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.
Yeah banjos are more folk and bluegrass than country.
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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.)
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.
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!
tbf they are “TEXAS” instruments, this is very texas of them.
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
Well they got their mills and they got their generals obviously
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.
Back in the day we would type 58008 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.
I 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
Good 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”
Drug Wars, 100%. Taught me everything I needed to know about quaaludes.
TI sold their defense segment business to Raytheon in the late 90s. I don’t think they make missiles anymore.
As the defense industry consolidated, TI sold its defense business to the Raytheon Company in 1997 for $2.95 billion. […] [1]
References
- “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.
- “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.
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.
Diversification
