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Dogs tend to get very upset about garbage collectors as well. Is there some deep unease about strangers taking things away which used to be yours?
by EthanHeilman 10y ago
Dogs tend to get very upset about garbage collectors as well. Is there some deep unease about strangers taking things away which used to be yours?
- splawn 10y agoIdk, my dogs seem to like java and lisp on their bigger projects. Then again they are known to be the worst at creating memory leaks whenever they hack C.
- PeCaN 10y agoWeird. My dogs, which are rather naughty, use Lisp on most of their projects too.
- Bartweiss 10y agoAlmost certainly. Garbage collection doesn't seem especially alarming to most of us because it's institutionalized, but "rag men" and "garbage pickers" are still seen as quite creepy because they're individuals taking possessions we identify with. The decision to throw something away doesn't sever it from our identity, especially with old clothes and personal effects. Of course, the dog effect may be more about theft than identity, because they have no real way to differentiate "taking unwanted objects" from "taking valued objects" - after all, that garbage smelled delicious to them!