I've heard the expression but never knew the origin.

But after watching this video I argue that if the nail is still doing its job it's not dead yet.

Not Dead Yet

OMFG IT'S THE REINCARNATION OF ANGUS McKINNON YOUNG!!!




... wut? Oh, he's not dead yet? Must be the drugs.

Why would I disagree?

You would have to pick someone who I like you you don't.

Trump might be a good pick but he is not dead yet. Though good few have which it so.

I've never watched it, and find it really surprising that it's been on for over 10 years now. Over that time period, I've had a good number of friends and acquaintances ask me, "Do you know The Big Bang Theory?" I've always answered, "Yes, I'm aware of it," usually followed by my wondering if they're some kind of "Young Earther." With this sift I've now realized it's a sitcom. And it's just going into a long queue of "must-see" TV shows, like Two-and-a-Half Men, Always Sunny in BlaBla, etc. Somebody pushed me to watch Breaking Bad, but after just a few episodes...and Jesse the Idiot not dead yet...I had to quit. What a Gilligan! I guess I'll just go back to reading, and wait for Rick and Morty...and maybe, just maybe, they'll finally make a movie of Deadwood.

This video--it is perfect. "My lady--she's going to go over the edge! Try to save her! Damn, well, I guess she's gone. But this fucker's not! *WHAP* Aha! Now to abscond--oh, wait, she's probably not dead yet. Alright. Now she's safe. Now time to go kill that guy!"

If you think about how blacks have been historically treated in this country, up to and including modern day. Yeah it's understandable that they tend to commit more crime than whites. We treat them like shit, we treat them like second class citizens. If the situations were reversed and it were whites that were slaves only up until the last 100+ years, you might understand why.

Racism *IS* slowly dying. More and more people inter-marry. More and more people grow up living and playing with friends of a different race. Every generation will be more tolerant than the last. But racism is not dead yet. It never will be completely dead. there is always going to be someone who pre judges.

Sad truth is though, that if you are an old person, odds are you were raised in a time where it was perfectly acceptable to treat "the colored folk" like scum and you drank out of separate water fountains. That mentality doesn't go away just because a law says that they have equal rights.

Considering he will be nothing but a lifeless pile of flesh when he's dead (and he knows this), I think it is very considerate to honour his accomplishments while he is still alive.

>> ^VoodooV:

But I'm not dead yet!
Quiet, you're not fooling anyone!

I know that Hitchens' situation is not looking promising last I heard, but it does seem odd that I've seen so many videos lately that make it seem like he recently passed.

But I'm not dead yet!

Quiet, you're not fooling anyone!


I know that Hitchens' situation is not looking promising last I heard, but it does seem odd that I've seen so many videos lately that make it seem like he recently passed.

"Fuck you all, this is the last song of the evening." Not dead yet!

is this *meme not dead yet?

Definitely not a moose. Hitting a moose is like hitting two thousand pounds of bricks that are propped up on four poles. The moose comes right through your windshield and, if it's not knocked out or dead, proceeds to flail everyone in the car to death. That is, if you are not dead yet.

I'm not dead yet!

>> ^gorillaman:
You obviously have a lot more faith in your government than I do, and yet you seem to be arguing that we should stick with them because they can't be trusted. If they're too corrupt to administer a basic competence test without undermining it completely why not just admit they've lost all legitimacy? Why not admit democracy has failed utterly?

I wouldn't really characterize my position that way. I remain convinced that the basic principles of democracy are moral, and I believe that the flawed implementations of democracy we've seen have produced vastly superior results to the flawed undemocratic governments we've seen.

The United States's implementation of democracy looks like it's pretty much been successfully killed. It's not dead yet, but I'm not really seeing a lot of chances for revival. But it's pretty much taken a massive propaganda campaign conducted over decades to convince enough people to vote it out of existence. They still don't know that's what they've been doing, but that's the power of a good propaganda campaign.

>> ^gorillaman:

Do you really think it's impossible or just difficult?

...

It absolutely doesn't require a perfectly advanced agent to begin an improving process. Where would science be were that the case, or education?

The improvement would compound itself naturally over generations. A smarter government will develop better procedures for selecting its successors. You don't need perfection from the start. Call it a political singularity. We're talking about the ultimate prize, the best possible society, at least until our species is smart enough to leave governments behind forever. It only needs to work once. If you miss the mark completely and get a self-perpetuating mafia state, well, that's no different to what we have today. Just try again.

I think it's entirely possible that you could pick a government that is composed entirely of people with golden souls. I think you might even see that government pick golden souls to replace them for a few generations. I just think before long, the power and recognition of a few generations of successful rule would go to their heads and hubris would ensue, followed by defensiveness, followed by tyranny, followed by revolution.

I think if you set up an institution that a) holds the traditional powers of government, and b) can control its own selection process, I think it's only a matter of time before they start seeing their own whims and desires as being the only purpose of government.

I just fail to see what the feedback loop is that results in continual improvement once you shut off democratic accountability.

"I'm not dead yet!"
You will be soon enough.