But at least we're not mindless sheep—unless, of course, we are mindless sheep, who are great. ♦
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Leitch's action sequences don't rely on mindless punching or grating dubstep music cues — unless he's making a point about mindless punching and grating dubstep music cues.
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When you're looking for a show to fill a few mindless afternoons (or a whole winter's worth of mindless afternoons), it's important to know what exactly you're looking for.
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Collectibles in Astro Bot are a rewarding joy, not mindless.
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Getting ready for such a romantic evening should be mindless.
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This somehow kept him from turning into a mindless zombie.
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But this show is not guilty of mindless, detached voyeurism.
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Industry and mindless consumerism intertwined to create our current state.
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It's important to note that ZONZO isn't just mindless crassness.
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Instead, it's going to free us of repetitive mindless work.
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The nightly entertainment, too, is easy and bright and mindless.
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Largely because technology could take mindless tasks off our hands.
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It's almost like a mindless trance I get put into.
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It'll mostly be formatting clean up, so kind of mindless.
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Fidget spinners are a fun, relaxing fount of mindless entertainment.
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Politics has become so mindless I'm almost ready to watch soccer.
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Like any good supercar, it's designed for driving, not mindless transportation.
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Reflection has led me to far better perspectives than mindless swiping.
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To me it's a satisfying mix of adventure and mindless pleasure.
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Within a few years time these mindless enemies became an institution.
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It&aposs not like his mindless or they just want violence.
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When we're mindless, the past is riding herd over the present.
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The muscles are really just kind of like the mindless meat.
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We know it's mindless eating and we barely register the food.
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"Some shows are there to create drama, mindless entertainment," he said.
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Such mindless mythologizing of Chinese artists is in no way rare.
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There is a transgressive thrill to how Tony punctures mindless niceties.
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This can also help you avoid mindless nibbling during stressful work.
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Soon I will only need Bravo for mindless hung-over chatter.
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However, what your cohorts are doing is not mindless, tactless talk.
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That's just enough for a couple hours of fairly mindless entertainment.
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Exposely set up three garbage content sites with mindless slide shows—14
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So instead they're whipping their supporters into a frenzy of mindless rage.
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However, mindless web surfing can quickly sap you of that precious data.
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Besides performing mindless tasks, how else has gaming given you an advantage?
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Whoever took the flags may have been "mindless vandals," the post said.
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Whenever you need mindless distraction and unrealistic positivity, Love Actually is there.
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Finally, distractibility is found in both conditions, and manifests as mindless munching.
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We're seeing fewer mindless shoot-em-ups and more contemplative spirit quests.
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Many dead, including women and children, in mindless CHEMICAL attack in Syria.
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Colouring offers a time to unwind and do a mindless, relaxing activity.
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Colouring offers a time to unwind and do a mindless, relaxing activity.
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Don't get me wrong, you're not "mindless" if you work until 65.
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"The Dead Don't Die" was called mindless by a slew of critics.
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Mindless hedonism, simply for the sake of it—no substance, just substances.
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We suggest that computer science is the opposite of mindless screen time.
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It's sad, because mindless chit-chat is all we have to offer.
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And with this mindless authoritarianism, it consolidated its worst fear: Kurdish nationalism.
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The work is mindless and Harry Style's Watermelon Sugar is on repeat.
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The flesh-eating dead, at least, come together in mindless self-interest.
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The plan below can save you countless hours of mindless phone time.
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The Left just repeats it again and again, but it is mindless.
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The sun is shining and the sky is an empty, mindless blue.
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Imagine what that extra hour of mindless scrolling is doing to it.
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" "Many dead, including women and children, in mindless CHEMICAL attack in Syria.
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My first job in the industry was extremely entry-level, repetitive, and mindless.
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Mindless hobbyism, according to his CIA holders, or the mark of a maker.
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We keep on Beauty & the Briefcase as mindless background TV while we talk.
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This really keeps my mindless swiping addiction in check and my confidence high.
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And increasingly, Facebook is being derided for addicting people to mindless feed scrolling.
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Mindless doodles take on a new life when they're framing my daily checklist.
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Mindless button-mashing is a great way to kill time on a commute.
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Plus, eating while working is a mindless habit that can make you overeat.
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I will say, though, that what little I have seen is mostly mindless.
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"It was extremely bad basketball, mindless basketball," Pistons coach Stan Van Gundy said.
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Kinda mindless, in my opinion at least, except for a couple of them.
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They are not merely random victims of mindless murder, but casualties of war.
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"Most of the decisions we make when we eat are mindless," Kass said.
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But it's just my mindless tactile activity, that doesn't require any linguistic thinking.
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Usmani wasn't grabbing coffee and performing mindless busywork typical to traditional internship programs.
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They appear mindless, floating around with the possibility of landing on a cell.
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Once I started spending only what I had, my spending became less mindless.
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Remove this mindless constraint, and the market should immediately start to perk up.
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My days off are spent mostly horizontal and as mindless as humanly possible.
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If they disregard it, we'll likely face many more years of mindless policies.
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Of course people who would follow such a leader are mindless, delusional whack jobs.
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"I was like a mindless shell," she recounted to PEOPLE in an exclusive interview.
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I do some more mindless tasks like applying payments and sending out insurance claims.
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Looking down, these brains (and their mindless modules) see a body attached to them.
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A task that used to seem about as mindless as a task can be.
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For one, eating during the evening often goes hand in hand with mindless nibbling.
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But we can all probably agree that less mindless scrolling is a good thing.
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I wasn't just mindless entertainment anymore—I became an artist with something to say.
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Overwatch feels a lot different when you're gunning down an army of mindless robots.
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I have no excuse — other than the fact that mindless television relaxes my brain.
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Cast aside mindless shopping: the environment and your wardrobe will thank you for it.
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The EU's budget has often been a byword for mindless subsidy and unnecessary centralisation.
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Platforms like YouTube often embody the "fast web": deep, black voids of mindless entertainment.
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I first consumed traditional music from all over the world mindlessly, just mindless searching.
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So goes the mindless modern conversation — a constant assertion of the scarcity of time.
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This sort of mindless inflation disgusts Doig, who gets virtually nothing from auction sales.
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By noticing different ways to view the problem, you move from mindless to mindful.
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The message from all these terrorists is similar: This is not just mindless violence.
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But the magic with them is they're not so mindless as to be illegitimate.
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It's this mindless brand of fun that attracted Marshall to Buffett's way of life.
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For those in the mood for a mindless, trashy flick, it's just the ticket.
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One of the most deadly things about the Arachnids was how mindless they seem.
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"Many dead, including women and children, in mindless CHEMICAL attack in Syria," Trump tweeted.
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Our lives are dominated by mundane affairs now — hectic schedules, family logistics, mindless tasks.
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It's a kind of mindless categorizing; if you're one thing, you can't be another.
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These automatic savings will stack up faster than you may think and investing mindless.
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My attitude was to not give a shit and just enjoy the mindless beat.
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There are a handful of shows that are attempting to be more than mindless drivel.
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Makes sense: The matchy-matchy technique is incredibly chic, totally mindless, and delivers instant polish.
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Bieber goes on to explain that the mindless perusal of your feed is actually trap.
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"Many dead, including women and children, in mindless CHEMICAL attack in Syria," he tweeted Sunday.
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"It's a very dangerous world and it's time for more unity and less mindless division."
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If they rethought their mindless progressivism and realize that limited government is a good thing.
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It also show how players can harness the mindless hordes of zombies to their advantage.
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"Social media" is a clumsy term that entangles enriching social interaction with mindless media consumption.
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The not-drinking did a lot to curb eating mindless junk calories late at night.
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Plus, I bet you're looking at sharks differently now, not as mindless, meat-eating machines.
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Much of this activity involves mindless scrolling through the News Feed and its prolific notifications.
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Even if you are, there is still mindless enjoyment to be found in Tomb Raider.
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I could call an old friend, chat about mindless gossip as I waited to board.
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Something about always having another boy band singing mindless pop restores my faith in tomorrow.
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Contrary to scornful liberal characterizations, conservative media consumers are not mindless robots manipulated by hosts.
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Everyone's got a favorite, and we cling to our loyalties out of sheer mindless stubbornness.
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It means enduring mindless slaughter, but it's in service of what's supposedly the greater good.
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Gamblers prefer casinos to playing the ponies: slot machines are mindless; handicapping races takes study.
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Even when I have multiple hours, I've still found myself sometimes drawn to mindless runs.
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How could any human being survive so much sexism, hypocrisy, mindless hate, and male fury?
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If his mindless destruction can succeed here, our entire economy could become the collateral damage.
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Many people have deleted the Facebook app from their phone to avoid this mindless habit.
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Tribalism, he wrote by email, is not a mindless and eternal "us versus them" mentality.
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"Many dead, including women and children, in mindless CHEMICAL attack in Syria," Mr. Trump wrote.
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I bond well with other people while I eat because eating is a mindless task.
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Think flat, rootless preseason tuneups, or international friendlies, where mindless waves sweep through indifferent crowds.
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That (usually mindless) sign-off creates a contract between the app company and the user.
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Look, we're never going to knock mindless entertainment, especially with all the *everything* going on.
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If you're doing something mindless with your partner, like watching TV, just focus on that.
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Hayden isn't the mindless drone or sinister spy boss that his harshest detractors might believe.
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The combat system quickly devolves into mindless tapping, while the game does the heavy lifting.
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The immersive game exists at the intersection of subtle cultural commentary and mindless time-waster.
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There are armies of mindless human-drones, deadly robot sentries, murderous water nymphs and worse still.
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As media use becomes more mindless, it may become harder to track by self-report alone.
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American women overcame the mindless policy that deprived them of the right to vote in America.
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Rather, their internal circuitry and processes are being triggered by external stimuli, making them mindless automatons.
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They deliver on mindless happy romance that doesn't leave a bad, anxious taste in my mouth.
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If it's possible to have too much mindless fun at a film festival, I've done it.
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In order to survive in this crazy world, we all need an occasional lighthearted, mindless escape.
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"It's not sensible or reasonable for any person to be completely mindless about investment," he said.
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" The girl mimicked dozens of voices, mindless and repetitive as birdsong: "It's not really a baby.
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None of this is a serious knock on Uprising, a film that utterly defines mindless fun.
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Mindless militancy was for Trotskyists, like the ones who reigned at the Cowley plant, near Oxford.
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Playing mindless games felt somehow beneath me, a New York City graduate student, at the time.
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When it's mindless, there's less satisfaction with your food, which can cause you to eat more.
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When mindless consumption is traded for mindful consumerism, we create ethics where there previously were none.
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We think this helps guard against fake news and mindless scrambles for friends or unworthy distractions.
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I know the banter, the bravado, sometimes it gets carried away and people say mindless things.
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The backstory is frightful -- filled with mindless decisions executed with minimal knowledge and potentially catastrophic results.
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MGA relaunched Bratz with the latest mindless lingo of corporate-friendly girl power in a box.
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After a few minutes of mindless swiping, I have about 20 matches and six unprompted messages.
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It seems like a mindless job where you're merely moving data from one place to another.
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Do not waste it working at some mindless job; create happy living on your own terms.
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Don't say that they are mindless because they don't do what you think people should do.
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JG: Another thing I like about Rocket League is it's so mindless as to be soothing.
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Playing a slot machine can be mindless and is usually a guaranteed win for the casino.
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Endless scrolling and mindless channel flipping can drain you of mental strength for a few reasons.
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It can be very entertaining in a goofy, mindless manner, and just as often very confusing.
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"Many dead, including women and children, in mindless CHEMICAL attack in Syria," Trump wrote on Twitter.
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It also could be wasted on mindless consumer spending such as clothing, electronics or even drugs.
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Spending time on mindless tasks allowed the mind to wander and be more creative, researchers found.
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Timothy Egan When you bite into a piece of fruit, it should be a mindless pleasure.
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I like having a chunk of time during the day where I do something completely mindless.
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The urge to expand the story beyond the constant flight from mindless flesh-munchers is understandable.
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I had to work with Bobby, but otherwise I preferred painting, which was mindless and voiding.
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So bring on the classic popcorn flick — fun and mostly mindless with a touch of camp.
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Ubisoft is also intent on showing that Primal's prehistoric characters weren't mindless primitives or vicious death machines.
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Depp's lawyers have argued that what some have labeled as mindless spending have actually been shrewd investments.
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The trick here, though, is that this isn't mindless wandering or an ode to the city's nightlife.
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And the game doesn't demand you check in each day for bonus items and mindless busy work.
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Replace mindless chatter about commuting times with a conversation about our weightiest beliefs and most potent fears?
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Obeying the impulse to spread the fungal infection to new hosts, the infected become mindless biting machines.
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Black Mirror has a frustrating tendency to treat characters as mindless dupes seduced by blatantly creepy technology.
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But the post only suggests highly indirect ways of addressing mindless consumption, rather than any purposeful interventions.
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Johnson: This is all hypothetical, of course, and we don't want to come across as mindless cheerleaders.
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With a sweater, jeans, and ankle boots, I've got a mindless daily uniform that doesn't feel sloppy.
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"Well, you know, mindless killing machines in general, let's avoid those, because that's unfortunate," said Havens, laughing.
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For as scheming as Cottonmouth and Dillard can be, they employ some surprisingly entry-level, mindless goons.
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I wrote 75 songs in six months because I wasn't using my mind staring at mindless s—.
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It sounds good, but an across-the-board federal hiring freeze is a mindless way to manage.
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We seem to kill predators out of mindless, even primordial antipathy, rather than for any good reason.
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Much white-collar work has become similar to assembly-line work, comprising a series of mindless tasks.
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"The alt-right is too sophisticated to be mistaken for a mindless knee-jerk reaction," they write.
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The work was so mindless and grueling that people quit in droves, forcing Ford to double wages.
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It is a monument to the mindless consumption of material goods and waste that plague the world.
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I think Facebook has been very frustrated at the amount of mindless video-watching on the site.
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A medium once so blissfully mindless that people called it the Idiot Box has become an unsolvable puzzle.
