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Tweet: Okay I thought this one straight up has to be hyperbole, there's no way they'd make an airbag that checks your subscription status or it doesn't go off, but it's fucking TRUE: "Without the subscription service from In&Motion, the airbag system is non-operational."

Quoted tweet: Reminder that Klim makes a motorcycle airbag vest that has a subscription service and if you don't pay and get in a wreck it just doesn't go off

Google results screenshot: Ai-1 Airbag Vest (Klim) - Choose from $12/month or $120/year subscription options, which include...

Original tweet dated 30th April 2021

  • oregoncom [he/him]
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    5 months ago

    that's already a thing. much cheaper and it uses standard air canisters.

    • ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]
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      5 months ago

      Unironically love unknowingly inventing things that have already been invented, it's like a little test to see if brain still work good

      • oregoncom [he/him]
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        5 months ago

        meanwhole bazingas microdose lsd to make sure they only invent things that are shittier versions of what already exist lol.