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Geechie

(1,048 posts)
Thu Apr 24, 2025, 06:17 PM Apr 2025

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 Apr 2025 OP
That's Hedley! Turbineguy Apr 2025 #1
. Chemical Bill Apr 2025 #2
Thanks for the name, Hedy Lamarr, I couldn't remember. An extraordinary woman. elocs Apr 2025 #3
 

elocs

(24,486 posts)
3. Thanks for the name, Hedy Lamarr, I couldn't remember. An extraordinary woman.
Thu Apr 24, 2025, 08:56 PM
Apr 2025

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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