For an article about beer it's horribly misinformed.
The most important part first: bewing water
Theres a lot of talk about "gypsum" and "mineral rich" and what it does to the brewing water.
Much of it is not exactly wrong per se, but very imprecise.
The natural water in Burton is rich in calcium and VERY rich in sulfate (SO_4) but low on sodium.
The ratio of sulfate:sodium is responsible for the perception of hops flavour and bitterness.
BUT:
"a lot of the lager brewed here makes greedy use of Burton’s gorgeous natural mineral-rich water"
This is plain bullshit. This kind of water is absolutely unsuitable for lager beer, that's why the local beer style is a pale ale.
The thing is: the by far biggest brewery in town (Molson Coors) demineralizes the brewing water and re-adds a mineral mix for different beer styles.
This is also the brewery that makes tons of mass market lager beer there.
(this is not uncommon in modern breweries, e.g. Flensburger in germany is publicly know to do the same while most german breweries use well water as-is. This is one of the reasons for the differences in beer styles. The german beer market has very little presence of international brands and customers are very sensitive when it comes to brands trying to close actual breweries just putting their badge on beer brewed by another brewery... exactly the type of thing that happened to Brass and other traditional Burton brands)
also:
"Sure, the town is now made up of megacorporate monster-breweries pumping out half of the world’s lager"
This is again very imprecise. There is one "megacorporate monster brewery" in Burton - Molson Coors. That brewery is big but not remarkably so, comparable in size to e.g. the Krombacher Brewery in germany. And there are dozens of breweries of that size in Europe alone.
(source: I'm a hobby brewer and also interested in brewing culture and tech)
First of all TÜV isn't a single org but a shared brand of multiple independent companies.
And while "TÜV" is used colloquially for the mandatory car inspection in germany even all TÜV named companies together aren't anywhere near a monopoly:
all of them combined(!) have 37,5% market share in the german vehicle inspection market. The largest single org in that market is actually DEKRA with 32,5%.
People say "Ich bring mein Auto zum TÜV", but they actually mean "I'm gonna drop it at my dealership and let him inspect it by whatever company he has a deal with"
There are more accredited inspection providers besides TüV in germany like Dekra etc.
This matters because TüV does NOT have data for all cars and there might be self selection effects because drivers can choose where to do the inspection (many get it done by whatever provider their car dealer has a deal with, which might differ greatly by car brand)
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Original language is german with english translations that are mostly done with claude.
also in this particular case probably neither would have mattered.
Seems like this area is _owned_ by the farm but basically unused. Most (all?) german state consider this to be "freie Landschaft" (free landscape)
[this includes unused farmland, woods etc.] which you can cross by foot whenever you want.
"Notwegerecht" is very rare in reality, AND the user has to pay.
In general in germamy it is historically much more common that these situations don't arise because when land gets sold a prooer deal for regular "Wegerecht" is made. But it does happen.
for features declared stable it's been an urban legend for a long time.
I use BTRFS in prod since I think 2016 which was also the last year I lost data to an BTRFS Bug
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