It likely doesn’t need a live connection and just checks in occasionally, and if the designers were smart, the logic would be built to err on the side of human safety in the case of no-coms.

But of course that is not a guarantee.

Still, in all likelihood the vest has your subscription date stored in local memory and if you are out of coms for a month then likely you aren’t biking anywhere.

Hate to break it to you but that’s kind of what capitalism means.

A digital card game where players can trade cards with each other. No big digital card game does this for fear of loss of profits.

I miss trading cards with my friends.

Just look what happened when lockdown gave the natural world a chance to breathe.

We COULD offset a fucktonne of CO2 if we changed our lifestyle.

But do you remember HOW FUCKDAMN HARD half the population fought against that literally while their grandparents were dying in agony?

Keep that in mind when you consider any monolithic action of altruism.

Can we stop global warning with radical changes to our consumption?

Absolutely yes.

Will it happen?

Not without direct government action.