Signed, Apathetic idealist Dear Apathetic Idealist, I have no doubt that many people can relate to your letter.
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It seems to be a combination of antsy and apathetic.
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Guards are utterly apathetic to prisoners who have possibly overdosed.
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Germans these days are apathetic to war and the military.
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Sullen gray clouds occupy the sky, dispensing an apathetic drizzle.
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Young Thais for years have been seen as politically apathetic.
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Yep, Alicia continues to be rather apathetic toward the world.
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"If you're apathetic, where does that get you?" she said.
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I care about, are you apathetic to suffering around you?
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This is proven for even the more apathetic soccer fan.
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The Swedish refer to them as de apatiska , the apathetic.
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Older adults like to say we're apathetic, but we're not.
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I started the three weeks with 146 politically apathetic tenth graders.
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"They were all strong fellows but appeared completely apathetic," Zhou recalled.
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For too long, the Latinx community has been apathetic about politics.
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I've never felt completely apathetic; I generally am an optimistic person.
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Agent 47 may be canonicaly and chronically apathetic, but I'm not.
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In a cynical age, it's tempting to be skeptical and apathetic.
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I started feeling really apathetic, and would cry for no reason.
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Addiction had made me apathetic to strangers and family members alike.
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There was speculation that women had become unengaged, removed, even apathetic.
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Adults often dismiss teenagers, assuming that they're callow, apathetic or uninformed.
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Five of Sweden's seven political parties demanded amnesty for apathetic patients.
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The board began allowing apathetic children and their families to stay.
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Millennials take a lot of shit for being apathetic, flighty narcissists.
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You're sad, apathetic and irritable for weeks or months at a time.
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Which makes their subsequent cover feels all the more apathetic and dissociated.
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An apathetic generation, concluded the ministers, who returned to twiddling their thumbs.
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"He was the least apathetic person you'd ever meet," Lynch tells PEOPLE.
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Millennials are the most apathetic generation to ever ironically slouch toward adulthood.
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Revelry has been unavoidable and has made fans of the usually apathetic.
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She's super apathetic, which is kind of opposite to my own character.
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Kempowski patiently introduces us to a privileged, insulated, and politically apathetic world.
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The American "center," to the extent it exists, is an apathetic lot.
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Many voters, especially black voters, who sit out elections are not apathetic.
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If you remain disillusioned or apathetic in this climate, you are complicit.
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They may become withdrawn, apathetic, uninhibited, distractible and repeat words or gestures.
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Back in 2016, a campaign from Consumers Union managed to collect more than 600,000 signatures in an attempt to ramp up pressure on historically-apathetic companies, consistently singling out AT&T as one of the more apathetic carriers.
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"They know – or should know— Garfield is a very apathetic cat," she said.
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Until recently it seemed Apple has been entirely apathetic about its computer customers.
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Was Trump right to be essentially apathetic about who sits on the Court?
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Many remain at best apathetic, and at worse hostile, toward their Aboriginal neighbors.
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Her friend Amanda (Cooke), however, is entirely apathetic — and, very possibly, a sociopath.
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Immediately, her apathetic assault lawyer Bob Armstrong (Dallas Roberts) finds himself at attention.
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" There was the apathetic: "Hard to say, I don't really know the situation.
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"They get very annoyed with my apathetic approach to dating," Megow tells PEOPLE.
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" Fahmy said the memorial is a sign to never be "apathetic and complacent.
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Aren't they just too ignorant, too apathetic, too selfish, too lazy to vote?
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No one can tell me that this young generation of voters is apathetic.
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They all show how children are conscripted into an apathetic world of adults.
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When it was cool to be sad or at least apathetic, Los Campesinos!
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Its image remains static and almost apathetic to the needs of its constituency.
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Bridget appears to be the apathetic slacker familiar from so many breathless blogs.
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But by and large, most companies and governments remain apathetic to the threat.
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The prevailing view of millennials being politically apathetic clouded the clear signs — i.e.
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Our sights have been blurred and misdirected, our youth dispirited and politically apathetic.
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It doesn't mean this has been fixed and that everyone can become apathetic.
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What that did was make me apathetic, a feeling that things just happened.
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We need convictions, because "an apathetic electorate is no electorate at all," he says.
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At last year's fundraiser, Moss seemed apathetic, even apologetic, about Clinton as a candidate.
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Jermaine just graduated from college and says his generation was "apathetic" before Election Day.
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Joe and Gordon butt heads over the project, while Cameron is apathetic at best.
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"Students aren't apathetic," said Rachel Clay, southeast regional coordinator for the Campus Vote Project.
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With my generation, we are either apathetic or too smart for our own good.
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But even a messy fight for nuance is better than an apathetic sell-out.
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But a perceived apathetic attitude on court earned him the nickname Joe Barely Cares.
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With her flannel, apathetic affect, and cargo pants Debbie is the original queer hipster.
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Pollsters think more than 80% will vote, including some previously apathetic anti-independence voters.
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The subculture that embraces obscurity and eschews enthusiasm is no longer obscure or apathetic.
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Will is apathetic about his meds, non-compliant with his treatment, and welcomes death.
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"It would be dreadful to have apathetic fans, or fair-weather fans," he said.
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But Russians are generally apathetic about rising greenhouse gas emissions, the Pew survey confirmed.
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It's easy to see why they remain apathetic; supporting social justice causes feels good.
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An apathetic ruffle is one of the funnier wordless jokes that can be made.
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So far, Milano and Combs have had kind, if not apathetic, reactions to the news.
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For starters, since the election, many Americans are significantly less apathetic or complacent about politics.
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On the day of the election, many young people—the Pirates' core constituency—seemed apathetic.
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One casualty is played by Starr, who plays the apathetic Bertram Gilfoyle in Silicon Valley.
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Daryl broke out of the Saviors camp and Carol woke up from her apathetic stupor.
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It's because we are, as a country, seemingly apathetic to the death these drugs cause.
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If anything, Reed is surprised by how apathetic the American people have been about it.
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A powerful, if unreliable, tool only to be used with the most apathetic of friends.
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When economic underpinnings degrade, and citizens become apathetic, struggling democracies can quickly become failed states.
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"'Going the Distance'" is our account of the apathetic feeling arising from a meandering trip.
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Even where a primary is closed to Republican voters, the apathetic far outstripped the enthusiastic.
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"Many potential voters in the Latino electorate remain unconvinced, not apathetic," said Martinez de Castro.
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Our apathetic government is pretty much the same, but people were angry and pissed off.
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El Sawah's mental state has worsened and he appears apathetic with diminished will to live.
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We don't talk politics as a family, but that doesn't mean my parents are apathetic.
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Here is an excerpt: Adults often dismiss teenagers, assuming that they're callow, apathetic or uninformed.
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The state-run media has described them as too cynical, independent and apathetic about politics.
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Solipsistic, sex-obsessed and apathetic, Florent-Claude is an archetypal Houellebecq (pronounced WELL-beck) male.
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Human psychology makes us apathetic about mitigating risks that we (incorrectly) think won't affect us.
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I was apathetic about things I'd once loved and paralyzed by the smallest of tasks.
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By large numbers, Morgan Stanley clients believe the market is far too apathetic about the contest.
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Until you're part of a generation who hit their mid-twenties and feel apathetic towards it.
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His apathetic continuation of floor waxing seemed to both sum up and punctuate the entire night.
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And Robert Pattinson isn't a lifeless creature mumbling one-liners to an equally apathetic Kristen Stewart.
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It forces an aggravated status quo that keeps rolling along as long as people are apathetic.
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Might it make us apathetic to the tearing of children from their parents at the border?
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By calling yourself a feminist, you distinguish yourself from those who are sexist, misogynistic, or apathetic.
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Whatever that means: the idea of an apathetic populace interested only in material gain is fanciful.
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The cynicism about reality required to be truly apathetic toward it can only manifest over time.
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Instead of angry, he's sad, anxious, or apathetic, generally trying to stay afloat in confusing times.
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If the proposal works well, it could provide the framework for other apathetic countries to follow.
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Youth are disengaged from formal institutions, but that does not mean they are apathetic or inactive.
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"So-called vampiring means children are nervous and apathetic the next day in school," she said.
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While many will claim that conservatives are apathetic to environmental issues, records tell a different story.
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Thus far, the agency has proven entirely apathetic to the problems created by the fraudulent behavior.
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Moreover, young pro-choice voters are much more ambivalent or apathetic than young pro-life ones.
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For some conservatives in the United States, the apathetic Arab response proves that Trump was right.
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Weary, apathetic or fearful of openly speaking their minds, Egyptians have grown shy of confronting power.
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I doubt it's because they are apathetic or uninformed—at least not more so than older people.
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He's able to defeat most enemies he encounters with a single punch, but he's apathetic and bored.
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Less than 48% of Egyptians bothered to vote in 2014, and they are more apathetic this time.
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Either way, no one leaves apathetic, as I am told by Pierre, one of this season's interns.
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She functions as an avatar of our current work culture: burnt out, frustrated, bored, hostile, apathetic, helpless.
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The company's assets could be offloaded to Comcast, whose reputation as an apathetic monopoly isn't much better.
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Becoming a millionaire was an exciting milestone at the time, but now he's more apathetic about it.
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Instead, I was placed on anti-psychotics that made me left me in an unfeeling, apathetic daze.
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The people who can afford to be apathetic are invested in the continuation of a power structure.
