A normal American company

[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

[kalcifer@sh.itjust.works]

As the defense industry consolidated, TI sold its defense business to the Raytheon Company in 1997 for $2.95 billion. ^[1]^

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1. "Texas Instruments". Wikipedia. Published: 2025-01-04T02:02Z. Accessed: 2025-01-09T19:01Z. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Instruments#Missiles_and_laser-guided_bombs.
   • §"History". §"Defense Electronics". §"Divestiture to Raytheon". ¶1.
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[rustyfish@lemmy.world]

If you never sat around in class playing Pokémon on your TI-84 Plus after you finished your math exam earlier than the rest, you have no idea what true power feels like.

[ss2k_2003@lemmy.world]

tbf they are "TEXAS" instruments, this is very texas of them.

[hexadence@lemmy.world]

Good ol' "aerospace and defense" industry. The backbone of every healthy society.