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
aaron695 1 days ago [-]
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weirdish 1 days 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 1 days 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 1 days 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.
yetihehe 20 hours ago [-]
I know it from Polish usage. In Polish it's "odpukać w niemalowane [drewno]"/"knocking on unpainted [wood]", wood is typically not spoken, the important part is that the wood is unpainted/raw. Superstitious people would especially leave the underside of table unpainted or leave some unpainted wood nearby in living room just for this occasion.
pessimizer 1 days 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.
thaumasiotes 20 hours ago [-]
Do you have reason to believe that the article knows something about the origin of this practice that no one else in the world knows? The claim is set in the past, not the present. And it has to be, since there is no present significance to unpainted wood in English-speaking cultures.
couchand 1 days ago [-]
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krunck 1 days 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 1 days ago [-]
the true SaaS (Spit as a Service).
markdown 1 days 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 1 days 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.
TehCorwiz 1 days ago [-]
If an app knocks on a tree and nobody is around…
jagged-chisel 1 days ago [-]
… go on
Isamu 1 days ago [-]
Wait, is the tree in a VM?
merek 1 days ago [-]
...does it still display ads?
psadri 1 days ago [-]
Whoever created this - you are the crazy kind of person I want to meet in real life.
gexla 1 days ago [-]
I wonder if I could create a full time job for myself tossing salt over my shoulder.
dvh 1 days ago [-]
It's like FakeBlock from Arrested development
fancyswimtime 1 days ago [-]
knock on cousin remotely
gosen 1 days 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)_/¯
dr_pyser 1 days ago [-]
I never had to knock on wood
filoeleven 17 hours ago [-]
But I know someone who has. Which makes me wonder if I could, despite it being anecdata.
petters 21 hours ago [-]
Me neither knocks on wood
itissid 1 days ago [-]
I am ratting this out to the Tree Beard
Cpoll 1 days ago [-]
Looking forward to one that will let me touch grass from my computer.
hackersnooze1 16 hours ago [-]
superstition as a service?
ButlerianJihad 1 days ago [-]
Nothing can surprise me. Every day at college, I would walk past these "Trees".
You have to do it with a right hand, from under. So this is 100% fake.
classified 1 days 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 1 days ago [-]
Or just, you know, walk outside in the fresh air, find a nearby tree, and knock on it...
dimatter 1 days ago [-]
r/whoosh
slipperybeluga 1 days 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...