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There are no instruments more Texan.

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.

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

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

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

What's a cruise missile if not an advanced calculator with an engine, some fins, some sensors and some servos.

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

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.

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

Calculators? Did you mean "machines that can run DOOM"

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

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! Onagers? Scorpions? Siege towers?!

Texas Instruments of mass destruction.

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

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

Diversification

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