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[–] Etterra@discuss.online 9 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

They relocated the whole cabin? Why?

[–] filcuk@feddit.uk 7 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

'You know what would look sick in our massive, empty warehouse?'

[–] wrinkle2409@lemmy.cafe 27 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What backrooms level is this?

[–] Chais@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 day ago

Might also be an SCP.

[–] littletranspunk@lemmus.org 97 points 1 day ago (3 children)

This image makes it look like an SCP

[–] BucketBong@p.hobo.social 17 points 1 day ago (3 children)

That would make a great scp, a cabin that turns you into the Unabomber .

Aren't we all shaped by the spaces we occupy?

"We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that holds whatever we want." "We hammer wood for a house, but it is the inner space that makes it livable." "We work with being, but non-being is what we use." — Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 2 points 22 hours ago

Weird, nothing changed when I walked in.

[–] eyelevel@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Antifa Headquarters

[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I don’t know why you’re implying it isn’t, it drove Ted nuts

[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That’s the government? I would have expected a fancier building, tbh.

[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 2 points 22 hours ago

They save the fancy stuff for Keter class threats

[–] darkmogool@feddit.org 3 points 1 day ago

Had the exact same thought…

[–] Colonel_Panic_@eviltoast.org 9 points 22 hours ago

I want a canvas painting of this image nicely framed to hang inside my small warehouse that I built inside my wooden cabin. As a reminder that things aren't always as they seem.

See? The government would rather lock away a perfectly good cabin than help the homeless!

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 22 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I think I seen this in Control.

[–] Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 day ago

That's definitely an object of power

[–] Peppycito@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago
[–] Miller@lemmy.world 51 points 1 day ago (2 children)

That is not an effective use of space.

[–] itsjustachairmary@lemmy.world 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Miller@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

It is aesthetic, and probably a metaphor but not sure for what. I could probably come up with something if you gave me a minute. Maybe about the futility of life, or its overlooked common beauty, it's usually something about one of those. We had a downstairs bathroom window that was overlooked.

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 4 points 22 hours ago

You can fit 17 of them in there though.

[–] toynbee@piefed.social 12 points 1 day ago
[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 6 points 22 hours ago

Celebrity home! Rustic! Only $1.8M!

[–] kungen@feddit.nu 36 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Why does the FBI still have it sitting in an office somewhere? Does the US government usually just save everything related to cases, even long after the subject is dead?

[–] skooma_king@piefed.social 42 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Maybe they just think it’s neat

[–] setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

2026 and 1998 are different times. Kaczynski's pled guilty in 1998. The cabin is currently owned by a privately run museum.

[–] kungen@feddit.nu 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Huh, the article implies that the FBI still owns it... or am I misunderstanding?

While the cabin itself now sits in the FBI headquarters in Washington, D.C., Barnes’s photos are housed in the collections of major museums throughout the country, including the Museum of Modern Art, SFMOMA, and the Whitney Museum of American Art.

[–] setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 23 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Nope, I was out of date. The private Newseum museum had it for years but closed and the FBI took back the cabin and put it on public display along with other notable items relating to the FBI.

[–] procrastitron@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

Wow, so @skooma_king@piefed.social was actually right.

[–] tidderuuf@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

We have top men working on it right now.

[–] mycodesucks@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

Top...men...

[–] zr0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 day ago

Patel’s new Whisky Bar

[–] BucketBong@p.hobo.social 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Because they absolutely love Ted Kaczynski, they didn't just take his cabin and put it in a warehouse, they painstakingly took it apart and built it back to exactly how it was before , all the way down to the placement of pens.

[–] tdawg@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] Typotyper@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 day ago

This is pure speculation and has no basis in the case: Unibomber was a very smart guy. Math PhD. He was cryptic and went to great lengths to stay hidden He alluded the police for a decade plus. Numerous psych profiles were totally wrong. He was untraceable. His bombs were built from used scrap parts or simple manufactured parts. No tractability to point of purchase.

Here is my speculation.
They might have been looking for keys coded writing. Having the cabin intact to the nail would allow them to go back and look for the keys to read codes. A good key wouldn't be too hidden, it would be accessible and have a dual purpose. Book cyfer, I'd say a solar sun dial but that would be so complicated. Again the guy was a literal genus.

[–] BucketBong@p.hobo.social 6 points 1 day ago

Game recognise game.

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

This government is so fucking stupid

[–] BillyClark@piefed.social 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This Unabomber guy was ahead of the curve in the tiny house trend. /s

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 21 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

If you read the beginning of his manifesto, he was way ahead of the curve for where we are now. Meaning the over use of technology and it destroying a sense of community.

[–] mech@feddit.org 3 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

But if you read it all, he was also pretty fucking nuts.

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 1 points 10 hours ago

Oh, obviously. Subjected to terrible psychological abuse which probably contributed to his decline https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/impromptu-man/201205/harvards-experiment-on-the-unabomber-class-of-62

[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 5 points 1 day ago

"Let's go visit Uncle Ted's Cabin." they said.

"It'll be a blast!" They said.

[–] greenbit@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 day ago

Exit through the gift shop

[–] agentTeiko@piefed.social 15 points 1 day ago

Or Lumon Industries maybe?

[–] shrodes@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

New season of the Rehearsal is looking stramge

[–] sepi@piefed.social 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Why would Benihana-ing the place to a storage facility be of value? I get the sense that police, detectives, and the FBI are stupid.

[–] pentastarm@piefed.ca 18 points 1 day ago

If the X-Files has taught me anything, it will be important for solving another case later related to the black oil.

[–] setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

In the article linked to the post, it explains that Kaczynski's lawyers were the ones who wanted it originally removed from its location and preserved.

In an effort to protect it from snoops and vandals, lawyers requested to have the cabin moved from its original site outside of Lincoln, Montana, to a nearby Air Force base.

As the trial approached, the cabin became the focal point of his lawyers’ planned insanity defense. Only a madman, they argued, could have lived in such primitive conditions.

If you think the reason is stupid, sure, but it wasn't the FBI that made it so important to a potential trial.

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