Feel like I gotta jump in here for a second because that tape trick does work but only if you do it RIGHT. You can't just slap any old tape on there. I use a specific bright red electrical tape that's made for this kind of thing, and I wrap it around the plug or the leads a couple times not just a little flag. The big thing is you have to make it ANNOYING to remove so that you actually have to stop and think about what you're about to do. If it peels off in the heat or gets ignored then yeah that's just bad practice on your part not a failure of the method. A physical lockout is absolutely better and I use one myself for anything serious but the tape trick is a solid habit for quick checks during a job. Just don't be lazy about it.

Disagree a bit lol, crane operators know their stuff and most rigging setups are pretty solid once you understand the angles.

Back in 2022 I was talking to my sister about getting a new vacuum for my place and boom next morning all my Insta ads were Dyson and Shark. But here's the thing that actually helped me - I went into my phone settings and turned off microphone access for apps I knew I didn't need it for, like Instagram and Facebook and Amazon. I also cleared my browsing history and cookies and then reset my advertising ID on both Android and iPhone. It took like five minutes and within a week the ads went back to random stuff like travel and gardening instead of feeling like someone was eavesdropping on my life. Not saying it stops everything but it definitely made me feel a lot less creeped out lol.

Rental from Blockbuster in 1996" actually made me snort laugh. You're totally right. I had a copy of The Lion King that my little brother tried to "fix" with a butter knife when the tracking went bad. That tape was already held together with hope and a prayer. It had been dropped on concrete and run over by a bike at some point. The butter knife just finished what life had already started. People get way too precious about these things like we're handling rare film reels or something.

Oh man, that sideways zip is the part that gets me too, it's like it breaks physics completely. Bet that changed your whole outlook on what's actually out there.