You don't get her notifications or personal messages, mind you, but you do get to mindlessly scroll the same feed of photos that she (or her personal assistant) also mindlessly scrolls.
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Don't just mindlessly fill in the blanks in your schedule.
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And it's not like they're mindlessly imitating those around them.
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Running is something that I can go and do mindlessly.
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When, instead, employees mindlessly follow orders, they rely on incentives.
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This is not the celebrity lifestyle brand to shop mindlessly.
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But it's dangerous to mindlessly extrapolate that tendency into the future.
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It happened so mindlessly, I didn't notice it happening at all.
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But it can also just be about mindlessly following a leader.
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Clinton's candidacy, mindlessly leaving an incriminating paper trail all the while.
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It's not like I'm mindlessly promoting the situation is dominating everybody.
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Getting your cute fix But we aren't mindlessly blinded by cute animals.
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I felt less of an impulse to snack mindlessly throughout the day.
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Without consciousness, we mindlessly blow the present moment on low-value activities.
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Most of us eat mindlessly, without noticing quite how much we're ingesting.
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For me, that means mindlessly scrolling through my phone while in bed.
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Rutledge said that we often react "mindlessly" instead of making conscious choices.
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I was just so mindlessly addicted I didn't think anything of it.
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And we just mindlessly pass along information without reading or checking it.
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Should we mindlessly applaud this drive toward exactitude as an obvious good?
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I read today's MD and swipe mindlessly on Bumble while I eat.
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Mindlessly stuffing the ballot-box for the players on your own team. 3.
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Nixon's dirty tricksters didn't mindlessly expose the private data of low-level staff.
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But it's still easy to have the rest of life go by mindlessly.
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Spending mindlessly, without even thinking about it, has become a national bad habit.
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People spent countless hours mindlessly clicking to maintain their digital cities or homesteads.
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I pour a bowl of cereal as dessert and mindlessly scroll through Instagram.
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After I find myself mindlessly browsing social media, I will log out. 6.
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Sick. I can mindlessly scroll through Instagram for 90 minutes and occasionally look up.
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Can't fall back asleep, so I mindlessly scroll through my phone for a while.
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I can't read or watch TV or mindlessly scroll through Twitter, haphazardly endorsing things.
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They're just kids, mindlessly acting out gruesome history without giving thought to its implications.
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Suddenly, his desire became less scattered and mindlessly indulgent, honed in on one person.
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It's easy to mindlessly swipe a credit card and forget you even bought something.
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I first consumed traditional music from all over the world mindlessly, just mindless searching.
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Facebook itself has admitted that mindlessly scrolling on its platform isn't good for you.
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He'd memorized it—or at least his fingers flitting over the keyboard mindlessly had.
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Anyone who claims otherwise is merely mindlessly parroting nonsense and refusing to acknowledge reality.
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My habitual album finding and record keeping remained in place, though, almost mindlessly so.
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And it's not like we're just spending this time mindlessly matching and never meeting.
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Part-time revolutionaries mindlessly parroted state propaganda or the bigotry of Egypt's religious establishment.
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Maybe you've seen this movie on cable while mindlessly channel-flipping at 213 am.
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I get to work and mindlessly check emails and search for flight deals to Portland.
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I eat cucumber with spicy hummus, refill my water bottle, and mindlessly swipe through Bumble.
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Or is he just spending his days mindlessly scrolling instagram like the rest of us?
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And people are realizing that mindlessly browsing a newsfeed is a pure waste of time.
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Plus, it can stop you from eating mindlessly while you work or surf the Internet.
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One key element of MAD is that no nation can needlessly, or mindlessly, provoke another.
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In Washington, even simple communication with an adversary is often mindlessly derided as a concession.
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Just because you've raised a big round doesn't mean you can mindlessly spend your cash.
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I took to mindlessly indulging in a variety of excesses to soothe the spiritual void.
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After all, sometimes people just want to turn their brain off and smash stuff mindlessly.
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I've also found it keeps me from mindlessly scrolling on my phone in between sets.
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The gig economy used to be so blissfully, mindlessly simple: Open app, order service, auto-pay.
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So I looked down at my phone as a respite, scrolling mindlessly through my Pinterest feed.
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The Illinois game was mindlessly boring, but it was all worth it for Deiter&aposs touchdown.
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But instead of doing detective work, you're just mindlessly pressing buttons and hoping it ends quickly.
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That's why it's so easy to mindlessly swipe a card and forget you even bought something.
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Just creating this extra step should make it harder for you to mindlessly get in there.
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"It's easy to mindlessly swipe a credit card and forget you even bought something," she writes.
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I mindlessly spent money on credit and only paid the minimum that was asked of me.
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Mindlessly browsing the News Feed has proven to be exhausting and at times detrimental to health.
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If all of this makes these records sound mindlessly self-indulgent, well, yeah, they are. Obviously.
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So let's say you're me, sitting at home and 20 minutes into mindlessly scrolling through Seamless.
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When new stuff arises, I pop it into the appropriate bucket instead of mindlessly tackling it.
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I can mindlessly send out hundreds of texts, tweets, and snapchats that hold no personal value.
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I love that I can shop mindlessly at Uniqlo and always look put-together at work.
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It's a sweet and spicy combination that I swear by, usually mindlessly shaking it on everything.
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You are registering what it is that you are eating so you are not eating mindlessly.
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Today, a quarter-century later, we are risking everything by mindlessly continuing to observe this moratorium.
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Don't squander them by mindlessly refreshing your feed so you can stop talking to your aunt.
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That carefully curated look — the one you instantly recognize while mindlessly thumbing through Instagram — is no accident.
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Either I'm just holding it and squeeze the phone a bit too hard, mindlessly pressing the buttons.
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Then I get in bed and mindlessly flip through Netflix and HBO until finally landing on Insecure.
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So instead of mindlessly just saying "hey," you'll now have photos and music interests to work with.
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From grocery stores to department stores, retailers have a way of tricking you into spending money mindlessly.
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"I don't do it often and I never do it mindlessly," Winfrey wrote of her birthday meal.
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Like, say, the news cycle itself, we just shift mindlessly from one story or subject to another.
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That means digging a bit and checking out the brand you're buying from instead of mindlessly clicking.
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Journalists should try harder to expose the peddlers of fake footage, rather than mindlessly linking to it.
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"Get that moron off of there!" he would frequently shout out when someone would mindlessly drone on.
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Besides normal living expenses such as rent, bills, food, and debt, extra spending is usually done mindlessly.
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I was blindly tracing their steps, as millions of New Yorkers mindlessly trace one another's every day.
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But, Demi also feels like her girlfriend can't stop mindlessly flirting with other women on the beach.
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You can mindlessly pump and scrub your hands 10 times a day, if you arrange it right.
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Baylor's players dropped easy passes, dribbled off their own feet, and stepped mindlessly out of the bounds.
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Sheeple can be defined as a mass of ignorant, unoriginal humans that herd together and follow mindlessly.
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You shouldn't feel like you could do your work mindlessly: You should be actively using your gifts.
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Then, he sees Sasha walking out of his house, mindlessly tying a bowline knot with a sailor's expertise.
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All of a sudden, I wasn't clicking open a bunch of tabs, texting or mindlessly scrolling through Facebook.
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But the hours I dedicate to mindlessly swiping through stories or scrolling through photos aren't always for naught.
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I'm still worried that the ease of swiping my credit card will encourage me to mindlessly spend, though.
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Krishnamurti's emphasis on self-reliance and disdain for mindlessly following tradition shaped Lee's approach to the martial arts.
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Mindlessly watching TV is a pastime enjoyed by many humans, and it seems dolphins are into it too.
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Who wants to spend an hour that could be used mindlessly staring at a laptop screen, reading instead?
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It's the kind of place you'll get lost in while mindlessly looking through racks and racks of records.
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Email is one of those things you enter into mindlessly, but it really requires a more mindful approach.
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When you wake up, do you lay in bed and scroll mindlessly through Facebook for half an hour?
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In other words, babies don't copy mindlessly — they take note of who you are and why you act.
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To service debts, Mugabe began printing money mindlessly, inaugurating an era of hyperinflation not witnessed since postwar Hungary.
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All your friends told you they were busy, so you're sitting at home, alone, mindlessly scrolling through Instagram.
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The discovery suggests that there is more to running than mindlessly placing one foot in front of another.
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I spend half an hour scrolling mindlessly through Reddit and social media before finally getting out of bed.
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The video proves just how easy it is to get mindlessly lost on Instagram for hours on end.
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This is a minor issue, perhaps, but one that can have you hesitating when mindlessly mashing your remote control.
