cheese_greater@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · edit-22 months agoWhat opinions do you have that you consider (shallow && pedantic)?message-squaremessage-square139fedilinkarrow-up184arrow-down16file-text
arrow-up178arrow-down1message-squareWhat opinions do you have that you consider (shallow && pedantic)?cheese_greater@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · edit-22 months agomessage-square139fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareOlPatchy2Eyes@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 months agoSo I am uninterested in them, but we are disinterested in each other? Do I have that more or less right?
minus-squareSanguinePar@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 months agoDisinterested just means that you don’t have any skin in the game, and can be impartial. Eg, if you were in court you would want the judge to be disinterested, but you wouldn’t want them to be uninterested :-)
minus-squareOlPatchy2Eyes@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 months agoAh, that makes more sense thanks
So I am uninterested in them, but we are disinterested in each other? Do I have that more or less right?
Disinterested just means that you don’t have any skin in the game, and can be impartial.
Eg, if you were in court you would want the judge to be disinterested, but you wouldn’t want them to be uninterested :-)
Ah, that makes more sense thanks