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You feel completely apathetic about the company At a certain level, you can't really stand your company.
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Others argue that forcing apathetic or uneducated citizens to vote steers the nation's political destiny toward populism.
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Either a new source of social and political energy will emerge and bolster one of the poles, thereby drawing the apathetic center back into active civic engagement, or the center, as Continuing as "three Americas" — Left, Right, and apathetic — is a recipe for social disaster and civilizational decline.
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She felt apathetic toward President Barack Obama and uneducated about Mitt Romney, so she abstained from voting entirely.
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Even though millennials have historically been apathetic towards elections, polls found that millennials comprise 61% of Lúgaro's supporters.
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Well, at least for the rest of us, it's officially cool to be apathetic about Pokémon Go now.
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"For apathetic voters, this might be the excuse they need to simply stay home," Breslaw and Zeifman said.
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In the past, his consistently stationary approach to fishing has sometimes been described as apathetic, lazy, or dull.
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We follow them as they attempt to rally their historically apathetic neighbors to vote for a better France.
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There's the apathetic sort, those who have never seen it and hold that as a point of pride.
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Microbiologist Chris Cornelison likes to mention tequila when trying to convince apathetic individuals to care about bat conservation.
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It was very positive that those who didn't do anything, or were apathetic, were able to take action.
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Parties mobilize and engage citizens to win elections, in the process bringing many otherwise apathetic citizens into politics.
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Perhaps women aren't apathetic at all; instead, they are deliberate and purposive in their engagement with social causes.
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And, his images feature sometimes detached subjects, not apathetic so much as quietly comfortable in their own skin.
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But it is exactly those actions that propelled a previously apathetic Arab Israeli electorate to the ballot box.
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Like most apathetic children, Georgi regained physical abilities in the reverse order in which he had lost them.
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It will be my way of challenging the public's apathetic stance on whether dying is good or not.
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Or that the Cubs play in a small media market with an apathetic fan base and little following?
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At best, Melania is apathetic about her husband's policies and how they are affecting people; at worst, she's complicit.
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I mean, we can all agree that Daria is an icon for apathetic millennials everywhere, regardless of gender — right?
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I talked to suburban women this year who were relatively apathetic about the Democratic candidate in their House race.
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Apathetic Britons may simply vote for what they already know (a status-quo bias), which would benefit the Conservatives.
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Young Indonesians are more apathetic and less loyal than older folk, says Ali Hasanuddin of Alvara, a research firm.
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It's axiomatic that small groups of engaged voters beat large groups of apathetic voters ten times out of ten.
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Yes — the most lovable apathetic serial killer is playing one of the most iconic characters of our nation's history.
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With discourse becoming increasingly polarized, it becomes ever harder — and less excusable — for citizens to be apathetic toward politics.
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Winning over apathetic hometown crowds aside, ATDI faced many challenges that would have sent a lesser band crawling home.
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An apathetic, eternally hungover, and half-stoned teenager, I would shuffle around counting the minutes until I was off.
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Critics of the cap say that it will make customers more apathetic about switching to cheaper deals, curbing competition.
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It has shown itself spectacularly apathetic when writers of the sort Solzhenitsyn was speaking for are killed and dismembered.
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Looking apathetic is rarely a quality onstage, but Alix Riemer, as Mélisande, manages to project detachment without being bland.
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Exceeding 23˚C, which is likely to happen in our lifetimes, doesn't mean anyone should feel apathetic or paralyzed.
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Her youngest daughter, Olivia Jade, is a beauty YouTuber who had appeared apathetic toward attending college on resurfaced videos.
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Despite a common stereotype of them as apathetic and money-driven, Hong Kongers are showing they have broader aspirations.
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Without knowledge of your intent and tone, brief responses come across as apathetic and even sarcastic to the receiver.
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Klein pushed back on the notion that college students are apathetic toward presidential elections, insisting that data suggests otherwise.
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But, in a sequel to the market's apathetic response to Trump's much-hyped drug pricing plan, they quickly rebounded.
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"People are tired and apathetic, seemingly hoping to escape what is going on around them," Helania Hovitz wrote in Vice.
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Why do we expect this group of college students to criticize, or at least be apathetic toward, Taylor Swift's music?
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One British lawyer, speaking on condition of anonymity, welcomed Bienkowska's stance, saying the response of national governments had been "apathetic".
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Focused on PR and stocks, Fig and Linda are both apathetic and uncaring when it comes to the actual inmates.
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Donald Trump's pretty unexpected victory has mobilized students and shown that they might not be as apathetic as everyone thinks.
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We can no longer aspire to expect greatness from our leaders, but be apathetic to knowledge to hold them accountable.
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He obviously believed that large segments of the community were either so apathetic or intimidated that they would not interfere.
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Forcing apathetic voters into polling stations might mean a more uninformed electorate, which protects inept politicians and rewards inflammatory ones.
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It's unclear if the situation in Alabama is bad enough to push a typically apathetic Trump administration to serious action.
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They might be calm, withdrawn, hysterical, angry, apathetic, in denial, or in shock — just like victims of any other crime.
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But the band's apathetic image was soon cemented as a part of their mythology, and the grim-faced policy prevailed.
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We have been called lazy and apathetic for our relative lack of representation in government and at the ballot box.
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But the rising of the supposedly "apathetic and indifferent" generation reflects something that the elite cannot seem to grasp anymore.
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"If the youth are now waking from their apathetic slumbering then policy surely has to be more redistributionary," they wrote.
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And even Wall-E, it's a movie about people becoming apathetic, and it's not exactly a right-wing movie, right?
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No apathetic patients are known to have died, but a few have been bedridden for as long as four years.
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The apathetic children embody psychic wounds in a similarly literal way: they feel totally helpless, and they become totally helpless.
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"This is not a time in American history to sit back and be apathetic," Hallquist said at her campaign kickoff.
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The ruling Conservative Party is traditionally seen as favoring the monarchy while Labour has often taken a more apathetic stance.
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Unfriendly and friendly indifference, coupled with the fear of being suspected of racism, boiled down to one effect: apathetic negligence.
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Is she good, or is she an expert at manipulating the system and relying on apathetic Elliot Beachmans sitting by?
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The 37-year-old says nothing will change if young people remain apathetic and abstain from the polls and politics.
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I saw the fallout from an apathetic community that refused to be critical of itself and its politics that winter.
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Absolutely. When I was in my teens and early 20s, I'd end up with boyfriends who were apathetic and emotionally available.
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We wanted to do something that would resonate with millennial voters, who are liberal but apathetic when it comes to voting.
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What kid who's groomed to crack SAT questions like code could identify with an apathetic high schooler who's expelled from school?
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But there's one aspect of the wedding I can't seem to be comfortably apathetic about, no matter how hard I try.
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The punks are almost ambivalent, even apathetic, to the Nazis, who they have no problem playing for and taking money from.
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While I am unable to feel enraged by him, I am not apathetic to West or his problematic comments and behavior.
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They also believe there is a silent majority that opposes this agenda, but remains too apathetic to do anything about it.
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We traveled to CAR in May and found government officials apathetic at best to the needs of the country's marginalized Muslims.
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I like that I'm so much more apathetic than I used to be, that I don't bounce around between extreme emotions.
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I'd like to have that discussion, but it's nearly impossible when an apathetic attitude toward this war permeates our national dialogue.
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But our sad state of affairs — in which we are equal parts fearful, apathetic and ignorant about digital security — must change.
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The apathetic children embody the country's worst fantasy of what will become of the most vulnerable if Sweden abandons its values.
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But, in the case of the apathetic children, the illness seems to have been exacerbated and enlarged by its moral symbolism.
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However, when that template was then used in conjunction with an apathetic orange cat, that was all I needed to hear.
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The protests provoked surprise and wonder among analysts and activists, many of whom had written off the public as politically apathetic.
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Suddenly, the drubbing of the final Star Wars movie—well, the final one for awhile, at least—feels apathetic by comparison.
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We've all heard the argument that pro-gun voters are very enthusiastic, while those in favor of stronger laws are apathetic.
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Publics in many countries may be grossly misinformed about the stakes, oblivious to the science and apparently apathetic to future generations.
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So, don't get caught in that rut by someone who's apathetic and not giving you the advice and mentorship you need.
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But to be apathetic about my American citizenship would be a personal betrayal to all the struggles I overcame in assimilation.
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The bottom line: "With all of the big breaches, it's easy to get apathetic about security," Axios cybersecurity reporter Joe Uchill explains.
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Throughout these years, Middleditch, Miller, and Nanjiani faced significant setbacks: There were unconsummated pilot deals, canceled sitcoms, apathetic or downright antagonistic crowds.
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We're so glad that Google understands that we're sometimes lazy when it comes to these sorts of things, but definitely not apathetic.
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Luckily (or unluckily), there's no lack of tools to help the apathetic develop a visceral sense of what could be at stake.
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Its wholesomeness is most welcome at a time when it would be (and is) all too easy to sink into apathetic despair.
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The churn flattens and packages human lives and human misery into something that's easy to parse and easy to become apathetic to.
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At least it's become clear that when the robots take over and destroy us, they may be generally apathetic about it all.
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Oxford Dictionaries plumped for "youthquake" after Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party drove normally apathetic young people to the polls in the general election.
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Too long absent and apathetic, enforcers now must prevent privacy abuse, anticompetitive tactics, innovation roadblocks, and other hallmarks of excessive market power.