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I'll just be on my way to my 9 to 5 desk job, mindless drone that I am.
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He's like a shark, driven not by mindless hunger but by an elaborate malevolence — evil, if you will.
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To combat mindless snacking, parents need establish a predictable meal schedule and offer a variety of healthy foods.
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"Our team loves the simplicity and the mindless-saving-is-effective-saving aspect to the program," Max said.
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But the idea of trying to compromise with a pure, mindless, almost virus-like evil sounds laughable. Right?
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I have super mindless work to do this afternoon, so I keep Instant Hotel running in the background.
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He said it's "absolutely mindless" for a president not to have confidence in or listen to intelligence agencies.
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I eat my food while reading mindless articles on Buzzfeed and then continue to work for a bit.
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The News Feed is meant for rapid, near-mindless scrolling; video is meant for intent, lean-back viewing.
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It falls into the category of the ephemeral and of mindless fun — something that has always been popular.
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The goal of feminists, however, is to impose a mindless equality, regardless of how many people it hurts.
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But mostly, they ramp up the monsters and send them out on a frenzy of mindless CGI destruction.
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It's so important to keep your mind alert and sharp instead of just falling into life's mindless routines.
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The mindless cartoon noise mesmerizing kids on YouTube might be the best visual example of that argument yet.
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You may not be able to automate the whole process, but you can make the first action mindless.
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In Inside, you play as a mysterious little boy who resembles the mindless husks that populate the world.
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They're stories shared, repeated and elaborated on over mindless women's work like spinning or mending or shucking corn.
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You're just looking at something, and I don't know what to call it — 'That (expletive) Duck' — mindless art.
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You're sitting by yourself, doing something a little mindless, not talking to somebody on Facebook or in person.
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These are the kind of mindless moves that hamstring the Democratic Party's ability to gain or retain power.
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If choreography is not the organizing principle behind ballet, the art becomes a mindless vehicle for unguided dancers.
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Understand: White supremacy is as much about mindless habits of white privilege as it is about active beliefs.
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Many insisted that housework was mindless drudgery and that fulfillment could be found only outside of the home.
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Mr. Trump has always said stuff like this, things that are self-contradictory or untrue or breathtakingly mindless.
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The price was endless, mindless hours in a holding room, a hotel hallway or a White House van.
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I don't want to spend hours customizing my home, or tending to the latest endless and mindless task.
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"People think sharks are mindless killing machines," but that's not how they behave in the wild, he said.
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I was working, parenting, loving, emailing, and exercising in a sort of mindless way, just doing and doing.
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As detailed in James Bridle's piece on Medium, the result is something that often feels mindless and meaningless.
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Anyone who would join a cult—meaning most Republican lawmakers and voters, in this context—must be rather mindless.
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The paper said Putin accused liberal governments of pursuing a mindless multiculturalism and embracing sexual diversity, among others things.
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She also conducted some of the earliest research into shark behavior, showing they're more than just mindless killing machines.
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" Ramsey, a shark conservationist, posted pictures and video of the encounter to show great whites are not "mindless monsters.
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It's attractive only insofar as it inevitably attracts the eye — but it's mindless decoration for absolutely no user benefit.
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It could be easy for an outsider to imagine these women as mindless drones, dutifully fulfilling their wifely roles.
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You coasted through school doing the least amount of work possible and filled your free time with mindless garbage.
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Stereotypes about North Koreans being a nation of mindless slaves or communist apparatchiks undoubtedly persist in the US too.
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While that idea was widely debunked, the grain of truth there is that mindless spending can make you broke.
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And instead of mindless cheerleading accompanying every startup pitch we'll get a lot more Bodega fury wake-up calls.
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" The sub headline says, "Clown comes back to life with N.H. win as mindless zombies turn out in droves.
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Cyclists have been training indoors for decades, but they've mostly endured hours of mindless spinning as a last resort.
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"Steve" changes that by offering a mindless time-waster of a game requiring little commitment on the user's part.
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It's managed to tread a line between total head-up-arse thinking-beats and mindless taps-aff kick drums.
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Where we could be pushing people to try something demanding, we're instead telling them to go for what's mindless.
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The line "Yet Brutus says [Caesar] was ambitious" is repeated, too, suggesting a mindless toeing of the party line.
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There was just no way I was going to be confined in close quarters underground(!) with these mindless people!
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But they are aimed at creating the public perception that the EU is a vast edifice of mindless regulation.
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But India is being hampered by mindless overuse and, in many places, a lack of sensible water-allocation policies.
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I could have used the time for my piano practice, but I wasted it on a mindless scroll-fest!
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If you said to most people, "what does techno mean," most people will think of mindless, drug fuelled music.
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These jobs are purposefully mindless mini-games, consisting of everything from knocking coconuts out of trees to mowing lawns.
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"Many dead, including women and children, in mindless CHEMICAL attack in Syria," Mr. Trump wrote on Twitter on Sunday.
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Computer science is the problem solving and critical thinking necessary to create and design with technology, not mindless consumption.
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These mindless stabs at narrative make a bizarre basis for what is evidently meant to be cutting-edge stagecraft.
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" Mr. McConnell contends that he was forced into this by Democrats' "mindless, undiscriminating obstruction for the sake of obstruction.
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Whatever the answer, it seems that striking the first blow keeps the American cockroach from becoming a mindless zombie.
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I organize some of our tax documents, then watch mindless Netflix while grading student work before going to bed.
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The coworker from earlier and I have lunch together in the kitchen so no mindless social media scrolling today.
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In "Jesus Rolls," you stand in for Depardieu, the mindless mastermind, and Bobby Cannavale is your partner in crime.
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Unfortunately, The Incredible Hulk never gets there, and by the end has reduced him to a mindless CGI monster.
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Cooking at home can boost your budget and there may be psychological benefits to doing mindless activities like chopping.
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Now, even without app blockers, I can stay away from mindless online haunts without worrying that I'm missing out.
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Burns is a booster of most Americans as individuals, but he is rarely a mindless booster of America itself.
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But more important is my how: For me, that how is a combination of increasing my mindless saving (more on that below); decreasing my mindless spending (also more on that below); and eating out less, because that is by far the most consequential portion of my budget that I can directly control.
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For Romans — and so many start-up entrepreneurs — there's quite a different between mindless political insurrection and productive economic innovation.
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Conclusion: It's true: Eating more vegetables and protein will make you feel fuller longer, so you'll do less mindless snacking.
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"Having different hydration options is smart to distract you from mindless snacking when sticking to a meal curfew," Blatner says.
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Biden also said it's "absolutely mindless" for a president not to have confidence in or listen to the intelligence agencies.
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The small curious crowd then dispersed, reminded—he hoped—of the transience of art and the mindless violence of man.
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Dan Mazer's crude, mindless "Dirty Grandpa" is like watching a friend's mediocre improv troupe do an extended spring-break sketch.
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You see it in the press, the obsession with mindless listicles that have all the staying power of a Popsicle.
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But we're trying to teach people that sharks aren't mindless killing machines, that sharks are interesting and do interesting things.
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With the 40 or so pages, were they trying to make up for mindless choices in the previous nearly 400?
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Talk to them about the dangers of mindless scrolling, and how passively consuming information correlates to higher levels of depression.
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We must plan for the future and figure out how we'll reconstruct the party of Lincoln amid this mindless wreckage.
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It seemed like the perfect mindless thing to watch when stuck on a couch with a faucet for a nose.
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Syrian government news said it was "American aggression": Many dead, including women and children, in mindless CHEMICAL attack in Syria.
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Either way, we can all probably agree that swiping through potential matches has become as mindless as brushing your teeth.
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And while acting like an uncompromising ideologue isn't necessarily a virtue, it beats being a racist or mindless partisan cheerleader.
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They're just mindless creatures driven by instinct, and if that means bursting through a few chests, than so be it.
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When on comfort mode, the R8 is smooth, quiet and capable of a mindless ride in stop and go traffic.
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Running around in Zomburbia while blasting AI-controlled foes — either as a Plant or a Zombie — is great, mindless fun.
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Semantics aside, this video of a "mindless piece of destruction" by The Slow Mo Guys is certainly enjoyable to watch.
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Mindless mobs of citizens are manipulated and led into street protests, well organized behind the scenes, that often turn violent.
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Trump supporters are also fed up with the kind of mindless political correctness that leads to truly idiotic policy-making.
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By Episode 3, "Wrecked" is what it wants to be: An enjoyably mindless comedy well suited to the carefree months.
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The mindless "we're No. 1!" attitude does nothing to help us at home or improve our standing in the world.
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Whatever device you choose, sous vide cooking will be a big step up from microwave dinners — yet almost as mindless.
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In the age of COVID-19, The Circle is the dumb, mindless, but somehow still heartwarming content we desperately need.
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It's just moving someone from a mindless place to one where they are more mindful about their relationship to technology.
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This process is already devolving into the sort of mindless partisan war that causes Americans to be disgusted with Washington.
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By the time Prince George became regent, he was already a national joke and hugely disliked for his mindless excess.
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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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If you're doing something with your partner, even if it's something as mindless as watching TV, focus on that alone.
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It was a kind thing to do, not to punish the dog because its owner was a mindless young fool.
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Muth suggests that parents limit their children's access to unhealthy foods to minimize mindless eating in response to online ads.
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The zombies in Dawn of the Dead underscore the fears of capitalism and mindless consumption that racked the late 22013s.
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The one that made us fall in love with doing mindless tasks for thankless, virtual pets for the very first time?
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It's usually a very mindless experience for me, but AKT Mixer was the opposite; it required my full attention and coordination.
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But, that does not mean we cannot make personal changes to our lives to counteract the macro level of mindless living.
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It would be a mistake to assume those in this burgeoning occupy movement are mindless anarchists hellbent on nothing but destruction.
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It was more like mindless meat-stabbing and after five endless minutes she went: 'Are you looking for anything in particular?
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I'm sure my husband is so sick of this show, but I love it and it's a mindless 30-minute program.
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Ali's powers enable some funny side revelations about guys walking around with mindless tunes or ridiculous questions bouncing through their heads.
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But he pushed scientific inquiry away from the mindless piling up of facts and towards making a difference to people's lives.
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She still does not attack unless she deems it necessary, if they harm her … [Mermaids] are not just mindless killing machines.
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Dumping your waste on the ground, which is at best a lame and short-sighted activity, isn't some mindless, subconscious habit.
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And I'm not saying all Trump supporters are mindless shells of human beings, but it's definitely worth exploring the symbolic connection.
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You can't talk outside of a thread, which makes it harder to bury important information in the middle of mindless GIFs.
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Wood noted that much of the dysfunction tied to the broken US telecom market is directly attributable to mindless merger mania.
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But this kind of mindless attacking of a popular product is a drama played over and over in our nation's politics.
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Even worse, average Americans are portrayed as uninformed idiots who are hopelessly preoccupied with hedonistic pursuits, mindless entertainment and pop culture.
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In a Sunday tweet, the president called the attack "mindless" and said Russia and Iran "are responsible for backing Animal Assad."
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In my family's case, mindless purchases and frequent minor emergencies resulted in $30,6003 in debt over the course of three years.
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Apart from that, the film is aiming for the mindless horror of drive-in movie days, and at that it succeeds.
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They don't come here seeking adventure, they aren't here in protest of the mindless routine that weighs them down at home.
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We all know that our phones are turning us into mindless zombies, heads down, blithely texting while we wander into traffic.
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Speaking of the people, no longer are the streets of Assassin's Creed filled with mindless drones lacking any sense of identity.
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The center shrank further as the riots gave cover for the extreme right to pursue a mindless policy of race-baiting.
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"It's pretty mindless," says Cecile Janssens, an epidemiologist at Emory University who is critical of the hype of polygenic risk scores.
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I try to assume our new reality with a kind of mindless optimism — a self-reliant Puerto Rico is being born!
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Farhad: Mike, every week we get one or two readers telling us they're unsubscribing because they hate our mindless chit-chat.
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Collectively, we have failed to generate sufficient public outrage to bring about the changes that will help prevent this mindless slaughter.
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However, has become a mindless forum of jokes, view-points, sex, and basically anything but the real definition of a word.
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Some people find release in the form of mindless entertainment; others might find it in the mopiest song in the world.
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Both require an infinite amount of patience, and the ability to fill the dead space with mindless chatter—what was that?
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To make cooking a mindless task, the device has a catalog of preset recipes including roast chicken, baby broccoli and bacon.
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If it has been a while since I have been aloft, I'm restless, peevish, mindless, tired—useless as a human being.
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"What we've been doing today and yesterday ... I would characterize as mindless legislating," said Representative Jim McGovern, a Democrat from Massachusetts.
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By infusing decadence and whimsy into snacking, these food products invite an unexpected visual experience to the typically mindless midday nosh.
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In this sense, Prime was constructed to be great for the consumer (so efficient) and great for businesses (mindless impulse shopping!).
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Check out how millennials stack up below: No matter what generation you're in, there are ways to cut back on mindless spending.
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The flip side of this mindless lending is that Puerto Rico failed to take real advantage of the financial windfall it provided.
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After abandoning mindless Twitter scrolling, however, I soon leapt to Instagram, because thumbing through photos seemed like a nice way to unwind.
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To discourage mindless swiping, each match shows up as a blurred photo with a score of your compatibility, between 0 and 100.
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Trapped in hellholes of hyper-niche programming, we will wander this grim media dystopia, like the mindless zombies of The Walking Dead.
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But it doesn't even make me feel bad because they just want a mindless opinion, not my actual opinions on different subjects.
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Instead, it offers something much simpler: the chance to create the superhero team of your dreams and enjoy some deliciously mindless action.
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And before you know it, your intention to have just a few fries and wings could easily turn into a mindless binge.
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We stand arm-in-arm and heart-to-heart with the people of Brussels in the face of this mindless, wanton violence.
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But given Facebook's philosophical intention to demote mindless viewing and promote active conversation around videos, Instagram co-watching is a sensible direction.
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There are some who will dismiss this as another bout of mindless bubble blowing and insist it will all end in tears.
