egrets

Specifically: tabs, dark mode, and retention of unsaved documents. They're apps for very different purposes, but Notepad has had some nice little updates over recent years.

Born in Missouri and lives in New York! I think the article was just hammered out very quickly without much proofreading.

We’ve been in this world of upside where a lone wolf is on a wilding spree through the federal government, clear not operating at anyone’s direction but his own. And yet the President is at least okaying it all after the fact. And thus our system can’t really makes sense of what’s happening. Yes, it’s almost all illegal even or in a sense especially if the President is authorizing it. And...

I feel like I'm having a stroke.

We come from the land of the ice and snow, from the midnight sun where the hot springs flow?

Almost. They both share the same Proto-Indo-European root, which is reconstructed as *wi-ro.

Germanic, Italic, Celtic, and even Indo-Iranian languages all have commonality in PIE.

This is a fun one. It comes through Persian and Arabic from the Sanskrit "naranga-s" - which describes the tree. But despite the Dutch adoption of the color, the place name "Orange" in titles like William of Orange is from the Latin name "Arausio", which probably has Celtic origin.

Harper agrees with your etymology but has a more mundane (and in my view, more likely) explanation of why "three ways" came to mean "something simple or ordinary":

literally "of or belonging to the crossroads," [...] The sense connection is "public," hence "common, commonplace."

https://www.etymonline.com/word/trivial

Happy to see etymology discussion. I used to run r/etymology, suspended it during the API debacle as part of the blackout, and got replaced by Reddit and banned by the new mod.

The "were" in "werewolf" also gives us "world" (originally referring to humanity, as in "the epoch of mankind") and also came through Latin, giving us, among other things, "virtue" (as in, the measure of a man, I think), and "virile".

hello i am the river

You misread my comment.

I once took the wrong gorge up Tryfan, and it taught me to be much more careful about and prepared for scrambling. If we'd not turned back when it got hairy and found a safer way, I'm positive our group would have been in dire straits.

The area is incredibly beautiful, even with reduced visibility.

Unless I'm misreading, "we are on the road" is with respect to "I and other progressives will be holding grassroots events" (from the article's lede) and not "we as a country are heading towards...". That is, the more stalwart Democrats are holding events around the country about how to combat the current administration.