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They're poorer than their parents were, they aren't buying property, they've been described as apathetic, asexual, and even lacking basic survival skills.
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Such inquiries Ryan can only respond to with thoughts of kowtowing to his apathetic masters and prayers the questions will stop coming.
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It's curious that Bernie Sanders is so completely apathetic about foreign policy, since it's arguably the issue where Clinton is most vulnerable.
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It's one thing for Nest to blindly store your video for you in the cloud, apathetic to what said video actually contains.
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Contrary to the trends that emerged earlier last year, millennial women—and women of other generations—are indeed not apathetic at all.
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AISHA HARRIS I come into this entire cinematic universe as a very apathetic viewer — to me they all kind of blend together.
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During much of the testimony, Mr. Fields betrayed no emotion and appeared apathetic as his victims described their pain and lasting injuries.
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As the populists are playing to anger and nationalism, mainstream leaders are trying to sell their apathetic voters on maintaining the course.
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"Like many of my peers, I'd been sort of apathetic in the sense that I actually have no sway," Ms. Ali said.
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Although psychiatrists do not know whether apathetic children can process language, they recommend that patients be treated as if they were sentient.
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Against the backdrop of social democracy's fragmenting coalition, the divide over identity and values is bringing once apathetic whites back to politics.
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I've tried to find another "RISD Class of 1960" band — eBay, Craigslist, cold-calling the apathetic grandchildren of alumni — but, no luck.
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She's been pretty apathetic throughout this campaign process, and, at times, it seems as though she'd rather Peter not win the election.
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Although many Australians share deep concerns about climate change, just as many have been apathetic or resistant to the need for action.
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It's hard to say exactly why Americans seem so apathetic to more typical gun violence, but there are a few potential reasons.
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But even with their apathetic first-half performance, the Nets do not have to look far to see that they are not alone.
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Even more apathetic has been the FCC, which has yet to so much as even meaningfully comment on the rise of such attacks.
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The average broadband speeds in parts of the US (particularly middle America) aren't nearly what they should be thanks to our apathetic ISPs.
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VS: In my experience, fans are pretty apathetic to the issue and the threat it poses to professional sports as we know them.
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Just looking for a jobAccording to TMT sources, most of the Russian staff are apathetic or apolitical, with no prior experience in journalism.
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Andy Cohen doesn't have an apathetic bone in his body ... with strong views ranging from Huma Abedin's future to Tom Brady's body parts.
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The unabashed sincerity is noteworthy in and of itself as an antidote to the apathetic irony that dominates so much of media nowadays.
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And a mostly apathetic media more focused on the career prospects of Billy Bush will certainly will provide the usual pass as well.
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" Schlossberg tells PEOPLE it's more important than ever to "pay attention" and resist the urge to "be apathetic and throw your hands up.
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Clinton also uses her new memoir to take on some apathetic women voters for only getting involved once Trump won the White House.
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I think apathy kind of bleeds in, and you start to think, 'Well, I'm not apathetic, I just don't feel like doing that.
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"It was really, really hard for me to see parents who were completely apathetic or just noncommunicative about their child(ren)," says Isabella.
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That Congress is generally apathetic about ongoing wars suggests that even an updated AUMF is likely to be abused by the executive branch.
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Rock the Vote President Carolyn DeWitt argues that young Americans aren't apathetic about voting, but instead lack an understanding of how voting works.
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Langdon Tess appeared on the screen: short-cropped hair, artificially bulky physique, thick neck, and the facial hair growth of an apathetic teenager.
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The venue is full of people who are apathetic to the artists playing but who have still happily spent €80 to be here.
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It's not that they are apolitical; they're just rightfully apathetic about a political system that has not changed a lot since La Haine.
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"Vegas is largely apathetic to politics, it's about getting folks disciplined enough to do the basic stuff," said former Reid spokesperson Jim Manley.
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If you're disdainful or apathetic about every aspect of your organization, you should probably move to somewhere that'll provide a better fit. 13.
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They were either apathetic, most of them, angry, depressed, and they said, well you've compromised our future and there's nothing we can do.
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With those releases and this one, he has been working a different persona: bummed-out, apathetic, confused, self-pitying, unromantic yet still needy.
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The refrain that criminals will always get their hands on a weapon, no matter what a gun manufacturer does, is apathetic and unacceptable.
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She&aposs also suing NYU Langone, which employed Schafmeister, for its "apathetic approach" to her human resources complaints, Schafmeister&aposs lawyer told Insider.
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We all need to wake up and start caring, though, and stop being so apathetic, because the way we're moving is going nowhere positive.
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It was a departure from her typical wardrobe of luxury, designer duds, with little thought to the repercussions its befuddling apathetic message might cause.
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It's that the Sanders campaign will have sucked up all the enthusiasm of millions of young volunteers, leaving disappointed and apathetic youths for Mrs.
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Once he wakes from his porn and junk food-induced catatonic state, the once apathetic warden assumes a new role: that of a savior.
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According to a national Gallup poll, only 30 percent of professionals feel engaged at work, which leaves 70 percent that feel apathetic or disinterested.
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Hillary Clinton told my graduating class at the University of Maryland in 20123 not to let our generation be pigeonholed as apathetic Generation Xers.
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The point, he often says, is to prick the conscience of a world often apathetic about the plight of the poor and the marginalized.
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"I think sometimes, in popular narratives, people can construe Appalachians as people who are apathetic or almost complicit in their own oppression," says Lewin.
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When people complain about low turnout in some demos, it's not because communities are apathetic, it's bc they don't see you fighting for them.
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Every generation has at some point been labeled too self-obsessed and entitled and apathetic, yet also somehow too political and progressive and idealistic.
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The intention was simple: to write, print, and circulate leaflets rousing apathetic German people to reject Hitler and the tyranny of the Nazi regime.
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"If the U.S. is apathetic about talking about dialogue between North Korea and South Korea, then Ivanka would not have come," Mr. Lim said.
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We're given the perspective of Diamond Reynolds, but it's clear that the man with the gun is oblivious — or apathetic — to the viewer's presence.
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Additionally, the government of Nigeria should expand its counterterrorism partnership with the United States, and implement de-radicalization programs for the group's apathetic fighters.
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In that moment, Zadie taught me that not every privileged person is apathetic to my world -- many of them are just oblivious to it.
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Perhaps, rather than pointing fingers at low-information or apathetic voters, we need to consider legislators' lack of interest in or knowledge about us.
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"I don't have any reason to think that Americans are more helpless or apathetic than people who live in other Western democracies," Ho said.
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We need to make the most of this moment, where it feels like a lot of people have awoken from a deep, apathetic slumber.
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For a franchise in an apathetic basketball market—the Pelicans haven't cracked the top 20 in attendance since 2009—that's not to be scoffed at.
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As long as the U.S. government is controlled by Republicans, markets will be apathetic to who is leading the country, CNBC's Jim Cramer said Thursday.
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The point — spelled out in the introductory text in combative tone — is that we are too apathetic and spend too much time worrying about ourselves.
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But the Stockton poll found a largely apathetic electorate in New Jersey, with 85% saying they tuned in to neither the Democratic nor Republican debates.
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Such a move would require further negotiations between the Justice Department and the city of Chicago, which an apathetic Trump administration is likely to drop.
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With the exception of political pros and regulars at Occupy and police brutality protests, I've often found modern New York to be an apathetic place.
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This generation also has been more politically active compared to an often apathetic youth - and we are thus less valuable in political currency as voters.
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"This YouGov poll shows a very clear picture of a nation disinterested and apathetic about the royal family," Graham Smith, chief executive of Republic, said.
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Insecure Early in the premiere of "Insecure," Issa Dee (Issa Rae) finds herself in front of a classroom of apathetic minority teenagers in Los Angeles.
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It's double-plus-bonus worse that you plan to make a career out of advocating for women's issues and you're with someone so aggressively apathetic.
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"I've always rejected the notion that people don't vote and don't show up because they're ignorant, indifferent, apathetic, don't know any better," Pressley said afterward.
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With government officials apathetic to climate change — or worse, flat-out in denial of it — it's imperative that people take a stand and speak out.
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But a previously apathetic group in their teens and 20s was the most striking face of anticorruption protests last weekend across Russia, our writers say.
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Young people are accused of being apolitical and apathetic, but their internet-based knowledge of global problems makes educated youth caring and active volunteers globally.
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The crown-of-thorn starfish is probably the Great Barrier Reef's most serious threat, perhaps only rivalled by the Australian Government's apathetic approach to climate change.
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And essentially everything that's come out since seems to corroborate that the Trump campaign has been either apathetic about or incompetent at the delegate selection game.
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I was apathetic about what was happening to me, but the persistence of my sisters and their refusal to let me rot slowly saved my life.
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Nintendo didn't just used to be apathetic to esports, Nintendo has traditionally actively suppressed the esports scene around its most popular competitive series, Super Smash Bros.
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But, if it's clear that your partner is avoiding decision-making about your impending nuptials because they're apathetic about the marriage, too, that warrants a conversation.
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Tina Fey urged college-educated women who voted for President Donald Trump in the 2016 election not to become politically apathetic, even if they want to.
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But none of that really matters in a market where almost every Android tablet lands with an apathetic thud — or worse, comes with a crippling flaw.
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Luger decided he'd had enough, might get his ass kicked in a very real way if Brody went from apathetic to angry, and left the ring.