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"They've learned all this stupidity from these dumb fucking YouTube Minecraft streamers and repeat it mindlessly," the commenter said.
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It even rolled out new tools to help YouTube users cut down the time they spend mindlessly watching videos.
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You mindlessly scroll through streaming purgatory, not quite understanding why you can't just watch everything at the same time.
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Mr Moore says Americans with their mindlessly long work hours are hardly more productive than Italians with their vacations.
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While she doesn't spend mindlessly on impulse purchases anymore, she's happy to have a long retirement ahead of her.
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She added that many people right now scroll through Instagram mindlessly liking posts, not really taking in the content.
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You know how mindlessly dull texting hourly updates to each other about what you're watching on TV can be?
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He cried, slept, argued with his parents about going to school and mindlessly surfed the internet on his phone.
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One study has shown that mindlessly taking photos reduces our ability to recall events in the world around us.
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Sometimes I mindlessly toggled back and forth between the desktop and Dashboard a few times while I was thinking.
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At home, we use laptops for everything from shopping online to mindlessly surfing the internet for funny cat videos.
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So when people talk like that, they're just saying things they've heard other people say and mindlessly repeating them.
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Of course, none of those people are really as flawless as they seem when you're mindlessly scrolling through your feed.
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We pack lunches, change loads of laundry, shower, plan the next day, watch TV, or mindlessly look at our phones.
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But, like the mob that mindlessly celebrates its team's victory by looting its own hometown, they are self-destructive hooligans.
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Now users scroll mindlessly on News Feed, where Facebook's mysterious algorithms randomly select what videos to show, among other #content.
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After long days at work, mindlessly tapping through Stories on the train home became my go-to way to unwind.
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A painting of a girl mindlessly eating a butterfly might follow a tranquil floral scene ridden with lush neon chrysanthemums.
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Texans, it is thought, mindlessly celebrate individualism, and view government as a kind of kryptonite that weakens the entrepreneurial muscles.
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I definitely won't be dopamine fasting every evening — I need that time to mindlessly look at memes and funny tweets.
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This is about not just plodding along, mindlessly working in your life, but being mindful to work on your life.
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Whether it's bottled water or grabbing a coffee on your way to work, it's all too easy to spend mindlessly.
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I see her ask me to go dancing at a show near our apartment, and I watch myself mindlessly decline.
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If you're getting sick of mindlessly blasting zombies in every other video game, give "The Wolf Among Us" a try.
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Soon, rather than mindlessly twisting the cube, I found myself attempting to solve the first step, and then the next.
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However, when another close friend told me she had received some scary medical news, I mindlessly used the same approach.
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My students are aware of this, even though everybody seems to be walking around campus mindlessly staring at their phones.
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The first known use of "sheeple" came in 1945, when a columnist used it to describe people mindlessly obeying their government.
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Switching through apps, scrolling around mindlessly, and putting the G29's camera features to the test didn't cause any noticeable hiccups.
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Rather than mindlessly bashing the WTO, Mr Trump may have realised the benefits of using it to tackle China's economic misdeeds.
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The series mindlessly traverses and bulldozes over sensibility for others in what seems to be an attempt to roast political correctness.
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Or is it when you're mindlessly taking a shower or working out that a brilliant thought suddenly pops in your head?
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Trump should be too busy picking his future Cabinet members to have time to be mindlessly scrolling through his Twitter feed.
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This fix just led me to my laptop where I mindlessly scrolled through the browser-based versions of those social networks.
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Mindlessly, I opened the Curb app and discovered the stove was drawing power though I thought I had turned if off.
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"When I need a minute to return emails or cry or mindlessly scroll through social media, I'll take it," Union explains.
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If you've been mindlessly getting through your job, it's possible that you've forgotten what you truly care about in your career.
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John Cage, helming the mix, mindlessly maneuvered from channel to channel, and indiscriminate drum sounds flooded the room, freely and formlessly.
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Or is it when you're mindlessly taking a shower or working out that a brilliant thought suddenly pops into your head?
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You can follow it closely without getting bored or let it play as you mindlessly scroll through Instagram without getting lost.
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Even the hockey media, who typically just mindlessly go along with the "closer playoff races" excuse, are starting to push back.
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Shards, a gold-like currency, litter the battlefield, and minions march up and down designated lanes, mindlessly towards their final goal.
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The data quickly makes clear, then, that Burnley's defense is not built on players mindlessly throwing themselves in front of shots.
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Even in later stages of the game, you can't just charge in and destroy hordes of enemies by mindlessly mashing buttons.
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Simple strategies can help minimize the gluttony: • Keep the serving dishes in the kitchen, so you won't take extra helpings mindlessly.
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His shows are filled with adults who yearn for days of getting wasted in parks after school and mindlessly kicking trees.
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But perhaps the most defining soft quality of Sprouse is his hair, which he's likely twirling mindlessly above his forehead right now.
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Just when I'd been lulled into a trance, scrolling mindlessly past what a high school frenemy ate for lunch in Tulum — boom.
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But watching the bachelorettes of Nashville against the backdrop of citywide gentrification reminded me of how mindlessly I did all of it.
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One billion people check their Facebook feeds every day, mindlessly scrolling through texts and photos to keep up with friends and family.
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Every few weeks I'll go through my Gmail and mindlessly clear them out, but there's always one email that catches my eye.
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More years go by, with Aketcheta mindlessly following his death-filled loop, until once again, an unexpected encounter triggers something within him.
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It's a nice change of pace, and forces you to do more than just mindlessly fight your way to the final boss.
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You can also keep a safe distance from drugstores, where it's easy to mindlessly spend $5 to $10 on drinks and snacks.
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"The new 'Jacob's Ladder' is less strange and scary, and more mindlessly action-packed," wrote Noel Murray for the Los Angeles Times.
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Instead of mindlessly time scrolling through TV show thumbnails, just pick one of our five options and you'll be a happy camper.
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Where before you may have had one or two richer beers, younow mindlessly slam four Claws — making the calorie talk a wash.
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If you have ever mindlessly scrolled through social media when you are supposed to be doing something else, you get the idea.
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We walk mindlessly throughout the day, not really conscious of the way that we feel and the way things are impacting us.
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FRENCH CONNECTION Then I like to walk down the block to Front General Store and look at jewelry mindlessly, without a timeline.
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Images like these sometimes make you feel like a voyeur, mindlessly consuming someone else's tragedy, but it's hard to avert your eyes.
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"Colleges mindlessly require mathematics of everybody, even if you are going to major in poetry, modern dance, or interior design," he said.
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Click here to view original GIFAt some point, you've probably found yourself mindlessly scrolling around Google Maps' satellite view while bored at work.
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But as Instagram continuously adds more stuff to the platform, it may shift from being the preferred app for people to mindlessly scroll.
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But then you actually play one and reality sets in: Such games invariably come down to mindlessly pressing buttons as rapidly as possible.
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Turns out, they wouldn't: they got a new look, but were mostly there to mindlessly shoot at the Enterprise crew and Benedict Cumberbatch.
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I've had to hurriedly squint and close out of those apps after mindlessly opening them far too many times these past few days.
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Whether it's repeatedly checking for new likes on a pic or mindlessly scrolling through your feed, Instagram can be a tremendously addictive app.
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As I grabbed my phone to do my usual social media sweep, I realized I didn't actually feel the need to mindlessly scroll.
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Rather than spending mindlessly on restaurants or cutting them out altogether, we simply created a line item in our budget for personal spending.
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It added another barrier between me and spending money It's easy to mindlessly swipe a credit card and forget you even bought something.
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But for a few minutes there is only this mindlessly mindful task, the spiraling shapes and colors, and the pounding of the music.
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It's not wise to always be in "intake mode," which is what can happen when mindlessly scrolling through emails and social media feeds.
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But, rather than feeling free in the months that followed, she was dismayed by the increasing amount of money she was mindlessly spending.
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If you sleep near your phone (and most Americans do), it's easy to roll over and start mindlessly scrolling through your inbox. Don't.
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Lately, I have been trying to minimize my social media usage, but I often find myself mindlessly reaching for my phone and scrolling.
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They don't have the AirPods' streamlined, mindlessly simple shape, and so I have to pay a bit of attention getting them on and off.
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Ultimately, Isaac (Jimmy Smits) helps Laurel get out of the hospital and away from all that red gelatin she and Michaela were mindlessly consuming.
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Instead of mindlessly repeating that America is the greatest country on earth, maybe it's time to learn something from other countries for a change.
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He says the repeated requests will prompt some users to tune out, and either mindlessly agree to every request, or stop using certain services.
