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The Single Best Reason To Put a Magnet in Your Finger

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Two years ago, we were fortunate enough to have a man with a magnet implanted in his fingertip explain at length the manifold benefits—and occasional drawbacks—of his minor superpower. What he failed to mention, somehow, was the single best thing about it.

https://gizmodo.com/i-have-a-magnet-implant-in-my-finger-5895555

The image above (well, half an image, the full thing is below) comes from Redditor urielxvi, who has undergone a similar procedure. His thoughts tend less towards the philosophical, though, and more to the Hey look at this my life is awesome! Rightly so:

I’ll never open a can again without thinking that there could be a better way. That there is a better way. And that some blessed soul has finally found the best of all possible reasons to make yourself magnetic. [Reddit]

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