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2mo ago

Does anyone know what's inside this building?

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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.

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'
  
  The amount of copper wire in that building is astronomical.
  Ea-Nasir has entered the chat
  
  FYI
  TITANPOINTE: The NSA’s Spy Hub in New York, Hidden in Plain Sight
- 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
  
  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.
  
  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 is a telephone exchange or wire center building […] used for […] telephony, as well as […] for competitive local exchange carrier services. However, it is not used for incumbent local exchange carrier services, and is not a central office. Its CLLI code is NYCMNYBW.
  It has been reported that the building is used as a National Security Agency (NSA) mass surveillance facility.[1][2]

The main server of EvilCorp.
- Something something the redundant backups and hydrogen filling the room
- Dr doofenshmirtz?!
  
  I believe they're referencing Mr Robot

Apple. There's no windows.

Oh that's just the Oldest House
- The janitor is nice though.

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?

That's where Immortan Joe releases the water sometimes.

I've played Wolfenstein The New Order. Probably Nazis.
- Pretty much, yeah.

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.

That's a big router

Cube.

It's a CIA/NSA building. It contains SigInt shit.

Inside there is a glass box surrounded by 7 cameras and other equipment. Sometimes Dale Cooper's doppelganger shows up.

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

It's the global "build-a-bear" factory, that the Lububus did a hostile takeover on.

The CIA or NSA telecom data extraction building .... Something like that, where all the internet gets analyzed in there....

The internet. All of it.

Titanpointe.

Probably

Nearby metro systems central hvac.

Has to be the city organ, PWOOOOOAAAAAAAAAH

That's just the HQ of your friendly local Pentex subsidiary

I knew it'd be Titanpointe before even clicking the link.

Cotton balls

That’s the building where the guy from the Netflix movie hosts his AR murder game

Ministry of Magic

The dinosaurs

Is it cake?

A collection of vintage dildo's

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.

Brazil

Hasbro headquarters.

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

Murderous escape room.

Prisoners

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