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.
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.
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
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explodIng_lIme@lemmy.world · 123 pts · 289d
The Federal Bureau of Control
Lumidaub@feddit.org · 60 pts · 289d
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?!
edinbruh@feddit.it · 20 pts · 289d
Nope, the oldest house is just on the other side of the street
Lumidaub@feddit.org · 10 pts · 289d
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.
edinbruh@feddit.it · 7 pts · 289d
I think you can read the address in letters you find around in Central Executive
Lumidaub@feddit.org · 4 pts · 289d
Yes, indeed, in that mockumentary, proving, of course, that it's not a red herring meant to distract from the building in the OP.
Godort@lemmy.ca · 95 pts · 289d
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/33_Thomas_Street
cholesterol@lemmy.world · 65 pts · 289d
Well then
kuhli@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 18 pts · 288d
I mean, at least they nailed the dystopian aesthetic
CanadianCarl@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 287d
Fern did a video on it.
dditty@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 30 pts · 289d
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.
TomMasz@piefed.social · 25 pts · 289d
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.
QuinnyCoded@sh.itjust.works · 28 pts · 289d
this could be us, but you playin'
mika_mika@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 289d
My life is empty without a doomer shawty to collect copper and smoke crack with. 😔
Sturgist@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 288d
✊ the struggle is real fam
Lumidaub@feddit.org · 13 pts · 289d
Ea-Nasir has entered the chat
dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net · 6 pts · 289d
But so has Bubbles.
bear@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 289d
Did you hear the news?
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/trailer-park-boys-star-sexual-assault-charge-bubbles-9.6972349
dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net · 4 pts · 289d
I hadn’t, but I also meant this guy:
boonhet@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 288d
Oh ffs is nobody normal? Why does every actor have to be a sex pest?
I actually really liked his character.
ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 289d
FYI
TITANPOINTE: The NSA’s Spy Hub in New York, Hidden in Plain Sight
ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 289d
Replied to the wrong thread
WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 13 pts · 289d
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.
nyaskiez@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 289d
It would be cool if you could share a video of that
WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 289d
Sadly, I didn’t take one and I don’t live in NYC anymore.
nyaskiez@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 289d
Ah makes sense. Maybe I’ll ask one of my friends who live there. I heard it’s a cia surveillance building
kuhli@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 288d
NSA, but yeah
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/33_Thomas_Street
CanadianCarl@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 287d
https://youtube.com/watch?v=qqJSXoa5ZtQ
Madison420@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 288d
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.
WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 287d
Interesting, thanks for the info. I’d always wondered what was causing that.
Madison420@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 286d
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
shalafi@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 289d
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.
anomnom@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 288d
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.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 288d
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 288d
FoxFairline@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 51 pts · 289d
The main server of EvilCorp.
Nasan@sopuli.xyz · 10 pts · 289d
Something something the redundant backups and hydrogen filling the room
nyaskiez@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 289d
Dr doofenshmirtz?!
tkk13909@sopuli.xyz · 10 pts · 289d
I believe they're referencing Mr Robot
nyaskiez@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 289d
Fuck I interpreted it wrong. I love both shows.
tkk13909@sopuli.xyz · 5 pts · 288d
They are both fantastic!
Godnroc@lemmy.world · 38 pts · 289d
Apple. There's no windows.
Banana@sh.itjust.works · 38 pts · 289d
Oh that's just the Oldest House
Blackmist@feddit.uk · 11 pts · 288d
The janitor is nice though.
Starski@lemmy.zip · 33 pts · 289d
Here's a great video on it
https://youtu.be/qqJSXoa5ZtQ
nyaskiez@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 289d
Hey this looks interesting. I’ll check it out
qbus@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 288d
It's an AT&t switch building
TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 26 pts · 288d
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.
Confused_Emus@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 25 pts · 289d
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.
Treczoks@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 289d
New York telephone exchange.
edinbruh@feddit.it · 16 pts · 289d
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.
boonhet@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 288d
Likely still occurs. Nowadays the equipment is different but most of the communications on the east coast go through thar building I believe?
BlastboomStrice@mander.xyz · 15 pts · 288d
The Ministry of Love?
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 288d
CIA servers you say?
Blackmist@feddit.uk · 12 pts · 288d
I've played Wolfenstein The New Order. Probably Nazis.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 287d
Pretty much, yeah.
FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io · 12 pts · 288d
That's where Immortan Joe releases the water sometimes.
JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca · 11 pts · 288d
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
KoboldCoterie@pawb.social · 10 pts · 289d
No idea what building that is or what's inside, but I love me a giant brutalist megastructure.
certified_expert@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 289d
That's a big router
nonentity@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 288d
Cube.
huquad@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 289d
It contains one of the missing palantir. Allows them to see anywhere they want.
balance8873@lemmy.myserv.one · 3 pts · 289d
An artifact of that power can only be controlled by the director
abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 7 pts · 288d
It's a CIA/NSA building. It contains SigInt shit.
nul42@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 289d
Inside there is a glass box surrounded by 7 cameras and other equipment. Sometimes Dale Cooper's doppelganger shows up.
cryptix@discuss.tchncs.de · 6 pts · 289d
The CIA or NSA telecom data extraction building .... Something like that, where all the internet gets analyzed in there....
Zier@fedia.io · 6 pts · 289d
It's the global "build-a-bear" factory, that the Lububus did a hostile takeover on.
stoy@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 289d
Probably
dan69@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 288d
Nearby metro systems central hvac.
bhamlin@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 289d
The internet. All of it.
toe@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 289d
Titanpointe.
hedge_lord@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 289d
That's just the HQ of your friendly local Pentex subsidiary
FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 288d
Cotton balls
ThatGuy46475@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 288d
That’s the building where the guy from the Netflix movie hosts his AR murder game
mathematicalMagpie@piefed.zip · 4 pts · 288d
I knew it'd be Titanpointe before even clicking the link.
Rumo161@feddit.org · 4 pts · 288d
Ministry of Magic
webp@mander.xyz · 4 pts · 288d
The dinosaurs
Glitterkoe@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 289d
Has to be the city organ, PWOOOOOAAAAAAAAAH
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 287d
Is it cake?
Ceruleum@lemmy.wtf · 2 pts · 288d
A collection of vintage dildo's
uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 288d
I believe that's a hall of superior courts, but I may be thinking of a similar brutalist building.
acockworkorange@mander.xyz · 2 pts · 289d
It's where they research calcium.
fubarx@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 289d
Hasbro headquarters.
schildfrosch@feddit.org · 1 pts · 289d
Brazil
Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk · 1 pts · 288d
Murderous escape room.
takenaps@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 289d
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![]()
Hikermick@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 288d
Prisoners