Keeble

"the bird"

left wing bird, online and trying this " alternative social media" thing again. recently unionized barista. Weekly wikipedia streamer. ❤ @proxy ❤30. Avi: me!

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Incredibly minor language mistake that’s easy to correct: “uninterested” and “disinterested” do not mean the same thing. Most of the time the word people should use is uninterested, which means that you personally lack interest in something. While disinterested also technically means that, “interest” in that context means more in the legal/obligation sense. Think the phrase “a disinterested third party”; it doesn’t mean that the third party is bored but it means they have no personal stake in the outcome of a decision. In general, if (say) a tv show doesn’t appeal to you, you are uninterested in that tv show. You are not disinterested in that tv show unless your lack of knowledge of it allows you to be a neutral observer of phenomena within it


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