I do some more mindless tasks like applying payments and sending out insurance claims.
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As media use becomes more mindless, it may become harder to track by self-report alone.
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I take off my clothes, throw on a robe, and settle into my couch for some more mindless Glee viewing.
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On the other hand, laptop notes lead to more mindless transcription and open up more opportunities to check Facebook and get distracted.
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And if you're into more mindless action flicks, be sure to stick around for the recommendations in the second half of the video.
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While scrolling through TikTok, users are immediately immersed into a video, which makes a user more immediately dialed-in, rather than a more mindless scrolling.
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When Amazon started selling its Dash buttons in 2015, it seemed like an April Fools' joke—an empire built on making everything stupidly easy to purchase somehow made it even easier and more mindless for users to get the dopamine rush of consumerism and order something with a literal touch of a button.
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These models had a humanoid form, with exposed electronics in their chest cavity for easy battlefield maintenance. The right forearm could be equipped with a flamethrower, laser cannon, gripper claw, or standard robotic hand. Doctor Mindbender has overseen subsequent modifications and customization of the B.A.Ts, including a streamlined appearance, increased targeting accuracy, and modular missile launcher systems. Though they have become more mindless with each successive design, their manufacturing process and weapons systems are continually being upgraded.
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The novel begins with Hoke Moseley's having retired from the Miami police force to work at his father Frank Moseley's hardware store in Riviera Beach, Florida in exchange for a free apartment at the beach on Singer Island and a small paycheck. He makes himself useful by organizing the store and cleaning up, though he does not want to interact with customers in his new simplified life. In the wake of his career with the Miami police department, the more mindless the task, the better Hoke likes it. Hoke has simplified and streamlined his life with a very strict and frugal regimen.
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As time goes on in-universe, characters note that the Crossed have apparently been developing new habits. Some Crossed have been shown to be quite capable of complex pre-meditated actions. Not consumed by unthinking bloodlust to the extent that many of the other infected are, they have enough mental wherewithal to plan ambushes and traps, and organize gangs of Crossed to assault survivor enclaves. The more mindless rage-consumed Crossed will still know how to use firearms if they find them, but usually won't think rationally enough to plan out where to acquire more firearms.
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Some of the heaviest fighting took place at the north end of Kohima Ridge, around the Deputy Commissioner's bungalow and tennis court, in what became known as the Battle of the Tennis Court. The tennis court became a no man's land, with the Japanese and the defenders of Kohima dug in on opposite sides, so close to each other that grenades were thrown between the trenches. The American historians Alan Millet and Williamson Murray wrote about the fighting at Kohima between the Japanese vs. the Anglo-Indian troops: "Nowhere in World War II – even on the Eastern Front – did the combatants fight with more mindless savagery".
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The Battle of Kohima was a fiercely fought battle as Murray and Millet wrote: "Nowhere in World War II – even on the Eastern Front – did the combatants fight with more mindless savagery", but Kohima held. As late as 1 June 1944, Field Marshal Alan Brooke, the Chief of the Imperial General Staff, wrote in his diary that he saw "disaster staring us in the face" in Assam, but Slim was more self-confident, believing he could smash the Japanese attempt to take India. While the Japanese were able to advance and encircle the formations of British 14th Army, they were unable to defeat those same forces or break out of the jungles along the Indian frontier. The Japanese advance stalled.
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Mitchell was generally panned by critics upon its release. In The New York Times, Vincent Canby wrote: > Mitchell, starring Joe Don Baker as a hard-nosed Los Angeles detective named > Mitchell, has a lot of over-explicit violence, some gratuitous sex stuff and > some rough language, yet it looks like a movie that couldn't wait to get to > prime-time television. Perhaps it's a pilot film for a TV series, or maybe > it's just a movie that's bad in a style we associate with some of the more > mindless small-screen entertainments. Mitchell spends what seems to be the > greater part of the film climbing in and out of automobiles, driving > automobiles, chasing other automobiles, parking automobiles, and leaning > against the body of automobiles that are temporarily at rest.
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