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We mindlessly scroll for so long that we easily lose track of what we're doing, what we're consuming, or what any of it means.
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"You absolutely do NOT let an algorithm mindlessly devour a whole bunch of data that you haven't vetted even a little bit," they said.
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I like to arrive earlier than my team members so that I can drink coffee and mindlessly browse BuzzFeed and The New York Times.
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And in case you find yourself mindlessly wandering the CVS beauty aisles on an unintentional haul, the products ahead are the ones to grab.
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Once you've connected your credit card to the app, it's mindlessly easy to summon a car to take you wherever you want to go.
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You know when your eyes unexpectedly fix on something and you can't look away and you start mindlessly zoning into this window of nothingness?
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Is the crowd as wise as Blanche, or are they just mindlessly picking Mystic because it's the center option and that's what we do?
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"The United States Senate on Monday voted down two of the most mindlessly simple and obvious and necessary gun control measures," he says. Why?
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People commute mindlessly over the Golden Gate Bridge day after day without realizing that whales, sea lions, seals and harbor porpoises congregate here still.
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Speks are fun to play with mindlessly or if you just want to give your brain something else to focus on for a while.
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Slow dating is a pretty straightforward concept in which you date with a purpose, rather than mindlessly swiping or filling your week with dates.
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The goal was to convince primary voters that no one was more mindlessly Trump-obsessed than this Yale- and Harvard-educated self-styled populist.
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In many forms, implicit bias is a healthy human adaptation — it's among the mental tools that help you mindlessly navigate your commute each morning.
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Of course, we want to stay up on the news, but mindlessly scrolling through our phones for hours isn't making us feel any better.
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I never thought to question how I flavored them, and was blown away by just how much sugar I was mindlessly dumping on everything.
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Here's why: dating apps are a sad, pointless game people play while mindlessly watching Netflix and drinking too much wine for a Tuesday night.
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No longer do you have to sit and watch an AI-controlled rat mindlessly pursue the smiley face at the end of the labyrinth.
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On Sunday, while I was preparing myself for bed and mindlessly scrolling through Twitter, Lilly Singh's tweet with rainbow-colored hearts, left me stumped.
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Whether it's adding a purchase to your Amazon cart or grabbing a coffee on your way to work, it's all too easy to spend mindlessly.
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Afterwards I clean up a bit to honor the new me and then start mindlessly scrolling on my phone... I go to sleep around 11.
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Just wait a few seconds, take a few deep breaths, pay attention to your dog, swipe mindlessly through the social media site of your choice.
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I already wanted to cut down on the amount of time I spent mindlessly staring at my phone — I might as well go cold turkey.
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Whether it's calling an Uber or picking up a pack of gum while waiting in the checkout line, it's all too easy to spend mindlessly.
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To do so, it's important to understand how the brain processes and stores information, and why mindlessly memorizing probably isn't the best path to take.
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When you follow a bunch of Insta-famous trainers, on the one hand, you get workout inspiration every time you mindlessly scroll through your feed.
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This June is for daydreaming and brainstorming; bring a notebook to doodle while you commute instead of mindlessly playing games or scrolling on your phone.
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If, as most economists believe, this program creates ever larger deficits and, at most, modest economic growth, we should not continue mindlessly down this path.
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All of this was happening just as people started to realize that mindlessly browsing the newsfeed — Facebook's core product — is a total waste of time.
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I was in the Times newsroom mindlessly scrolling through Twitter when I spotted a headline, one of those News of the Weird police blotter items.
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Your choices as a consumer matter, too — and for a better, healthier tech industry, it's best to avoid mindlessly feeding the giants whenever you can.
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Maybe you've already caught yourself staring vacantly at your computer screen, mindlessly refreshing the window to try to catch your investments declining in real time.
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But before you mindlessly click on that text message that looks like it's from FedEx, take a second look because it could be a scam.
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"The Resisters" is full of characters who voluntarily hand over their humanity — by agreeing to GenetImprovement or by mindlessly following the orders of Aunt Nettie.
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I couldn't believe how much sugar I was drizzling on my food mindlessly, turning a very healthy veggie stir-fry into a sugar-filled dish.
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Perhaps a world where we can only comment, rather than mindlessly mash the button or choose an emoji, would be better for all of us.
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Next time you're staying up till three in the morning mindlessly watching YouTube videos, why not give your eyes a rest and turn the lights out?
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But instead of gazing mindlessly at the polish wall at Target, plucking the first colorless bottle you see, take a cue from those who know best.
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Timing Productivity If you find yourself mindlessly scrolling through Facebook instead of getting work done, it may be time you hold yourself accountable with Timing Productivity.
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I'd also mindlessly try to pull up the Instagram app on my iPhone, and would need to remind myself that I'd deleted it for a reason.
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If this year were your last, would you spend the next hour mindlessly checking your social media, or would you read something that uplifts you instead?
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But a good number of complaints about the leading brand are that it mindlessly bumps into walls and circles around the same room over and over.
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But when the offers and exclusives just fortuitously pop up while we're mindlessly scrolling through our feed, how can we not click the link in bio?
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So the next time you're mindlessly scrolling through dog photos online, remember that those dogs you're awwwwing over probably made more money than you did today.
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" The Päntsdrunk approach to life also "includes bingeing on Netflix, scrolling mindlessly on your phone, sweet and salty snacks, sofa time, and blocking all work communications.
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For employees, the experience can be more engaging than existing options and I would imagine people are less prone to distractions or mindlessly clicking through screens.
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But I do know that mindlessly spending time on my phone when I'd honestly rather be hanging out with my wife and pets bums me out.
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In the fall of 2016, Holly Trantham of The Financial Diet realized she had mindlessly spent $400 on takeout food over the course of a year.
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"WWI was a epochal event, but linking it mindlessly to technology is playing post hoc ergo propter hoc (after this, therefore because of this,)" he said.
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We fully agree that students shouldn't be mindlessly swiping screens, but they should be learning real computer science and using technology to help solve societal problems.
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I used common sense by limiting the amount of walking I did after dark and not mindlessly gazing at my phone while strolling down the street.
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Our students were just amazing, particularly the undergraduates — please erase all stereotypes you have in your brain about technology-obsessed millennials staring mindlessly at their screens.
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But it's true: Afternoons past were spent plopped in front of TV, mindlessly working my way through a stack of Pringles, washing it down with Dr. Pepper.
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Whether it's paying a late fee or snagging a candy bar while waiting in the checkout line, it's all too easy to spend mindlessly and waste money.
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Don't get caught up in the rush of the "sale" or let the sensation of mindlessly clicking fool you into buying things you don't need or want.
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But Another Life is thoroughly, mindlessly entertaining and an absolutely perfect diversion for wiling away those hot summer days from the comfort of your air conditioned home.
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I devoted five-and-half hours to scrolling through my feed, mindlessly tapping through Stories, and watching yellow labrador puppies roll around in the mud on Explore.
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What if when Facebook saw you mindlessly scrolling, it showed a big box in the News Feed suggesting you message your closest friends who are currently online?
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Godzilla doesn't just spend its time mindlessly destroying the world with its atomic breath in brain-numbing American remakes that no one should spend two hours watching.
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With Screen Time, your phone can give you an overview of things you do with your phone so that you waste less time mindlessly scrolling through feeds.
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Facebook's new "Stories" update is here, and it ruins the best part about the entire social network: Mindlessly plumbing your friends' lives without fear of getting caught.
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Per recommendations from friends, I've decided just to use Facebook via the mobile web when I need it so I'm no longer browsing mindlessly through News Feed.
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Half of that time is spent mindlessly scrolling Twitter and Instagram and vacillating between getting pissed off at the news and then self-soothing with cat videos.
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But even as I mindlessly scrolled through Instagram or Reddit, I felt the existentialist dread of knowing that I was misusing the best years of my life.
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I remembered waking up at ungodly hours to play acquaintances an ocean away, and mindlessly slaughtering dumb drones as an excuse to talk to an old friend.
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And yet here you are, scolding and shaming progressives for not mindlessly accepting patriarchy, misogyny, complementarianism, and hateful, hateful bigotry against the LGBTQ community into the academy.
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Some believe, this is also the beginning of the end for email, our least secure communication platform that mindlessly stores every reply, forward, broadcast, and carbon copy.
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Also, for me personally, it was a way for me to mindlessly have something going on the screen and be able to really connect with my community.
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It bums me out that anyone visiting my apartment will smell as good as I do after a trip to the bathroom, from mindlessly washing their hands.
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It seems like a treat while you're mindlessly devouring it, but when you're done, all you're left with is a sticky, empty box and a sugar headache.