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More important, either of those two would put fire into the bellies of apathetic Democrats, enabling them to stretch their emerging advantage in the popular vote.
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Studies keep finding that we can easily have compassion for individuals, but when we're confronted with a large number of people in pain, we grow apathetic.
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Our apathy for our men's national soccer team team is, and has been fueling its downfall for years—which only serves to make us more apathetic.
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We've all heard it before -- millennials are apathetic, young adults aren't civically engaged, they don't understand the value of voting -- the accusations go on and on.
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This, while the other parties, continually choked in corruption scandals, have contributed to a feeling of malaise that has set in among an increasingly apathetic electorate.
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Meh. Fiscal issues may be boring to talk about, but if millennials don't wake up from their apathetic slumber soon, they're in for a rude awakening.
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Then, it prompts the user to describe their pet's demeanor on a sliding scale, ranging from shy to friendly, relaxed to energetic, and apathetic to curious.
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And so I took in the apathetic responses I received from doctors as a gift, ceased communicating my discomfort, and chose instead an isolated, arduous silence.
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The video that shows Lavery sweeping and dancing in the barn at his Permaculture Inn farm surrounded by apathetic goats has been viewed over 7 million times.
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She's chronically apathetic, easily annoyed, impatient and has absolutely no remnant of the upward mobility that once got her a free ride to an elite boarding school.
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When it comes to women's professional lives, it can be easy to feel apathetic and, frankly, irritated about the crappy stuff that happens to us at work.
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But all those options require a public that already wants to engage in climate change discussion, which means they're not the best way to reach the apathetic.
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" Hovering around folding tables, the sun above intermittently emerging and disappearing behind dark, foreboding clouds, they played beer pong while an apathetic DJ blasted Fergie's "London Bridge.
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Pollsters call some of these voters "undecided," while sociologists refer to them as "apathetic," but Amy Schumer has a slightly more scientific classification for them: steamy dumps.
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Trapped between an apathetic state and local squabbles, Occitan risks paddling along like rowers by a waterfall: never tumbling over the edge, but always fighting to survive.
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In other words, reject the findings that our age group is politically apathetic and unengaged and let the hidden class system inform a decision to be active.
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Even more moderate students like Felix Wu, who says he's apathetic about politics, chooses to identify himself first as a Hong Konger, before his Han Chinese ethnicity.
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They play cards and occasionally cast an apathetic glance in our direction, as if they're well-acquainted with this particular religion and all the quirks it entails.
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He didn't avoid capture through any ingenuity on his part, but rather because the police were completely apathetic about catching him, since he mainly targeted sex workers.
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"When people complain about low turnout in some demos, it's not because communities are apathetic, it's bc they don't see you fighting for them," Ocasio-Cortez wrote.
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Ironically, as the ranks of the apathetic have grown, the two extremes of the partisan spectrum have become more shrill, drowning out the remaining voices of reason.
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"Whenever I looked at this old lady suffering on depression and dementia she was completely apathetic and seemed to be captured in her own world," Elendt explained.
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From the vantage point of my friendship group, it seems the No side's flagrant disregard for facts and underhand tactics are kicking otherwise apathetic people into action.
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"De rerum natura" actually proposes an apathetic, anesthetized calm that is as incompatible with empathy, compassion, affection, bodily pleasure, or joyful happiness as it is with pain.
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I was suicidal and apathetic...until I managed to study abroad in Rome on a shoestring, then travel and work throughout the world...and all by choice.
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Well, we've got an election coming up in the US. People can vote and a lot of people have become apathetic about it, but people must vote.
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The mystery was how badly it would go over; the apathetic listlessness that greeted Lesnar and Goldberg at Wrestlemania 20 seemed almost like a best case scenario, here.
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"There's nothing wrong with taking a label for gender and finding out it doesn't work for you," Yesenia Ruelas, a self-described "gender apathetic" 18-year-old, said.
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The school left Schneider over $2400,23 in debt, but the apathetic climate around student debt when she graduated in 1.53 left her with few prospects for finding justice.
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In Del Rio, voters are apathetic for a different reason: They know Democrats will win locally — but believe their votes will do little to swing larger state races.
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Unequivocally, the film's biggest problem is the half-assed love story between Wade and Art3mis, which operates on approximately 75 percent wish-fulfillment and 25 percent apathetic inevitability.
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According to the Times, Yahoo executives, led by CEO Marissa Mayer, were completely apathetic about security, and refused to fund security initiatives, leaving the company vulnerable to attack.
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I say that to let you know where I stand: we always are more vehement criticizing things we respect and admire more than those which leave us apathetic.
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Be that 72% or 69% or whatever, to see such motivation amongst a demographic previously assumed to be apathetic towards the whole process is a total heart warmer.
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Specifically, what happened to the Millbrook twins, why do many believe the police were apathetic about their disappearance and why did the media largely ignore the entire case?
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"There's a misnomer that young people are apathetic and not passionate – they're incredibly passionate about the issues, they just need help actually understanding the process," DeWitt told Hill.
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Last year millennials surpassed baby boomers to become America's largest voting bloc, but they are also one of most notoriously unreliable and apathetic voting demographics in the country.
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In the apathetic and uneasy America of 22012, this gave him a different perspective; the incident with the flag afforded him an especially dramatic way of showing it.
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There are thousands of confusing recycling instructions on bins throughout the country, which makes people skeptical and apathetic about recycling, and projects the message that recycling is unimportant.
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These efforts are predicated upon the belief that condescension and manipulation are the only way to reach apathetic or disillusioned voters when what we need is brutal honesty.
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According to Björn Axel Johansson, the psychiatrist at Skåne University Hospital, it takes weeks, and sometimes months, for an apathetic patient to grasp that his milieu has changed.
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There are even fewer people who have shown an ability to attract previously apathetic or disillusioned Americans and encourage them to vote and even work for a campaign.
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"As alleged in the complaint, NYU Langone took a completely apathetic approach to Dr. Kennedy&aposs conduct," Schafmeister&aposs lawyer, Michael Willemin, said in a statement to Insider.
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Closed investigation, open ears Back in September, Charlotte police officers had a major revelation following the death of Scott: Protesters perceived them as indifferent or apathetic to their concerns.
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Despite living among oblivious neighbors, apathetic cops, and a society of utter indifference, the kids find actually going through with cannibalism is not as easy as one might expect.
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The reason is that Ms Le Pen's supporters will all turn out in force, so if the other side is apathetic and abstains in large numbers, she could win.
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Since then, however, progressives have been donating to groups like Planned Parenthood at a record clip, and a generation stereotyped as being politically apathetic may have been permanently awakened.
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Talking to 13 commuters from different cities about their respective attitudes toward grooming on transit, I found that the spectrum of reactions spanned from aghast to apathetic to empathetic.
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I was scheduled to give a presentation on the state of math and science in high schools in about 45 minutes and was feeling pretty damn apathetic about it.
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While, of course, people could become radicalized in a nationalistic way as in 1984, the path I see is more that people are gradually becoming more and more apathetic.
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Apathetic women Days after Trump's inauguration, hundreds of thousands of women and men marched in cities across the country during what came to be known as the Women's March.
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Regulators have historically been apathetic to this problem, which often involves making up entirely nonsensical fees, then hiding them below the line to pad the advertised rate post sale.
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One character, Mark, played by Ames McNamara, will be watching the results for a school report with sister Harris, played by Emma Kenney, who is apathetic to the process.
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"There's a kind of a prevailing thought about young people that young people don't care about politics or young people are apathetic, or they don't vote, whatever," Bergesen said.
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Titled "Over It," this Atlanta-based singer's debut album, which has racked up more streams than any other by a female R&B artist, teases a breezily apathetic outlook.
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"Everything about it is telling me people are kind of apathetic about what's going to happen for the rest of the year," said JJ Kinahan, chief strategist at TD Ameritrade.
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Still, in some cases, that kind of apathetic detachment makes it difficult to connect with people we should be able to empathize with, or at the very least care about.
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However a tolerance of immigrants also indicates, at best, an apathetic disregard for them, and at worst, an active hostility kept under wraps simply because they are perceived as necessary.
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It's also why she's been hard at work on voter registration drives at her school at the same time as some — too many, she says — of her classmates are apathetic.
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In Blackmore's assessment, progressive cities like Austin are paradoxically the most apathetic about resisting the Christian Right because people in progressive cities feel they are unaffected by religion-influenced laws.
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But by calling on the young to vote because "it is not enough for the young to sign online petitions" you fall into the trap of preaching to "apathetic" youth.
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Privacy advocates should feel emboldened in the wake of this latest effort, insomuch as they have realized how much of the public (whom often appears apathetic) cares about their privacy.
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Inside the Kremlin, though, there is a different view of how likely Mr Navalny is to rouse a usually apathetic electorate — and of the real challenge to Mr Putin's authority.
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Turnout is likely to be key to the result, and the ORB poll found that Remain supporters, who had been regarded as being more apathetic, were increasingly motivated to vote.
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If, like the young people New York spoke to, you are cynical, apathetic, or enraged about the current state of politics, those older voters deserve a disproportionate amount of blame.
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Yes, Garfield, the cat who loves lasagna and hates Mondays, is apparently apathetic about whether or not you vote, according to a post on the comic strip character's Instagram account.
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When faced with the issue of whether they care if their handiwork is being used for gambling sites, though, most were apathetic to players spinning the slots with their skins.
