Etsy shows that nearly anyone can design, create and handcraft some very cool (and occasionally pretty dumb) things.

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"Each individual robot is pretty dumb, " said Simon Garnier from the New Jersey Institute of Technology, lead researcher on the study.

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The whole plot is a pretty dumb contrivance, but, if you want to be picky, that's exactly what a plot always is.

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Pretty dumb to force your best customers to evaluate the competition.

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Yet another reason we may not have seen much of it is that it can't tell the difference between landline phones and cellphones, making CommWarrior a pretty dumb smartphone virus.

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That would have been pretty dumb.

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Tech blogger and entrepreneur Anil Dash was especially critical of the new maps, which he called "pretty but dumb, " and of Apple for releasing what he said was a flawed product.

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