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The worst resource-collecting game on iPhone also misses the point of fidget spinners They're mindless toys that barely require any attention.
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Where to watch: Amazon Video, iTunes, Google Play, Vudu, YouTube Whenever you need mindless distraction and unrealistic positivity, Love Actually is there.
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To prepare for this sacrifice, clean up your daily life: Avoid mindless games, excess television and other activities that aren't high priorities.
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Plus, the act of getting out of your desk and heating the water is a mindless way to stop thinking of work.
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Those groups are right about one thing: A little knowledge poses a real danger to authoritarianism and the mindless following of orders.
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"), but then fills any silence with some mindless thoughts ("My toenails are blue today, but usually I match them to my fingernails!
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When I was this weary, I'd do various mindless things to get myself ready for the day, which necessarily demanded physical deftness.
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It takes standing up as well for the right to say things that are false, hateful, mindless, base, vulgar, stupid or reckless.
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Mindless spending with no boundaries in place isn't a great solution, either, since it can result in the same over-spending problem.
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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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"I wanted to do it to get away from looking at that mindless entertainment, like Netflix and Reddit," my partner, Stuart, said.
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That a trivial, mindless video game uses a real and active terrorist group as cannon fodder is strange in its own right.
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AI will free us humans from highly repetitive mindless repetitive office work, and give us much more time to be truly creative.
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Trump has killed the traditional Republican Party and raised and animated in its corpse a soulless, mindless monstrosity, loyal only to him.
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Warriors Coach Steve Kerr said his players had taken the floor with "mindless intent" and had then hurt themselves with foul trouble.
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For too much of 2016, we in the news media — with many stellar exceptions — sometimes were mindless mutts that barked at everything.
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What he means is that too many of the leftist professors have turned academia into mindless kindergartens, as test scores clearly show.
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Like reading books and doing things that's actually going to help them learn about things and gain perspective, rather than mindless things.
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As software automates away the repetitive, mindless parts of people's jobs, the work that remains demands more of our intelligence and creativity.
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Don't treat workers like commodities and voters like mindless avatars that exist only in a campaign consultant's turnout model or focus group.
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It's cruelty on a Grand Guignol scale, both in Trump's heartless tweets and in his mindless salesmanship of the Republicans' heartless budget.
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The administration is blowing up the foundations of global economic order with the same mindless glee as a child popping bubble wrap.
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Suddenly, the line between "being" and thing becomes blurred; do you become a robotic prisoner stuck in the mindless cycle Frankl describes?
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But the country is really just an attractive, putatively exotic backdrop and as generic as it is in most mindless action blowouts.
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By infusing decadence and whimsy into snacking, these food products do invite an unexpected visual experience to the typically mindless midday nosh.
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It might seem like easy, mindless work, but it takes time, effort, and some level of authenticity to become a successful influencer.
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But they do crank out generic, often mindless videos on a massive scale, which reach young eyes hundreds of billions of times.
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We wanted to understand why they had chosen a video game, a medium so typically associated with violence and gore, or mindless distraction.
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Over The Top is indeed over the top, but it works in spite of itself, at least as 93 minutes of mindless entertainment.
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You think Samantha Bee is an untalented, not funny, bitter partisan mindless hack, like I do, you have the power, turn the channel.
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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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In this meeting of the mindless, Moose (Cody Kearsley) admits that Midge (Emilija Baranac) had been seeing someone behind his back: a Serpent.
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She used it, she said, to "fill up a vacuum," numbing her grief with the mindless banter of a handful of WhatsApp groups.
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But we're not so sure about that because Qyburn confirmed that the Mountain's undead-ness doesn't mean he's mindless, like the wights are.
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Sina Hentunen, Veikkaus's head of slots, reckons that punters may ultimately prefer the mindless distraction of traditional slots to brain-racking video games.
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It also seemed curious that some of the machines had names floating above their heads, designating them as something beyond a mindless enemy.
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Condé Nast's backing could further elevate the status of music journalists, and put a higher premium on human criticism against mindless recommendation engines.
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And unfortunately, that was really one of the only things keeping this series from being just another forgettably mindless third-person shooter game.
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Anti-speech Democrats and their establishment enablers assume Americans are mindless simpletons, bought off by the wealthiest candidates and most expensive ad buys.
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This was especially true for me during the boss encounters, which require a lot less mindless shooting than the rest of the game.
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Yet their portrait of a mindless, knee-jerk activist left "predicated upon critiques of bureaucracy, verticality, exclusion and institutionalisation" seems grounded and real.
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While that hardly qualifies as a breakthrough, for those seeking a few mindless thrills, unlike the bandits, you've come to the right place.
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The tendency to weave stories where evidence is missing is the human brain's sustaining feature, precipitating heroic action, senseless love, and mindless hate.
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His studies received attention from television to The New York Times, and he wrote a popular book, Mindless Eating, based on his research.
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But while their agenda might give us more equal time in society, there's little doubt it would also result in mindless, lifeless fiction.
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I would spend slightly too long in the bathrooms there, nervously swiping numbers up and down and across in a near-mindless pattern.
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Put simply, the sesh (translation: the session) is an internet joke which documents the mindless excess of post-party drug and booze binges.
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But Johnson was facing criticism, much of it from within his own party, that his policy in Vietnam was one of mindless violence.
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That's perhaps as it should be for a show that was regarded as a chipper, mindless throwback even when it opened in 1947.
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Italian, for example, has gretini: allegedly mindless followers of Ms Thunberg (-ini is a diminutive suffix, and the word echoes cretini, or "idiots").
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I have been doored by mindless taxis, been endangered by phone-distracted jaywalkers and suffered broken bones because of cars making illegal turns.
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It's another engineered reality in which soothing words and attitudes conforming to their worldviews would be mirrored back at them by mindless robots.
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Only Congress can chart the path forward by rising above mindless, partisan divisions and working together to solve this problem, not exacerbate it.
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The libertarian side meanwhile counters that government, guided by mindless bureaucracy, has neither the qualifications nor the incentive to allocate public resources sensibly.
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Tumblr allowed for endless hours of mindless scrolling, people checked in on Foursquare, and Twitter started to seem more accessible and less confusing.
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In our view, this kind of dystopian speculation arises in large part from thinking about today's mindless A.I. systems and extrapolating from them.
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Granted, it&aposs quality screen time that takes your child away from YouTube or other mindless media, but it&aposs still screen time.
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In that reality, resistance isn't about mindless obstruction by people blinded by the pain of ideological defeat or people gorging on sour grapes.
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The mall-set "Dawn of the Dead" (on Saturday and in a 2727-D version on March 28110) sent up mindless yuppie consumerism.
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Even people who get their academic work fully funded often have to top it up with tutoring undergrads or some other mindless job.
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That is, before it succumbs to the fate of so many of its contemporaries, and is overrun with politics, birthday updates, and mindless rants.
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These monsters are creations of Darkseid, mindless drones crafted from once-living beings that exist only to serve as weapons for their evil leader.
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"Jews triggered into mindless rage at Trump Holocaust memorial statement," the neo-Nazi Daily Stormer wrote, illustrated with an image of Pepe the Frog.
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Williams soured on the ad market, he said, after coming to believe it leads directly to mindless clickbait, fake news, and other undesirable content.
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"The point is that you're doing mindless activities for the first few minutes and simply giving your body time to wake up," Elrod writes.
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The tabloid called Trump voters "mindless zombies" and categorized Trump a "Dead Clown Walking" when he failed to win the Iowa caucus in 2016.
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" He added, "I never realized the power behind a mindless double tap on Instagram and how it bears so much weight on people's lives.
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Andrew: Well, the thing about pop music, and dance music as well, is that it has this public perception as being mindless and hedonistic.
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Courtesy of actor Robert De Niro, we finally have an admission that the Trump-hater agenda has moved from stupid "resisting" to mindless rage.
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It's likely Facebook will aim to clone Discover's mix of information and mindless entertainment — adding yet another chapter to its history of copying Snap.
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One side sees AI primarily as a job destroyer, while the other sees it as a means to liberate workers from mindless administrative tasks.
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It is little wonder that feminist activists chose to protest against what they called the "degrading, mindless-boob-girlie symbol" represented by the pageant.
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Rather than presenting Freakers as a mindless tidal wave of violent meat parts, it places them in what at first feels like living world.
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In May, he used the platform to apologize for what he called "a mindless double tap on Instagram" after he deleted his old account.
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If he or President Trump wanted to begin to heal the mindless partisanship that too often engulfs the Congress, Gorsuch's nomination would be withdrawn.
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But mindless eating while we are multitasking can lead us to consume more calories and is more likely to lead to bloating and indigestion.
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"For most Americans, work is mindless, exhausting, boring, servile, and hateful, something to be endured while 'life' is confined to 'time off,' " Reich wrote.
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And there's almost no better way to ingest loads of it in a short, mindless period of time than by drinking a giant soda.
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He didn't say anything out of the ordinary, he just did it, as though he were doing something as mindless as riding a bicycle.
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It was mindless labor — simple work that made the kitchen a better place to be — and it helped keep the Sunday panic at bay.
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With control of both houses of Congress, the party has the power to block the president's mindless, go-it-alone agenda but refuses to.
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Part of me thinks that it's sheer drudgery, mindless and thankless work that I am lucky and privileged enough to be able to outsource.
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We get bored when our skills greatly exceed the demands of our work — such as when we do mindless data entry for several hours.
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So Trump lashes out with mindless twaddle, insinuating that the media has fully abandoned the pillars and principles of journalism to join the opposition.
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But over and over again, this seemingly mindless toying around in Manifold Garden would, in fact, lead to progress and the solution would arrive.
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"Electric toy vehicles are much more than mindless playthings," said Neve Spicer, founder of We the Parents, another website that reviews gear for children.
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As Peter Hartlaub from the San Francisco Chronicle wrote, "A mindless comedy where the blatant racial stereotypes are outnumbered only by the flatulence jokes."
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Istanbul, Turkey (CNN)Jamal Khashoggi's disappearance puzzled and then horrified a world all too familiar with mindless brutality and the brazen impunity of governments.
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Mr. Pierpoint said he initially believed this week's incident had been a similarly mindless act of vandalism, but he has since changed his mind.
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For decades, consumer advocates and media watchdogs have warned about the dangers of media consolidation and the nation's obsession with often-mindless merger mania.
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The implication seems to be that a woman from Wind Gap could never be capable of anything more than mindless talk, let alone murder.
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While Grant may be blamed for the mindless foul on Nene, the Thunder guards are equally at fault for failing to foul in the backcourt.
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And while this aspect of the practice can make math seem a little mindless, there's a good amount of evidence behind the idea of overlearning.
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" He continued, "I never realized the power behind a mindless double tap on Instagram and how it bears so much weight on people&aposs lives.
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There have been so many depressing, heartbreaking, maddening, confusing, and scary moments since last Christmas that I think we deserve a little silly, mindless humor.
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Just as it is challenging to smoke while knitting, when hands are holding needles and hooks, there's less snacking and mindless eating out of boredom.
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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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The danger for Facebook is that it becomes a place for drab life events like people getting a new job, and mindless viral link sharing.
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Most people associate factories with repetitive work and mindless conformity — like that disrupted by a sledgehammer-wielding Anya Major in the iconic 43 Apple ad.
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If I had to personally rank mindless work dramas to watch while folding laundry, medical procedurals are in second place (after police, but before legal).
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But rather than just mindless killing machines, they seem to be an intelligent, humanoid species with a complex social structure, language, and stone-age technology.
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Image: Wikimedia commonsGuppies might look like mindless, mouth-breathing little bastards, but it turns out some of them make better dating decisions than we do.
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Maybe you carefully, gently eased yourself back into work this morning by doing pleasantly mindless tasks like replying to emails or organizing your in-box.
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But there was a hit on Glitter's album, the biggest one of his career, a mindless instrumental that was the last song on the record.
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These days, if I play anything at all, it's mindless puzzle games on my phone—but Battle Chef Brigade is the exception to the rule.
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All it takes is for the president to send out a tweet and everyone to the left of Doctor Oz goes into a mindless frenzy.
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These are artistic pieces created not by an individual, but by a mindless process, something Mr Clark has been canny enough to display without comment.
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It transformed the original, mindless, story-less classic shooter of 1981 into a campy, wild, rambunctious, character-driven, operatic, and even at times emotional journey.
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In a statement, FCC Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel warned that mindless consolidation has a proven track record of making things worse for US consumers, not better.
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My prediction: edgy hip‑hop music will win the fame game in the long run, while E.D.M. will be seen as another mindless dance craze.
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Even the scenes where she sings along to the radio in her car—a device most directors use as catharsis—seem more like mindless ritual.
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Both provide stimulus when you're tired and fidgety, and both tend to become mindless tics that fit neatly into rapidly diminishing amounts of free time.
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Another study by the University of California, Santa Barbara, found that doing mindless tasks allows the brain to wander and engage in creative problem-solving.
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For a Party that claims the government should run like a business, this is a mindless approach, one no Fortune 500 company would adopt. Rep.
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"Tumacho" is the platonic theatrical version of the artfully anarchic, shrewdly mindless comedies we wait for every summer to hit movie theaters, often in vain.
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Click here to view original GIFRemember the mindless doodles you made in your notebooks as classes felt like they'd drag on forever in high school?
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When life shits the bed, you can always quit your "real job," dump everything on the curb, and disappear for months of mindless money making.
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After your no spend day, you'll have an idea about where to cut back on mindless spending that doesn't help you or make you happier.
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Kick Off Revival is littered with game-destroying bugs—players can submit ones they've found to Dini via a public Google Doc—and mindless omissions.
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But when I paid attention to the purchases I was tempted to make, I soon realized half the things I buy are mindless, impulsive items.
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"Beetle Bailey" used the Army as its setting, but its popularity derived from everyday life and the universal battles against authority figures and mindless bureaucracy.
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All they seemed to want to do was watch the screen, drink their sweet liqueur, be mindless, or be without the burden of their bodies.
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We intended to root for the Red Sox, operating on the age-old and mindless theory that the enemy of our enemy was our friend.
