A service to automatically throw St. Joseph's Day bread into someone's backyard
The Rabbit AI of this space: a wearable over-the-shoulder salt thrower that connects to a cloud API
weirdish 8 hours ago [-]
I'd only buy this if it included a subscription-based AI upsell to predict and adapt to my adjusting superstition needs over time
yetihehe 8 hours ago [-]
Knocking on wood was about knocking on unpainted wood, so that you have actual direct physical contact with wood. Remote knocking seems to go in the other direction...
thaumasiotes 7 hours ago [-]
> Knocking on wood was about knocking on unpainted wood, so that you have actual direct physical contact with wood.
How do you know this? For example, there is a wikipedia page section entitled "Origin of use in the English language"...
but the contents of that section make it extremely clear that no relevant facts are known to wikipedia.
2 hours ago [-]
pessimizer 3 hours ago [-]
The contents of the article make it clear that "touch wood" is basically synonymous with "knock on wood," making the knocking less important than the touching.
But is is important to mention that a ctrl-f on that page for "unpainted" is proof that you didn't spend much time looking.
couchand 5 hours ago [-]
N >= 2
dr_pyser 54 minutes ago [-]
I never had to knock on wood
krunck 8 hours ago [-]
There are societies where rather than knocking on wood one turns one's head and spits. For example: "Grandad is looking well after his fall, let's hope that doesn't happen again. Ptew!"
Looking for this in app form.
random_cat_8745 7 hours ago [-]
the true SaaS (Spit as a Service).
markdown 7 hours ago [-]
I'm imagining a thousand people in a spitshop in (Mechanical) Turkey in a sitting at desks with a spittoon, waiting for a signal to spit.
skinfaxi 7 hours ago [-]
Found this other experiment, part of the same series "Machines Responding to Superstitions".
Though it seems less like machine response than humans integrating technology into superstitious belief.
psadri 3 hours ago [-]
Whoever created this - you are the crazy kind of person I want to meet in real life.
TehCorwiz 8 hours ago [-]
If an app knocks on a tree and nobody is around…
jagged-chisel 5 hours ago [-]
… go on
Isamu 49 minutes ago [-]
Wait, is the tree in a VM?
merek 49 minutes ago [-]
...does it still display ads?
gosen 7 hours ago [-]
I can't explain why but it's amazing! Maybe because in my culture "knocking on the wood 3 times" helps to avoid the bad luck and I lived with that for 20 years, or maybe it's just fun to imagine that you're knocking on the wood remotely ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
dvh 8 hours ago [-]
It's like FakeBlock from Arrested development
fancyswimtime 6 hours ago [-]
knock on cousin remotely
itissid 8 hours ago [-]
I am ratting this out to the Tree Beard
ButlerianJihad 6 hours ago [-]
Nothing can surprise me. Every day at college, I would walk past these "Trees".
Looking forward to one that will let me touch grass from my computer.
lofaszvanitt 7 hours ago [-]
You have to do it with a right hand, from under. So this is 100% fake.
classified 8 hours ago [-]
The knockers are missing solar panels to continuously charge their batteries. So there will be sustained costs to keep them running. And how water-proof are they? Apart from that, it's going to sell like hot cakes.
tinyplanets 8 hours ago [-]
Or just, you know, walk outside in the fresh air, find a nearby tree, and knock on it...
dimatter 8 hours ago [-]
r/whoosh
slipperybeluga 4 hours ago [-]
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The Rabbit AI of this space: a wearable over-the-shoulder salt thrower that connects to a cloud API
How do you know this? For example, there is a wikipedia page section entitled "Origin of use in the English language"...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knocking_on_wood#Origin_of_use...
but the contents of that section make it extremely clear that no relevant facts are known to wikipedia.
But is is important to mention that a ctrl-f on that page for "unpainted" is proof that you didn't spend much time looking.
Looking for this in app form.
https://www.dezeen.com/2023/10/31/kinky-kashayam-portable-bl...
Though it seems less like machine response than humans integrating technology into superstitious belief.
https://stuartcollection.ucsd.edu/artist/allen.html#about-th...