Andrew Kurjata
Canadian journalist based in Prince George, British Columbia — Dakelh territory. I live north of most of you.
akurjata.ca | Nechako x Lhtakoh | he/him
- all week it's felt like we are on the verge of a storm and then we get like five minutes of rain. i desperately need the weather to break and give me a full day downpour, there's too much tension
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- If I say a lot of music from the late 90s has End of History vibes to it, does that make sense? Like there's a common thread from Cornershop to Cotton Eyed Joe?
- Andor made me realize I care very little about Jedis and the Force and really just like Space Politics
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- I don't know if I've even heard of it
- One of the main things people across Canada know about Vancouver is "expensive"; it's automatically going to be an uphill battle to put anyone from the city/province in charge of making housing more affordable and convince the general public they can do it
- Also, the franchise should have followed the direction of the Last Jedi and that last movie in the new trilogy whatever it was called is the single worst thing to happen to it overall
- "I have an opinion on many things, some of which I keep to myself." This man will never be a poster www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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- So weird how people from other countries don't want to visit right now
- No U.S. citizen should be detained by law enforcement, at the border or anywhere, because of their protected speech. ICE and CBP are the "enemies domestic" that federal officials swear an oath to defend against. www.usermag.co/p/hasan-pike...
- One thing about both the NDP win in B.C. and now the Liberal victory federally is that by the time the next election comes along in each jurisdiction, the parties should be able to fully own whatever the state of things is. No COVID or previous govt to blame (though they will, they always do)
- People have brought up Trump which yes will be a challenge but also at a certain point you have to assume the world is gonna throw up challenges. I don’t think the fair benchmark is gov’ts only get judged based on nothing difficult happening
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- I think it was the 51st state stuff and then the ICE stuff is just helping solidify it
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- This has been one of the things about Star Wars that's always amused me. No worlds with oceans AND deserts. Either forests or snow. Hiding light years away but only a few clicks out of the only city on the entire planet
- Had no idea. Canada supplied uranium for atomic bombs in World War II. The cleanup is still ongoing youtube.com/watch?v=8jC1...
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- Yooooo did you hear she's writing a Broadway musical?
- I love my neighbourhood except for the fact so many of my neighbours spend spring removing trees from their yards
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- But the surrounding forests can spread into urban areas, at which point having sources of burns on your property do pose a risk to your home (hence firesmarting)
- The "how often do you think about the Roman Empire" meme made me realize I never think about the Roman Empire, which has been a slow burn because then I learned many of my friends DO think about it and now they got me into podcasts and stuff about it, and I do think about it regularly. What the heck
- Look at these tiny mushrooms
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- I honestly don't know. I mean, probably low until a Fort McMurray style fire blazes through town
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- This makes me realize a lot of the cutting is just cutting 😐
- Generously, I think some of it is about fire proofing. Which is actually an area of interest for me: on the one hand, we want more urban trees to deal with heat. On the other, they are a potential source of ignition and spread as wildfires get worse. How to balance that?
- This is prompting a lot of “every single vote counts” discourse and I will asterisk it with “in competitive ridings” www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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View full threadTo be fair, I’m also informed by many personal conversations with people who no longer feel like they can keep up the facade of their vote *really* mattering in these ridings where other parties don’t really bother
- (this includes people who vote for the winning party, too! A forgone conclusion is a forgone conclusion either way)
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- I think we might be coming at it from different places. To be fair, I’m not really FOR voter apathy but I am attempting to EXPLAIN voter apathy in places where the parties themselves are apathetic
- I’ve said this elsewhere, but no, it’s not…. if the other parties bothered to try. But until they do, I’m going to argue that a certain amount of apatheticism amongst the general electorate in these areas is justified versus the places with a Fanjoy
- (that riding is actually a great example. It just flipped Conservative. And you know what? The Conservatives have been out there working on this for the past decade, not just randomly throwing up names every time there’s an election)
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- Yeah, agreed. But I don’t think we should treat that example as similar to the one just north of me where the Liberal candidate was announced midway through the campaign, was someone who moved to the region 2 weeks prior, and didn’t attend any local events. That’s not on *voters* for being apathetic
- A lot of people mentioning Carleton. You know what Carleton had? An MP from an opposition party who actually campaigned more than 3 weeks before election day Perhaps a lesson to parties, rather than for voters to vote harder
- I’m just saying, your enthusiasm for “get out and vote” may be tempered when the governing party announces their local candidate for you 3 weeks before the election and it’s someone who never lived in the riding
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- It also had a competitor backed by a major party who started trying more than 3 weeks before election day
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- The riding that had several national news stories about how it could flip in the week prior to the election?
- it’s nice you have a riding where mps have to compete for votes. Go visit someplace that’s voted the same way for 30+ years and the other parties barely bother to put up candidates and use your handclap emojis
- CANZUK won't be a reality until we make our own version of Taskmaster
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- Truly, two solitudes
- One weird thing about Canada is there are cities with 26,000 people that are in the list of top 100 largest cities in the country
- Like, we drop from “global urban metropolis” to village real quick. There is not a whole lot of midsized city on there
- A good question. “If you’re handing in AI work, you’re not actually anything different than a human assistant to an artificial-intelligence engine, and that makes you very easily replaceable. Why would anyone keep you around?” nymag.com/intelligence...
- I saw this on my TikTok and assumed it was staged
- I have an eye infection and the whites are almost completely red. It's a jump scare every time I look in the mirror
- I'm starting to think AI isn't having positive impacts on society overall
- Also I want a word other than AI? "Automated" something? If automatic parallel parking came out today it would be marketed as artificial intelligence, it is not
- Usually not a sign great when the doctor is impressed you made it to your appointment and is remarking on how tough you are!
- Anyways it looks worse than it feels
- A B.C.-based company wants to open a sand mine north of Prince George to provide a made-in-Canada solution to an anticipated boost in liquefied natural gas production. (1/2) www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
- the proposal comes as the province is promising to fast-track select new industrial developments — and as conservation groups are sounding the alarm about B.C. falling behind on its environmental goals amid the rush to diversify the economy away from the United States. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
- “We have the oil, we have the resources. We’re fine,” Westernaier said, noting she believed Monday’s election was rigged. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