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Instead, I can come home, lie around with my Switch, and spend a mindless couple hours trying to catch a shiny Galarian Rapidash in peace.
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The destruction was not just mindless, pro forma spectacle, but rather was a way to both access their individual personalities and reveal their complementary nature.
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The post was based on a survey of recent academic research on the platform, which found that certain forms of mindless thumb-scrolling could be alienating.
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Boredom, loneliness, frustration, confusion, and indecisiveness cause a slight pain or irritation, prompting us to engage in mindless action to make the negative sensation go away.
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What this Season 4 scene with the baby at the alter gave us a glimpse into is how the White Walkers aren't just some mindless evil.
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Typically, viruses cause impairments in their hosts, such as coughing, sneezing, diarrhea, and, in the case of rabies, an enraged, mindless urge to attack other creatures.
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But Shen Fever doesn't just kill — it renders those infected useless, slowly rotting away while trapped in an infinite, mindless loop of their most mundane activities.
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Unlike many other fitness classes, Spiderbands relies on choreographed movements as opposed to mindless reps — something I initially found intimidating but ended up appreciating halfway through.
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The stated goal was to increase the number of "meaningful interactions" on the platform, while discouraging mindless thumbing through the feed and tapping on sensationalized stories.
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Now, Apple is attempting to pass that buck to the apps (like Facebook) that enable "mindless scrolling," as Cook called out in his Time 100 speech.
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Facebook and Instagram certainly allow communities and friend groups to grow their bonds, but when does fruitful exchange and sentimental entertainment give way to mindless scrolling?
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Second-screen for too long, or do it too late in the evening, and you end up in a kind of mindless zombie second-screening situation.
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Many videos are just a series of repetitious graphical scenarios designed to combine the culled characters in a mindless set of keyword searchable actions and reactions.
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Designated Survivor, in which Kiefer Sutherland plays a cabinet member who suddenly becomes POTUS after the Capitol is blown up, had been a recent mindless pleasure.
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It's not completely mindless fun: There's a theme about the addictive quality of empty celebrity-ism, as well as an empowerment message for one particular character.
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Animal repetitive behaviors were considered "stereotypies"—mindless actions that were a result of poor environment or boredom, like tigers pacing in a cage at the zoo.
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It calls to mind countless hours of mindless social media engagement, which seems to be the accepted use of time for a person in today's world.
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The eight "Red Violin" dancers all look mindless, the women all too ready to open their crotches to the audience as the men carry them around.
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Normal morning routine plus drying and curling my hair while I watch a mindless grocery haul YouTube video — am I the only one who likes these?
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"The mindless killing spree carried out by the terrorists once again proved that terrorism knows no religion or boundaries," the foreign ministry said in a statement.
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In between them and safety are rivers and train tracks, the "elil" (the "enemies," foxes, owls and such) and the mindless, deadly "hrududil" (machines) of humans.
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These second-generation mogwais, which look like the imps of Hieronymous Bosch, are at first funny, having as their only goal the pursuit of mindless mischief.
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I listen while commuting, cooking, running errands, putting away laundry, washing dishes or during any relatively mindless activity that can be done while wearing wireless headphones.
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This is the Trumpublican Party, a party reborn in Trump's own image, one existing to worship him with blind allegiance and follow him with mindless obeisance.
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Imagine you're browsing the web one day, following a trail of mindless clicks, and you wind up on a website that's showing footage of a bedroom.
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There is an increasing fatigue with the endless outrage and mindless motive-questioning that colors so much of what we see online and in the media.
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Today we note -- and applaud -- Cohn's defense of free trade in the midst of Trump's mindless, ignorant, and dangerous assault on the international trading system. Bravo.
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But she's not on on Sunday, so if I want to just completely go mindless, lately I'll watch a football game, usually with the sound off.
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Gasca and Xie want to find out if this feature might encourage people to express more nuanced emotions, putting a damper on dunking and mindless retweeting.
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In most games, walking is a mindless chore: You can watch the scenery go by, but there's not much to do besides push the joystick forward.
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Plus, it relies on some of the less pleasant aspects of video game culture — the casual misogyny and mindless ultraviolence that have often defined the medium.
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Upon the suggestion of my cousin who'd been staying with me, I began watching mindless reality TV, and soon became fixated with MTV's Are You The One?
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KURTZ: It&aposs a cult of people who are in it must be mindless and delusional, and yet, media (Inaudible) Trump (Inaudible) about in relation to Trump.
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DAVID TERRY Droitwich, Worcestershire "Red mist" (December 2nd) acknowledged the damage being done by the mindless anti-Russian perspective now prevalent in most of the Western press.
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I had to be mindless, because there is hardly anything in 2016's The Division that the intervening years have not made somehow uglier and more fascist.
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I do mindless work — set up meetings, clean out my inbox, and sign up for trainings — while listening to Taylor Swift and considering my options for dinner.
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" She added: "When I went to the field to do track and run drills, it was kind of mindless and coaches are telling you what to do.
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In making vampires, Vampyr establishes specific rules for whether the vampire turns into a mindless, violent skal, or a more traditional ekon (which is what Jonathan is).
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But after yet another wave of gun violence in America, one might think this latest film would be the bleakest of all propositions for mindless summer viewing.
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An adaptation of one of the most inventive and beloved animated series of the era that turned out to be a muddy, mindless, and frequently offensive mess.
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They are a Soros' directed version of "The Walking American Dead," a mindless army of frothing soldiers, the members of which cannot be reasoned with or appeased.
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Rich and Michonne decline to give her any aid, and Jadis is eventually forced to lay a trap for the mindless zombies that roam the trash heap.
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But to get to that place, Waititi doesn't hold back in exploring the mindless hate Jojo had been fed most of his life by the Nazi party.
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" The paintings in the exhibition feature the marks and etchings from the chalkboards of the collaborative bustling space, the students' and collective's "performed thinking and mindless scrawling.
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If you turn to TV as a mindless form of escape, you might not want to watch something that leaves you with unanswered questions and troubling thoughts.
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I remember the very coldest New Hampshire winter days, when we were not allowed to run outside and would instead run mindless circles inside Leverone Field House.
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Mr. Shepard's death "became a symbol of the kind of mindless, pointless violence against us for no other reason than being who we are," Bishop Robinson said.
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That mindless violence did not quite derail the Olympics, but it added to the urgency of an act of conscience, on behalf of the young and disenfranchised.
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If you want to watch less mindless television, unplug your TV. Dr. McGonigal also recommended displaying physical reminders of your goals — yes, that includes motivational Post-its.
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And that might be enough to recommend it as a few hours of mindless entertainment on a Saturday night — were it not for one perplexing, troubling flaw.
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Now more than ever, diving into new skills, old interests and even — perhaps especially — totally fluffy mindless entertainment can keep our minds refreshed and our days full.
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But this busyness is often a guise for something else: We procrastinate by doing mindless, distracting tasks that make us feel productive, but in reality accomplish little.
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It was enough, for now, that a witless game given a mindless denouement by Marouane Fellaini's dimwitted head butt on Sergio Agüero had not ended in defeat.
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E. goes down easily and I can't bring myself to do any more work today, so I watch TV and play a mindless game on my phone.
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Still, Christmas is a time for nostalgia on tap, a time for people to ditch their regular entertainment habits in favor of mindless, mulled wine-fuelled viewing.
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They are built around jokey comic relief and mindless violent conflict, as well as simple character relationships in which recognizable adult characteristics or responsibilities are entirely absent.
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It's never clear if the show considers all criticism to be mindless and pointlessly myopic, or if it's arguing that good intentions — in this case, Titus's — matter.
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Such an approach not only dehumanizes Palestinians, it also assumes that they are nothing but mindless pawns of Hamas with no agency over their destiny and lives.
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They're spoon-feeding us our daily intake of mindless gossip, and like Pavlov's dog, we are left salivating for more — even if we don't actually watch the show.
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It's so easy to be mindless and just guzzle it down as you run off to your next thing, but I'm definitely reflecting on it a little more.
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They numb players to one of the only certain and terrifying facts of life through mindless and repetitive reenactment, rewarding the player's triumph over death without real consideration.
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The big picture: Mindless scrolling between posts was a big problem for Instagram's parent company Facebook, and was something executives told investors repeatedly that they wanted to fix.
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In China she saw how workers were encouraged to develop ideas rather than simply complete mindless tasks, Morris wrote in the Brixton Black Women's Group newsletter in 1977.
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Research shows habits can become so ingrained that we often don't realize we're doing them -- and this can be a big problem when it comes to mindless snacking.
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In fact, once a task becomes second nature, your brain essentially shuts down, according to Brian Wansink, author of 'Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More Than We Think.
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If you don't mind videos of people wasting food for the sake of mindless entertainment, then Ants Eating Stuff to Stock Music is the YouTube channel for you.
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They saw where their heroes had gone wrong—be it the harebrained concept albums, mindless misogyny, or kimonos—and offered their own course correction back to bulldozing basics.
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Basically, this will be mostly useful for those situations when you're stuck in a thread with five other people who are clogging up your notifications with mindless banter.
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And this isn't a mindless app like Twitter that sucks away my time, this takes real money with a simple button that I can click almost too easily.
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And don't even get me started on the procession of mindless people in the basement of the steel mill turning into goo and merging with the meat monster.
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With her parents recently dead and her boyfriend leaving the city to escape his own mindless job, she barely notices when a plague begins to sweeps the world.
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Further, there's a difference between having smaller, thoughtful meals and "grazing"—which is "where you're eating literally whatever is around," and goes back to the mindless eating issue.
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I got a temp job as soon as I moved to New York that paid very well but was the most mindless, soul-fucking type of temp job.
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Obviously this sort of listing reframes eBay itself, converting the potential transaction into something a lot more complicated than the neat, near-mindless fusion of supply and demand.
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Kendall, who reviewed the book for the journal World Politics, countered that without the guidance provided by political theory, the CIA would be condemned to mindless fact-grubbing.
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Other neoconservatives say Trump's foreign policy stances, such as his opposition to the Iraq war and the U.S. intervention in Libya, are inconsistent and represent "completely mindless" boasting.
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But then, for every positive moment like that, he also has a mindless one like attacking Meryl Streep or complaining about a Saturday Night Live skit about him.
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Apologizing after you mess up is essential to good communication for both men and women, but the mindless "sorrys" that women sprinkle to qualify assertiveness need to end.
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Such mindless acts of horror don't often happen in Hobart and people in the city had spent most of the day wandering around in varying states of sadness.
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Facebook wants to turn mindless, passive video consumption into "time well spent," and now it's giving social media stars a powerful tool to foster communities around their content.
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Once the zombies start to outnumber the living, a voiceover sleepily muses on whether the undead brought the apocalypse upon themselves with their mindless consumption during their lives.
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My husband would ask how I'd "spent the nap," as if it were money, and I would have to confess that I'd wasted it on mindless, sleepless rest.
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With the horrible potential latent in anti-Semitism ever more apparent, any performance or hearing of this work must be cause for sober reflection, not mere mindless pleasure.
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My lust for endless reinvention may well be an important part of the queer experience, but I don't think anyone should feel entitled to mindless or unlimited consumption.
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If those books aren't very good, the argument goes, then Oprah and Witherspoon are leading their acolytes toward mindless pap and lowering the literacy of the American public.
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It had long been widely thought that the authorities were keen on people whiling away their time on mindless entertainment—anything that might distract them from the party's failings.
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A protest letter denouncing what it called "dangerous" ideas that aim to turn journalists into "mindless instruments," and to promote "censorship," reportedly drew signatures of support from 170 journalists.
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This insect, it would appear, is not a mindless automaton driven by basic instincts or environmental cues, like ants following a pheromone trail (nothing against ants, they're also awesome).
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The feature allows for artificial intelligence to auto-fill information in the emails you compose in an effort to cut down on the time spent typing up mindless messages.
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I do some mindless internet browsing while I eat and end up booking a hotel and flight to Las Vegas for a friend's birthday party in a few weeks.
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Slowing down a Justin Bieber track may have been a statement about artistic integrity, but technical memes quickly devolved from a semi-critical act into one of mindless labor.
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The workers were hired through a crowdsourcing gig company outfit called Figure Eight, which pays as little at $1 an hour for people to perform short, seemingly mindless tasks.
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Partially it's the album's heft: any sequence of techno tracks lengthy enough to test the ordinary human attention span encourages, by design, mindless sensual immersion rather than close scrutiny.
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What's more, his past as a soldier, mercenary, and mindless living weapon gives him a depth, complexity, and poignance that few other characters in the medium can compete with.
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A lot of it looks like mindless shit your old high school friends posted all day during that time, or the frothing nationalistic imagery shared by some distant relative.
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Then [the memes] started being used to knock on progressives: we saw some computer code ones that were captioned with mock computer scripts to depict them as mindless automatons.
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I settle in for a few hours of mindless Food Network and HGTV and text with a friend about an upcoming beach trip we are planning with our families.
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" WATCH: Melissa McCarthy Reprises Savage Sean Spicer Impression on SNL When behind the scenes of SNL, Strong says that she stays clear of, "too much snacking or mindless eating.
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Efforts to gamify or digitize money will result in an "an increase in spending on mindless purchases", said Priya Malani, a founding partner at Stash Wealth in New York.
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"I spent six months with parents to get feedback and it was clear that they wanted to move their children away from mindless technology consumption," said Sheth, now 29.
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Words aren't cool echoes into the back of the theater and reverberates off the skulls of adults, now terrified, unsure their mindless spawn can even speak a verbal language.
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"I can't be mindless about what I put in my mouth," she says, but admits that she still loves food and isn't afraid to indulge every now and then.
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The music is as silly as the concept and it's mindless enough to play for a few rounds on the go or when you just want a quick break.
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Annex is the first of his Violet Wars series, set in the aftermath of an alien invasion that turned most of the adults in the world into mindless drones.
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" Unlike the mindless undead, they're intelligent and have their own motivations, military strategies, rituals, and even a language that sounds like "the cracking of ice on a winter lake.
