1 a day? I feel like a lot of people might not ever get to see it. You’d go a large portion of your life always hearing about it, seeing stories in the news, one of your friend’s relatives was squished by it. But then one day you’re minding your business on your way to work when it shows up and crushes the car in front of you.

Looks like you get to call off from work. You just witnessed The Hand. Go ahead and take a day to collect your senses.

There would be a lot of ideas about why different people get squished. We wouldn't know it was random definitively. And because it looks like a human adjacent hand, probably a lot of speculation about God punishing people for being bad.

People would soon block it out, as they do with other things out of their control. They’d mourn their dead, there’d be poems and ballads and darkly ironic stories about those squashed by the Hand, and figures of speech alluding to this, but people wouldn’t fret about it. And if it kills 365 people a year around the world, that is a fairly low death toll, so it would be classified with improbable but spectacular threats like sharks or volcanoes, rather than car accidents or heart disease.

I already kicked that guy's ass in super smash bros

A lot more people living underground and a lot more snake oil. Probably a cult or two.

If you live in China or India, hand sightings only make the news if it lands on someone nearby. In Europe and the US, the hand heading your way means a few minutes on the news presenting the mathematical models predicting where it will land based on trajectory, and something like "John Johnson, a 34-year old Liverpool resident, was a victim of the inexorable hand yesterday. He will be missed." For the likes of Iceland or New Zealand, the hand heading your way means a full day of tension and lots of wills being updated.

TBH, would probably be a lot less violent as people put faith in THE HAND to bestow god's judgement rather than all the crazy shit the Abrahamic religions did. Religions tended to be mutually exclusive in history.

Black and White was such a fun game.

Tech bros trying to harness it's energy and sell hand crushing predictions

A significant concern 80k years ago (though with lack of communication, few would know that the disembodied hand represented), not even a consideration now. 1 person dies from The Hand in the world each day? More people die of aneurysms each day, I would imagine, and it's effectively the same thing.

Also, does it stop following a given person if they escape it by the end of the day? If you could hop in a car and just drive until the day is over to escape it, it would be more of a "hey, watch out for the hand" kind of thing. But it would be so rare I don't even think it would be on anybody's mind.

Whenever someone dies by crushing, detectives have to verify if the hand was spotted elsewhere at the time.

So just the game Black & White from 2001?

Rich people would commission special suits to withstand the crushing.

There would be attempts to shoot it down.

Does it only target adults? Imagine the hand crushing your kid

Even one death per second wouldn't be enough to overpower humanity's population growth rate. One per day would just be an urban legend.

No one left alive at one point:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/human-ancestors-nearly-went-extinct-900-000-years-ago/

POV you're an ant in our actual reality

A lot more inside time? We probably be at least 20years ahead of where we are now with video games. With a more common enemy we might be less likely to squabble so much with one another. Religion would probably be a little more standardized as well.

Probably a net positive really.

Just find the person whos casting bigbys hand, and give em a few love taps until they lose concentration. Problem solved.

Better than cancer I guess

Well this is just the last boss in super smash bros., and yes its a huge asshole.