After a few moments of contemplation, I decided that going to the grocery store to get a chocolate cake was a silly idea.

经过了一段时间的沉思，我觉得去杂货店买巧克力蛋糕是一个愚蠢的想法。

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But I'm the guy who thought in the early 1990s that making home pages on something called the World Wide Web was a silly idea, which would never catch on.

但我是那种在90年代初还认为在互联网上建主页很愚蠢的人，我永远赶不上时代。

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And it's not a silly idea.

它并不愚蠢

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No, not just from their point of view: it just is a very silly idea indeed.

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But the FTT is a very silly idea altogether.

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All in all, it's just sort of a silly idea, bribing children to use the toilet with the promise of touchscreen entertainment, perpetuating this need for visual stimulation literally all the time.

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