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"I'm associated with the very thing I detest: vapid, vacuous, plastic, constructed, mindless celebrity," he said in the doc, which was reportedly filmed during the end of his marriage.
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Both Falcon and Wood argued that if the US really wants to win a race, it should be a race toward competition, lower prices, and less mindless industry consolidation.
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The most effective technique I've found for moving from mindless to mindful without meditation involves a form of self-distancing, and talking to yourself as an objective adviser would.
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The images of injured and dying civilians prompted Trump to tweet about the "mindless chemical attack," and blame Russia and Iran for their support of President Bashar al-Assad.
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The spin-off strategy, though, seemed to take audience allegiance for granted, assuming those three little words would be enough to have viewers marching in mindless lockstep after them.
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More generally, though, it offers tools for informed viewership and visual literacy, skills that have incredibly broad applications in a society that's heavily invested in mindless consumption of media.
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I was yearning for some way to keep desserts in my life, eliminating any mindless or compulsive eating, but not turning to restriction (which often leads to more binging).
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Good, bad, or indifferent, Hentai is an escape, not much different than seeing a sci-fi movie at a local theater for a couple of hours of mindless distraction.
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It was all a bit Clockwork Orange and licensed nightclub doormen, like Woody and Toddy, were on the front line of this mindless yet peculiarly English form of violence.
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That basic premise recalls the Eisenhower-era horror classic "Invasion of the Body Snatchers," which gratifyingly suggested that those who rule the status quo are really mindless pod people.
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Mindless Sinner (lyrical themes "Occult, Women, Love, Metal"), Swedish also-rans from the early 80s, proved from their electrifying first US performance that they sincerely merited a second look.
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He lectures her on music and religion, topics that mean little to Elizabeth, who describes herself as "very simple," and treats her as a mindless repository for his lust.
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"We're now seeing, really, what can only be described as mindless vandalism from the radical protesters," said Richard Harris, chief executive of consulting investment management firm Port Shelter Investment.
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Not only was it the semi-mindless mild physical labor and "something to do with my hands" that I'm craving right now, my whole body was MARKEDLY softer afterwards.
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In part it's a tour of the island's faux-casual charms, and as such it's threaded with mindless chitchat of the sort you find in the TripAdvisor comments section.
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While these results suggest that parents should set limits around gaming, they're unlikely to get through to teens by simply calling this pursuit "mindless entertainment," Freed said by email.
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"The changes to the law negate the socio-ecological uniqueness of this space and opens it up to mindless real estate development, mass-scale tourism and industry," she said.
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The Weinstein stories had been out there for years Mindless Hillary hate aside, this was a terrible response to questions about a "friend" who's been tormenting women for decades.
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In fact, downloading the app and setting up automatic transfers turned out to be such a mindless way to save that I got inspired to up my weekly contribution.
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A memorable blend of Nintendo's 8-bit graphics, mindless repetition and quirky electronic music, Duck Hunt was always going to charm, but never really blow minds with its gameplay.
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Even when Twitter seems static and the gym is insurmountably far and I can't be burdened to watch a mindless movie, techno never fails to enliven and uplift me.
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But after discovering that she actually spent a lot of minutes reading mindless magazines and scanning daily headlines, she decided to be more intentional about that space in her schedule.
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"They're marketed as 'just grab it and go,' and so many people just grab them and it's a mindless activity, so they might not process they've eaten one," Feller says.
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Why not use the inevitability of the end of growth to our advantage by planning to reduce both mindless consumerism and carbon emissions, while increasing equity and quality of life?
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It was also hurt by the recent rebound in the greenback, as well as what Cramer described as "simple, mindless ETF-driven selling" that had nothing to do with fundamentals.
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The slow pace and structure means it's possible to play while somewhat distracted, like when you're commuting, or watching mindless TV. Mario + Rabbids feels designed with this portability in mind.
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This was the beginning of a horrific period of minstrelsy where Black people were depicted by whites as lazy and unintelligent, solely capable of shucking, jiving, and singing mindless songs.
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For a genre that's supposed to be about carefully considering the possibilities of the future, science fiction too often feels just as slick and mindless a genre as any other.
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Listen to the former employees Former Trump employees and campaign aides, who requested anonymity to speak bluntly, told CNN that this isn't just mindless writing from the commander in chief.
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Amazon might be well on its way to being a gigantic, soulless company hellbent on turning you into a mindless consumer, but it sure knows how to make an ad.
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By asking you to spend most of your days doing the mindless tasks no one else in the office wants to do, employers make you question your worth and accomplishments.
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But then halfway through the game there are skal that aren't mindless, and the rules for creating ekon are thrown out the window for a twist that amounts to nothing.
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For example, a lot of people think Liam's a mindless hooligan who runs around getting into scrapes, doing a lot of crystal meth and jumping out windows and attacking people.
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An Arizona Border Patrol agent who called migrants "subhuman" and "mindless murdering savages" in messages to fellow agents has pleaded guilty to intentionally striking a Guatemalan migrant with his truck.
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This is a fairly short game split over 14 levels, and I'd say that's for the best; it works well enough as a largely mindless vessel for the unhinged plot.
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"If Venice Dies" is more of a meditation on the madness of the free market, consumer culture and mindless urban expansion than it is about a city in a peril.
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After all, the mindless pursuit of productivity can result in a swallowing sense of existential pointlessness, and as we've all learned from history, that will only drive you to drink.
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"There is not, and there will not be, a mindless escalation," said President Lyndon Johnson in a series of remarks upon receiving the National Freedom Award in February of 1966.
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Watkins argues the sector needs more of a focus on robust evidence gathering and independent testing vs mindless ministerial support and partnership 'endorsements' as a stand in for due diligence.
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"What has really bothered me about the congressional environment now is all this ideological and mindless politics," he told The Los Angeles Times after deciding not to seek re-election.
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The prospect of being turned into a soulless, mindless shell of your former self is particularly frightening, which is why zombies have been a mainstay of apocalyptic entertainment for decades.
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He enlisted moderators from among the more fair-minded regulars, and for five years now they have policed not just name-calling, rudeness, and hostility but superfluous jokes and mindless agreement.
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Why it matters: There have been reports that Instagram has been testing the new design for months, presumably to foster deeper user engagement with content and less "mindless scrolling" between posts.
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But the worst thing here is the mindless, broad-brush smear of every only child who ever existed, and all their parents — "far from family" is a red herring — just because . . .
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Referencing Facebook and its fake news problem (without actually naming Facebook), Spiegel describes social networks as "mindless scrambles for friends or unworthy distractions" and criticizes their role in fueling fake news.
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If you're tossing and turning much longer than that, you should get out of bed, change the environment and do something mindless: "Keep the lights low and fold socks," she suggested.
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READMEThe screen freaking beautifulThe stylus still feels like a gimmick, but it's fun for mindless scrollingBest camera phone I have ever usedSamsung's dumb apps can be uninstalledThe eyeball scanning is crazy.
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Dawn of the Dead is a startlingly gory movie, and it openly laughs at American news media as out-of-touch and inaccurate, and at capitalist culture as vapid and mindless.
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We can't predict what wider impact a medium that incentivizes factory line production of mindless visual slurry for kids' consumption might have on children's development and on society as a whole.
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The original Destiny was a flawed but revelatory game for the ways in which it combined the addictive elements of role-playing games with the mindless fun of first-person shooters.
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Fidget spinners, made from plastic or metal with a bearing in the center and several prongs that spin around it, are intended for mindless play while working or sitting in class.
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And while Republican senators have so far avoided attacking Garland's qualifications, conservative interest groups are already pledging to run television advertisements portraying the judge as a mindless liberal and Obama stooge.
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It could also boost creativity A study by researchers at University of California, Santa Barbara, found that doing mindless tasks allows the brain to wander and engage in creative problem-solving.
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Tomato farmer, Shiojiri, Nagano Prefecture Vegetable farmer, Saitama Prefecture In the context of a walk like this, "boredom" is a goal, the antipode of mindless connectivity, constant stimulation, anger and dissatisfaction.
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Let's get one thing out of the way: The Bachelorette is a mindless reality television series built upon a ridiculous premise of a bunch of conventionally attractive people competing for love.
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It gives the at times mindless sandbox gameplay a structure and purpose, as you'll spend hours upon hours rebuilding a fantasy town from a pile of dirt to a bustling metropolis.
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Such mindless behaviour is not uncommon: there was, for example, similar criticism when passengers emerged clutching their belongings from a British Airways plane that caught fire in Las Vegas last year.
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These might not be your priorities if you're a new camper, but after a few backpacking trips, you'll appreciate the simplicity and mindless set-up process that the Aspect 3 offers.
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In a sort-of apology, Carlson said he regretted how he behaved, but he blamed Duca for being "mindless and nasty" on air, before calling her "vapid" and "not very impressive."
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"I hope this will have the effect of throwing a large bucket of cold water on the mindless urge to merge," said Martin Gaynor, a health economist at Carnegie Mellon University.
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In addition to condemning mindless violence, including during the coup attempt, we have emphasized our commitment to preventing terrorists' recruitment from among Muslim youth and nurturing a peaceful, pluralist mind-set.
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" From the defendant: "I'd like to sincerely apologize to Jordan Holgerson, her family and friends for the pain and humiliation I have caused by my mindless actions that occurred last summer.
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You want to make fewer monthly paymentsIf you have a half dozen credit card payments due every month, it's easy to miss a payment due date or make another mindless mistake.
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TikTok has been described as an "endless buffet of visual candy," full of mindless videos and memes that max out at 60 seconds each (but are often much shorter than that).
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"Adopting" a family allows us to focus on the holiday values that resonate with us, like community, charity, and family, while setting aside the things we don't value, like mindless consumerism.
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These kids aren't mindless predators (as long as you don't teach them to be) and these young women are likely dressing for themselves rather than to please the men around them.
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A decade ago, Dunn was among the authors of a study on Mindless Eating, discovering that the average person could underestimate or overlook more than 200 food-related decisions every day.
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The piranhas and caimans the kids encounter aren't mindless killers but animals occupying important niches in the environment, and the true insect menace is not the spiders but the bullet ants.
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This scene (and other sketches/jokes like it) are often brief and mindless, but as other shows repeat the same material, the stereotype is reinforced in the minds of the viewers.
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Gilmore Girls, too—if you haven't seen Gilmore Girls, it is exactly like Love Island, except they're not on an island or topless or in the mindless pursuit of Instagram sponsorships.
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I was getting ready for bed, performing the half-dozen mostly mindless tasks that, because they occupy my hands, normally provide a treasured window for listening to an audiobook or podcast.
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Yet poetry memorization has become deeply unfashionable, an outmoded practice that many teachers and parents — not to mention students — consider too boring, mindless and just plain difficult for the modern classroom.
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Matt Bevin, Republican of Kentucky, said he was appalled by the "unbelievable incessant focus on the most mindless things," with regard to how the president is portrayed in the news media.
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"Mindless spending on a day-to-day basis adds up and can be the biggest destroyer of wealth over time," says Kristin O'Keeffe Merrick, a financial advisor of O'Keeffe Financial Partners.
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It also catapulted Andrew W.K.'s celebrity, making him a household name as his unapologetically loud style of rock tapped into the country's post-9/11 cathartic need for mindless headbanging.
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One might reasonably worry that this trend serves the lowest demands of a brutal attention economy that is revealing tech companies as cynical time-mongers and turning us into mindless drones.
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He also talks about what it truly means to be an expert, why we should stop using busyness as a status symbol, and the virtues of knitting (or any other mindless hobby).
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While horror fans have always known the genre was about something deeper than mindless gore, the massive success of last year's Get Out gave the mainstream a chance to finally catch on.
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Insta-stalking is an art If you're going to follow Richard Prince's lead on Instagram, for instance, you'd better dispense with that plebeian rhetoric about mindless scrolling and stalking other people's profiles.
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Misanthropic zombie narratives inevitably become stories about purity and containment — about a terrifying fear of the Other, the people who appear human on the surface, but are mindless and dangerous and frightening.
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My gripe with being a completionist in most games is twofold: the amount of boring, mindless tasks required to get there, and the lack of a meaningful reward for making the journey.
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The struggle to elevate sci-fi from mindless escapism to a genre capable of proactively engaging everyday life, either politically or psychologically, is one that has been present ever since it's conception.
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The last thing Darling wants to do is undermine that effort by catering to sexist ideas about women's roles within the tech space or by presenting herself as a mindless sex object.
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Tasks like tracking down legal documents, extracting key information and drawing up hiring offers or funding term sheets add up to make lawyers expensive, even if they're constantly repeating mindless busy work.
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The others — who also include Pepper (Donnetta Lavinia Grays) and Cheddar (Kyle Beltran) — are eager to initiate her into the mindless minutiae of said System, as well as their shared personal mythology.
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A silver lining of this crisis would be if the upper-middle class of this country whose peacetime lives are filled with mindless consumption could learn to live a little more simply.
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And Democrats will again play to type as mindless obstructionists and one-note alarmists — the same overheated opposition that, as the Times's Jeremy Peters reported last month, only hardens support for Trump.
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During intervals on the ground, the airline's technicians ran built-in tests, got coded responses and did plug-out plug-in reboot attempts of the mindless sort performed at automotive service centers.
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It is as if only the government and the prime minister know what is in the best interests of over a billion mindless children who apparently believe they are citizens of India!
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You want to make fewer monthly paymentsIf you have a half dozen credit card payments due every month, it&aposs easy to miss a payment due date or make another mindless mistake.
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While we enter a new decade chastened and more cynical about surveillance, propaganda, and the potential for mere connections to enhance our lives, we risk lurching into mindless paranoia about what's left.
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Once he gets going on them, they tend to keep on coming, as if each variation on the theme of mindless canine fornication were a separate link in a critical chain of thought.
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That's compounded by the freedom of being on their own for the first time with what feels like unlimited access to mindless video game sessions, long Netflix binges and endless scrolling through Instagram.
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We've only seen them reanimate seemingly mindless zombie corpses, but when Jon encountered a wight back in A Game of Thrones, he observed that it seemed to know it was on a mission.
