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Humanity's longest-running side hustle: turning clever ideas into efficient ways to end arguments.
means The collective tools and devices designed for fighting or combat — swords, guns, missiles, and everything in that violent family tree.
from Built straightforwardly from 'weapon' plus the collective suffix '-ry' (as in 'jewelry' or 'machinery'), which groups individual items into a whole category. 'Weapon' itself traces back to Old English 'wæpen,' a Germanic word with cousins across related languages, simply meaning an instrument of combat — the '-ry' just came along later to bundle all those instruments under one roof.
- first upgrade
- a sharpened rock beat an unsharpened one
- irony
- peace talks often happen because weapons got scarier
- economics
- defense spending can rival entire nations GDP
- etymology
- from wǣpen, old english for tool of war