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Not sure if you saw- Russia is setting up a whole new Chinese POS system

That supposedly will rival Visa / MC.

The Chinese are really advancing in data collection and analysis in some nefarious ways (some states are starting to finally ban Chinese small drones for US public safety use for that reason).

I’m hoping for a complete failure. If it’s tough enough to sound out an English translation of the instructions on how to put to assemble anything made in China, I’m thinking the Chinese to Cyrillic translation may be a bridge too far. I didn’t spend that much time Im Russia, but I don’t know that sounding out Russian words works the same way.

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Posted: 03/07/2022 at 2:38PM

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