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a tiny tyrant that holds civilizations, grenades, and your future together with one bent wire
means A short, slender piece of metal with a sharp point, used to fasten, secure, or attach things together.
from From Old English 'pinn,' meaning a peg or bolt, likely borrowed from Latin 'pinna' (a feather, point, or pinnacle) — the same root that gives us 'pinnacle' and 'pinnate.' The humble fastening pin and the lofty mountain peak are, improbably, distant relatives, both born from the idea of something that comes to a point.
- grenade lore
- pulling the pin does nothing; releasing the lever arms it
- bowling math
- ten pins, one strike, infinite false confidence
- old roots
- bone and thorn pins predate sewn clothing entirely
- chip war
- a CPU's pins number in the thousands today
- safety pin
- patented in 1849 to pay off a debt
wrestling's bobby pins — wwe wrestlers use bobby pins as hidden weapons, famously used by edge and other wrestlers in matches since the 1990s
google maps pins — red location markers that users place to save addresses and businesses, used billions of times daily across 220+ countries
ibm computing pins — the original 1981 ibm personal computer used 5-pin din connectors that became the standard for keyboards and peripherals for decades