A normal American company

[sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip]

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

[rentlar@lemmy.ca]

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.

[marcos@lemmy.world]

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

[noforwardslashs@sopuli.xyz]

There are no instruments more Texan.

[punnyname@lemmy.world]

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

[yerbouti@sh.itjust.works]

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

[darkassassin07@lemmy.ca]

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

[negativenull@lemmy.world]

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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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[teamassimilation@infosec.pub]

Texas Instruments (of murder)

[tommasz@lemmy.world]

Texas Instruments of mass destruction.

[chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world]

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?!

[doingthestuff@lemy.lol]

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

[collapse_already@lemmy.ml]

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

[frezik@midwest.social]

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

[jaybone@lemmy.world]

You’d think they would make banjos.

[frezik@midwest.social]

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.

[spacenoodle@lemmy.world]

That's Alabama.

[aeronmelon@lemmy.world]

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

[benjaben@lemmy.world]

I mean, a banjo could show up in country music of any kind, but it feels quite Appalachian to me. Though after looking apparently the top half of Alabama counts, anyway, so TIL!

[dragonsinaroom@lemmy.world]

Diversification