> either change the topic or don't associate with them at all [...] this has just been my personal approach in life that's worked well so far. This may work ou

> either change the topic or don't associate with them at all [...] this has just been my personal approach in life that's worked well so far. This may work out for you, but it’s hard to judge how well it works out for the people you decide to stop associating with (especially in comparison to some counterfactual other approach), since presumably you don’t get much follow-up information about the outcome.