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Geechie

(1,010 posts) Thu Apr 24, 2025, 06:17 PM Yesterday

Hey, Pete, next time tell em Hedy Lamarr invented WiFi

I want to see some heads explode.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/pete-buttigieg-enters-manosphere-marathon-231447123.html]

Note: can’t find the exact quote, but apparently he won them over by saying private corporations can build smartphones, but it took the government to build the Internet.

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Hey, Pete, next time tell em Hedy Lamarr invented WiFi (Original Post) Geechie Yesterday OP

That's Hedley! Turbineguy Yesterday #1

. Chemical Bill Yesterday #2

Thanks for the name, Hedy Lamarr, I couldn't remember. An extraordinary woman. elocs Yesterday #3

Turbineguy

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1. That's Hedley!

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Thu Apr 24, 2025, 07:49 PM

Yesterday

Chemical Bill

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2. .

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Thu Apr 24, 2025, 08:04 PM

Yesterday

elocs

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3. Thanks for the name, Hedy Lamarr, I couldn't remember. An extraordinary woman.

Reply to Geechie (Original post)

Thu Apr 24, 2025, 08:56 PM

Yesterday

She didn't invent Bluetooth but was the mother of its eventual invention. She never went to college, but had a brilliant mind as well as being considered the most beautiful woman in Hollywood and she was.

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