Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for February 16, 2022

If only I could get certain people to block me on social media, then I will be truly successful.

whoop-tee-doo

Good luck, Rat.

Geeze. Just like people who try to make more money than anybody else.

A rat infestation on the Internet? Get some virtual D-Con!

Peace on you Rat! Peace on you!

Zero followers. Now THAT is inner peace.

Uneasy lies the head that boasts the most followers. There will always be somebody trying grab that inner peace.

Rat might think he’ll find “true inner peace” with having more social media followers, but will realize massive mental anguish with the same amount of trolls who don’t agree with his opinions.

Rat might find “true inner peace” with having more social media followers, but will gain massive mental anguish with the same amount of trolls.

Rat will not be a part of the inner peace for anyone else.

Zuckerberg = Pavlov

If you follow someone on social media does that make you a stalker?

I think I got a friend request from Rat!

Interviewer: “How much is enough money?”

Rockefeller: “Just a little bit more.”

True inner peace is using social media sparingly, and only befriend people you know personally and have something in common with. I learned that during the early 90’s on BBS’s and Usenet.

There’s always a bigger fish.

I skip social media altogether. It’s pretty peaceful.

A certain person who has almost 89 million followers has no inner peace.

Social media = social disease

It all a big waste of time for they they bans you off their platform on their own whims, Rat.

Step one: Social media followers.

Step two: ?

Step three: Profit.

On social media, people will do anything to get more subscribers. Even the most insane of things.

I actually know someone like that. Several people, actually. You know who you are.

A lot of celebrities and wannabes seem to believe that fallacy.

Boycott Facebook until they fully enter adulthood.

An inner piece of what?

RAT : It’s all about me!

Never rely on the fleeting, fickle whims of others especially for your sense of self worth.

And then more and more, until Rat nearly hits 8 billion.

The Dalai Lama needs to have Rat as an advisor, I guess. :D

Don’t think so……

Peace, O rat, is the presence of health and the absence of debt.

The Three Stooges in MEN IN BLACK—“For duty and humanity!” over a wrecked switchboard.

I sometimes think a software engineer somewhere will do the world a favor and make a virus that ONLY takes down the social media platforms.

About 2 hours ago Mudd said,

You’r kidding. Right? Eh?

Reminiscent of uncle Scrooge McDuck and billionaires. WTF? Greed is the first and worst Deadly Sin. Occasionally, Companies which get too greedy are broken up. Look and how much better our lives are since the 1/1/84 breakup of the Bell System (BTW, during a disaster, forget calling for help on your cell-phone….SOLUTION: Crawl out from under building and drive down road till you get a signal.)

I don’t want inner peace. The outer pieces have more frosting.

Dream on, Rat. You’ll never find inner peace via social media.

True inner peace is sometimes achieved by just not giving a $#it.

Good luck achieving True Inner Peace, Rat. But the prospects seem dismal….

There are no new followers, just Russian bots.

More followers alone won’t do it. You have to get them all to give you MONEY! ;)

Inner peace = achieving social media escape velocity.

Who cares how many followers you have? Say or do the wrong thing and those people will unfollow you just as quickly.