Friends making questionable life decisions

[David]

A few months ago, an acquaintance I really like started plugging a personal life coaching business. Soon after, another friend joined the Australian Communist Party and started posting annoying tankie memes. Today, I found out another friend is getting into creating and selling NFTs (please just look it up on Google and don't even think about asking me to explain) of self-abusing primates and asked me to follow his account on Twitter.

It's possible to be supportive of friends' choices without necessarily agreeing with every aspect of what they're doing, of course. But how do you maintain your friendship with somebody when the thing they're devoting their life to right now is objectively ridiculous?

[Dave The Man]

[David]

I mean, look – I don't judge them, and it doesn't necessarily affect how I see them as people. If I were closer to them I might have counselled them not to go down these paths. But it does make any conversation that gets on to the respective topic super awkward, that's for sure!

[stui magpie]

[think positive]

i hate so called friends who shove their business down your throat, or their new age beliefs! cut em lose in less you really want/need them in your life!

as for the primates, id dob him in to somewhere, scumbags making money out of animals, you know whaere that leads, first its insects, then bigger animals then people. hes a jerk

[David]

I probably should have clarified, sorry – these are merely very simply drawn (like, MS Paint) cartoon characters. It's certainly tasteless, but not a police matter!

[roar]

I have a similar problem with friends that are Trump fans and anti-vaxxers. It's all good if we don't stray into that territory but unfortunately, people who are that way usually can't help but bring it up. Really is cult-like behaviour.

[think positive]

yes i have a friend driving me nuts! but last walk she had finally taken her son to the doc and asked the question about herself. her minor heart murmor wont cut it, so next month she will get the new vaccine coming out! no idea if its any different, and i bet she doesnt have either, she just wont back down! i almost said for fuckssake just get 1, so by december you can enjoy all the nights out you want! Dining out with friends is her favourite thing!

[Dave The Man]

[think positive]

https://www.news.com.au/finance/business/other-industries/novavax-covid-vaccine-better-than-pfizer-coming-to-australia/news-story/4a528e0f6d9e7a0732488bd73412ad8c

[David]

Sounds great, but how many vaccines (and how many more doses) do we actually need?

[think positive]

yeah thats wot i thought!!

[stui magpie]

I expect Dan to remove all restrictions when 99% of the population has had their 10th shot.

[Dave The Man]

[eddiesmith]

If it gets approved it'll be one of about 500 million vaccines available in the country and after this years complaining about a lack of vaccines, the whiners will move on to the massive waste of money spent on unnecessary vaccines that get thrown out...