles:

• balkaninsight.com/2024/12/20/s…
• apnews.com/article/serbia-prot…

Here's the post that got shared to me which made me search for what's going on from this account (warning: it is heavily opionated):

It was under this account (I don't know what they represent exactly, first time seeing them):

Hi again Lemmy! This is Dihar, again with a new release for Treedome. I haven't posted a new post for this project since 0.5.0, so I'll just list down all the changes that happened since then! For those of you who have been using this program, thank you for the kind and supportive words. Here's to more releases, and please ask me anything you want down below!

If you want to know more, check this out codeberg.org/solver-orgz/treed…

Important Additions:
1. Windows build is now available from the release page
2. Copy pasting links are now working properly
3. Added math extension, can be tested by typing $\LaTeX$
4. Added fixes based on ItsFoss suggestions news.itsfoss.com/treedome/
5. New button to sort notes, will only affect itself and its children
6. New window to display all tags in the document, accessible from the escape menu
7. Improve full text searches (ctrl+shift+f) and give more relevant info

Miscellaneous:
1. Upgrade Tauri from v1 to v2
2. Upgrade dependencies
3. Spotlight searches queries are now more tolerant/relaxed
4. Snappier animation for most windows
5. Reduce choppiness when scrolling in modals
6. Fixed full text search not applying yellow highlight on text editor after search page is being reopened
7. Fixed broken document after setting the timeout duration above certain threshold
8. Reduced the already small 8MB package to 5MB. Thanks @allie for noticing!

Also, this project are in need for some graphic design loving thing. Need a logo. Anyone knows where to find communities for this?

New Features:

• Introduce the Notification v2 portal. This updated version of the Notification portal supports a plethora of new fields for notifications, such as sounds, categories, purpose, and more.
• Introduce the USB portal. This portal allows apps with relevant permissions to enumerate and acquire access to specific USB devices.
• Introduce a new SchemeSupported method to the OpenURI portal. This new method allows apps to know ahead of time if the host system is able to deal with a particular scheme.

Enhancements:

• Continued the move towards Python-based tests. This should simplify the test setup in the project quite significantly, and also will allow removing the cyclic dependency between libportal and XDG Desktop Portal.
• Introduce umockdev-based tests.
• Improve the icon validator so it can deal with memfd-based icons.
• Clarify behavior of the Settings portal for non-standardized keys.
• In the Global Shortcuts portal, clarify that the result the BindShortcuts
• of may be a subset of all requested shortcuts.
• Add a documentation page about icon validation requirements.

Bug Fixes:

• Fix memory leaks in the Background, Email, and Global Shortcuts portals.
• Fix a general file descriptor & memory leak.
• Fix a regression in the Settings portal.
• New and updated translations.