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Dr. Mann's research has revealed that people will mindlessly graze the longer they sit at the table — or if the food is placed right in front of them.
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Unfortunately, these restaurants seem to have mindlessly ensconced themselves as a place to eat for the those who can afford to take such fine dining experiences for granted.
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But all of them have lost steam as Facebook failed to follow through, mindlessly followed through on the wrong thing or just moved on to the next target.
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More often than not, we spend our lunch break dashing to the nearest restaurant for an overpriced bite (or mindlessly devouring a PB&J sandwich at our desk).
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Put it on to laugh mindlessly or to strike up philosophical conversations that avoid the pitfalls of modern politics and discuss what it truly means to be human.
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Oh, I also downed almost two liters of water throughout the day … which I mindlessly end with an RX Bar while reading a few articles on my phone.
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She began mindlessly using the GX phone to look up pictures of him, a habit she sometimes began before even getting out of bed, her eyelids barely parting.
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I mindlessly swipe through Tinder – it is actually a lot of fun to do when traveling, and I have met fellow travelers and locals alike using the app.
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And yeah, now that it's up and running again, we can all go back to mindlessly feeding our data into the machine — granting it power in the process.
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Yet most GOP candidates mindlessly recite a 30-year old prescription of debt-financed tax cuts and free trade deals, which — despite other benefits — would exacerbate both problems.
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Here you do all that aforementioned beam katana-ing, fiddle with a racing simulator, trudge through a side scroller, and mindlessly toy with an intergalactic aim-and-shoot.
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But if you've ever stood in a lift or in line for food, and mindlessly started swiping at your mobile, you're just the target for the Substitute Phone.
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Gloria's realization that she is stomping mindlessly on hundreds of innocent Korean citizens while drunk comes packaged as a kind of wincing what did I do last night?
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Unfortunately, the Kurdish guerilla group PKK mindlessly played into his hands, escalating the tension and compromising the role of HDP, the new Kurdish political party, in Turkish politics.
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In other words, Twitter isn't just mindlessly flagging accounts that tweet a single rude word or phrase, but is more closely examining the behavior itself and the context.
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I wind down at night with a good book instead of scrolling mindlessly through social media, and I see long commutes as an opportunity rather than an annoyance.
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Rather than mindlessly swiping a credit card or tapping your smartphone, you'll be handing over physical bills and watching your money disappear right in front of your eyes.
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Because of the exponential rate of replication, the entire biosphere could be transformed into a wriggling swarm of mindlessly reproducing nanobots in a relatively short period of time.
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And I mindlessly scrolled through Instagram and Twitter to be reminded of all the people who are out there doing their best, connecting to humanity however they can.
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I've gotten really protective of my attention, and I get self-conscious when I catch myself in a YouTube spiral, or find myself mindlessly swiping through Instagram stories.
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I don't think it affects my mental health per se, but I do get down on myself when I realize I've spent X amount of time mindlessly browsing.
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Our itinerary is at risk of proving mindlessly splendid: Oahu for two nights, before we board a prop jet for three nights on Hawaii Island to the east.
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We go to bed anxious about the surveillance apparatus lurking just beneath our social media feeds, then wake up to mindlessly scroll, Like, Heart, Wow, and Fave another day.
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Many systems can't—or don't bother to—distinguish synonyms, like "manager" and "supervisor," so she says to rewrite résumés with each application, mindlessly copying words from the job description.
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After she drops them off, she finds herself driving, mindlessly, around the jagged outline of the town park, past the houses they admired and quickly learned they couldn't afford.
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It's possible to scroll mindlessly through your Newsfeed on a smartphone, but you can always break away to answer an email or hold a side conversation in the process.
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Read These Stories Next:The One Wedding Tradition It's Time To BreakHow This Couple Avoided EVERY Wedding Trend Out ThereThis Guy's "Engagement Pics" Show Just How Mindlessly We Use Facebook
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Cut to five years later, and we find Retsuko mindlessly grinding through her days as an office worker, vexed by her superiors and endlessly bothered by overly chatty colleagues.
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But if sugars, carbs or calories are of concern, be sure to count out your portion of dried fruit, as it can be easy to mindlessly nibble on it.
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Trading in my plastic for paper has been incredibly effective, for a couple of reasons: It's easy to mindlessly swipe a credit card and forget you even bought something.
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Because although the show is centered on Carrie, she is not always portrayed as the blameless, virtuous sun of the SATC universe that all other characters mindlessly orbit around.
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I hope they aren't mindlessly tallying up their stories in a back room to ensure balance, but I also hope they won't worry about critics who claim they are.
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With the phone banished to another room, I can't mindlessly scroll Twitter or Instagram at 8 o'clock in the morning, and I enjoy a tiny window of mental peace.
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Don't mindlessly graze as you tablescape or scarf down your dinner while explaining to friends and family why your boyfriend of three years refused to come home with you.
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It seems to crop up whenever I'm in full Insta-sloth mode: sprawled out mindlessly swiping upward, with my phone in my left hand because the right one hurts.
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I play on my phone all afternoon, reading Money Diaries and mindlessly swiping on Hinge, but after my last relationship ended I just can't get into the dating apps.
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We can set the book down and mindlessly scroll through Twitter, defer our dreams for another year or worry about repairing a rift later, because our paths are different.
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And that system's oversimple algorithm, which measures priceless things in terms of quarterly profit and shareholder value, is mindlessly chewing up the biosphere and the lives of everyone in it.
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"We would spend most nights just sitting on the couch watching television and mindlessly eating junk food," says Lexi, 27, a blogger who has 492,000 followers on her Instagram @fatgirlfedup.
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But just as we mindlessly agree to convoluted Terms of Service agreements without understanding their contents, few of us truly understand how much data our devices are collecting about us.
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According to an experiment conducted by two communications professors in 2016, hundreds of college students mindlessly accepted the Terms of Service to join a new social network, The Guardian reported.
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In the meantime, most commuters load up some tunes and endure their commute without mindlessly starring at Facebook or Instagram while attempting to maintain a single inch of personal space.
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The deeply sad and horrifying implication is that Abraham is stronger than Red, and that in mindlessly going through the motions of mimicking Gabe's behavior, he raped and impregnated her.
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When you hear the guy in charge of your favorite team mindlessly repeating "a player, a pick and a prospect" to friendly media members, there's a good chance you're screwed.
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The principle that tasks should be broken down into small, efficient steps to be mindlessly repeated by employees all day has thankfully gone the way of the Model-T Ford.
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RSVP here, and the first 100 people that arrive will be able to join us as we lose our collective minds to King Push and dance mindlessly to Charli XCX.
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A good sign you've task-switched yourself into a stupor: mindlessly scrolling Facebook at the end of the night or, as in Ms. Zomorodi's case, looking at couches on Pinterest.
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It's certainly the case for me that when it reaches the evening, I find myself still sitting at my laptop: watching Netflix, mindlessly browsing Twitter, or (worst of all) working.
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After my husband and I moved across the country in 2016 and I stopped freelancing due to a chronic illness, we mindlessly charged most of our lives on credit cards.
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How many times have you mindlessly stood and waited for its performance to be over, without so much as a thought to citizenship, to country, or *gasp*...to the troops?
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If only they could now invent a way for the phone to wiggle out of my hands when scrolling mindlessly online gets figuratively (and one day literally) out of hand.
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The first act of the episode, where the funeral is told from her point of view, is a study in how little white people notice the microaggressions they mindlessly perpetrate.
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Thomas ARNE, an English composer, wrote the tune you occasionally hum mindlessly to yourself in 1777 for a production of John Gay's "The Beggar's Opera" at Covent Garden in London.
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Justin Fairfax's small gesture was a reminder of the power of nonviolent protest and the importance of standing firm on principles even when everyone around you mindlessly participated in wrongdoing.
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But sometimes when I spend too much time mindlessly scrolling, I'm left with a bit of a social media hangover and the feeling that everyone is doing cooler stuff than me.
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"A board cannot mindlessly swallow information, particularly in the area of executive compensation," wrote Laster, who was making findings based only on whether there was a "credible basis" for the allegations.
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Since that teenage gyno appointment, I mindlessly popped pills from various cardboard squares and pink plastic clamshells for 15 years to regulate my period, until my 30s spurred thoughts of motherhood.
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"I came to see the justice system as its own incubator of violence, a juggernaut that chewed up and mindlessly destroyed hope," he told The Times Union of Albany in 2016.
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That's right: for more than 250 continuous hours, there were people standing outside, mindlessly scrolling through something on their phones while they waited for a seat in the 24-hour restaurant.