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"Sometimes life gets serious for us as adults, but looking at my kids, it lets me know that you're allowed to have fun — you're allowed to have mindless fun," Strahan, 44, tells PEOPLE.
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One may argue even further that capitalism itself is similarly pointless—just endless, mindless clicking and grinding to make the numbers bigger—and that that is the real point, but I don't know.
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As time went on, my scope widened a bit, but the best breakup books, in my opinion, all have this in common: They allow you to escape, but not in a mindless way.
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It turns out that the bird isn't eating insects for sustenance, but rather to brainwash them into mindless slaves who help operate and maintain the machinery inside the bird that keeps it alive.
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As the Dreadlord Mal'Ganis works his way through the infected city of Stratholme, converting humans into mindless, evil Scourge grunts, Arthas and his followers are trying to kill the humans before they turn.
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Fans of melancholy heroic angst have Cyborg fussing over his lost humanity; fans of mindless action have him blasting and beating whatever gets in his way, his previous concerns dropped, unaddressed and unacknowledged.
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But when you're exhausted from your day, it can feel harder to listen to your body's hunger cues, which is why many people are prone to mindless snacking and overeating in the evening.
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Luyt compares the consumption of these Spanish and French wines to having an iPhone, or before that, wearing blue jeans—part of the mindless accumulation of uniform luxury products, totally devoid of individuality.
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Yes, high-volume factory operations often aim to render workers mindless and robotic—the description above tracks with the routines expected of a modern smartphone assembler at Foxconn, say—and often exploit them.
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So many more character moments, so much less mindless shooting But I'm glad Uncharted 4 left me wanting more there, because it's a huge step in the right direction for blockbuster video games.
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We don't know what's worse - that or the New York Daily News headline: DAWN OF THE BRAIN DEAD: Clown comes back to life with N.H. win as mindless zombies turn out in droves.
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The opponents of the merger will scream "monopolization," a knee-jerk response so mindless that it is tempting to believe that it is driven far more by ideological imperatives rather than actual analytics.
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The phrase, which derives from a Talmudic blessing, means "Blessed is the True Judge"—which can seem a strange, emotionless, and even mindless phrase to utter until you understand the practicality behind it.
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For those who relate to the latter, I've compiled a list of mindless media available on Netflix to help you turn your brain all the way off before your food gets cold. Enjoy.
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Though a few are mindless (find "x" number of items in random spots), most require you to pull off bizarre golf tricks that force you to play the game in a different way.
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Man-made environmental catastrophe, mindless hate, selfish narcissistic pleasure-chasing: The reasons for the apocalypse seem abundant, and the living in Centerville seem, for the most part, almost relieved that it's finally arrived.
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Consider the rising fears of "tech addiction," the idea that kids and adults are spending too much mindless time in the digital world, egged on by tech companies' insatiable need for our eyeballs.
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But his usage is also a way of reducing language to the point that it is meaningless because the use of it is mindless, and in that compromised state, language becomes nearly worthless.
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The reason behind our seemingly mindless scrolling is the lack of a stopping cue, or "a signal that it's time to move on, to do something new, to do something different," Alter says.
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Keeping a food diary, recording everything you consume and where for a week or so, can help you recognize sources of mindless or excess consumption and their relationship to your feelings and circumstances.
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Lack of sleep or mindless snacking could both cause weight gain and contribute to other risk factors for heart disease that could make people more likely to die prematurely, Yang said by email.
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While many talked about wishing for the time to get bored instead of feeling constantly stressed, others acknowledged that boredom often leads to mindless TV-watching, video-game playing and social-media scrolling.
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Plenty of parents also take issues with kids' content on YouTube, lamenting that their children are becoming attached to mindless content that is nothing like the Sesame Street programming they are used to.
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While the Trump FCC has arguably been a mindless rubber stamp for industry interests (as the attack on popular net neutrality rules makes abundantly clear), the Trump DOJ is more of a wild card.
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"It would be a mistake to dismiss Godzilla: King of the Monsters as mindless pap or escapist fantasy," wrote anthropologist Nathaniel J. Dominy and biologist Ryan Calsbeek, both from Dartmouth, in the journal Science.
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Lately, however, I've been attempting to ween myself off of these habitual, mindless-feeling purchases, and narrowing in on the ones that actually add something to my wardrobe (preferably, in more ways than one).
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Now that I no longer have a regular paycheck, every purchase comes under intense scrutiny, and zero-dollar days help me cut down on the mindless spending I indulged in during my lifestyle inflation.
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We lost that economic argument because that deal extended almost all those Bush tax cuts permanently and put in place the mindless cuts we still are dealing with today that are called the sequester.
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Then, year by year, major labels began to fill the release schedule with mindless reissues, re-releases, and novelty records, often for twice as much as a regular release just because it was blue.
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Hades' punishment is to slowly lower him, chained up, into the River of Lost Souls, which will turn him into "mindless, tormented" nothingness, but Emma is able to swoop in and save the day.
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She interrupted him in a manner that made it appear she thought she was serving as some associate professor at UC Berkeley, participating in one of the school's numerous, mindless and tasteless street protests.
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If procrastinating gets you to let go of mindless activities that always make it on your to-do list but don't add any value to your life or help your work flow, embrace it.
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Because I could no longer engage in a pattern of mindless, Ms. Pac-Man-like consumption, I thought longer and harder about whether a purchase was worth it, no matter what agenda it supported.
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Vapers have been discussing this unintended side-effect of their new habit for years on forums and message boards, saying vaping has helped them from mindless snacking or indulging their sweet tooth too often.
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Early signs are that Trump wants to act, as he tweeted Sunday about the "mindless" attack, unusually criticizing Russian President Vladimir Putin for supporting "Animal" Assad and warned of a "big price" to pay.
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A few years ago, I started wearing a sleep mask and turning on cable news so that the mindless banter in the background would distract me from my thoughts long enough to pass out.
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HENNINGER: I think his strategy is to press forward as hard as he can, try to put pressure on the Democrats, try to make it clear that this is an act of almost mindless obstruction.
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" The duo also offered their take, collectively explaining: "We're long time Mindless Self Indulgence fans and knew that Jimmy Urine would be able to deconstruct, reconstruct and totally repurpose the track in a fun way.
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It'll dull the pain of such mindless metaphorizing—and serve as a reminder that you, an at-least-semiconscious being, have an actual brain that can make real decisions like "Drink!" in the first place.
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I don't know how anyone else feels about this, but it makes me a little queasy to think that there are that many people tasked with the mindless job of ferrying privileged tech types around.
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For some, self-care means quality time with family, unwinding to mindless television at the end of a long day, planning vacation times, participating in social activities outside of work, all offering a different reward.
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But, as Turing's opponent conceded, humans generally find such repetitive, mindless work boring and frustrating (there was so much paperwork and arithmetic involved that it reportedly took about half an hour to play each move).
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Bodice rippers, however, are far from mindless guilty-pleasure television; these delightfully frothy, heaving-bosom period melodramas offer viewers as much sexy escapism as more "prestigious" fare like Game of Thrones or House of Cards.
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Not only is Barber's feed the perfect eye-candy for mindless scrolling, but it also has the added benefit of being the most low-effort way to break out of a rut, beauty or otherwise.
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The short, directed by Balthazar Klarwein and produced by Feel Films, stars model Angelina Jesson captured in a disturbing dystopian reality where landfill and decay meet everyday life, the result of decades of mindless overproduction.
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Without being so intense about tracking, there's no doubt I could easily have taken in a few hundred extra calories in mindless snacking of a bite or two of this or that throughout the day.
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"Associating the defendant with the specter of mindless and cruel political violence at the hands of his government-based alleged co-conspirators is almost guaranteed to inflame the jury against the defendant," the lawyers said.
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Washington (CNN)Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell moved Thursday to break filibusters of four appeals court nominees, acting aggressively to break what he complained is "often mindless" Democratic obstruction of President Donald Trump's judicial appointments.
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To move forward, Mr. Erdogan, who has given some positive signals for national reconciliation since the coup, must curb his supporters, who seem prone to escalate this purge into a paranoid dictatorship's mindless witch hunt.
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Hatred similarly was only slightly more blatant about mindless, indiscriminate murder than most games, and I suspect that is part of the reason why writers who cover video games were so quick to denounce it.
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More from Tonic: After falling behind on assignments in my second week of classes due to mindless Instagram perusal and other technological distractions, I decided I had no choice: I ordered a cordless home phone.
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"It is tragic to see so many people displaced by mindless conflict and brutal atrocities ... the country is experiencing a deteriorating cycle of violence," the U.N. humanitarian chief, Stephen O'Brien, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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I was holding down a mindless part-time job at a teen fashion store, playing keyboards in a band more or less on the weekends and generally feeling pretty miserable about my lot in life.
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And still, despite racking up a series-leading 18 fouls through four games—several on mindless plays that have limited his minutes—only two players (Curry and James) have touched the ball more than Green.
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There is, of course, nothing wrong with using possessions to express yourself, but the moment it becomes about acquisition rather than optimization, it ceases being self-care and enters the dark realm of mindless consumerism.
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"Last night, you heard the president of America making petty and mindless statements," Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader, told a group of teachers in his Tehran office, according to the semiofficial news agency Fars.
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As noted, there's nothing particularly complicated about the thrills Morel intends to provide, and they're delivered on a mindless, videogame-type level, with the heroine enduring plenty of punishment even as she dishes it out.
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Having to maintain, invest in and, god willing, drive your car, you get to live through the most mindless season, dodging NPC drivers who are supposed to be drunk instead of merely acting like it.
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All the earlier examples suddenly seemed fumbling and unsophisticated, and with the possible exception of the Spice Market spinoffs in Qatar and Mexico, the ones that would follow seemed increasingly mindless and out of touch.
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Using genetics, cybernetics, nanotechnology, or other means at its disposal, an ASI could reengineer us into blathering, mindless automatons, thinking it was doing us some sort of favor in an attempt to pacify our violent natures.
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Conclusion: If you're looking to curb mindless snacking, or sneak more vitamin C into your diet, or simply know that your mornings begin the same way that Elle Macpherson and Lauren Conrad's do, definitely try this.
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At this point, it would almost be weird not to have the various members of the Justice League duke it out before uniting to face off against a mindless horde of enemies and a sky-beam.
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To start with, they expose late-night TV viewers who seek mindless entertainment to works of art they may not be familiar with, and could potentially encourage them to study the real stories behind these paintings.
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That means that each encounter has some variation, instead of the same mindless throwing of a pokéball each time, but there are only a dozen or so spells, which means that the novelty wears off fast.
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Like ASMR or a Katy Perry concert, the app has become a sort of mindless therapy for me since I discovered it — it's strangely mood-lifting, even more so when you add a spa treatment in.
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The combat is slightly more involved than Diablo — the game was developed by Ninja Gaiden studio Team Ninja, after all — but aside from the bosses it's mostly mindless brawling with loads of screen-filling special attacks.
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There's "Would You Rather," which is a game exactly like it sounds and pretty mindless, but somewhat enjoyable when I played during a late drive home after a long day at work, and hands-free Blackjack.
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When used as intended, Tinder, the mobile dating application, can provide many things: actual dating, long-term relationships, casual sex, new friends, mindless entertainment or validation that at least the occasional stranger finds you minimally attractive.
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"Sugar is representative of physical and moral decay, but I preserved these desserts through my ritual of photogrammetry — the mindless consumption, the ephemeral pleasure — all captured as a lasting subject of reflection," Yu told The Verge.
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From both a story and gameplay perspective, God of War has grown up, turning the mindless hack and slash series into something with more thought and strategy than any game in the series that's come before.
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Last month, Netflix released the trailer for 6 Underground, starring Ryan Reynolds, Dave Franco, and a bunch of other actors that look familiar if difficult to place, and it is a mindless mishmash of action tropes.
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Every year, politicians and pundits alike decry sequestration – the mindless, across-the-board spending cuts that would be imposed if Congress spends more than allowed under the spending caps imposed by the 85033 Budget Control Act.
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"I would say the consequence of this and other mindless deregulation is that it's just going to perpetuate the digital divide and make it even worse," said Harold Feld, a senior vice president at Public Knowledge.
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Factor in supplementary Puppy Bowl programming like a pregame show, a "where are they now" special featuring players from Puppy Bowls past, and a Puppy Bowl–themed episode of Animal Planet's brilliantly mindless series Too Cute!
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Get to the fifth installment of a film series, especially a sci-fi action one with a reputation for mindless bloat, and you can generally assume you'll be looking at the franchise's most dreadful offering yet.
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The platform offers endless choices, virtual connections and access to a world of information, but what this major-domo of the "internet of things" may deliver is reductive banter, mindless consumerism and a universe of trivia.
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Darabont politely declined and then ran away as fast as possible, because nothing will turn you into a mindless vegetable quicker than watching Chris O'Donnell and LL Cool J chase down criminals on a weekly basis.
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So you do something to get yourself into it, and doing something mindless becomes, for me, that way of drawing or moving into … NJ: An entrance into a certain headspace to be able to complete something.
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Both community broadband and net neutrality enjoy broad, bipartisan support among consumers, and Blackburn's mindless defense of AT&T and Comcast policy likely isn't quite the messaging winner she believes it to be in her own head.
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Of course, in case of need, the Fed, as a lender of last resort, can always relapse into mindless quantitative easing routines — but that would again be a desperate measure of a seemingly never-ending crisis management.
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I talked to Kristol about his feelings on liberals (he thinks they should "rethink their mindless progressivism"), what responsibility conservatives bear for Trump's rise, and why he thinks Trump may have changed conservatism forever — for the worse.
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After two hours of this hell, I accepted my grim fate when suddenly my thinking mind ceased its mindless chatter and was replaced with what I assumed to be my soul or some kind of twisted angel.
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Screenslaver's ideas about people being technology-obsessed zombies isn't new to the Pixar film suite; we see it in Wall-E with its depiction of fat future humans confined to hover-chairs and hooked on mindless entertainment.
