Native Spanish speaker, usually subtitles are pretty good as long as made by humans and not auto generated captions. I guess that’s a standard in any language though. Personally I can’t recall bad subtitles ever, but very occasionally I do find simplified subtitles or phrases made in a way that could be much closer to the original in structure. But it’s negligible.

What? Who needs synthesis. Hakuna Matata

I realise I haven’t taken many photos of things I find interesting lately. I went over my photos for a whole year … Most of them are work related or too personal to share.

But.

I found this ant colony with their brood inside a friend’s pantry. I only moved the items around a bit, exposing them, and they moved the whole colony overnight.

Not joking I’m curious

No. If anything, my crisis are because of what I do remember. And thankfully childhood memories are never a problem.

I may be curious, are you working on something like software or something like research? And when you say to map where people agree/disagree, do you mean in general or specifically their agreement/disagreement of how they perceive the Internet is changing?

Excuse me, would you please be so kind to point me in the direction of all these sauropod hypothetical natural disaster posts? Which comm? This is the first I see, but, granted, I’ve been busy lately

I’m not saying someone changes solely because of lots of arguments. Or repeated exposure, which I agree, are more likely to cement a position if they are essentially the same argument over and over. But arguments in general add to whatever experiences eventually change someone’s mind. Just another factor.

That’s different from someone saying “I’m Machiavellian”, which is what OP asked. But taken at face value, without context, one would understand we are talking about someone labelling themselves as such.

Typically, no. Not in person and not online. However, winning an argument - in particular one that brings fairness or justice as a consequence - feels very rewarding. But I still don’t enjoy the actual arguing part.

Discussing different points of view though, I don’t always consider this arguing. As long as it remains an exchange, it is pleasant. If I have to attack and defend something personal, then no.

I’d say it is very unlikely someone will change their mind because of an argument. But it is likely that someone will change their mind after several arguments, and some reflection. It may take years. This person may not see things the same way you do once they change, but they may change some of their views.

Cringe edgelord. Or just a delusional idiot.

Because of the evil implied in machiavellianism, I’m sure they have plenty of unsavory behavior they would love to see your reaction to.

True Machiavellian character would not disclose it if they are aware of it.

Move on, ignore and, if possible, block.

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Lol thanks for linking that, just had a blast laughing

I can cook for myself alright, but I don’t impress people with my culinary skills. I’m not a fan of cooking.

When I need to save face because there are guests, (rarely happens but it does) I do pan fried salmon and steamed vegetables. It’s very difficult to get it wrong. It’s easy to season. Looks presentable. I learned to cook the salmon from a short Gordon Ramsay video that you can find on YouTube. Practically foolproof

The Catwoman starring Halle Berry. Not only I found the movie sort of lame, also the quality of it was… Well. Someone went to the cinema and filmed the projection with a hand held camera. The image quality was trash, but the camera moved all the time, occasionally shaking. You got to hear the occasional cough or candy wrap noise from the audience, you got to see people standing up and moving across the camera because they needed a toilet break. You get the idea.

Fair conclusion, but don’t be so hard on yourself. Honestly as a native speaker these things don’t come across as “rules” for me even though of course they have rules. It’s just the natural and obvious way of using the language. And that’s something very hard to get right if you weren’t raised with that language. In other words, I’ve heard a gazillion people say so many examples of phrases in Spanish since before I have memory, that hearing or seeing something outside of the expected pattern stands out immediately, but I can’t always explain why.

It’s unreasonable to expect ever having the same level of fluency with a language you weren’t raised with. I’ve been speaking English half my life and I still screw up sometimes.

Uso “ustedes”, pero por supuesto que sé conjugar vosotros. Tal vez cometo algún error ya que no tengo costumbre de usarlo, pero sí, te lo enseñan en la escuela junto con todos los demás pronombres personales.

Not the person you asked, but a native Spanish speaker myself. The formal way to say “excuse me” (for example to a teacher or boss, or to a stranger on the street if you wish to be polite) would be “disculpe señor/a”, or “discúlpeme señor/a”. You can also remove señor/a and simply say “disculpe” or “discúlpeme” to anyone and it will still carry the same meaning, since the verb in both cases already implies it’s about yourself.

The informal way would be “disculpame” or “discúlpame”, although in this case adding señor/a sounds way off. You can definitely add a name though, ie, “discúlpame Shads” and that would be okay.

Edit: as for your specific request of an adult teacher asking something to the students, that would depend a lot on the relationship they have, some teachers are distant while others get more familiar with time. I’ve seen both. By all means the formal one would always be correct. I’ve seen teachers with a usually more relaxed or casual approach revert to the formal when they are getting serious or upset.

Congrats, you spotted a flag! You seem a bit confused about the color. It’s red, very very red! Here is why:

He’s angry at you. Why? Because you don’t do as he says or wants.

He then trash talks about you. Why? Because he is angry, and wants to hurt you, but not openly on your face no no. Because if he did hurt you openly, he knows you are smart enough to never again do what he wants and as he says.

Did you get that right? I said, He wants to hurt you

Finally, he asks you to go be with him. Why? Well he wants you for something. But if it were to give you love and affection, he wouldn’t be trash talking about you in the first place. He just wants someone to validate him, someone he can control. Obviously. Nobody in their right mind wants someone who they say is a slut and they are angry at. Unless, of course, you can still fulfill his need for validation and control.

Run away Don’t give this person the time of the day