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  • A trespasser is trespassed from a property by law enforcement at the request of the property owner. This is called a criminal trespass.

    Illegally trespassing would be an informal term, and legally or criminal trespassing would the the legal term to describe the act of staying on private property after they have been warned/asked to leave. If you are trespassing in a legal or allowed way, then it is not trespassing.

    In most places, a property owner must ask law enforcement to trespass the person off of the property before someone is considered legally or criminally trespassing. In most places a warning, either verbal or by sign or other means, must be given before a person can be criminally trespassed, but that is not automatic as the property owner may choose to not enforce it.







  • To my knowledge, there hasn’t been a major peer reviewed study to show whether these warnings make any difference.

    Now, my own anecdotal non-peer reviewed personal opinion would be that they probably make no difference at all. Businesses likely began adding them only to waive potential liability and not to actually do anything helpful. They can be frustrating because they spoil upcoming events in media that may have been unexpected or unknown, but because of the warning are now definitely known and thus feels “ruined” when it happens. They can also reinforce ideation of suicide because a person may feel like the ones that added the warning did it as a token thing, treating the person like they are a badge of honor or some kind of selling point. Whether that is true or not doesn’t really matter, a person that is suicidal is almost never “in their right mind,” and if they feel that way, they feel that way. Nobody can tell them how to feel, not even themselves sometimes.



  • Regarding potential societal issues:

    When multiple cultures mix together, one of two things can happen:

    1. The cultures mesh well and either coexist or mutually mix into something new

    2. The cultures do not mesh well and this leads to all sorts of problems, especially increased crime

    The second usually happens when both cultures place opposite value in something. For example, one culture places a high value on self and the other places a high value on being in a group, this can lead to a divide between cultures. Eventually, the resentment each group has for each other will lead to violence and other sorts of crime. One culture may think “I made the money for myself,” while the other thinks ,“we should all share the money.” If people don’t learn how to get along, you can probably see how that would increase criminal activity. In most cases, it is usually the expectation that the immigrant adapt to the culture of the new place they have moved to, rather than the new place’s home residents being expected to adapt to every immigrants different country cultures.

    It also isn’t good when immigrants enter a new country and do not know the laws of the country they have entered. They may commit crimes that could have been legal wherever they came from, but now someone may be a victim to a crime and the immigrant did not know. Now, usually immigrants that legally enter a country do learn about the basic laws of the country and the basic culture, but ones that enter a country illegally may know nothing about the place they are in. They may continue to act the same as they did in their previous home, which may have very different laws, leading to further divide.




  • Fortunately, Jeep was not owned by Stellantis until the 2021 merger with Chrysler. Not that Chrysler is that much better, but they used to have good relaibility at least until the 2008 crash when automakers were getting government handouts.

    Velosters are generally driven by people who want to drive them like a sports car, but then they don’t also take care of it like a sports car. I saw many Veloster owners bring their car in trying to get an engine replaced or repaired under warranty but they had modified the PCM. Dealer scan tools have a function that can check the computer for any sort of modification, including if the PCM was swapped from a different vehicle, and if that stuff comes up that’s an instant warranty void. Usually teenagers that think they have a racecar, that sort of thing. It was the same with the Genesis Coupe, though the Coupe was a lot better with surviving that kind of abuse. Thats not to say that the reliability of a Veloster was bad, its just I often saw them in disrepair because they werent taken care of or from owner stupidity, which is why I didn’t mention the Veloster before.

    I love the styling of the Hyundai N Vision 74, but I wish they put an actual engine in it instead of being electric only. I also don’t like the new Santa Fe, the weird dog bone shaped tail lights look pretty stupid IMO. It probably would have looked better if they made it look more similar to a Land Rover Defender, honestly. I don’t know how I feel about the Santa Cruz but it seems like it is too small to be a truck but too big to be a Ute.

    CVTs are horrible. They combine the worst parts of an automatic transmission with the worst parts of a manual transmission. Chrysler I believe once had a PCM flash to add an intentional cylinder misfire when people would expect the transmission to shift because so many people complained that it didn’t feel like their CVT equipped vehicle was shifting. Unfortunately, thats what they are supposed to feel like.


  • I was a dealer tech for Hyundai, Dodge/Jeep/Chrysler, and Jaguar/Land Rover over the years.

    Of all the places I worked, the cars that I saw the most only for service and not for major repairs ironically were Hyundais. Don’t get me wrong, cars still came in that needed major repairs, and I was the guy doing them. But looking back at my time there, most of my day was spent doing routine maintenance - oil changes, brake services, transmission fluid exchanges, etc, and minor TSBs like computer updates and the MDPS coupler on old Sonatas. 2.4L engines from the big recall were common, of course, but those were free for the customer and they usually got a free rental car for the duration of their service.

    I don’t know how you like Hyundai styling, but I was with Hyundai from 2015-2018, and I liked the styling then. The lease terms were pretty good and the cost of the car was quite low. The quality didn’t feel like a Land Rover, but the reliability impressed me for the time I was there. As long as you take care of it, it should take care of you. The ones that I seemed to see the absolute least were V6 equipped Santa Fes and Cadenzas, those seemed to be the most reliable in my experience. 2.4Ls had the recall but seemed to be fine after, and 1.8Ls are okay for the small cars but totally gutless.

    Recently I haven’t really liked Hyundai’s styling because it seems too “Audi” for my liking. But if that’s up your alley, try asking the service departments if you can speak to a tech just to see if they mostly do a lot of major repairs or maintenance work.

    Dont get a Jaguar unless you drive it on a racetrack regularly, they like to spring random leaks if you drive it like a grandma. Don’t get a Land Rover, their superchargers often grenade and end up overheating the engine from coolant leaks. And don’t get anything made by Stellantis, just don’t.