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@hazelnot

There's a reason I didn't go newer than '05. '09 is the newest I would consider, but I prefer to stay between '00 and '05.
If I won the lotto, I would still drive an older car.

I'd probably go find an '03 Outback, bring it and my lotto winnings to a machanic, and be like "Make it like new again, cost be damned!" and get it painted pink.

@hazelnot
So if you see me rolling around in a pink Subaru with the old school full width brake light assembly on the back, looking like it just rolled off the lot 20 years ago, with Rage Against the Machine blasting, you know what happened.

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That's a weird notable thing with my '05...
It doesn't LOOK like it's 20 years old till I am next to the giant pedestrian smashers of today.
It doesn't look dated until it's dwarfed by modern "small" cars.
That's weird, cause in 1995, a car from the 70s or even the 80s very much looked like an old car.

@hazelnot

I'm pretty sure culture has stagnated.
A big driver of culture, at least aesthetically, is the shit we buy. (At least in the US).
Crapitalism has made everything such shit that a not insignificant number of people are seeking alternatives, be it dumb phones, or old stuff, or non-smart versions.
Aside from my TV, my room looks a lot like it could have in 2000.
My computer is newer, but is still just a black clam.

@hazelnot
I have gravitated towards the older ways of tech. I don't have a smart speaker anymore. I don't have a newer shitty alarm clock. I have photos on the wall, not in digital frames (what a flop digital frames were eh?)

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And of course... there's a lot of things we can't really make more futuristic. What the fuck else can one do to a bed, or a chair, or a drawer, or a blanket?

So yeah... things stagnated.