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And it's part of a steadily growing trend of locals taking the problem of terrible US broadband (thanks to the apathetic government officials who enable it) into their own hands.
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The government couldn't have known this was coming but I will never understand the decision to take care away from volunteers and drop it on an already stressed, apathetic state.
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The tourism body of Maharashtra, the state where Nashik is located, is so apathetic that it erroneously refers to the wineries as "breweries" in a brief mention on its website.
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"The metaphor, sort of a sleeping giant, suggests that they are apathetic and unengaged and are asleep," Francisco Pedraza, a professor at University of California, Riverside, said of Latino voters.
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But on the streets most people barely seem to take notice, going about their business in the freezing temperatures, many apathetic about the election being advertised on billboards across town.
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After my own identity was lifted and used to falsely support the repeal of net neutrality I reached out to the FCC and found the agency to be similarly apathetic.
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A group of girlfriends goes to a bar and encounters a series of predicaments we've all been through; the person who refuses to remember you, the apathetic ex, the lying coworker.
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I think one of the secrets of Silicon Valley's startup success is that there is a large band of innovators who are not apathetic about their ability to change the world.
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And even if you go to the cops with license plates and high-res face photos, they'll often respond with a big, apathetic shrug (particularly around Christmas when package thefts skyrocket).
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Forget everything you've been told about how apathetic young people are today; these 29 innovators are taking an array of creative and professional fields by storm, all before their 30th birthdays.
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The panel isn't just apathetic to community broadband efforts, it actively pushes policies that undermines them, the Coalition for Local Internet Choice (CLIC) said in a letter of complaint this month.
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Traditional finance assumes that cognitive biases play no role in the decision-making processes of human beings, as though we are zombies — apathetic about the most important decisions in our lives.
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"Watching the Trump presidency play out and everybody kind of falling in line supporting him still it has kind of has made even more apathetic about the whole thing," Daniel said.
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The winner "lumped Abbie Hoffman, the Soledad Brothers, Angela Davis and Charles Manson in a negative, apathetic category of activists 'who did not give a damn for America,'" The Republic reported.
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Because she is apathetic, Lily isn't particularly concerned about the government's secret mining of her metadata, and she's not typically drawn to beta boys, yet nonetheless Snowden has mysteriously aroused her.
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In what has been a fractious campaign for Arsenal, it would have been no surprise had the final day of the season been marked by an apathetic – or downright unpleasant – atmosphere.
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In light of the scandals that have plagued the Liberal Party over the past couple of months, I have grown slightly apathetic to its credibility as a so-called progressive party.
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When a murderer starts preying on faeries who live in Carnival Row, an area of the Burgue, Philo is on the case — even if the rest of the squad is apathetic.
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Millennials have been routinely lampooned as apathetic and lazy — but recent articles (like this one from BuzzFeed) are shifting the discussion to a concern of the generation burning out from overwork.
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And $13 (plus replacement pads at $4 a pop) is definitely worth it to ensure my equally skittish and apathetic furbaby is getting enough mental and physical activity in her indoor life.
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But these kinds of efforts are at risk under an apathetic Federal Trade Commission, which threatens co-op funding and seeks to redefine broadband to hide the reality of the digital divide.
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And compared to the other MCC employees, whose attitudes are limited to a spectrum ranging from apathetic to abusive, witnessing an MCC employee "try" to do the right thing seems downright heroic.
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Apathetic opportunists like Haynes, as well as the nature of corporate bureaucracy, are probably responsible for more human suffering than all the serial witness murderers and sadistic nerd-gods in the world.
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Corey Worthington went viral after he gave a hilarious and apathetic interview to the local news after throwing a raging party while his parents were away, causing crazy damage to his neighborhood.
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Tasha Robinson, The Verge: Unequivocally, the film's biggest problem is the half-assed love story between Wade and Art3mis, which operates on approximately 75 percent wish-fulfillment and 25 percent apathetic inevitability.
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In November 2019, Twitter users have chosen the latter, and have started to stan an apathetic boy who doesn't appear to be having a single ounce of fun in a bounce house.
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He posted his zine on Etsy with the presumption that Armenians didn't know what zines were, and that Armenia was so minor and invisible that every non-Armenian would be inherently apathetic.
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Indeed, the vote has set up a stark contrast: Even as the populists are playing to anger and nationalism, mainstream leaders are trying to sell their apathetic voters on maintaining the course.
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And Republican campaign veterans said that while Mr. Trump's fear-mongering is firing up his base, it could energize other voters who were previously apathetic to vote for a Democrat next Tuesday.
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The girls had a cousin who had become apathetic, and I asked Muharrem and Nurije, through a Romani translator who helped with the interview, if they thought that the illness was contagious.
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But there is a difference between apathetic freeriding and actively undermining international processes, and China can play a role in ensuring that the U.S. does not fully derail U.N.-led climate negotiations.
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What they seemed to miss is that most people are already plenty apathetic, and that representing such apathy so plainly might force audiences to reckon with the fact of their giving up.
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The ones they showcase, however briefly, are either portrayed as scheming rubes who love eating at the Olive Garden and Bubba Gump Shrimp Company or apathetic losers who can't stop jerking off.
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"[Soldiers] grew so miserable and apathetic that they stopped eating and showed signs of clinical depression, and because of lack of hygiene and medicine, they contracted diseases that killed them off," he said.
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The work of these writers sits in the shadow of other great American literature — a truth underscored by the fact that the country was too intolerant, too apathetic to what happened to them.
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The decision this week to abolish presidential term limits, setting the stage for Xi to rule indefinitely, has engendered widespread unease and jolted a generation that was brought up largely apathetic about politics.
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While the Republican Party as a whole may be apathetic at best and denialist at worst about climate change, in Florida, with 1,350 miles of coastline, the environmental crises are impossible to ignore.
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Those results pointed to growing engagement by younger voters who previously were politically apathetic, said Flavia Kleiner, the co-founder of Operation Libero, a group that seeks to galvanize support for liberal causes.
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I spoke with more than twenty Swedish doctors who had either treated apathetic patients or written about them, and none of them had an explanation; most were hesitant to even propose a hypothesis.
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With all the political red herrings, government firings and scandals, this White House would wager that most Americans are either not paying attention or are apathetic altogether from the deliberate feed of misinformation.
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Elites often write off young people as politically apathetic, but today's young women are going to turn out to be some of the most engaged and informed citizens this country has ever seen.
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It's also fun to go to the shoe stores, where you can sit on that weird little bench and wait for an apathetic but relatable clerk to bring you box after box of sneakers.
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These things do not help, but the uncomfortable truth is that in low-turnout electoral politics, a smaller, cohesive, motivated group can go on outvoting a larger, disparate, apathetic group for a long time.
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The results, which have been accepted for publication in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B, show that puppies respond positively to baby talk, but that full-grown and older dogs are decidedly apathetic.
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Instead, what DIS have come up with is an exhibition so vacuous, ideologically apathetic, ahistorical, sarcastic, and dehumanizing, it's a wonder it hasn't been blacklisted solely on account of its conformity to commodity fetishism.
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In order to keep Haruto from disappearing into an apathetic government childcare system while Haruka is in a coma, Kiryu takes the infant with him to investigate the past few years of her life.
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Comments on posts range from racist ("throw a [...] burrito at these bitches"), to sexually violent ("Fuck the hoes," not to mention a lewd photoshop of Ocasio-Cortez), to apathetic ("If he dies, he dies").
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What makes the recent protests -- which first began in March -- significant is their reach, engulfing almost 100 cities across the country and including the participation of Russian youth, once thought to be politically apathetic.
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According to the CBC, when local comedian Danny Nunes realized how apathetic the 11,000-plus residents of Terrace, British Columbia were about the upcoming mayoral elections, he decided that he would run for office.
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Inundation of news and trauma can also lead to what is known as disaster fatigue, making us less concerned and more apathetic and feeling a diminished sense of urgency about the crisis at hand.
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Our card inspired by the Dwight K. Schrute's infamous birthday banner is perfect for anyone who's looking to wish their co-workers a "Happy Valentine's Day," or is simply very apathetic this holiday season.
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The Ministry of Tribal Affairs, which is charged with implementing the 2006 law, is "understaffed and under-resourced", while state forest departments are largely "hostile, at best apathetic" in implementing it, the report said.
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They are well organized and protest far more effectively than any pro-Israel group, gradually winning the hearts and minds of average, apathetic students who know little to nothing about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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Playing to a small and apathetic audience, Brian Shimkovitz played what felt like a greatest hits set, not really caring about mixing the tracks, but just straight up dropping one classic after the other.
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Alison Krauss "Losing You," nominated for Best Country Solo Performance But in the Country category properly, we find a voice that Grammy voters love and country music fans are frequently apathetic about with Alison Krauss.
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" Created in conjunction by creative agency Wieden+Kennedy, creative director Jason Kreher noted: "We loved the idea of presenting the apathetic, decadent rebel just for kicks from the song against a hidden message of resistance.
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French far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen's roadmap to the Élysée Palace in May must first begin by inspiring a sense of urgency among politically apathetic voters, analysts at Nomura said in a note.
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Earlier this year, I thought I was apathetic towards them; then, I accidentally caught a tiny bit of their Coachella set and thought it was probably one of the best rap shows I've ever seen.
