Who the fuck did your onboarding, agent?! Did you skip over the part where you're not, under any circumstances, to reveal the location of the Oldest House to the public?! Do you need another copy of that memo?!
TIL, thanks! My first thought was that it might've been a telephony exchange center, data center, or other networking infrastructure hub. There's a building in my city colloquially referred to as "the bunker" built with a similar hardened brutalist style that houses all the main network trunk connections for our state.
My father worked for Western Electric, the part of the Bell System that handled wiring this building (and others). I'm pretty sure he worked there, at least for a while. The amount of copper wire in that building is astronomical.
Lots of high voltage and inductors which effect local magnetic fields. Probably not too many permanent magnets though, you can see the same thing at local switching stations of you try.
Telecom exchange. We got one kinda similar in KCMO, although I’d guess there are actual offices for people in the lower half of the building since it’s got windows.
Telephone exchanger. And as a consequence a lot of espionage occurred there, but just because it's a big telephone exchanger, not because that's its purpose.
There are at least half a dozen quality YouTube videos on that building. It's a Comms hub/bunker and the NSA probably has an office inside where they get a tap on basically all traffic AT&T handles
Not ur building but this reminded me of the interesting rare books library at Yale, which has a unique windowless facade (which still let's some light through) to protect the books
The Federal Bureau of Control
Who the fuck did your onboarding, agent?! Did you skip over the part where you're not, under any circumstances, to reveal the location of the Oldest House to the public?! Do you need another copy of that memo?!
Nope, the oldest house is just on the other side of the street
Yep, other side, that's definitely not just a red herring address that was invented for that interactive mockumentary that came out a few years ago.
I think you can read the address in letters you find around in Central Executive
Yes, indeed, in that mockumentary, proving, of course, that it's not a red herring meant to distract from the building in the OP.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/33_Thomas_Street
Well then
I mean, at least they nailed the dystopian aesthetic
Fern did a video on it.
TIL, thanks! My first thought was that it might've been a telephony exchange center, data center, or other networking infrastructure hub. There's a building in my city colloquially referred to as "the bunker" built with a similar hardened brutalist style that houses all the main network trunk connections for our state.
My father worked for Western Electric, the part of the Bell System that handled wiring this building (and others). I'm pretty sure he worked there, at least for a while. The amount of copper wire in that building is astronomical.
this could be us, but you playin'
My life is empty without a doomer shawty to collect copper and smoke crack with. 😔
✊ the struggle is real fam
Ea-Nasir has entered the chat
But so has Bubbles.
Did you hear the news?
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/trailer-park-boys-star-sexual-assault-charge-bubbles-9.6972349
I hadn’t, but I also meant this guy:
Oh ffs is nobody normal? Why does every actor have to be a sex pest?
I actually really liked his character.
FYI
TITANPOINTE: The NSA’s Spy Hub in New York, Hidden in Plain Sight
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Fun fact: there are some big magnets in there. I have a compass on my backpack and it had a lot of trouble when I passed that building.
It would be cool if you could share a video of that
Sadly, I didn’t take one and I don’t live in NYC anymore.
Ah makes sense. Maybe I’ll ask one of my friends who live there. I heard it’s a cia surveillance building
NSA, but yeah
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/33_Thomas_Street
https://youtube.com/watch?v=qqJSXoa5ZtQ
Lots of high voltage and inductors which effect local magnetic fields. Probably not too many permanent magnets though, you can see the same thing at local switching stations of you try.
Interesting, thanks for the info. I’d always wondered what was causing that.
No problem.
Here's a video, he's a lot just an fyi but he's smart and enjoys what he does.
https://youtube.com/shorts/6uH5rNnU5OM
Might that not be a case of the building having a monster concentration of ferrous metal?
EDIT: Apparently lemmy doesn't believe concentrations of iron affects magnets. Go on.
The lack of basic science around here annoys me. Had thought this crowd was smarter than FB Boomers.
It’s not Gina have a solid iron core or anything, even if it’s meant to be bombproof, it’s mostly going to be reinforced concrete.
Could be that the NSA messes with GPS signals there too thwart drones.
I was under the impression that it’s an old Bell Telephone trunk/exchange, that has since been repurposed by a federal alphabet soup as a data center.
The main server of EvilCorp.
Something something the redundant backups and hydrogen filling the room
Dr doofenshmirtz?!
I believe they're referencing Mr Robot
Fuck I interpreted it wrong. I love both shows.
They are both fantastic!
Oh that's just the Oldest House
The janitor is nice though.
Apple. There's no windows.
Here's a great video on it
https://youtu.be/qqJSXoa5ZtQ
Hey this looks interesting. I’ll check it out
It's an AT&t switch building
It's a major communications connection hub and because that's where so many data comes through, it's also an intelligence base. Probably NSA.
Telecom exchange. We got one kinda similar in KCMO, although I’d guess there are actual offices for people in the lower half of the building since it’s got windows.
New York telephone exchange.
Telephone exchanger. And as a consequence a lot of espionage occurred there, but just because it's a big telephone exchanger, not because that's its purpose.
Likely still occurs. Nowadays the equipment is different but most of the communications on the east coast go through thar building I believe?
The Ministry of Love?
CIA servers you say?
I've played Wolfenstein The New Order. Probably Nazis.
Pretty much, yeah.
That's where Immortan Joe releases the water sometimes.
There are at least half a dozen quality YouTube videos on that building. It's a Comms hub/bunker and the NSA probably has an office inside where they get a tap on basically all traffic AT&T handles
No idea what building that is or what's inside, but I love me a giant brutalist megastructure.
Cube.
That's a big router
Inside there is a glass box surrounded by 7 cameras and other equipment. Sometimes Dale Cooper's doppelganger shows up.
It's a CIA/NSA building. It contains SigInt shit.
It contains one of the missing palantir. Allows them to see anywhere they want.
An artifact of that power can only be controlled by the director
The CIA or NSA telecom data extraction building .... Something like that, where all the internet gets analyzed in there....
It's the global "build-a-bear" factory, that the Lububus did a hostile takeover on.
Probably
Titanpointe.
The internet. All of it.
Nearby metro systems central hvac.
I knew it'd be Titanpointe before even clicking the link.
Cotton balls
The dinosaurs
Ministry of Magic
That’s the building where the guy from the Netflix movie hosts his AR murder game
That's just the HQ of your friendly local Pentex subsidiary
Has to be the city organ, PWOOOOOAAAAAAAAAH
Is it cake?
I believe that's a hall of superior courts, but I may be thinking of a similar brutalist building.
It's where they research calcium.
A collection of vintage dildo's
Hasbro headquarters.
Murderous escape room.
Brazil
Not ur building but this reminded me of the interesting rare books library at Yale, which has a unique windowless facade (which still let's some light through) to protect the books
Prisoners