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The New York Daily News, long an outspoken critic of Trump, revealed that Wednesday's headline will be: "DAWN OF THE BRAIN DEAD: Trump comes back to life with N.H. win as mindless zombies turn out in droves."
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He or she must appoint a new czar — empowered by the executive branch and Congress — to root out the mindless rules and regulations conspiring to strangle innovation, smother small businesses and destroy the public's faith in government.
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It makes perfect sense — parting with a crisp $20 bill is a little more sorrowful than a mindless swipe of a card, even if you tacked on a few more items to raise your total to $25.
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And on-screen they're portrayed either as mindless bots (see: battle droids, astromechs, etc.), comic foils (R23D23 and C-23PO), or menacing inhuman terrors (General Grievous was technically a cyborg I guess, but there's IG-88, too).
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From AT&T's 2006 merger with BellSouth to Comcast's 2011 merger with NBC Universal, the result of this mindless consolidation is obvious to any US consumer that interacts with these lumbering, apathetic giants on a daily basis.
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I wish teachers would contrast that version with Key's, as a way of showing how singing the anthem isn't a mindless, rote ritual, but part of a long history of exploration of what the country is about.
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If that faction overplayed its hand, or if its counterparts could not swallow the final concessions demanded of them, the result would be mindless across-the-board reductions in government programs' ability to meet the country's needs.
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Six months after downloading the app, the simple act of checking in on my cats a few times a day has relaxed into a mindless habit embedded amid all my others — check email, check Twitter, feed cats.
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Threats continue to rise abroad as here at home we continue to wreak havoc on our own military through mindless defense sequester and, by the way, our veterans still are not getting the care that they deserve.
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If there's anything the weekend was made for, it's those mindless, throw-on-and-go outfits that are just as comfortable as they are effortless: like the perfect pair of boyfriend jeans or a flattering wrap dress.
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Giovanni's manifesto calls for us to connect the dots in how we respond, to start from the understanding that sociopathic data-extraction and mindless computation are the acts of a machine that needs to be radically reprogrammed.
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While onstage with Destroyer, an indie-rock band of which he is the most consistent member, Bejar tends to be aloof, as if reluctant to inject mindless banter into the tension generated by his cerebral, haunting songs.
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It was the place you went, shrouded in anonymity, for pornography, hard-core racism, revenge porn, Nazi cheerleading, Jew-baiting, creepshots, fat-shaming, mindless anarchy and pictures of dead kids or of women who had been beaten.
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Black Americans have struggled to free themselves of these limited expectations, to transcend being seen simply as the brutish thug on the corner, the sassy and strong black woman, the cheerfully selfless mammy, or the mindless entertainer.
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"(Self-Portrait 4)" is twice as large as "Self-Portrait 13" (80 by 72 inches compared with 48 by 40) and thereby exponentially more menacing, with its blank zombie stare and insatiable hunger of the mindless consumer.
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With a strong focus on character development over mindless spectacle, and a healthy dose of realistic violence (and its consequences), Logan proves that superhero films don't have to target the broadest possible audience to be a smashing success.
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The segments recently made headlines after a Deadspin video highlighted the often creepy, mindless, and homogenized nature of the reports, often designed to falsely provide the illusion of broad support for what, in reality, are incredibly unpopular policies.
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" Here's how Axios future editor Steve LeVine put it when I asked him about this conundrum: "The trouble is that these very long arc analyses look mindless against the chaos and unhappiness in front of all our eyes.
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We're living in an age of truly great TV — there's no shortage of binge-worthy true-crime docuseries to fill a hungover Sunday afternoon or exquisitely mindless reality shows to serve as the antidote to a stressful workday.
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It does so in the very best and most tongue-in-cheek Black Mirror ways, of course, paying homage to Netflix's own programming foibles and its desire to exploit your shameless love of predictable tropes and mindless entertainment.
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They argue that the reports do not match the actual experience of entrepreneurs; that they promote a mindless deregulatory race to the bottom; and that their methods are too unstable to allow anyone to judge countries over time.
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In The Dead Don't Die, Jarmusch's Paterson star Adam Driver and his Broken Flowers star Bill Murray play small-town cops who are more irritated than terrified when their friends and neighbors start transforming into mindless, murdering ghouls.
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The record typifies a musical mode that rap — a verbal genre in theory — paradoxically does like no other: a pure, luxurious, overwhelmingly sensuous physical experience, unencumbered by words or worries or context to disrupt the mindless bodily stimulation.
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I was in search of easy detachments from the nonstop barrage of daily life, with its personal and professional glitches; mindless reality TV worked like the perfect tranquilizer, helping to momentarily alleviate the disquiet that rattled around me.
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"What has been a busy and enjoyable weekend for all those involved in the North Yorkshire Moors Railway has now been overshadowed by this mindless act of vandalism," said North Yorkshire Police Inspector Martin Dennison in a statement.
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The new paradigm of surprise releases bucks the tendency to selectively listen to the singles; more and more, the immediate gratification of listening to the bangers sacrifices a bit of our humanity to the mindless compulsion to consume.
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But, the mindless deregulation mania isn't limited to consumer protection; now, even Wall Street's handful of biggest, most dangerous banks are pushing to dismantle the most modest and sensible rules put in place to protect Main Street families.
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The most important takeaway from this change, though, is how the show wanted to emphasize from the get-go that the White Walkers are intelligent creatures with a plan, not just a mindless threat like a zombie horde.
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Jim Wright had ethics issues, tried to head off "mindless cannibalism" Wright, a Texas Democrat, resigned his post as speaker after a year-long ethics ordeal and investigation into whether he skirted ethics rules to sell a book.
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We didn't feel desperate but, rather, unfettered: there was a sense that we'd broken the bonds of mindless materialism and hypocritical conformity and were now just naturally floundering around until the new shape of human freedom manifested itself.
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Here's how TechCrunch is keeping our brains busy while we're stuck at home Now more than ever, diving into new skills, old interests and even totally fluffy mindless entertainment can keep our minds refreshed and our days full.
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We used to see as just mindless zombies in thrall to their White Walker masters, just a slave army, and then we get a glimpse that they might actually know or understand what is happening here. Yes. Exactly.
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According to Weinandy, that&aposs a research-supported way to get in touch with your habits, especially mindless snacking you might not even realize you&aposre doing, and understand what foods (and restrictions) work best for your body.
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Mindless immigration policies in 2015 only added oil to fire by feeding and spreading xenophobia as one of the most intractable socio-political issues that is now being dealt with by the EU and Germany's highest judicial authorities.
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Dogs — all 300-plus existing breeds — are curious creatures: The domesticated variety is notorious for mindless habits like chewing on socks and chasing down squirrels, even while their more disciplined brethren sniff out illegal drugs, explosives and even cancer.
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In its absence I'd be forced to watch Japanese TV — in reality not the wild and wacky series of gameshows you see on the internet, but an endless stream of mindless cooking shows and low-budget documentaries about trains.
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While not a pick for the Alien franchise purist, like its film version, the game still includes plenty of mindless enjoyment by allowing players to choose from playing as either an Alien, Predator, or armed-to-the-teeth Marine.
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Her video for "John Wayne" worships American sadism, and her Pepsi-sponsored Super Bowl halftime show mesmerized with red-and-blue drones swirling in the sky and a rendition of "This Land" that seemed to invite mindless coming-together.
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It is against the backdrop of his reflexive need to avenge his humiliations with mindless vandalism that Trump has fired his chief of staff and replaced him with a retired military general who has authoritarian tendencies of his own.
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The first time the president (Aaron Eckhart) was snatched by terrorists, in the 2013 thriller "Olympus Has Fallen," watching his favorite Secret Service agent, Mike Banning, rescue him was at least somewhat fun in a mindless sort of way.
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Maybe I've had an especially busy week and I just want to do something a little mindless, like searching for hours for the perfect new show to binge-watch (without actually selecting a show) while eating popcorn for dinner.
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" As Michael C. Janeway, then the dean of Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism, noted in a review for The Times Book Review, the title, "Happy Talk," referred to "that mindless banter with which television anchors fill air time.
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And beyond that, we found that we spent much of our leisure time doing things out of habit that we wish we didn't feel quite so drawn toward: reading Twitter, browsing Instagram, and other relatively mindless, internet-centric habits.
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When we wear glittery butterfly clips, indulge in mindless pixel games, or order Tamagotchis online, these throwbacks to the 90s can help us return to a moment when our worst collective fears had to do with calendar date technology.
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Source: Invest in You Spending Survey A small, occasional splurge is OK, but when impulse purchases turn into mindless spending, or when the impulse purchases are big-ticket items derailing your financial security, it's important to evaluate what's driving that behavior.
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TOULOUSE, France (Reuters) - A Michelin-starred chef who denounced the mindless violence of hoodlums on the fringes of France's "yellow vest protests" said on Wednesday he was contemplating his future after arsonists struck for a second time in two weeks.
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In one shot, Chucky stares beatifically at a rack of steak knives as if they hold the keys to the universe, and in that moment, Klevberg almost manages to make you think Child's Play is something more than mindless entertainment.
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They are prominent in Western news coverage that portrays China as a hyper-technological "creepy digital panopticon" as Bloomberg puts it and Chinese people as mindless robots controlled by China's "high-tech authoritarian future" as The New York Times puts it.
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Or women that could have done just fine if they wanted to do things by rote and sit at a desk and do what we now call mindless tasks that are better done by a simple machine or a computer.
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She entered on a dare at 17 and ran off with her handsome pageant-assigned escort the night she won, galled by the year of mindless obligations that came with her title when she just wanted to finish high school.
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Even if your meeting organizer hasn't strictly put a ban on laptops, leaving it at your desk or keeping it closed while you focus on the agenda helps you keep mindless distractions (not to mention email and chat notifications) at bay.
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It's sad I even need to include this one, but there's a significant element in society that hates people who choose a different path in life…a path different from mindless consumerism, working until you're 93 and collecting social security.
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"Our intelligence indicated that these mindless and wicked individuals... have now diversified their nefarious activities to include fabricating fake stories of providing educational supports in forms of scholarship, recruitment for sporting activities and the most frightening being organ harvesting," she said.
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"I am hopeful that we have finally reached a turning point with these mindless shutdowns, but this CBO estimate serves as a stark warning to President Trump on the consequences of using American workers as a bargaining chip," he added.
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While you sit at an uninspiring job, pretending to be doing work you might reflect on your former, richer fitter self as you wait to for the day to end for a few mindless hours of a Netflix original series.
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While video games stereotypically tend to be associated with violent story lines or mindless tasks, "That Dragon, Cancer" is one of an increasing number of personal, autobiographical games that are generating new conversations and exchanges within and outside the gaming world.
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In fact, he went on so long—some might even say he filibustered—that he answered only 13 questions in nearly 60 minutes.... But in every response, the mindless repetition of talking points gave way to a deeper, more nuanced analysis.
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Accordingly, without a halt or reform of current government housing policies, there is likely to be another financial crisis in our future, again caused by a government dominated housing finance system that is pushing up home prices through mindless concessionary lending.
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On Saturday, Mercury leaves your house of relationships and re-enters your house of work, giving you a second chance to complete all of the mindless but necessary tasks that are necessary for you to share yourself with someone else.
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They can't be mindless glorification or else they become copaganda, like Netflix's Bright, Blue Bloods, or Chicago PD—pieces of media that are so scarily disconnected from the reality of cops that they end up serving as offbeat recruitment ads.
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Highly educated, highly skilled workers typically value cultural diversity over insularism; they value well-funded schools and libraries over mindless tax cuts; they value the rights and contributions of women and immigrants; they believe that science is not a liberal conspiracy.
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And they matter most in the mindless rush, when everyone seems to be jumping on board the latest new thing, because it's in these heady moments that we lose sight of the precise risks of turning ourselves over to tech.
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Here are three parallels between the white supremacists of the lynching era -- roughly the late 19th century through the 203s -- and today: Both are driven by the same fear There's a perception that lynch mobs were motivated by mindless violence.
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Nothing she said was mean or meant to demean the poor, but it was hard to put myself in her shoes because to me, mindless destruction seemed like a perfectly normal thing to do as a bored 12-year-old.
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Those hours can be like the marvellous ones that Augie and I spent together bee-watching, or they can be violent or mindless—and that's true whether those hours are occupied by apps or TV or books or just by talk.
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Democratic leaders say they've asked their Republican counterparts and President Trump for help, but that nobody on that side of the fence seems much interested in anything besides squandering the calendar (and their credibility) on a mindless effort to repeal Obamacare.
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Had she been born in a different era, Becky thought, and without the education to qualify as a governess, she might have become a wet nurse, offering nourishment in the most mindless form to an infant from a wealthy family.
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I'm personally not a fan of strict fasting regimens, but I do see the value in limiting the amount of time spent eating during the course of a day, as it can eliminate problems like mindless nibbling and possibly improve health.
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Like the proverbial ostrich with its head in the ground, we are hunched over our cell phones and tablets totally absorbed in games, mindless chatter and texts, scrolling through social media feeds and whiling away the hours of our lives.
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" Holden was increasingly skeptical of tribalism and extremist elements of both parties; he seemed almost traumatized after attending the live CPAC taping of "Hannity," describing some in the crowd as "maladjusted and mindless" and "dredged up from the savage American hinterlands.
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This article forced me to think about my good habits and bad habits and the impact of each, my mindless laundry folding habit and how it coexists alongside my habitual inability to wear the same shirt twice in a row.
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"I am hopeful that we have finally reached a turning point with these mindless shutdowns, but this CBO estimate serves as a stark warning to President Trump on the consequences of using American workers as a bargaining chip," Yarmuth said in a statement.
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Sir Ian McKellen has responded to the "mindless" shooting in Orlando that killed 49 people in a gay nightclub, saying it comes too late "to halt the inevitable advance toward equality for gay people" in the U.S. and the rest of the world.
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There was some debate among fans whether Viserion was a wight dragon (a zombie-like mindless dead creature completely controlled by its master), or a White Walker dragon (a living, autonomous being transformed into a White Walker — like Craster's baby in Season 4).
