I never expected today to feel like it might be my final day.

You thought today was gonna be your last day when you found this old video and decided to repost it and pretend it’s your OC?

Reposting is dangerous work

Bots have no shame.

Love when people call this out. Not sure reddit will ever/could ever take action i guess its hard to spot original content. I just ran a photo thru various ai and they actually could not tell if it was real or ai generated lol sorry going offtopic

Reddit absolutely could take action against reposted content. Short-form social media apps do it all the time. The reason you’ll see the same video posted but flipped/mirrored is from people trying to get past the repost filters on shit like tiktok/instagram. But reddit wants, loves, and unofficially encourages bots and reposts, all reddit cares about is the CPM on ad views and how much engagement they can claim the site has whenever they sell our data to companies like Open AI so that it can further train ChatGPT. Also, be careful using AI detectors. Back when like chatgpt2 and 3 were sort of new, AI detectors worked well. But back in 2023 when ChatGPT 4 came out, it basically rendered most AI detectors useless. I hate seeing those posts where college redditors are getting failed/expelled because their professor used an AI detector despite them not being reliable. Think about it like this.. lie detector tests can reliably work *under very specific circumstances* but there’s a reason they are not admissible in court. A cop can’t make you take one, “catch” you lying, and then use that as evidence in court against you. AI detectors are essentially the same thing. Do they work sometimes? Absolutely. Are they reliable enough to work consistently in a way that can and should be used to catch college kids cheating? FUCK NO

Individuals can lend a hand. r/TheseFuckingAccounts r/RedditBotHunters

Reddit has made changes to actively **encourage and promote** bots. It’s been this way for years

Yep. Giving the option to hide comments and post took away the easiest way to spot bots. Granted I like the feature, but it’s a feature that people have wanted for years and Reddit didn’t give in before. They even said that hiding it goes against some core principle of user transparency or some bs.. however with the rise bots and AI comments, people were using post history to spot those accounts and I’m assuming Reddit didn’t want that.

Repost is an issue that has riddled the internet since pretty much the beginning. Anyone can take pretty much anything they’ve seen and post it again whether it’s malicious or innocent. The problem isn’t so much reposting (because without that possibility new comers would probably never see classic stuff) but that bots are leveraging the ability to recycle contents to leverage themselves. Detect and stop the bots, and reposting will return to a benign annoyance.

As an aircraft mechanic, it looks like a flap seal that runs between flight surfaces. It really isn’t that big of deal to be like this and is probably waiting for some downtime to change it out. It’s usually sealed on and takes a day to cure. The shaking is mildly concerning but I don’t know what kind of maneuver is going on in the video. If it’s take off, landing, or going up or down then it’s fine. If that’s cruise (it’s not cruise as people have pointing out.) that ain’t great, but shit shakes sometimes.

Here is another similar post from over a year ago and apparently, the vibration is pretty normal besides the broken flap seal. https://www.reddit.com/r/aviation/s/IeouE0zQGh

That video is during takeoff/landing though

That’s the only time flaps are deployed.

I dunno, could be deployed for combat, really tighten up those turns.

Others in this post from today have said that the OP’s video is during landing.

The flaps would not be out that far during cruise…. Otherwise they have even bigger issues… Also, if you look at the shadow, it’s clearly turning and, by the lack of engine noise, I would guess it’s descending to land (though some planes are super quiet now, but they are sat directly behind the engines so….) Edit; added more info

35 year airline captain here. They’re not in cruise. You can see from the island that appears forward of the leading edge that they’re at a fairly low altitude. We can have flaps out anytime within fifty-sixty miles or so of the airport depending on how much ATC slows us down. As for the flap situation, it’s trivial. It may already be noted in the aircraft logbook; if not, it will be caught on the next maintenance inspection. Modern airliners fly all the time with minor imperfections.

Inop, check tlog: flaps want a divorce.

For some reason I’m buckled in and turned on right now. I love modern engineering.

Top post is another guy claim to be an engineer and this is bad. Granted fear always wins out over positive news.

I think he needs to look at it again or he is lying about his profession. Maintainers always joke that engineers are only good at looking at pictures and schematics but he should definitely know this is fine. Either way I’m asking what exactly he sees wrong because he doesn’t point anything out.

I just want to see the maintenance log lol. “Applied gorilla tape, P/N: N/A, B/N: N/A to completely correct failure”

I can’t wait to see the nerd plane mechanic guy make a video about your video.

The lord of the rings dude right?

yeah! That guy!

Do you have a channel name by any chance? I love watching aviation stuff. I hate flying, it freaks me out, but these videos always make it easier

Airplane Facts with Max

airplane facts with Max?

Yeah, that’s actually a case of… OKAY HOLY SHIT THAT IS BAD!

You can see that the flap is no longer secured to the wing, which could lead to catastrophic failure like the time Sauron assumed that nobody would be capable of trying to destroy the One Ring. His ego and understanding of the Ring’s power did not allow him to even consider the idea that Frodo would be willing to walk into Mordor to throw it into the fires of Sammath Naur and thereby destroy the One Ring and Sauron’s last grasp on Arda. Of course, Frodo was unable to do so when the time came, but this flap can be repaired. So yeah, I think it’s pretty cool.