Seriously used in a sentence

Seriously in a sentence as an adverb

For ***** and giggles, I decided to take it seriously.

That is seriously misdirected effort that is not going to solve the systemic problems.

I never realized just how bad the situation was until I got involved more seriously in activism.

The tech community might get its act together, give up all social causes and form some kind of committee or group to push for such amendments, but I seriously doubt it.

Nobody in government seriously thinks industry is ever going to adopt a government-controlled encryption algorithm.

Therefore, if no-one notices a problem like this until after the planning submission, or perhaps fails to get someone higher up to take it seriously enough to change the concept design, then they will have to remedy it by using special anti glare coatings or just plain hoping it wont be too bad.

How can I take the article seriously when it says that "GitHub has been embroiled in a series of diversity controversies, such as programmers adding racial and sexist slurs into their code", which links to an article where someone took GitHub search and found random people putting bad words into their public repos?This author can't seem to distinguish between the code employees at GitHub write, and code users put onto GitHub.