Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for August 26, 2024

Is this why so many are bad at math?

At least I can read Pearls Before Swine on my smartphone.

Sorry, Goat; however, I think we have more than enough evidence to know that plenty of minuses come with more minuses.

Pig, the more things change, the more they stay the same!

Phones may be smart now, but an idiot is still an idiot.

In the old days we had to keep tabs on our stuff ourselves. If you lost your daily planner or pocket diary, you lost the info but the act of physically writing things down helps us remember, because you use three “learning gates”: eyes, hands and mind. Just typing stuff into your phone doesn’t have the same effect because you don’t physically shape the words.

Every solution brings a problem.

Try arguing with AI. It has a nonverbal learning disorder.

The fundamental rule of physics is that everything adds up to nothing.

A plus with a minus and a minus, a plus, times all the problems that come along with an equal sign just adds up to trouble….(divided by one’s abilities to withstand it all!)…..

Results of the rule of unintended consequences. It’s one of the corollaries of Murphy’s Law.

As a flip phone user, I feel vindicated.

I’ve never known a device to be so convenient and inconvenient at the same time: convenient at what it can do and inconvenient to carry around comfortably in a pocket (too big) or to handle with my big dumb man hands (too small).

I have to go online to make appointments for blood tests ordered by doctor. They have me fill in a ton of info and issue an alpha code and a QR code. I get to the lab and have to fill in all the info AGAIN! Never asks for either code. My brother and I laff that someday you won’t be able to get anything done!!

Flip phones rock!

That’s why I got myself an actual planner.

Pretty much….

I actually find travel a lot easier to manage in this era of the internet and smart phones. The only minus occurs if my phone dies or gets lost or stolen.

spot the difference… if you can if any at all. :j

Remember the old saying; Every silver lining has a cloud! :o) With that said, I honestly can’t remember how I planned vacations before the internet?? It had to be a lot more “work”.

You take the goodYou take the badYou take them both and there you have the facts of lifeThe facts of life

It is the idiots that fork out a €1000+ for a smartphone that give normal idiots a bad name.

Is reading Pearls a plus or a minus?

Debits equal credits. It’s the first thing they teach you in accounting.

No travel, few activities, wall calendar for appointments, no smart phone – and I have not made that face in years.

You do need a negative sign (-) to make a positive sign (+)

Went in to upgrade from my flip phone to a smart phone. Salesperson spent 10 minutes highlighting how great the camera was, etc, etc. Not ONE word about how the voice quality was for an actual phone call. When I asked they had no idea. Sigh.

Social Media is the ability to find people to insult without consequences.

There’s a direct correlation between the amount of work people do and how complicated it is to live. We do more with technology, but everything we do is that much more complex

Looks like he has a seashell for a tail.

TANSTAAFL.

No, Goat – stupidphones have no plus.

Now days, phone are like clothes. One size DOES NOT fit all.

Plus cą change. . . .

That’s me trying figure out my new watch.

The smarter my phone, the more I rely on paper.

I just got my new 2025 calendar datebook. It’s all I need. It stays on my desk. Appointments, notes on when a book by a favorite author is being released, birthdays – it’s all there.

Plus and Minus – opposite sides of the same coin.

dunno. signed, last ’murican without a mobile, aka desktops R us, not dead yet division (but i can see it from here)

I wish GoComics would update their comments format so that the comments are nested more than 1 tier deep. Would make following arguments . . . I mean conversations, easier.

Smart phones, wisely used, provide lots of advantages. Misusing them will surely result in lots of disadvantages. Act prudently.

Yes, let’s just keep hoping all that equal parts of positive and negative matter doesn’t meet.

Well thanks, Goat, for closing on such an optimistic note.

And the bottom line is, you can’t win. Your best option is to curl up in the fetal position and surrender.

guys feeling philosophical today

Just wait ’til you get to multiplying negatives.

How old is Pig?

As we used to say, “artificial intelligence beats natural stupidity”…

Collateral damage. It’s a feature not a bug.

The question is the “Balance”. And sometimes the balancing act can be very, very difficult! (I wanted to say torturous, but not sure about the spelling!)

Every silver lining has a cloud.

AI = Augmentative Idiocy. Y’all ain’t seen nothing yet.

Zero Sum.

I’m not reading any of the comments today, because I know that there will be political negativism from Trumpers and Harrisers.

Stephan trying to work out how he can use the same panel twice. Oh wait …

more like everything comes with a minus.

Annoying phones is a better word…..

Silver linings don’t justify clouds.