The Picard ManeuverA normal American company
GorkThis 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
Well they got their mills and they got their generals obviously
If you think TI’s set of manufactured products is insane, look at a Japanese Keiretsu like DKB or South Korean Chaebol, like Daewoo.
The joke is exactly that Japanese company make everything, differently from the US ones.
I don’t know that Yamaha makes weapons but they make everything, so probably.
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.
Don’t forget nuclear power.
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.
Teaching sand to think was a mistake.
Found Butler’s lemmy account!
There are no instruments more Texan.
You’d think they would make banjos.
That’s Alabama.
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!
Georgia answering the banjo call.
Apparently those hands belong to a real banjo player hidden behind the actor.
Wow, I didn’t know that. Mike Addis is the name of the hands.
FreshLight
The famous dueling banjos scene from the 1972 thriller Deliverance
Yeah banjos are more folk and bluegrass than country.
Ryan Kelly has great videos regarding this very content: youtube.com/shorts/zHUgjC9-FUY
YerboutiYou know you won capitalism when you start manufacturing weapons. Take note people.
Darkassassin07It’s called Texas Instruments… This was inevitable.
TeamAssimilationTexas Instruments ^(of murder)
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spoilerCollege 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.)
Computer Shopper was the shit back in the day. Imagine Newegg’s listings of computer hardware bound up every month into a catalog.
I’d still like that to be available now so when I take shits in a scif I have something to read.
TomMaszTexas Instruments of mass destruction.
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?!
TI sold their defense segment business to Raytheon in the late 90s. I don’t think they make missiles anymore.
KalciferAs the defense industry consolidated, TI sold its defense business to the Raytheon Company in 1997 for $2.95 billion. ^[1]^
References1. “Texas Instruments”. Wikipedia. Published: 2025-01-04T02:02Z. Accessed: 2025-01-09T19:01Z. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Instruments#Missiles_…. - §“History”. §“Defense Electronics”. §“Divestiture to Raytheon”. ¶1.
To their credit, TI will stop making calculators when the Earth becomes uninhabitable.
Diversification
rustyfishIf 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.
Wtf Pokémon? I thought I was hot shit with brick break and a couple other minor apps if I remember
CaptainBlagbirdDramatic exaggeration I assume. But there was a Super Mario clone (at least on my TI Voyage 200).
Nope. It was a „fully functioning“ version of Pokémon. Not an emulated one, super simplistic and it ran like ass, obviously something tinkered together by a fan, but still a version of it. The TI-84 Plus CE even had the GB Color versions on them fully emulated.
Sadly the TI-84 Plus CE only became the standard right after we graduated.
Woah nice, I wouldn’t have done much calculating anymore xD
And here I only had connect 4 and junk programmed into my Casio
Ah. That was one of my other apps for sure!
Back in the day we would type 80085 on our calculator and turn it upside down to satisfy our porn needs…
I wasn’t ti-84 plus rich. But I was palm pilot tungsten E rich, and played Pokemon and drug wars during class.
ddittyI had a game I think was called “Gangsta” or something which was a text-based game where you sold drugs and had sex with hookers or something
tbf they are “TEXAS” instruments, this is very texas of them.
hexadenceGood ol’ “aerospace and defense” industry. The backbone of every healthy society.
The largest teat in the whole country.
Calculators? Did you mean “machines that can run DOOM”
Dozzi92Drug Wars, 100%. Taught me everything I needed to know about quaaludes.
What’s a cruise missile if not an advanced calculator with an engine, some fins, some sensors and some servos.