Eiffel Tower lit up to mark change, seen as way of protecting law that decriminalised abortion in 1975.

The French parliament has enshrined abortion as a constitutional right at a historic joint session at the Palace of Versailles.

Out of 925 MPs and senators eligible to vote, 780 supported the amendment, which will give women the “guaranteed freedom” to choose an abortion.

There was thunderous applause in the chamber as the result was announced on Monday; in central Paris, the Eiffel Tower was illuminated to mark the occasion.

The measure had already been passed by the upper and lower houses, the Sénat and the Assemblée Nationale, but final approval by parliamentarians at the joint session at Versailles was needed to effect constitutional change.

The prime minister, Gabriel Attal, told those gathered in the opulent Congress Hall in the palace’s Midi wing: “We are haunted by the suffering and memory of so many women who were not free. We owe a moral debt [to all the women who] suffered in their flesh.

“Today, the present must respond to history. To enshrine this right in our constitution is to close the door on the tragedy of the past and its trail of suffering and pain. It will further prevent reactionaries from attacking women.

“Let’s not forget that the train of oppression can happen again. Let’s act to ensure that it doesn’t, that it never comes this day.”

He added: “I say to all women within our borders and beyond, that today, the era of a world of hope begins.”

Mathilde Panot, an MP from the hard-left France Unbowed, who proposed inscribing the abortion rights in the constitution, told the meeting it was “a promise … for all women fighting [for them] everywhere in the world”.

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The man is blaming the automaker even though the manual door opener was under his left hand the whole time.

A man in Arizona says that he was recently trapped in his Tesla after getting in, closing the door, and then realizing that his battery was dead. What he didn’t know is that the manual release for the door was under his left hand the whole time. Now, he’s blaming the automaker and raising awareness.

Rick Meggison, 73, says that Tesla needs to address what he calls a “safety concern” involving how to exit the car when the battery dies. The main door latch actuator on all Tesla models is electronic so if the 12-volt battery dies it won’t work. To ensure safe exit of the vehicle Tesla includes a manual release. Meggison didn’t know about that and ended up trapped in his car for 20 minutes on a hot day.

“I couldn’t open the doors. I couldn’t lower the windows. The computer was dead, so I couldn’t open the glove box. I couldn’t open anything,” he told ABC7. Of course, he could’ve opened the door in about two seconds had he known that the manual release was just ahead of his window switches. His situation has many wondering who’s to blame in situations like this.

I've been watching Trucker Dashcam // Sweden while cleaning around the house today, so this is from another one of his videos. His one of the nicest truckers I've ever heard of. He mainly does dashcam compilations nowadays, and includes videos from friends and subscibers as well.
The GIF is severely cropped and small, sorry. Used ImgFlip again, will look into some better options soon.

In the clip (and the timestamp in the below timed link) you see the trucker approaching a toll station. Apparently "clever" car drivers think it makes more sense to take the pedestrian/bike path to avoid the toll station and instead save a few SEK.

• Original video is at: Trucker Dashcam // Sweden
• Here is time when the "bike driver" turns up
• Here is a Piped link to the channel

Publicerad 30 juli kl 17:24

Sju personer har fått föras till sjukhus i Kristianstad i helgen efter att de varit ute på krogen och nu uppmanar polisen allmänheten att vara uppmärksam.

– Sedan i fredags har vi haft sju personer som har fått föras till sjukhus i Kristianstad efter att fått i sig en okänd substans. Samtliga har varit ute på krogen i Kristianstad. Flera har blivit medvetslösa till följd av detta och har varit i behov av sjukhusvård, säger Evelina Olsson, presstalesperson hos Polisen.

Både män och kvinnor drabbade

De drabbade är i 20 till 30-årsåldern och både män och kvinnor. Polisen vet inte vad de fått i sig men man inväntar provsvar och ska hålla förhör med samtliga drabbade.

– Eftersom vi inte vet vad avsikten med detta är så vill vi att personer, som är ute i krogsvängen i Kristianstad den närmaste tiden, är lite extra uppmärksamma. Att man håller koll på sin dryck och mat. Om det är nån som vet vad det här kan handla om så vill vi gärna ta del av de uppgifterna, säger Evelina Olsson.