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Then I moved back to London and got stuck into a string of apathetic nine to fives, squandered pay checks, and participated in the yearly routine of debasing yourself in the name of rented property.
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Along with a group of volunteers that encompassed Calgary's diverse population, the college professor created a grass-roots strategy aimed at harnessing social media's potential to engage the city's traditionally apathetic young and minority residents.
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"As someone who comes from a fashion background, where models are very apathetic over the way they have to look, it was really eye-opening to hear these swimmers talk about their bodies," she says.
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"China's politically apathetic middle-class have not organized themselves, they have not learnt political expression or how to protest, they have lost the ability and courage to express themselves," Wu said in a telephone interview.
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All too often we're thought of as apathetic, self-centered, and on a fast-track to failure, but California-natives Ari Andersen and Matthew Little are on a quest to prove that Millennials Don't Suck.
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I've spent more than 50 years in the intelligence world, and I've seen a lot of bad stuff, but nothing affected me as much as our apathetic reaction to Russia's interference in our presidential election.
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Bernie Sanders talks about his presidential campaign, he emphasizes that it's a movement — the start of a "political revolution," which he says will drive typically apathetic voters, particularly the young, to turn out and vote.
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And throughout, the South Korean government is painted as ineffectual, apathetic, and at the mercy of the Americans who maintain influence both through their presence at the military base and in South Korea's cultural hegemony.
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Mr. Johnson tends to speak softly, but sternly, and his reserved, self-described wonkish style doesn't result in soaring speeches or viral moments meant to captivate voters who have remained largely apathetic about the race.
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The right decision will not only cut off bad actors from up to $8.5 billion of government funds, but it will also send a strong signal that America is no longer apathetic to China's aggression.
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"Teens with depression are often bored and apathetic and some may be attracted to this thrill-seeking activity," said Dr. Benjamin Shain, head of child and adolescent psychiatry at NorthShore University HealthSystem in Evanston, Illinois.
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The notion that everyone is apathetic isn't actually true, and we used that to fight taxis everywhere, including when Uber was not a valuable company and we were taking on the [much-deeper-pocketed] taxi industry.
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It's unfair and a little bit lazy to suggest that everyone who chooses to live the "anti-Trump lifestyle" is some apathetic, liberal arts college monster who sit arounds all day making Bernie Sanders-cat memes.
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This creates a trickle-down effect, where a government and a presidential campaign that de-emphasizes the importance of data privacy for the public in turn creates a public that feels apathetic toward the whole concept.
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The World Bank estimates 20,000 will die each year from HIV/AIDS by 2020, no thanks to a governmental attitude that's been described everything from apathetic to in denial that there is an epidemic at all.
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Simultaneously flat and vibrant, her deadpan, apathetic moan of a voice sums up a musical signature that's abrasive not because it gets in your face but because the run of life has beaten it into resignation.
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Aubrey Plaza, who played notoriously apathetic intern April Ludgate on the show, shared a sweet selfie with former co-stars, Amy Poehler (Leslie Knope) and Rashida Jones (Ann Perkins), celebrating their Galentine's Day together on Wednesday.
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In the weeks preceding the election, approval ratings for Abe's Liberal Democrat Party (LDP) have stood at a mere 37%, a low bar even by Japanese standards, where enthusiasm for political parties remains apathetic at best.
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"While our companies may not encourage us to talk about politics, we should not be apathetic toward what happens around us," Alfred, a bank employee who declined to give Bloomberg his last name, told the publication.
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Yet contrary to their stereotype as idealistic and apathetic, and with the steely pessimism of seasoned political operatives, younger voters expressed a cleareyed understanding that their efforts to lobby their relatives would not necessarily be successful.
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It then presents you with five pet options — cat, dog, iguana, bird, or hamster — and asks you to define a few personality traits, like whether they're energetic or relaxed, shy or friendly, and apathetic or curious.
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But the latest report from the Journal suggests otherwise, saying that many large funds were supposedly apathetic toward giving money to another party when they already have their own means for direct investment in late-stage startups.
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Image: NASA/Goddard, Lynn JennerIt is unclear whether Walker does not grasp NASA's sweeping role in the Earth sciences, or if his denial of human-caused global warming has simply left him apathetic about the whole thing.
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But groups like the American Antitrust Institute have argued in court filings that Apple isn't just some apathetic third-party, and developers aren't likely to sue Apple for fear of getting on the industry giant's bad side.
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From AT&T's 2006 merger with BellSouth to Comcast's 2011 merger with NBC Universal, the result of this mindless consolidation is obvious to any US consumer that interacts with these lumbering, apathetic giants on a daily basis.
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Those factors set the stage for this wonderful online encounter, in which YouTuber Airforceproud95 — a highly competent virtual pilot and, by all appearances, an eternally patient man — deals with some... apathetic air traffic controllers (or ATCs). Look.
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She sees why phones are necessary, she accepts their existence, but she thinks the world got much worse and more apathetic and less willing to say "Yes and" and "Why not?" the minute everyone had a smartphone.
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With much attention on how the continent's various strands of populists will do, another crucial question is whether the populist surge will produce a counterreaction among voters who support the European Union but are traditionally more apathetic.
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Even though we all feel apathetic from time to time, according to Mary Mann, a researcher and author of "Yawn: Adventures in Boredom," talking about it can be embarrassing because it's often seen as being self-inflicted.
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A previously apathetic generation of people in their teens and 863s, most of them knowing nothing but 17 years of rule by Vladimir V. Putin, was the most striking face of the demonstrations, the biggest in years.
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Many surveys indicate users are far more interested in lower prices—something that's not part of the industry's plan for 5G, and could easily get worse in the face of apathetic regulators and looming wireless industry consolidation.
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Online lyric sites call the song a feminist empowerment anthem, which might make sense if the rejection were triumphant rather than dazed, apathetic, blank; if the repression resulting from her cold, polished surface weren't eating her alive.
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Although there are plenty of anti-monarchists in Canada (and a significant number of Canucks who are apathetic about the crown) there's also a pervasive fascination with the royals that seems to be symptomatic of most commonwealth nations.
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Though polls show he will easily win, they also show that some Russians are increasingly apathetic about politics, and Putin's supporters are keen to get him re-elected on a big turnout, which in their eyes confers legitimacy.
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Macrina said that Yabut's interest in founding a privacy service apathetic to social and economic inequality—and antagonistic toward the strident champions of diversity and tolerance—seemed entirely genuine, even if the project died off after two months.
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Probing this, and the apathetic response of the country to the killing and framing of innocent people as guerrillas, Atehortúa Arteaga asks the question: is there a difference between someone who suffers and someone who pretends to suffer?
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Scroll through any article about de-extinction and a common theme pops up: Biotech will make us more apathetic about conservation, the argument goes, as we will see it as a safety net that will always rescue us.
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And like, you can resent apathetic voters because of how massive the net results of a bad political outcome are, but you can also resent someone for just about anything lazy that makes the world a worse place.
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Up to 40 percent of people with Alzheimer's disease suffer from significant depression, and research by Rabins and colleagues underscores the importance of evaluating and offering treatment to someone who appears sad, apathetic and altogether disinterested in life.
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If she is lucky, her words will help her, by firing up apathetic Democrats and by depressing the Trump vote among squeamish Republicans—among them moderate professionals and suburban women who do not want to back a bigot.
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The apathetic attitude on Capitol Hill toward the spending process has resulted in an annual crisis with looming deadlines to fund the government, along with pressure to pass massive spending bills that no one has time to read.
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He's avoided the fate of 2012 GOP nominee Mitt Romney, a former private equity executive who was vilified by the Obama campaign as apathetic about the sufferings of everyday Americans while he installed car elevators in his house.
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In the thousands of images we looked at, students upended common complaints about Gen Z: that they are lazy and apathetic, selfish and self-important, that they're glued to their phones and disconnected from the people around them.
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"I've been in the industry for 15 years and Captain Ska is the result of my total frustration with the apathetic response to the most right-wing government in decades," Painter said in a recent interview with the Guardian.
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Ibrahim Irsyad Hasibuan, a 20-year-old journalism student from Tangerang outside Jakarta, said young voters are apathetic because they have no faith in the political system, and so PSI could be a wake-up call for his generation.
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She was sold into an abusive marriage by an apathetic brother; When she managed to turn that around and find love and leadership in her Khalassar, she lost Khal Drogo and their baby who would have been named Rhaego.
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By far the most elegant in dress and apathetic toward patrons, she waltzed through the Guggenheim in cream leather pants, wrapped in a cashmere shawl, with her platinum sculpted bob and long burgundy fingernails that radiated their own light.
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In the city itself, there was a surge in optimism as hordes of young Hong Kongers, previously written off as apathetic about politics slept in the streets for weeks on end and clashed with police to demand their rights.
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Few Britons are as passionate about staying in the 28-nation bloc as euroskeptics are about leaving it, so the risk is that the "soggy middle" of apathetic or lukewarm supporters of EU membership stay home on voting day.
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While the exact reasons for why Sanders hasn't been able to get his core supporters to show up are varied and unclear, the response more often than not revolves around the idea that young people are lazy or apathetic.
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In an age of pop wokeness—which has provided cover for politically apathetic corporations keen to align their brand identities with consensus progressive stances—the invocation of feminism does not always carry with it a rigorous critique of patriarchy.
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It is important to remember that racism can exist in the absence of malice, that this dragnet presumption of guilt, even if well intentioned, amounted to a systemic racism to which Bloomberg was not only apathetic, but zealous about.
