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.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/33_Thomas_Street
Well then
I mean, at least they nailed the dystopian aesthetic
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. 😔
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:
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
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.