Edit: Changed link for the pic to another site

The guy behind Trucker Dashcam // Sweden is one of the nicest truckers I've ever heard of. He mainly does dashcam compilations nowadays, and includes videos from friends and subscibers as well.

• Original video is at: Trucker Dashcam // Sweden
• Here is time when the BMW turns up
• Here is a Piped link to the channel

Original by @jeffw@lemmy.world in post https://lemmy.world/post/2309043

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/1812073

cross-posted from: https://derp.foo/post/81940

There is a discussion on Hacker News, but feel free to comment here as well.

Ursprungligen postad på: https://lemmy.world/post/2288539, reviderad här:

Varningar och meddelanden | SMHI

Risk för skogsbrand

Gotland

Risken för bränder i skog och mark är mycket eller extremt stor. Utfärdad 27 juli

Östra Götaland

Skogsbrandrisken är stor eller mycket stor. Utfärdad 28 juli

Sydöstra Svealand:

Skogsbrandrisken är stor. Utfärdad 28 juli

Hur kan det påverka mig?
Stor eller mycket stor brandrisk och att eld sprids lätt i skogsmark.
Stor försiktighet bör iakttas vid eldning utomhus, ofta gäller eldningsförbud.

I found out about OfferUp from a comment on !frugal@lemmy.world to post https://lemmy.world/post/1953789, by commenter @karpintero@lemmy.world .

The OfferUp site doesn't let me look around as it's geoblocked, and VPN didn't seem to help. So I went off the Wikipedia description and Googling:

• Competitor to eBay and CraigsList.
• It seems to be around in some major cities, and shipping is available for inter-urban or less urban locations.
• It's both for buying in straight-up transactions as well as bidding (a'la eBay).
• Most item categories are free to list items in, but it costs to put up more than a limited number of listings a month in certain categories.
• They have fees for the sales based on the transaction value
• They have some form of moderation
• They have some user based moderation based on ratings
• They tie user accounts to actual persons
• They don't handle food transactions (?)

Based on these points I would be inclined to not considering it as a thrifting resource to add to the stickied list, on the other hand I've listed an auctioning site in Sweden as a thrifting resource, and might as well include eBay as well.

Your thoughts?

Min personliga kommentar: Bara på vår gård i Stockholm har vi haft massdöd av måsar. Det var först en koloni på ett 20-tal måsar som kom i april/maj och häckade på de platta hustaken runt gården. I slutet av maj fanns det bara ett häckande par kvar på hustaken, de fick en unge och i juni så dog en av föräldrarna. Lite lugnare iofs, inte fullt lika skränigt som det varit de senaste åren med fullt med häckande måsar och gapiga ungar. Men ändå sorgligt.

Ingress från artikeln:
Fågelinfluensan sprider sig i Sverige, smittan har bland annat hittats bland fåglar i Kalmar, på Gotland och i Stockholmsomårdet. Folkhälsomyndigheten (FHM) stärker nu sin övervakning av eventuell fågelinfluensa hos människor.
– Man behöver inte bli orolig, det är en sällsynt sjukdom men självklart ska man vara observant, säger Emmi Andersson på FHM.

Just ran into a link to this article from another medium. While I realize this is speculations, it's still a summary of models that look at the risk of concurrent global crop failures.

From the article:

Abstract
Simultaneous harvest failures across major crop-producing regions are a threat to global food security. Concurrent weather extremes driven by a strongly meandering jet stream could trigger such events, but so far this has not been quantified. Specifically, the ability of state-of-the art crop and climate models to adequately reproduce such high impact events is a crucial component for estimating risks to global food security. Here we find an increased likelihood of concurrent low yields during summers featuring meandering jets in observations and models. While climate models accurately simulate atmospheric patterns, associated surface weather anomalies and negative effects on crop responses are mostly underestimated in bias-adjusted simulations. Given the identified model biases, future assessments of regional and concurrent crop losses from meandering jet states remain highly uncertain. Our results suggest that model-blind spots for such high-impact but deeply-uncertain hazards have to be anticipated and accounted for in meaningful climate risk assessments.