Blithely in a sentence as an adverb

Some have blithely said Aaron should just have taken a deal. This is callous.

It was not a missed shot at the trash can, it was just blithely dropped on the floor. That's when I realized his work on automatic garbage collection had gone too far.

The authors blithely ignore this to make an intellectual point that there are occasional uses to cloning code. Of course there are.

You blithely conclude that "the overwhelming majority" does not include "abusing process" and are "in the clear service of the public good." But you're just making that up.

Anyone with a credit/debit card has been tracked since the day they got it, but it doesn't mean that every subsequent intrusion should blithely accepted.

You blithely quote the word "powers" but ignore that until you show where the constitution grants the power to maintain a standing police force, you haven't even addressed my argument. You can't make an argument on the points.

If you go up to a group of people who are used to doing things according to procedure X and you blithely ignore it, you really should not be surprised when your efforts are met with derision at best and hostility at worst. What does blithely ignore mean?

It was the equivalent of the engineering student blithely applying any equation where the units work out. Uncompressed pixels go in, compressed data comes out.

And because you spent your life becoming a technician, you won't be able to enjoy your newfound free time, because you can't do anything other than blithely consume the content others have created. People still treat computers as new things.

Yet Nelson uses a shakespeare play as one of his examples blithely ignoring the problem of provenance throughout. Now imagine a really thorny issue like the Bible or a particle physics paper.

These are all features you can blithely ignore: don't use backticks, and stick to native JS prototypes and the thin arrow. Without taking a personal stance on these features, I suggest that You can ignore Language Feature X is often a weak argument.

Way smarter folks than me have messed up algorithms they actually put a lot of thought into I'm not going to go blithely turning knobs in good algorithms and hope their positions weren't important. Incidentally, what kind of drive-by attack are you thinking?

Teaching people is much harder than blithely complaining about their motives, so I can understand the appeal to HN commenters, but I would have expected Mozilla to see above that.

So the two systems of measuring resolution were created independently and both have historical precedents, and the marketing mishap stems from blithely conflating the two. So I guess my explanation is: coincidence

To blithely suggest that the probability is 'thousands of times' higher is misleading to the point of irresponsibility. Think of the confusion and anxiety such misinformation can create in the mind of an uninformed reader.

The article blithely describes the "best" strategy, without defining "best." I believe the strategy is only best in the sense of giving the highest probability of ending up with the best candidate--so the second best candidate is considered as bad as the worst.

Using your "they have a word for it so it's common and blithely ignored" logic, you could say that "infanticide" happens all the time and is ignored in English-speaking countries simply because there's a word for it.

Yet, the program's backers blithely proclaim they're going to make their dates, ignoring the fact that the program is years overdue and 70% over budget. Not only has an enormous amount of good money been thrown after bad, the military has staked the future of air power on this one aircraft so no one wants to admit that it should be cancelled.

Unfortunately, Leys cannot discriminate the subtlety and smugness in Hitchens's small linguistic victory, and responds blithely and indelicately. Side note: Classic Hitchens is him saying that people who say that racists are discriminatory could not be further from the truth.

People who will blithely click "Delete" and then click "Yes" even though they don't mean it on the confirmation dialog that comes up vastly outnumber people who care that an invisible copy of their content might be buried in some Facebook database somewhere. Next to the unintentional deleters, the second group looks like a rounding error.

So if you send information to Europe from the US, you're being spied upon, and the information relayed back to the NSA. The same goes for citizens of the UK subject to NSA spying who have data or contacts in the US. This distinction between us and them is used to tranquillise dissent in the US even as the NSA blithely ignores their own rules. In our increasingly connect world, does it even make sense to define rights based on where a person lives, or what country they happened to be born in?

Blithely definitions

adverb

in a joyous manner; "they shouted happily"

See also: happily merrily mirthfully gayly jubilantly