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I figured 'em out. Seems that, despite their microscopic excuse for a brain, they have excellent pattern matching abilities. That's important, because they'll remember your face if you fuck with them.
tl;dr Ignore them. And by ignore, I mean completely ignore. No swatting, staring, etc.
My pet pig has no idea he's "supposed" to be afraid of wasps, they're not on his radar. And they don't hassle him. I watched a nest grow on my porch, right over the door, didn't bother me a bit.
(And no, that doesn't go for every species on planet Earth. Some are wildly aggressive, but I find the evil fuckers to mainly be hornets.)