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While it's easy to dismiss these acts as "mindless criminality," or, from the perspective of the critical left, as exercises in "defective consumption" on the part of rioters whose minds have been colonized by the logic of capitalism, I've got a different interpretation.
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To Stone, it was very significant that Snowden's girlfriend Lindsay Mills (played by Shailene Woodley), had a major role in his political development, bringing him out of the stultifying, right-wing libertarianism and mindless "patriotism" that drove him to join the special forces.
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While Social Security survived, the Republicans' failed attempt to hijack the debt ceiling to cut the deficit led to the sequester, a painful, mindless policy that capped discretionary spending automatically across the board, regardless of whether the program was useful or not.
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Another Democratic strategist, David Wade, calls the uproar over the language used by America's famous faces a "mindless Washington distraction," but says entertainers are simply reacting to the same factors that are leading to blue victories in deep-red territory under Trump.
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When DeWitt's passionate struggle for aesthetic expression—a struggle that powerfully animates "The Last Samurai"—is reified in these tales as scenes of repetitively rigged business with imbecile agents and mindless art dealers, the comedy suffers, hardens a bit, and narrows its scope.
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Get a pedicure or massage, take a hot bath, go for a walk around the block, go out with friends, or cancel plans to stay in on a Friday night to recharge and binge-watch mindless television, if that's what you need.
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It was CNN who led the charge and assorted other drips who didn&apost seem to mind because they thought Hillary had it in the bag anyway, and they had no other way to get people to watch their boring, mindless coverage.
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Together, they developed a trademark sound that hijacks every nerve in your body and blasts you into a confetti cannon of mindless euphoria: sweet and synthetic pop hooks floating over chainsaw basslines that sound like Transformers kicking each other in the testicles.
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Most of the action is laughable, and the scenes in which various characters casually fight mummies are frequent but devoid of all thrills: some kicking and bone-cracking, a few scenes of mindless chit-chat, and then they're right back at it!
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To be so wrong about the Central Park Five's guilt and then refusing to admit his error presents the country with a double dilemma: first, initial errors with sometimes serious consequences, then a mindless refusal to acknowledge the mistake and take corrective measures.
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It's enchanting to watch even if you've never picked up a spatula and simply enjoy cake videos for the 30 seconds of mindless entertainment — and even more satisfying if you're a baker watching your hard work come to fruition in real life.
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And yet his novel much more accurately evokes the country we live in now, especially in its depiction of a culture preoccupied with sex and mindless pop entertainment, than does Orwell's more ominous book, which seems to be imagining someplace like North Korea.
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Many fellow Venetians are perfectly happy to profit from the mindless economy that is making tourism the only game in town, despoiling Venice of its residents and students, and losing all the care and expertise needed to preserve this fragile and wonderful place.
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But instead of looking at solutions that have been shown to help, the Trump administration has chosen a response that is cruel and full of dangerously mindless drama — the kind that will make the crisis worse and kill more people in the process.
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Writing at New York magazine, he says: The incisive counternarrative of twentieth-century liberalism that we constructed in the eighties and nineties devolved into a litany of mindless clichés, and the rise of right-wing media has further corrupted the movement's integrity.
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If your resolution for the coming year is to spend less time on your commute scrolling through Twitter or playing "Puzzler on the Roof," there's no shortage of fantastic and fantastical new books you can use to take a break from mindless screen time.
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"As for White Rex and all the great things that organization has done, like pushing youth to be more than just mindless consumers and addicts like the rest of mainstream society... I cannot say much more than they have our full support," he said.
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The tabloid's front page shows Trump in angry clown makeup and describes his supporters as "mindless zombies": But this is far from the first salvo in the New York tabloid's war on Trump — one that's ramped up as he's gotten closer to the nomination.
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A standout change in Shadowkeep is Bungie bringing every one of your characters up to the starting light level of the expansion, ensuring players don't spend countless hours grinding out mindless and otherwise months-old activities just to be on an even playing field.
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The present U.S. administration will rue the day when it started its mindless demolition of the alliance with petty nickels-and-dimes taunts and rips at European unity, a project bringing peace and prosperity to a continent that lit up the world twice last century.
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Given that a two-state solution has been the policy of every American administration, Republican or Democratic, for years, our Congress's mindless opposition to stateless and suffering Palestinians will only assure less American international leadership at a time when our G.O.P. decries just that.
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Aside from her buoyant club beats, it's Love's acute self-awareness — compounded by a rare ability to open up about such raw, uncomfortable insecurities in relatable lyrics — that make her stand out from the typically mindless, manufactured pop that often tops the charts today.
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What we see, and rightly so, is a vision of utter despair, a luridly lit scene of torture and mindless obeisance to power populated by giant blue-and-golden birds, a blue earth goddess with four breasts, and a torture victim tied to a table.
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Nevertheless, "Walden, a game" is no mindless mindfulness app; it's an introspective "Oregon Trail" that reminds you it's all well and good to sit and reflect by the fire at pond's edge, but there also needs to be a fish cooking upon that fire.
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Consumer experts say that between the death of net neutrality, ongoing consolidation in the space, and a Trump FCC widely seen as a mindless rubber stamp for the wireless industry, there's a perfect storm brewing that will hamper the real-world consumer benefits of 5G.
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Gone from government service are people like former Defense Secretary Robert Gates or former National Security Advisers Zbigniew Brzezinski and Brent Scowcroft, who have been replaced by the know-nothings of Obama's current national security team and the mindless hawkishness of people like Sens.
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Now, at the age of eighty-one, I have neither the strength nor the years ahead to fight against the mindless damage that is being done to our country—and to our planet—by Pruitt, Ryan Zinke, and their colleagues in the Trump Administration.
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G. and I both also write in our journals, do some planning for tomorrow (there's an island that G. wants to visit to learn more about Finnish culture and a cute café nearby that we both read about), and have some mindless social media time.
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Or at least you did, up to a point—early exposure to this mildest of mindless boosterism is at least partially responsible for the fact that at some point I checked out, determined not to become a zombie repeating the ad back by rote.
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After that, Michonne is back to where she was when she was first introduced: a hooded, independent wanderer taking on walkers with her katana, two zombies in tow with their arms and jaws removed to keep her from being noticed by other mindless walkers.
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India is experiencing yet another cycle of mindless violence against women — just yesterday, a woman in North India who said she was raped by two men was set on fire when she was on her way to court for a hearing in her case.
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Perhaps for this reason I wish she had gone more deeply into her brief discussion of what she calls "mindless pleasures" — daydreaming, rolling a piece of chalk between one's fingers, lining up paper clips — and taken more seriously their relation to what we call art.
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Even if we take Peña at his word—that these were just the mindless tweets of a dumb, 12-year-old kid who didn't actually mean what he was saying—it doesn't change the fact that calling women's rights a "joke" and praising Hitler hurts.
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But here the voice of poetry, speaking from somewhere among history's ruins ("by the roadside in a ditch / or beneath a buckled bridge"), can only stand vulnerably before a sun that is at once named and not named, obvious yet cryptic, "mindless" and all-powerful.
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In other words, if you disagree or offer an opposing viewpoint, to the alt-right, it's because you're still living within the Matrix — you've taken the blue pill, you're a mindless sheep, a weak cuck, or a shill for the insidious threat of progressive identity politics.
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That desire to make some corny, mindless drawings had its partial impetus in a need to get away from the cerebrally crushing news cycle that day, because it was a day in 2017, and nearly every day of the news cycle has been like that this year.
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The desire to make corny, mindless drawings had its partial impetus in a need to get away from the cerebrally crushing news cycle that day, because it was a day in 20173, and nearly every day of the news cycle has been like that this year.
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This curse, which prevents humans from dying and eventually turns them into mindless, immortal zombies, is supposedly defeated at the end of Dark Souls if the player chooses to "link the fire," which essentially hits the reboot button on the world's cycles of life and death.
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Los Angeles-based artist and bandleader of electronic rock veterans Mindless Self Indulgence, Jimmy Urine, has remixed Australian/Iranian duo VOWWS' single "Holy Youth" off their 2015 debut LP. The Great Sun featured appearances from synth pop pioneer Gary Numan as well as Swans' percussionist Thor Harris.
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Insofar as kids are concerned, the message being generated via YouTube's medium is frequently nonsensical; a mindless and lurid slurry of endlessly repurposed permutations of pilfered branded content, played out against an eerie blend of childish tunes, giddily repeating nursery rhymes, and crude cartoon sound effects.
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Someone he shares this in common with is Detroit don Seth Troxler, who has made no qualms decrying the state of modern dance music, in particular EDM, an area that Seth feels devalues club culture's heritage and is turning a generation of ravers into mindless drones.
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Lamar brings Travis Scott along for the run; the pair's recent collaboration, "Goosebumps," is a sleeper hit as tender as it is raging—it strikes the most perfect balance of pop precision and mindless fun on the airwaves right now, and in arenas this season. ♦
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In terms of popular music that is more than just mindless singalong pablum, then she is an artist of genuine stature, whose songs, whose music, are as great as any art form, as the work of any artist in the 20th and into the 21st century.
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These are the sorts of plot devices that deserve to die a slow death and be left in the past, but at the franchise's core—and what separates the Bond franchise from countless other mindless action spectacles—is a sense of adventure, danger, elegance, and fun.
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Please note, it's not disease per se, but "flesh-eating" disease, the kind that turns us all into mindless cannibals that chase Brad Pitt and his family en masse, usher the "other" into the city walls, and turn a perfectly okay capitalist machine into a tomb.
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"Physicists tend to treat quantum mechanics like a mindless robot they rely on to perform certain tasks, not as a beloved family member they care about on a personal level," writes Sean Carroll in the prologue of his new book, Something Deeply Hidden, which publishes today.
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Scientists like Skomal, along with organizations such as the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy, a nonprofit group in Chatham, Massachusetts, are working together to shift the perception of the great white from mindless, blood-thirsty killers to a species that is a key facet of the ocean's ecosystem.
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Comcast and NBC Universal; AT&T and Time Warner; AT&T and BellSouth, AT&T and Cingular; Spectrum and Time Warner Cable; there's 40 years of clear historical data showing that mindless consolidation in the telecom space results in higher prices, fewer jobs, and steadily-worse customer support.
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And yet at Serenity Park, the very behaviors that once would have further codified our parrot caricatures — ''birdbrained,'' ''mindless mimicry,'' ''mere parroting'' and so on — are recognized as classic symptoms of the same form of complex post-traumatic stress disorder afflicting the patients in the Veterans Administration Medical Center.
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Classic zombie movies set in urban areas, from Dawn to Shaun, barely have to lift a rotting finger to say something about the mindless monotony of modern life; stories with a broader view, like 28 Days Later and World War Z, are a bloody backdrop for political allegory.
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"We were sitting on the couch and having this mindless conversation — I'm totally sober — and I said, 'Brad I think I'm going to go,' and he said, 'I want to have sex,' and I said, "I'm not having sex with you in this state — you haven't showered for days.
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"In another example of the mindless gun violence plaguing our country, a young, up-and-coming musician had his life and career dramatically cut short by a burst of senseless shooting that also wounded an acquaintance," Brown, the district attorney, said in a statement about this week's charges.
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" The letter continued: "I would only hope that by striking a nerve that stimulates the inevitable double standard, knee-jerk government reaction that results in more stupid draconian restrictions people wake up and begin to see the pompous political thugs and their mindless minions for what they are.
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He also says, "I never realized the power behind a mindless double tap on Instagram and how it bears so much weight on people's lives," as if the problem is that racist, transphobic memes impact people offline, and not that the meme is, in itself, racist or transphobic.
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Chris: Okay, here's why I love both these movies, and why I feel both are a counter to the bulk of popular science fiction: they dodge traditional good-and-evil binaries, they skip mindless action setpieces with copious collateral damage, and most importantly, they have something to say.
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Why a design mindset matters While most kids their age are glued to various digital devices, often wasting hours playing mindless games or watching cat videos, 164 fourth and fifth graders, along with eight elementary school teachers, have been using those same devices to explore new paths to learning.
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Now thanks to a chemical weapons attack in Douma, Syria, launched by Syrian tyrant Bashar al-Assad, Trump is finally starting to sour on the Kremlin, tweeting his first-ever presidential words criticizing Putin on Sunday: Many dead, including women and children, in mindless CHEMICAL attack in Syria.
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" Related: The UK's Iraq War inquiry vindicates a whistleblower who took his own life Last week, veteran conservative politician Ken Clarke said May didn't have the same illusions as the "mindless, tiny band of lunatics who think we can have a glorious economic future outside the European Union.
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Much of the tension in the Jungle Books arises from the conflict between the Law of the Jungle—with its insistence on hierarchy and individual responsibility—and those who seek to undermine it, especially the tiger Shere Khan, a solitary, ruthless predator, and the mindless, pleasure-seeking Monkey People.
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Mindless destruction of locally owned businesses does little to garner sympathy for the cause, which is why Portland's Resistance is raising money to help pay for the damages accrued and the hospital bills of the marcher who was shot by a 14-year-old male on the Morrison Bridge.
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" Warp Records co-founder Steve Beckett later told The Believer that the tour marked a shift in Aphex's, and the label's, audience: "It was during that time when we first started switching kids who were into indie rock and had always dismissed electronic music as mindless music for idiots.
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" In it he describes the fear-of-missing-out mood that triggers people to turn and return to a successful app: "Feelings of boredom, loneliness, frustration, confusion, and indecisiveness often instigate a slight pain or irritation and prompt an almost instantaneous and often mindless action to quell the negative sensation.
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Just as the discourse of leaving the European Union has escalated to the point where Michael Howard is suggesting we could batter the Spanish, so too are there people deriding Arsene Wenger with the sort of mindless and pathetic spite which is only going to permanently estrange their fellow fans.
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She expands on those in her new book, How to Communicate Like a Buddhist (out 4/18), laying out how many common, mindless default communication styles — like talking over people, selective listening, acting like we know better, or playing the victim — can quietly harm nearly every aspect of our lives.
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