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I actually really enjoyed kicking off my day by reading inspiring messages instead of mindlessly scrolling through social media, which can feel chaotic and stressful even on a relaxing weekend morning.
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When you want to use them, type them into your phone's search function rather than mindlessly tapping the app icon—it lends a bit of focus to an otherwise reflexive activity.
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Click here to view original GIFIt's easier to mindlessly blast away a room full of video game baddies when they look at you with dead eyes and zombie-like facial expressions.
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The vibrating, ring-like toy attaches comfortably to your fingers, allowing you or your partner to control what's going on in and around your vagina, eliminating the impulse to mindlessly jab.
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They're just looking to respond to questions, largely because answer polls and seeing where your responses match up to others can be a lot more entertaining than mindlessly scrolling through Instagram.
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"A Modest Proposal" lays a template for modern satire, a rhetorical device designed not just to repeat the exaggerations of the ideas people mindlessly spew, but also show why they're ridiculous.
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After a while, there's just too much monster charging mindlessly at the screen, and not enough time to process the characters' reactions, or to distinguish one curiously failed attack from the next.
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I give my plants some TLC because they've been struggling in our dry apartment this winter, then relax on the couch and scroll mindlessly through internet articles while R. plays video games.
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Perhaps, if we just stop mindlessly scarfing down our food and instead eat slowly and deliberately and really luxuriate in every bite of that plain oatmeal, we'll eat less and lose weight.
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That's why, when I was mindlessly searching on YouTube one day, it was so alluring to think about trying this whole yoga thing from the safety of my 7-by-10 bedroom.
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Of course, one of the biggest issues with eating cheese is that's it's really freakin' delicious — and that makes it very easy to mindlessly munch away far more sodium than you realize.
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Apps such as Hooked are really helpful to use for a few days, if you're curious about how much time you spend playing iPhone games or mindlessly looking at your Venmo feed.
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Though many coral reefs have adapted to shifts in local ecologies, coral were not designed for the higher temperatures and carbon dioxide levels that we humans have mindlessly forced into their habitat.
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Whether it's calling an Uber, stopping by the bodega around the corner every morning or picking up a soda while waiting in the checkout line, it's all too easy to spend mindlessly.
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For all its dark intimations of a society in thrall to technology and individuals shorn of their individuality mindlessly letting go of their will, "Golem" remains playfully comic in tone and spirit.
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As two of Facebook's researchers described in a recent blog post, mindlessly reading the News Feed without interacting much — just scrolling and pressing Like occasionally — was associated with lower mental well-being.
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At turns humorously ironic and tragically sincere, the work explored ennui, liminality, and "feminine" consumption, depicting the many objects we mindlessly accumulate in our ongoing attempts at self-soothing and self-care.
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It could simply be effective because it keeps people from mindlessly snacking all day, but fasting also has the potential to increase ketone levels in the body, which can promote fat loss.
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The feature is a transparent push to get people to spend more time engaging with others on the app, rather than a more passive approach to consuming content and mindlessly double-tapping photos.
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The option makes a lot of sense if you just want to jump into a show you've seen plenty of times, like The Office or Friends, and mindlessly binge for a few hours.
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Photo: InstagramI have an evening routine where I lay in my bed, tapping from Instagram story to Instagram story, mindlessly consuming what feels like a mundane montage of all of my friends' days.
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In fact, as she sat in front of me, mindlessly weaving her hair into loose braids as we talked, I got the sense that she's not fully aware of her celebrity at all.
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Using an imaginative combination of words, images, videos, simple classroom lectures and skits on the dangers of remaining silent and forwarding things mindlessly, this initiative is the first of its kind in India.
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The now-28-year-old was a few years into a PhD program at the University of Pennsylvania, and to cope with stressful days, she began mindlessly watching makeup tutorial videos after classes.
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And even though the sample was fairly small, it's nice to have a study remind us that we probably shouldn't just mindlessly listen to our partners talk about his or her bad day.
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This legislation is perfect for the Age of Trump: heedless of the facts, driven by emotion, mindlessly anti-regulatory and certain to be exploited for political purposes despite its failure to solve anything.
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Someone who finds himself mindlessly and compulsively scrolling through Facebook, or who is constantly comparing himself unfavorably with his Facebook friends, might therefore have a duty of self-care to get off Facebook.
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Food is and has been the center of my life, and like the author, I look at people who mindlessly eat a burger or a doughnut and wonder what that must be like.
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If you're going to spend upward of $8 for a fancy craft-chocolate bar, you really shouldn't mindlessly gobble it while rushing to catch the B train (not that I've ever done that).
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I found that scrolling through the website and favoriting items while watching TV after work felt just as satisfying as mindlessly filling up shopping carts at the online stores I used to browse.
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I couldn't settle down to read or write, and in my anxiety I found myself mindlessly scrolling through two particular shopping websites, numbing my fears with pictures of shoes, clothes, purses and jewelry.
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The everyday moments he captured "are, after all, how we spend most of our time, mindlessly active or lost in thought — they provide what appears to be the undercurrent of our existence," she said.
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These are intended to assess how attached or addicted people are to their phones, how worried they feel about their phone use, and whether they find themselves mindlessly checking their phones without knowing why.
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She pushes herself to get a full night of sleep, or treat herself to dumplings and a massage in Chinatown, or simply sit in dark room and mindlessly binge watch a show after work.
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Does this make Emma a pitiable prototype for the passive female gull of mass culture, operating mindlessly under "false consciousness", or a feminist avant la lettre who subverts bourgeois morality and suffers the consequences?
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Focus Mode isn't meant to be a particularly serious way to limit usage phone usage, though It's more of a nudge to stop you from mindlessly scrolling through one social media feed or another.
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It's especially noteworthy when you do manage to pull that off, since so many other candidates, having already asked many questions throughout the session, mindlessly shrug off this little last thing at the end.
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Since you'll only have one free hand, it'll be harder to mindlessly snag unhealthy bites, explained Jessica Dogert, RD, dietitian at Fitness Formula Clubs Lincoln Park in Chicago, in a previous interview with Health.
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Other times you will feel relieved to be by yourself, blissful in those moments in which you are silent beneath your sheets, or curled around a laptop screen, or staring mindlessly out the window.
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Using your feedback, companies can better serve your needs, provide targeted recommendations just for you and serve you more of what you've historically shown to like, so you can carry on mindlessly consuming it.
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RPGs are notorious for forcing you to grind through battles, and Yo-kai Watch still has this problem, but its battle system at least ensures you're active instead of just mindlessly tapping through menus.
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Any number of people who have spent time on social media can attest to its addictive qualities, which are even apparent in this viral video of a chimpanzee mindlessly scrolling through an Instagram feed.
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Having either the world's most punitively misconceived microeconomic policies or the world's most mindlessly self-destructive macroeconomic policies would be bad enough, but having both of them at the same time is just killer.
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Sometimes, I wouldn't need lunch because I'd mindlessly ate so many carrots or cucumber throughout the day (I found it physically impossible to eat more than 80 calories worth of either at a time).
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Watching one episode of Game of Thrones because we like the show and want to stay up to date feels different than mindlessly scrolling through Reddit for three hours without speaking to one another.
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In Dawn of the Dead we see an American shopping mall filled with hungry zombies, mindlessly consuming; while Night of the Living Dead features the nihilistic killing of it's black hero by police officers.
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Mindlessly throwing your credit card down at every happy hour and draining your savings account to go in on a summer house because that's what everyone else is doing isn't the way to wealth.
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Held Netflix watch parties Instead of binge-watching Netflix shows all alone to mindlessly pass time, people rallied together virtually to hold Netflix parties with their friends, thanks to the Netflix Party Chrome Extension.
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Thanks to Instagram and Twitter, we can drink up examples of the human spirit prevailing in quarantine; or else, thanks to Netflix, Apple, and Hulu, we can mindlessly binge reality programming and comfort shows.
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" It can also occur when "executives mindlessly imitate the behavior of their peer companies — whether they are expanding, acquiring, setting executive compensation or whatever — no matter how foolish it may be to do so.
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After losing the commissionership to John Kelly (Alan Brooks), a hardline cop with proto-stop and frisk policies, Holt, a queer man of color, mindlessly got on a plane to Mexico to forget his troubles.
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It's simultaneously a pro and a con working in media: You save money by getting free wine (pro), but you also end up mindlessly eating free fried cheese thingies until your stomach hurts (con). Free.
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I carried cash to keep my spending on drinks and food to a limit instead of mindlessly putting everything on my card, but I still lost track of what I've had to drink so far.