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Toronto's tourist spots have been transformed into cobweb-covered dens filled with struggling actors in masks bursting out of plastic coffins and chasing after screaming teens and apathetic 20-somethings more dead inside than any monster envisioned by Wes Craven.
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An outlier band in an outlier genre they didn't feel part of, the band's mix of amped-up, NWOBHM-inspired thrash and progressive sensibilities ensured they were misunderstood by apathetic US audiences and thwarted locally by the burgeoning LA glam scene.
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" On fans from San Diego supporting, or not supporting, the team "Obviously, there's a percentage of fans who will probably never come back, and then there's a percentage that might be apathetic, and then there's a percentage who are Chargers fans.
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Emerging from the back of the stage in a white unitard and an enormous black skirt billowing from the floor to the ceiling is the steely and precise Ms. Mearns, the eventual captor of Mr. Ulbricht's comically limp and apathetic Sigh.
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However, Republican voters also are showing up in higher numbers than in previous midterm cycles, a sign that the GOP&aposs fate will be sealed not by apathetic conservatives who sit out Election Day, but by voters open to persuasion from both parties.
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Surrounded by the likes of Andrew Harrison, Ben McLemore, Myke (not a typo but I wish it was) Henry, and Mario Chalmers, the three-time All-Star is now shooting 41 percent from the floor with an apathetic demeanor that's hard to watch.
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"Tillerson's claims that he cannot pass judgment on these counties' abuses until he has access to US intelligence briefings ignores the US government's own previous findings and suggests that Tillerson is either ill-informed or apathetic to human rights issues worldwide," she said.
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But as Tsedale Lemma, the editor-in-chief of monthly news magazine Addis Standard, tweeted, the person who succeeds Desalegn — and the political party they represent — is less important than their capacity to regain the trust of a nation that has grown apathetic.
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"If we think of why sexual assault happens, it's a combination of things — community norms that perpetuate it, people being apathetic and not taking bystander action," and not teaching women self-defense, says Katie Edwards, a professor at the University of New Hampshire.
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But researchers like Schneier have warned that with millions of new attack vectors being introduced annually thanks to apathetic companies and oblivious consumers, it's only a matter of time before this systemic dysfunction results in some massive, potentially fatal attacks on essential infrastructure.
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The company also points out this is the first time that millennials will be able to vote, so it's likely hoping to prompt some chatter around the feature to encourage young voters to take action, instead of being apathetic as in the past.
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When Dean prepared to sacrifice himself by volunteering to be a Soul Bomb and handed the keys to his beloved Baby to a weepy Sam, it was hard not to feel déjà vu — maybe even a little bit apathetic about it all.
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The video installation included scores of individuals wearing sheets and a bed screenprinted with quotes so sarcastic, dry, and apathetic, the inanity and shallowness of the interactions in the piece made me think I was becoming more lame-brained by the minute.
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There had been some speculation prior to the decision among the opposition that Navalny might be allowed to run in order to inject more interest into what looks like a predictable contest amid Kremlin fears that apathetic voters might not bother to vote.
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" After Ohlin's death, Old Nick had received a rather apathetic letter from Euronymous (with whom he never had any prior contact), in which the Mayhem guitarist simply stated, "Pelle committed suicide, but that stamp gum you spoke of would definitely come in handy.
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However, Republican voters also are showing up in higher numbers than in previous midterm cycles, a sign that the GOP's fate will be sealed not by apathetic conservatives who sit out Election Day, but by voters open to persuasion from both parties.
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Minchenko Consulting, a high profile Russian research and PR firm that focuses on political campaigns and elite politics, points out in a recent report that "health and children are two basic universal values" that can motivate otherwise apathetic citizens to take action.
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L. M. Williams Norfolk, U.K. The Roots of Apathy Rachel Aviv's piece about uppgivenhetssyndrom , the mysterious enervation affecting refugee children in Sweden whose families are facing deportation, shows an extreme example of the interconnectedness of body, mind, and society ("The Apathetic," April 3rd).
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When you're coming up in a disenfranchised environment where over 65,000 children since Scoota's birth year of 1993 have had dangerously high levels of lead poisoning and often grow apathetic in the face of murder, your surroundings aren't pretty, polished or positive.
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Meanwhile, the town's public opinion will remain largely in the hands of a soldier, Mosquera, who's passionate about sports and apathetic about politics and who, despite his relative distance from the community's concerns, is still convinced that his work has a positive impact.
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I am surprised at the Trump administration's apathetic response to this shortage, but my re-entry into the US after being in Spain gave me a taste of just how little the administration seems to understand what all of us are up against.
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"There's a lot of apathetic people when it comes to voting and politics as a whole, and what's unique about Bernie Sanders's campaign is that it's about people power and getting people motivated and mobilized to change society," Freeman, from Brooklyn College, said.
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Ms. La, who grew up in the San Diego area and moved to Westminster six years ago, said the demonstration on Saturday took just 36 hours to organize — in a part of the world that was once known for being politically apathetic.
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Nonetheless, their conversation was a mark of progress — my previously apathetic family now votes with gusto and would consider campaigning for a candidate, and my father must not be the only man who wore a hard hat and rooted for Ms. Warren.
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The ruling Awami League has been criticized for being apathetic and blaming the victim during a spate of attacks in 19803 and 2016 against liberal bloggers, academics and religious minorities, some claimed by groups affiliated with Al Qaeda or the Islamic State.
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The fact that so many people still believe climate change is a hoax, or the many others who are apathetic to the issue because they do not yet feel the immediate consequences of climate change, shows that we need to focus on education.
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Even fans of hosts Brazil, famous for their passion for the national team, seem apathetic, as their 3-0 win over Bolivia in the opening game at the 66,000-capacity Morumbi stadium was far from a sell-out, with only 483,000 attending.
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And while Mr. Abbott explained his plan as necessary to counter the federal government's "apathetic response to border security," Mr. Ducey characterized his plan for state troopers to target drug smugglers as "adding state muscle" to the 4,000 federal Border Patrol agents in Arizona.
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And if Trump's xenophobic rhetoric does manage to bring many previously apathetic white voters to the GOP's banner, the party's establishment will have to reckon with that fact — and decide whether they do in fact want to be the party of Trump going forward.
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The second is that it sets out a template for the sorts of arguments needed to mobilise the leftish, younger voters who should be the backbone of the pro-EU vote but—with the official campaign period beginning tomorrow—have been looking worryingly apathetic.
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The stigma that still exists around periods is just one aspect of a general apathetic approach to women's health issues, says Kiana Reeves, operations manager at FORIA, a California-based company making CBD and THC products for women's pleasure as well as period pain relief.
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In some cases, the mother was apathetic about sexual abuse that the son had been the victim of, or had been the direct sexual abuser herself; in others, she had interfered in a romantic relationship, or the murderer had problems associated with sexual deviance.
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"[U]nless there is massive surprise in the data or an abrupt shift in RBA rhetoric, who appear sidelined indefinitely on tepid growth and apathetic inflation figures, the Aussie should remain pressured," Stephen Innes, Asia Pacific head of trading at OANDA, said in a note.
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I wrote instead about people like my white, working-class family who are presumed, based on their place and identity, to be Trump supporters but are, in fact, something else — apathetic or disenfranchised nonvoters, Democrats, newly minted democratic socialists, independents and even moderate Republicans.
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His father Hee-bong (Byun Hee-bong) chides Gang-du's apathetic, alcoholic brother Nam-il (Park Hae-il) and champion archer sister Nam-joo (Bae Doona) for their derision of Gang-du, whom he says was deprived of adequate protein when he was a child.
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From a morally absolute vigilante who sees the world in black and white to an omnipotent yet apathetic God figure who questions what it means to be human, "Watchmen" possessed a political and philosophical depth that readers weren&apost familiar with in comic-book form.
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Many of the book's supporting players are familiar ones from the young-adult canon — the supportive but polar-opposite best friend, the domineering immigrant mother and apathetic father, the improbably tender love interest, the unusually with-it teacher who changes the course of our protagonist's life.
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In my experience, there are two successful types of Grindr profile to craft for successful responses: a sexy, mysterious profile where you come off as a cool, mildly apathetic person who doesn't look as desperate as you actually are in real life, or the more direct approach.
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Bandu Belkar, a 2000-year-old farmer from Maharashtra who voted for the Hindu nationalist BJP in the 286 general election, said he was unhappy with the government's apathetic behavior toward farming and had almost made up his mind to vote for the opposition Congress this time.
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Bandu Belkar, a 2000-year-old farmer from Maharashtra who voted for the Hindu nationalist BJP in the 286 general election, said he was unhappy with the government's apathetic behaviour towards farming and had almost made up his mind to vote for the opposition Congress this time.
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Schaub said he found the results of the study concerning, particularly the fact that many users seemed apathetic to the idea of companies getting more information about their private lives—if we're fine with the constant erosion of our privacy, it might no longer exist one day.
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The ongoing travesty at Baylor is an interminable reminder that it is always possible for people in power to be more corrupt, more depraved, and simply more apathetic toward the plight of actual human beings if it benefits themselves or the institution that signs their paychecks.
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She is clearly thoughtful, extremely smart, and prepared to lean into the historic moment that her candidacy presents, but like Hillary Clinton, she has yet to find her voice or ability to create a likeable narrative that will drive apathetic Democrats to the polls on Election Day.
