As soon as you get into that hiking rhythm and are thoroughly into a cardio workout, you aren’t noticing shit around you. Most of the time when you are hiking you are less present in the natural world than you would be if you were sitting inside calmly looking out the window watching a stretch of woods.

Hiking is fun, it is good for people, I am not bashing getting out and walking in nature but honestly for me walks in the woods are so much more fulfilling than most hikes these days for me. I can walk at a slower pace and focus on remaining present and aware of the forest around me. Often times I will just sit and do nothing for 20 minutes and just enjoy the feeling of the forest happening around me. Hiking to the top of a beautiful mountain after I got up super early to drive for a couple of hours and then rushed to the top pushing myself to the peak of my physical capability just doesn’t do it for me.

I don’t know, I think it is because of how many digital places I have explored and how many photographs and videos I have seen of stunning places on earth… going there myself is of course different but I find myself dogged by the question “Why?”. Why do I need to climb to the top of Everest to see it MYSELF?". It is kind of an ego thing but it is also about the fact that even if I did climb to the top of Everest I do think I would still, in the majesty of that moment atop the tallest mountain in the world wonder “…but why did I need to come here myself when so many others already have? With video cameras, cameras, notebooks… leaving trash and human impact everywhere on one of the most unique spots on earth with all the gear one could imagine. Am I exploring or trampling?”.

In many hikers I have known there is a severe hierarchy of landscapes that are worth spending time in and that are not worth spending time in. Hikers will drive hours and hours past vast landscapes they completely ignore to reach one particular place. In a way that is cool and expresses passion but in another way it is a statement about how blind these people are to the landscapes between them and the “ideal nature” that they desire in a superficial way. It represents a deeply unhealthy subconscious perspective on natural spaces as exotic and beyond our everyday. No, do the opposite, go for a boring walk in your community, go for a local walk up that hill that is kind of lame and take it slow, train yourself to see the beauty of the nature beckoning you into the moment already around you… Our desire to NEED the most beautiful mountain or natural vista is destructive towards nature itself even if it feels like we are in love with nature when we feel it.

Within me is not a hierarchy of landscapes, sure I love an incredible vista but a normal mediocre walk in the woods surrounded by normal woodland life in an unremarkable nature preserve near where I live is what I will think about on my death bed for sure… I don’t think I will regret I didn’t climb that last mountain on my list because that shit doesn’t matter.

NE near coastal fresh wetlands of the US are absolutely crawling in ticks. Ughhhhhhh. Nature has rejected us.

“Im too young to be more mature than you too”

You mean bullshit destroyers?

Yeah those people are usually called Science Educators.

Yeah I mean am I surprised Maine is too high off libertarian nonsense to understand how to be genuinely progressive? No… but they found a way to make it work here and I support that. How do you argue against this? You can’t.

Org Mode shall set you free

They were already too spored of the conversation to be listening.

Dinosaur toys make everything better.

Ad Hominem attack, try harder :)

Maybe cite some evidence?

At some point you might want to print your notes, publish them on the web, or share them with people not using Org. Org can convert and export documents to a variety of other formats while retaining as much structure (see Document Structure) and markup (see Markup for Rich Contents) as possible.

The libraries responsible for translating Org files to other formats are called backends. Org ships with support for the following backends:

ascii (ASCII format)

beamer (LaTeX Beamer format)

html (HTML format)

icalendar (iCalendar format)

latex (LaTeX format)

md (Markdown format) odt (OpenDocument Text format) org (Org format) texinfo (Texinfo format) man (Man page format)

Users can install libraries for additional formats from the Emacs packaging system. For easy discovery, these packages have a common naming scheme: ox-NAME, where NAME is a format. For example, ox-koma-letter for koma-letter backend. More libraries can be found in the ‘org-contrib’ repository (see Installation).

Org only loads backends for the following formats by default: ASCII, HTML, iCalendar, LaTeX, and ODT. Additional backends can be loaded in either of two ways: by configuring the org-export-backends variable, or by requiring libraries in the Emacs init file. For example, to load the Markdown backend, add this to your Emacs config:

(require 'ox-md)

https://orgmode.org/manual/Exporting.html

There you go, maybe try reading a bit about the thing before commenting on it?

It objectively isn’t bothersome, it only takes a handful of keystrokes to export to markdown or to any other format you want.

I am sorry complaining about Org mode’s markdown format not being used elsewhere is absurd given how many extensibly options there are for Emacs built in even without adding in anything custom.

No, the org mode file format is the most extensible, open, powerful file format for primarily text based notes ever made. You are simply wrong here, I am sorry.

There are also apps that directly use the org mode file format such as Orgzly, Beorg and Orgro.

The downside is that copying anything with links or formatting out of Org requires converting its markup to Markdown or whatever.

The upside is by default org mode can export to markdown, and with Pandoc installed you can basically export to any file type known to humanity.

Syncthing and Org Mode.

A scumbag is still a scumbag when much worse scumbags are around, it is not a relative measurement but rather an absolute one.

If I am wasting my time here, you are also wasting your time here.

I know I am not wasting my time here, but apparently you are?

What A Terrible Graphic!!! I can barely seE tHe ImportaNt pArt because China is taking up all the SPACE. Fire the person who made that graphic right now!

That is how you deal with Donald Trump sentences, you grab them by the insist and tell them to shut up.

Lol what do you think all of those shipping containers going back to China from Canada are full of? CANADIAN HOCKEYSTICKS clearly!

It is called Sea Plastic please use the correct industry term or we will have to censor your comments.

Inkscape!