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It's often said of the Trump era that the Republic has drifted into uncharted waters, but the more damning estimation is that we are mindlessly revisiting some of the darker regions of our historical map.
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Any number of people who have spent time on social media can attest to its addictive qualities, which are even apparent in this viral video of a chimpanzee mindlessly scrolling through an Instagram news feed.
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She credits the "steak in a bag" with helping her wean off sugar and carbs, particularly the sort you eat mindlessly when you're trying to be healthy by stashing a granola bar in your bag.
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They had evidently been in the box, and in mindlessly shuffling through the motions after a long day, I had not noticed that they were in my food before ingesting literally half of the bowl.
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But with all the TV in the world to watch, a million Instagram stories to mindlessly swipe through, and a 24/7 onslaught of news to read, standing out from the deafening chaos isn't easy.
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"Instead of mindlessly wasting water, New Year revelers should be mindful of the crushing drought," The Nation newspaper said in an editorial last week calling for "a dry Songkran" to show solidarity with the country's farmers.
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But it was the next speaker Trump called to the mic, the young black conservative comedian Terrence K. Williams, who offered the better framing of defending Trump among those who blindly follow and mindlessly adore him.
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" The California native also wrote, "Let my mistakes be a lesson for those who mindlessly double tap images, memes and videos on any social media content that could be many things including hurtful, degrading, and dehumanizing.
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Without a job to go to, and with a good enough excuse not to, I started to spend money almost mindlessly: I ordered in food twice a day (mostly Bareburger and mostly with the Caviar app).
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" An added bonus: Personal Capital offers adviser tools, including a 401(k) fee analyzer, which Carl says saved him "more than $100,000 by warning me of nasty, high-fee mutual funds that I mindlessly invested in.
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Like the frenzy for buying and wearing bracelets to broadcast one's charitable gestures, there's a queasy, group-think quality to Chiappa's hordes of fried eggs, like good intentions (and ingredients) hurled mindlessly at a trendy cause.
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I remember once heartlessly doing a photo essay on consumers, lurking outside of a Kmart and taking pictures of innocent people coming out with their carts, trying to frame them as miserable pawns mindlessly hording goods.
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Interspersed with such narratives, Soufan offers lucid explanations of a worldview that to casual Western eyes may seem mindlessly nihilistic, but is coherent within its own terms of seeking to establish a caliphate — a theocratic state.
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The ad is off-putting from the start, as a lengthy line of businessmen in blindfolds mindlessly march to their deaths while a hellish version of "Heigh Ho" from Snow White and the Seven Dwarves plays.
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I'm not saying everyone has to follow my New Year's resolutions, but I'm making a big change in 2020: No more mindlessly scrolling social media on my phone when I think have nothing else to do.
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Many of us mindlessly scroll through publications and social media sites every day to "study" what is happening, only to quickly forget all of it, just like the passersby who ignore the billboard in Sugar Water.
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Blake Snell's gonna be smellin' like Budweiser for weeks ... 'cause the Tampa Bay Rays pitcher mindlessly drained 2 beers on himself after the big win Wednesday ... and it was all in the background of an interview!!!
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Don't mindlessly nibble on them, especially late at night in front of the TV. If you haven't pre-portioned them, reach for the box once, count out a serving, and eat them consciously while savoring each bite.
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Click here to view original GIFIf you've ever caught yourself mindlessly staring out of the window while driving through a big city filled with endless buildings, you'll understand the appeal of Lauren Pedrosa's short film, perspective ǝʌᴉʇɔǝdsɹǝԀ.
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They took inspiration from European impressionism rather than mimicking it mindlessly, and refigured it to represent the Australia that was forming around them—creating these impressive works that are now sparking warmth in the cold London winter.
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Increasing stock and bond correlation has investors mindlessly moving in lock step, assuming that what's worked in the past (a mix of 60 percent stocks and 40 percent bonds) will continue to benefit their portfolios going forward.
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Then, in autumn, reality returns, and you to begin thinking about what you're wearing on your bottom half again, instead of just mindlessly throwing on an airy summer dress to avoid severe thigh-sweat on the subway.
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Be wary of bite-size offerings Bite-size appetizers and desserts can quickly add up to hundreds of extra calories, so pay attention and don't mindlessly eat appetizers or load your dessert plate with bite-size desserts.
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I'm still in several IC and Lyme support groups on Facebook, but I try to only read comments on my own posts or posts on specific topics I search for, rather than mindlessly scrolling through the page.
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Global smartphone sales are plateauing for a very obvious reason: Pretty much anyone who can afford one already has one, and increasingly there are questions about whether we are using our phones too much and too mindlessly.
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Normally, my poor writing abilities would excuse me from such assignments, and I would instead spend the class mindlessly copying out passages from books I'd retrieved from a blue plastic bin at the back of the room.
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But if you're hastily buying these stocks with the intent of checking out their fundamentals later — sort of like shooting first and asking questions later — then you're just mindlessly following the bulls and ignoring the bearish case.
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As a person who doesn't wear earrings, but would if I could wear them for a full day without mindlessly removing and misplacing them mid-afternoon, this sounds like the half-chic, half-silly solution to my problems.
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Those addictive new features are packaged in iOS 12 alongside new tools that help you become more aware of your iPhone usage and limit time spent mindlessly scrolling through apps when you could be doing something more productive.
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"Once the Senate completes its work on health care reform, we will turn to other important issues including the National Defense Authorization Act and the backlog of critical nominations that have been mindlessly stalled by Democrats," McConnell said.
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But if you're like me, reality television has never really cut it, and I don't know how to mindlessly have some television on in the background; I'm either watching TV with my whole heart or not at all.
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"This weekend he was once again driving recklessly on the wrong side of the road and mindlessly running over any objects that got in his way," the MSNBC host wrote in an op-ed for The Washington Post.
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More and more, I've found myself sitting at a table where either I am or others are nose-deep in a smartphone looking at who knows what and having outside conversations, browsing Twitter or mindlessly flipping through apps.
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One is the gleaming 21st-century metropolis of the Bloomberg administration's imagination; the other is the deteriorating landscape onto which it was almost mindlessly grafted, one scarred in so many places by the benighted ambitions of Robert Moses.
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"Without a job to go to, and with a good enough excuse not to, I started to spend money almost mindlessly: I ordered in food twice a day (mostly Bareburger and mostly with the Caviar app)," she wrote.
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It must be rubbed in our faces every day, not just on bumper stickers on pick-up trucks or in display windows of beachwear stores, but mindlessly by those we send to state capitals to represent us all.
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Yes, that's speaking hyperbolically, but if you go on Instagram, it's hard not to feel that way, as you can't help but spot an influencer hocking one of these up-and-coming labels while mindlessly scrolling through your feed.
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The point had clearly arrived in my life when I had to decide whether I was willing to pay $2,1493 a year to mindlessly flip through a-hundred-something channels when I was too bored to do anything else.
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While critics thought Facebook was just mindlessly copying Snapchat with its recent Stories and Camera features in Facebook, Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp, Mark Zuckerberg tells TechCrunch his company was just laying the groundwork for today's Camera Effects platform launch.
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Too often, these "brainstorms" would turn into marathon tangents of people volleying complaints or pithy jokes back and forth to one another across the table, while the others in the room sat around mindlessly scrolling through emails and research.
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While the rest of us have been mindlessly double-tapping to plump Kylie's lips, scholars around the world have been grappling with the profound meanings of the Kardashian phenomenon, using the family to probe into our society's deepest pathologies.
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"People tend to mindlessly eat when they're working because they are so time-pressed, but on vacation, when you're rejuvenating yourself, you have the chance to choose your meals with more thought and really savor them," Mr. Pasternak said.
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Malevolently and homicidally persecuted though they were by the F.B.I., the Panthers had become, under Huey Newton, mindlessly cruel and misogynistic gangsters, capable of acts of torture and murder that still haunt the memory of those who witnessed them.
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Read: New protein could help burn fat faster Whether you keep a tidy kitchen or always have fruit an arm's length away, the key is to set up your environment so that you can mindlessly eat in a healthy way.
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"Once the Senate completes its work on healthcare reform, we will turn to other important issues including the National Defense Authorization Act and the backlog of critical nominations that have been mindlessly stalled by Democrats," McConnell said in the statement.
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In the good old days you would have attempted to lull yourself back to sleep by mindlessly scrolling past Instagram posts of friends and composing a whiny "can't sleep" text which you thankfully decided to save to your Drafts folder.
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Even the most budget-conscious consumer can end up mindlessly swiping a credit card to buy groceries that go uneaten, or leaving the A/C on when no one's home, or forgetting to return an ill-fitting shirt on time.