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A range of scholars — from economic historian and journalist David Unger to political scientist Andrew Bacevich to journalist James Fallows to policy practitioner Rosa Brooks to many others — caution that our foreign policy has become progressively militarized as Americans have grown apathetic to perpetual overseas campaigns.
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This little-known curio stars Walter Huston as a corrupt, apathetic and adulterous president who, after nearly losing his life in an accident, undergoes a humanistic change of heart, becoming an all-powerful but benevolent leader under the tutelage of the titular angel and, ahem, Abraham Lincoln.
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But even for the layperson not much interested in papal affairs, Francis's gentleness and insight will provide a heartening buffer against a world that, as the Pope himself observes, often seems darkly apathetic, which is probably how Francis would prefer his little book serve, as his motto suggests.
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The fact that he's idolizing the person and place he's making a 'star' with his likes and comments is interesting—why do have the character fall for this, as opposed to being repulsed or apathetic towards it, given that he knows that to some extent it's a facade?
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In other instances, a nominee is chosen to excite an apathetic base (Sarah Palin in 2008 is the most infamous instance) or for demographic reasons: Bill Clinton's selection of fellow-southerner Al Gore in 1992 signaled that the Democrats were going to fight for votes in the region.
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And the only legal way of doing that would be to introduce a new bill in both houses and pass it by voice vote — so no one has to face the apathetic public with what looks like a vote for Saudi Arabia — and have the president sign it.
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The fact that Democrat Conor Lamb was running a close race in a district that Mitt Romney had won by 17 points and that Donald Trump had won by 20 points was remarkable in and of itself: evidence of a fired-up Democratic base and an apathetic Republican one.
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That scene with Oleg and his boss questioning Fomina, the secretary keeping a ledger of her boss's wheelings and dealings, was mildly chilling in how it conveyed not just how deeply broken the country's food system is but how apathetic most people have become about the need to manipulate that system.
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" Eleina Raines, an Atlanta-based educator and Abrams supporter who was there that night, said that while she's always impressed by "Governor Abrams," she was pleased that Abrams didn't address the crowd as "apathetic millennials" but instead as "civically engaged folks who want politicians to meet us where we are.
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Trump's outrageousness certainly has alienated many in the Republican establishment but it also worked to differentiate him from the 16 other candidates for the GOP nomination and — thanks to the extensive attention it provoked from everyone from the mainstream media to previously apathetic primary voters — propelled him to front-runner status.
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Prominent rapper and businessman Jay-Z on Tuesday sued the head of the Mississippi Department of Corrections and the warden of the state penitentiary on behalf of 29 inmates who say the two officials have been apathetic toward the violence that resulted in five dead inmates in the past two weeks.
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That means things like hiring young staff (something that both Sanders and Barack Obama did, Kiesa said) and making efforts to appeal to young voters who might be apathetic—not to persuade them, but to just remind them this election is going on and that they should vote in it.
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However, many are apathetic – 56 percent of European consumers have not changed their approach to saving at all "Lowering interest rates is a widespread technique for trying to stimulate spending in the economy, but it also has an effect on people's savings," Ian Bright, senior economist at ING, said in a press release.
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A retired elderly woman explained that many older feminists didn't support Hillary because of her generally apathetic response to Bill's sexual faithlessness, a charge that prompted a look of shock on the faces of two female New York University students who later told me that they wondered why Bill wasn't at the signing.
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In a meeting preceding their joint appearance, Trump allowed a small group of Republican senators to confront Erdogan over his actions against Kurdish forces while he mostly listened, according to a person familiar with the meeting, who described Trump as uncharacteristically apathetic given his proclivity for interrupting and desire to dominate most conversations.
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Guelton then introduced Dr. John Agwunobi, Herbalife's chief health and nutrition officer, who informed an apathetic crowd that the thing he loved the most about his employer was the fact that it wasn't just focused on the products they sold, but "the entire life behind its customers," which he hoped the audience would become.
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The book is aimed, in part, at a lot of the newly angry women—many of whom may not have been angry in the past, may have been white and suburban and previously politically apathetic or quiet about their politics, and who have become loud and active and engaged in the past few years.
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He addressed topics that the people in charge think millennials are too stupid and apathetic to understand, like the NHS, Syria, and police brutality, and did so with intelligence and wit, even imploring the Leader of the Opposition, Jeremy Corbyn, to do more on behalf of the young people and minorities suffering after merciless cuts and austerity measures.
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South Korean director Lee Chang-Dong's eerie, swooning tale of apathetic and disaffected young people drifting through a series of connections, romantic and otherwise, actually cracked the list of nine finalists for this year's Foreign Language Film Oscar, and if it'd scored a nomination, it would have marked the first nomination for any Korean film in the category.
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" His monks are lazy, dumb, and apathetic while somehow also hardworking: "Without wishing to emulate the pagan elites by placing books or writing at the center of society, without affirming the importance of rhetoric or grammar, without prizing either learning or debate, monks nevertheless became the principal readers, librarians, book preservers, and book producers of the Western world.
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Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpPossible GOP challenger says Trump doesn't doesn't deserve reelection, but would vote for him over Democrat O'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms MORE said in an interview broadcast Monday that he is apathetic about how London's newly elected mayor views his presidential campaign.
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In a way it's as though the people of this subculture have all merged into one all-consuming entity, pushing each other into purchasing lucrative items, moving as one like a ratking but with an Adidas and Palace collaboration on their feet, a Supreme-branded lighter in their pocket—and a devastatingly apathetic political opinion marinating somewhere in their brain.
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In the lecture "The Art Language," presented to the Philosophy Study Circle at Visva-Bharati University in 1987 (and published in 2007), he said: In a theoretical sense, a sensitive artist can subsist and function all by himself in his private world, even if he is surrounded by apathetic and insensitive people, if he does not rue his isolation and lack of appreciation and reward.
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In fact, my thoughts of self-harm faded after around six weeks on Citalopram—once, that is, I got through the initial stage of grinding my teeth every night like I'd done a gram of dark web MDMA; or feeling sheer terror at the mere prospect of being alive; or just floating from one day to the next, apathetic about everything going on around me.
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The apathetic yet emotional thrust that indie put forth on albums like on Death Cab For Cutie's Transatlanticism, Interpol's Turn on the Bright Lights, Broken Social Scene's You Forgot It In The People, and Bright Eyes' I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning are some examples that set the genre on fire; men, for the most part, were given space to emote or be bored or present their perspectives.
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No one then seemed to notice the student debt canary in the coal mine though, not because Gen X was ~apathetic~ or ~didn't care~ (god I hate that bullshit), but because demographically our voices were always proportionally too few, and our student debt, while enough to ruin individual lives, was not collectively enough to undermine, say, the entire US economy, like it is now.
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"My past life would be but a dream, and I could start over without regrets, bolstered by the bliss and serenity that I would have accumulated in my year of rest and relaxation," the unnamed narrator (a narcissistic, apathetic 24-year-old whom this reader found herself simultaneously hating and rooting for) says early on, explaining her mission to sleep for a year thanks to some high-powered (fictional) pharmaceutical drugs.
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The reason why is because our world is changing tremendously and it is becoming more and more polluted every day … People in this generation are growing up not taking action in helping prevent a bad environment … I really believe that a large part of the reason that people are so apathetic about climate change is because it is almost never discussed in local news papers or in articles online about the environment.
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If Chaos Lounge initially idealized the sense of collectivity and utopianism signified by the internet in the 2000s, the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami in 2011 served as a wake-up call; within a year of issuing their 2010 manifesto decrying Japanese art's failure to produce an innovative movement to follow Murakami's Superflat, they had already changed focus and begun to criticize some in the otaku community for their evasive, apathetic attitude toward the disaster.
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There too union workers and regulators allege phone companies have simply stopped giving a damn, numerous recent settlements illustrating how network gear is simply being left to rot: Even when repairs are made to lines, cabinets, and utility poles, critics are quick to highlight an obvious half-assed approach to the work in recent years: Christopher Mitchell is the Director of the Community Broadband Networks Initiative, which helps local communities explore connectivity alternatives to apathetic monopolies.
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He and his group — which includes the emotionally apathetic Jon (Xavier Dolan), who's been through this too many times to count and is determined to succeed, and Gary (Troye Sivan, who also has an original song in the film), who coaches Jared on how to fake his way through the process — are constantly monitored, prevented from even going to the bathroom alone, and lectured on proper agro-masculinity by a Born Again ex-con, played Red Hot Chili Peppers' bassist Flea.
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Examples of campaigns done right are plentiful, but some favorites include the Los Angeles Kings' widely heralded efforts to rally Southern California fans, traditionally among the more apathetic fans in the NHL, with a humorous Twitter feed; Live United, United Way's multi-year branding campaign that has relied heavily on shareable social content to significantly increase their name recognition among a new generation; and even Casper's recent, light-hearted "hangover helper" campaign to help New Yorkers recover from holiday parties.
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To say that tech billionaires like Bezos are apathetic to the problems of common folk because they're too rich, too insular, too selfish, too singularly interested in endeavors that turn a profit, or too eager to cement their personal legacy for human posterity, belies a much more practical calculus: Many, though not all, of the tech industry's elite would rather stay away from directly tackling poverty, or access to education and health care in their work, because these are messy, complex problems that cannot be fundamentally served by techno-utopian solutionism.
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