A normal American company

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This is like General Mills, the cereal company, making submersibles like DSV Alvin.

If you eat Cinnamon Toast Crunch while exploring the sea bed in the Alvin, you're still using the same company for both lol

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If you think TI's set of manufactured products is insane, look at a Japanese Keiretsu like DKB or South Korean Chaebol, like Daewoo.

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They are a company that makes thinky-sand.

First they realized that if they forced everyone to use their thinky sand at school, they could charge a massively inflated price.

Then they realized that if they made the thinky-sand go boom, they could charge whatever they wanted.

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The joke is exactly that Japanese company make everything, differently from the US ones.

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There are no instruments more Texan.

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Ryan Kelly has great videos regarding this very content: https://youtube.com/shorts/zHUgjC9-FUY

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You know you won capitalism when you start manufacturing weapons. Take note people.

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It's called Texas Instruments.... This was inevitable.

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College Board issues aside, I have fond memories of TI-BASIC, writing in it a 3D graphing engine and a stock market analyzer. With enough patience, I could make anything ... but friends. (Although with my chatterbot experiments, I certainly tried.)
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Texas Instruments (of murder)

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Texas Instruments of mass destruction.

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This goes all the way back to ancient Roman times (and earlier).

Roman Engineers: I guess we making bridges now.

Also Roman Engineers: What the fuck! Mangonels? Scorpions? Siege towers?!

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I don't know that Yamaha makes weapons but they make everything, so probably.

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TI sold their defense segment business to Raytheon in the late 90s. I don't think they make missiles anymore.

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Computer Shopper was the shit back in the day. Imagine Newegg's listings of computer hardware bound up every month into a catalog.

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You’d think they would make banjos.

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Hitachi, man. Do you need an air conditioner? A hydrolic excavator? A pussy diddler? A 120mm self propelled mortar? If all of the above, they're the company for you.

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That's Alabama.

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To their credit, TI will stop making calculators when the Earth becomes uninhabitable.