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Haha, no, you can find people complaining about that all over the web. It’s a very real effect.

Has anyone tried taping a conducting wire to the macbook case and running it to the closest ground connector?

Might cause GFC protection to trip.

Has anyone simply tried measuring the voltage difference between the macbook case and the nearest ground connector, and also the other two prongs in a normal electrical socket? This isn't exactly a difficult test to do.

The worst I felt was touching both a charging device and the skin of another person at the same time, did someone experienced this ? It feels weird, almost like magnet sticky, but also almost like you aren't touching the other person.

Yes, I have felt this numerous times with my wife's aluminium laptop. Touching the surface feels weird

Same here in New Zealand. The tingle in the fingers when charging is unpleasant.