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Set in a sprawling amusement park, it has all of the hallmarks of a great Fallout adventure — fantastic setting, interesting characters, lots of new lore — but unfortunately betrays all the creativity by forcing you to spend hours mindlessly shooting robots.
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Instead of mindlessly flicking open my phone while I was on the train, waiting for an elevator, or taking a beat in between writing, I made a habit of holding the egg while trying to calm and organize my thoughts.
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Metropolitan Diary Dear Diary: I was standing in the checkout line at Trader Joe's, mindlessly looking at a bag of Belgian endive that someone had left in the organic hot cocoa bin and listening to the Smashing Pumpkins on my iPhone.
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Facebook and Instagram, two of the biggest time sucks on the planet, also rolled out time spent notifications and the ability to snooze their apps — new features meant to nudge people to scroll through their apps a little less mindlessly.
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But my kids — in the glassy absorption they display, and their addict's insistence on "another!" whenever the current entertainment concludes — can seem as mindlessly hooked on the narrative technology of the picture book as on the exploits of the PAW Patrol.
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Rather than mindlessly scrolling Amazon or bingeing Netflix shows with our zonked-out after-workday brains, we could spend more time with friends and family, lounge in the park, and learn a language or how to cook a new dish.
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Whether walking mindlessly on the treadmill while watching TV or pushing ourselves in a bootcamp-style class designed to "crush" us, we usually disregard any connection between our mind and body in an attempt to simply get through our exercise.
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As a child, I did puzzles when my siblings fought, or when I was too shy to talk to someone, or when I wanted to mindlessly tell myself stories that I was too timid to present out loud or on paper.
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As a child, I did puzzles when my siblings fought, or when I was too shy to talk to someone, or when I wanted to mindlessly tell myself stories that I was too timid to present out loud or on paper.
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" Yep, you read that right: Pattinson, the person who once told MovieFone that he would "mindlessly hate" Twilight if he didn't star in it (because, err, he wouldn't have gone to see it in the first place), has called the vampire franchise "hip.
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Whether it's requesting an Uber more often than you mean to, stopping by the bodega around the corner every morning or picking up a soda each time you find yourself waiting in a checkout line, it's all too easy to spend mindlessly.
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The law offers "a real chance to renegotiate the terms of engagement between people, their data, and the company," rather than mindlessly clicking through a terms of service agreement, David Carroll, an associate professor of media design at the New School, told Wired.
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You don't know if someone "chose you" because they actually like you, want to chill platonically, actually were approving of another friend shown at the same time or were just mindlessly clicking through after getting an alert to try the confusing feature.
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If so, that will certainly limit the feature's ability to serve as a comprehensive guide to streaming video, but with any luck, Apple TV users will only have to mindlessly browse through a couple services (instead of a dozen) in the future.[Recode]
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If you care about net neutrality, your best bet is to either hope the FCC loses its upcoming court cases, or wait until voters can build a Congress not quite so mindlessly beholden to ISP campaign contributions before crafting such a law.
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Mr. Stiles knew what Tom was hoping for: to sell the infant orangutans to a private collector or unscrupulous zoo, where they are often beaten or drugged into submission and used for entertainment like mindlessly banging on drums or boxing one another.
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It's really neat, and I'm already finding it a much more deliberate and less distracting way of surfing the modern web that doesn't just involve me mindlessly refreshing social feeds and closing and opening various browser tabs like a rat in a maze.
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In a time when everyone seems to want to "support the troops," that's an important distinction to make and remember: You can care for the people in the armed forces without mindlessly endorsing the views and actions of the officials overseeing them.
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On a Pfefferman family trip to Israel, Ali falls in with some radical queers living on a commune in Ramallah (many of whom are white Jews) who patiently indoctrinate her, breaking her free of the casual Zionism her family mindlessly subscribes to.
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The image of metalheads driving and head banging mindlessly might be what it looks like to the outsider, but inside the car it's a place of safety, fellowship, and sometimes heated debate (which Iron Maiden was better: the Bruce Dickinson or Paul Di'Anno version?).
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Today, the NFL trolleyed out its life-sized wax museum figurine of NFL commissioner Roger Goodell to Fox Sports' newest version of Two Dudes Yelling Between a Woman show to have it mindlessly mouth out some high-gloss, PR-friendly language about the league.
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In effect, all pop culture portrayals of 29/211, including those that have mindlessly capitalized on it, serve as an attempt to assign meaning to a horrible event that still feels fresh in the minds of many Americans and has irreversibly shaped the world.
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The fact is, the videos of the left seething and frothing, chanting mindlessly in unison, disrupting Senate proceedings with primal screams, awoke many in the Republican base just in time for the midterms, so much so that now Democrats might not win the House back.
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While the conventional wisdom about young third-party voters is that they are mindlessly throwing their votes away, many of the voters I talked to had thought long and hard about the efficacy of their vote, factoring in the partisanship of their home state.
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Nothing should be removed; everything had to stay; he could not do without the good influence the furniture had on his condition; and if the furniture made it difficult for him to crawl about mindlessly that was not a loss but a great advantage.
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And because YouTube's algorithm can be easily manipulated to continuously surface incrementally similar content designed to mindlessly entertain small children, there's a huge platform-induced incentive to churn out endless, repetitive videos that essentially regurgitate the same content over and over again, with slight variations.
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If you find yourself mindlessly scrolling on your phone or just want to be more productive, you can use the Circle Home Plus to limit the time you spend on your devices and to block specific sites that tend to be time-drains for you.
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Fusing Page Six celebrity with the kiddie fun of emoji, Yung Jake has conjured up a genre that may not be "very deep … or high concept like my other stuff," as he said, and yet one that remains as mindlessly irresistible as a smiley face.
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My ride is usually less than 15 minutes, and I'm trying to get better about using that time for something other than mindlessly browsing social media, so I start an episode of a podcast I've been listening to lately, Revisionist History, and listen to that instead.
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And through the walls of his duplex he can hear the mumble of voices as his son mindlessly scrolls through TikTok, and Seth drops his head in his hands and weeps, silently, fingers tracing their way through his thinning curls, and... uh, you get the picture.
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Today, with landlines a thing of the past, gamers more keen to build in Fortnite and Minecraft than mindlessly kill in Call of Duty, and research indicating that Generation Z may be the most progressive generation ever, the military has had to step up their efforts.
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Instead of scrolling mindlessly, trying to find something that we're both in the mood for, we have an easy option—literally whatever reality TV show presents itself to us, though we do prefer the competition of Ultimate Beastmaster to the drama of a Real Housewives binge.
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See his famous "bottomless bowls" study, which concluded that people will mindlessly guzzle down soup as long as their bowls are automatically refilled, or the "bad popcorn" study, which demonstrated that we'll gobble up stale and unpalatable food when it's presented to us in huge quantities.
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Illuminated (by the reliably excellent Jeanette Oi-Suk Yew) on an otherwise blacked-out set (by Mark Wendland), these heads are all we see: their hair and makeup in bright candy colors (costumes are by Andrea Lauer), their facial expressions mindlessly pleasant whenever a man comes near.
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But like, read a ... One rule that I have for myself, that I'm trying to have for myself, is if I'm looking at a website and kind of like mindlessly doing it, and I hit, like, open a new tab and type in the same website again.
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There was also Wansink's famous "bottomless bowls" study, which concluded that people will mindlessly guzzle down soup as long as their bowls are automatically refilled, and his "bad popcorn" study, which demonstrated that we'll gobble up stale and unpalatable food when it's presented to us in huge quantities.
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It was a perfect game for a long, lazy weekend where I could mindlessly run around a hauntingly beautiful, disaster-stricken New York wasteland, listening to the sound of automatic weapons fire reverberating off the silent buildings, and diving for cover amidst the detritus of an interrupted holiday season.
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You have become the most numerous generation in America, and companies are bending over backward to hire you, to sell to you, to catch your eye for just a fraction of a second before you resume scrolling mindlessly through the Instagram feed of someone you neither know nor like.
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Real people don't move like that unless they're mindlessly following instructions handed to them by a higher authority that they assume has the capacity to provide them with answers to satisfy their own insecurities, in a sense projecting personal social voids and fears onto a wider public stage.
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If we take everyday life "as a moral and social space" in which "our common humanity is created and sustained," then we must take responsibility not only for what we produce and put into the world but also for how we consume — passively and mindlessly, or actively and critically.
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"The bulk of the academic research out there tells us that — what is beneficial for wellbeing and what might not be — is whether [social media use] is intentional, whether it's active engagement, or whether you're sort of passively, mindlessly scrolling on the screen," said David Ginsberg, director of research at Facebook.
