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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
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