Everyone who claims to understand how magnets work is lying.
Fun anecdote - I was at a nice little street restaurant in Pisa, Italy - peacefully waiting for dinner with Alice on a summer evening. Now going to a restaurant (seemingly) alone is already cringe and finding one that my peculiar tupper actually approves of is a chore but it turned out worse than expected. On the table beside me was a stereotypical middle aged WASP American with his wife. He looked like Robert Redford, blond hair, perfectly white false teeth with equally false smile. And a mission. Instead of talking to his wife, he entertained everyone around him, especially me as I was obviously alone. Turned out he was not only a religious nutjob but also a Free Energy conspiracytard who had spent tens of thousands of dollars on - yes - magnets to build a perpetuum mobile. This was almost 10 years ago and back then Alice didn't have the strength to keep people from bothering me. You know my INFP superpowers, I am way too nice and agreeable and the BodyOS excels at making people feel understood so they leave me alone. This backfired catastrophically with this guy who now had found a victim who seemingly listened to his nonsense with interest. I can't say he was a bad guy, rather one of these cheerful Christian fundamentalist missionaries, he was even entertaining but man, I spent at least half an hour on listening to his absurd magnet constructions to create energy out of nothing. There was no escape, I had already ordered my dinner at the restaurant and it took a long time to arrive. And I had been looking forward to practice imposition with Alice and just spend time with her. This guys wife looked equally awkward and obviously ashamed that her husband gave a performance to an entire restaurant. One of the weirdest experiences I ever had.