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It's not that I'm a complete germaphobe, but I do have super sensitive skin that freaks out any time I even consider letting my roommate borrow an eyeshadow palette — so mindlessly swiping on communal lipstick used by 138 other people before me is not my idea of a fun time.
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In all likelihood, you've done this at some point (or do it on the regular): Open your Facebook app, mindlessly scroll through your friends' posts, and "like" anything that remotely looks like a cute baby, cute puppy, engagement or pregnancy announcement, or political view that makes you go, Well, DUH.
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But if you have open time and you don't ask yourself, what would make me happy — if you just spend that time mindlessly on Twitter because your phone is in your hand — then maybe this is your chance to ask what you want to do with that time that is meaningful.
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Credit Transportation Security Agency, via European Pressphoto Agency Anyone annoyed at long airport security lines and picayune-seeming inspectors should be grateful that watchful agents of the Transportation Security Administration have been confiscating guns at an unfortunately record pace from travelers who mindlessly pack them in their carry-on bags.
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Smartphone games come close to filling that need, but sometimes I just want to mindlessly mash buttons for a couple of minutes, hitting home runs or beating up baddies, without having to worry about killing my phone's battery, waiting for app updates, or all the other distractions of modern gaming.
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Led by one of Sesay's heroines, a spirited young woman named Priscilla, some girls carry out small but effective acts of resistance — screaming all night, refusing to bathe or to marry their captors — minirebellions that their abductors (for the most part less mindlessly vicious than their fictional counterparts) find unnerving.
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Since 2014, when she mindlessly posted her debut single on SoundCloud — the first song she ever cut, written in the makeshift basement studio of a relative stranger — Halsey has sold out arenas, dabbled in everything from K-pop to country, and scored a No. 1 hit on the Billboard Hot 100.
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I am not suggesting some guns aren't better at the business of mindlessly killing a small army of people during a bank robbery—there are plenty of guides that will point you towards the very best slaughtering machines—but I am saying the game makes no effort to make me care.
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If Facebook was able to measure our active versus passive time on its app and impress the health difference, it could start to encourage us to either put down the app or use it to communicate directly with friends when we find ourselves mindlessly scrolling the feed or enviously viewing people's photos.
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Vitaminwater likes challenging monotony, Suarez, the company's associate brand manager, tells CNBC Make It. "We don't think there's anything more boring than mindlessly scrolling through your phone, and this is an opportunity to take that stance against routine and give someone $100,000 to do something uniquely awesome with their time," she says.
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Putting on a nice dress, dancing with my husband, and mindlessly picking bacon-wrapped scallops off a tray as I clink glasses with other adults sounds like a great way to spend a Saturday night — and a scenario that would not be improved upon in the least if children were introduced into it.
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Moscow preferred stability at all costs, while the United States "mercilessly and mindlessly betrays allies for the sake of theoretical dogmatism," Yevgeny Satanovsky, a Russian academic, wrote in the same journal, noting that these policies often lead to support of Islamic fundamentalists, who are even more at odds with America's purported values.
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I was reminded how much we've all clenched up, how much we all now seem to be members of this or that cult — fearful of saying something "wrong," fearful of provoking a Twitter backlash, mindlessly repeating the clichés that signal to others that we are faithfully staying within the barricades of our tribe.
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He was one of the flagship artists of Rawkus Records, teaming up with Mos Def to form Black Star and DJ Hi-Tek as Reflection Eternal, as well as releasing a string of solo records which were mindlessly given labels such as "conscious" or "coffee-shop" (a term which never really made any sense).
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It exemplifies exactly the kind of global cooperation U.S. presidents, Republican and Democrat alike, have sought since the end of World War II. It's in our interest to work with other nations, not mindlessly shatter hard-won global consensus in favor of some rudderless Lord of the Flies approach where it's every country for itself.
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I could almost believe that "The Layover" was written in a fit of frenzied annoyance during an endless flight delay, the kind that does indeed find your mind boiling with vicious thoughts: about the woman beside you chattering mindlessly on her phone, the unhelpful flight attendant, your own misguided choices and — yeah, them, too!
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So instead of enacting reforms, Republicans have taken to using what tools they have to hack away mindlessly at the ACA: gutting the individual mandate, then saying that without an individual mandate pre-existing protections have to be torn up, all while simultaneously reassuring voters that actually they care a lot about pre-existing protections.
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In its purest form -- that is, plain air-popped kernels -- it's a healthy, whole-grain, antioxidant-rich snack food that comes at a pretty low-calorie cost for those who like to mindlessly nibble: A three-cup serving of air-popped popcorn has only 753 calories, 1 gram of fat and close to 4 grams of fiber.
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Daryl Tearne, an industrial designer who's worked at Spin Master for over ten years now, was waiting for a flight at Los Angeles' LAX airport and while mindlessly staring at the ground crews going about their routines on the tarmac, he was captivated by one of the specialized machines that's used to load giant cargo containers onto planes.
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You have to learn how to interact with and monitor such systems, as well as things like GPS navigation devices, lest you end up like the people profiled in a recent New York Times article, who mindlessly followed the computer's instructions until they found themselves plunging off a bridge or going hundreds of miles off course.
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But beyond the familiar tropes, every episode of Law & Order: SVU or NCIS mindlessly consumed after work or on a weekend afternoon is also a vehicle for a particular understanding of law enforcement: a police-know-best mind-set that takes all of the mess and violence of our criminal legal system and packages it for tidy consumption.
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The opinions expressed in these commentaries are those of the authors Paul Begala: Buttigieg was the winner After spending all day watching Republican congressmen (and one Republican congresswoman) during the impeachment hearings mindlessly denying the Everest of evidence of Donald Trump's alleged criminality, the Democratic debate was like a wake-up call from the real world.
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Sometimes, a life-conquering crush just derails your week or month or, well, life — you'll find yourself googling them and mindlessly scrolling pages of image results, or watching the late night show you can't stand just because they're on it for five minutes, or just thinking about them saying "Climb in my fur" every damn day.
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As brutal as they are coy, as mindlessly fun as they are bleakly depressing, these films — including the newest installment of the franchise, The Purge: Election Year — attempt to weave a dark, urgent morality play around the story of a dystopian America that allows its citizens to enact terrifying violence on each other for one night each year, known as Purge Night.
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Order the food you really want, but try to check in with yourself as you go rather than mindlessly shoveling it into your face, as that'll make it easier to stop when you're full (I accept that this is easier said than done, though, as I often find myself noticing I'm full but wanting to carry on because it's just so damn delicious).
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Deprived of meaning and identity in a mindlessly nihilistic world of consumerism, our antihero resorts to bloodshed as a way to assert his individualism in a sea of identical collectible building blocks: That we are drawn to root for him despite the carnage and mayhem he leaves behind says far more about our own quest for mindless entertainment than his thirst for destruction.
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The "you" that Amazon the online retailer sees right now is the you that buys a 30-pack of something stupid at four in the morning, the you that mindlessly puts expensive things that you never plan on buying in your cart, and the you that inexplicably buys a large quantity of cardboard boxes one day (it's because you're moving apartments, but Amazon doesn't know this).
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Reacting mindlessly to the election of Donald Trump with fewer popular votes than Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonThe exhaustion of Democrats' anti-Trump delusions Poll: Trump trails three Democrats by 10 points in Colorado Soft levels of support mark this year's Democratic primary MORE in 2016 has driven the left to sponsor a program that could create catastrophic outcomes for our presidential elections in the future.
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So we have, essentially, an ancient shoe that was taken from Japanese culture, popularized in other nations around the world, stripped of its heritage, and today both bastardized with Minions imprints as well as by losers who mindlessly call the entire genre of shoe disgusting because, at some point in their pitiful lives, they heard someone else call them disgusting, and they just repeated it.
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At first, you'll be like, "Oh, this is ridiculous, this is just ... everyone feels this way," but if you actually start thinking about the questions, they're just talking about how do you feel when you step away from your phone, how often is it a part of your place setting at meals, do you mindlessly pass time on your phone, things like that will be like obviously yes.
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Much is being said of Andrew Sullivan's article in The Atlantic, "Democracies end when they are too democratic," in which Sullivan expresses his fear that presumptive Republican nominee 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 is the future tyrant the mob will elect, mindlessly unaware of the consequences.
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I personally don't want anything to change about my way of life and the tech around me, sure, faster internet, easier means of transportation, and robot helpers Sound nice, but if we get too used to those innovations and never do any work of our own we may as well end up like the people from Wall-E, mindlessly floating around on our hover chairs with our lazy bodies having their every need catered to by a computer.
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