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The Wire - Welcome to the New Day Co-Op

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A short clip from The Wire, season 3, in which Stringer Bell chairs a meeting of the New Day Co-Op with Prop Joe and Fat-Face Rick. The scene shows the drug crews running their cooperative like a formal business meeting.

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@spindritf2013 · in “Steve Jobs threatened patent suit to enforce no-hire policy: filing”

> "Schmidt responded that he preferred it be shared 'verbally, since I don't want to create a paper trail over which we can be sued later?'" he said, according to the court filing. The HR director agreed. [VIDEO]

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@SahAssar2021 · in “Square is now called Block”

Every time emails leak from facebook/google/amazon showing unflattering things I think of the end of this scene: "Is you taking notes on a criminal fucking conspiracy? What the fuck is you thinking!?" [VIDEO]

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@gorgoiler2022 · in “Robert's Rules of Order (1876)”

STRINGER: Yo, what is that? SHAMROCK: [scribbling on a legal pad] The Roberts Rules say we gotta have minutes for the meeting right? These the minutes. STRINGER: Is you takin’ notes on a criminal f*** conspiracy?! What the ** is you thinking man?! [VIDEO]

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@anigbrowl2025 · in “US prosecutor in New York resigns after order to drop mayoral case”

Very much so. Sassoon's resignation letter describes the Acting Attorney General (prior to Pam Bondi's recent confirmation) as objecting to a DoJ lawyer taking notes in the meeting with Adams' lawyers, and demanding those notes be handed over when exiting the meeting. [VIDEO] for those who don't get the reference

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