This guy in my class had a sticker relating to internet culture on his laptop that is practically esoteric. It was a head of lettuce with a fancy stylized B in the center. Under the lettuce it said “nothing ever happens”. My only assumption is that it comes from /b/ but I nees to know what the lettuce has to do wtih this. Why lettuce, wtf does it mean? It is his only sticker.

  • none [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    26 days ago

    he is begging for an IRL social connection but you deprive him, turning instead to your own internet friends to avoid it.

    Seriously just ask. “Hello! What does that sticker mean?” It is impossible to be any kind of revolutionary without the backbone to take such a small initiative.

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      26 days ago

      I didn’t ask because I know him and don’t like him. We aren’t strangers I just don’t have an interest in talking to him. He is in our university’s version of the ROTC, studies military (WW2) history, and gives off crazy chud vibes.

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      25 days ago

      Nah, it’s closer to this but more blocky and complex

      Kinda looks like the over the top calligraphy you’d see at the beginning of an old english religious manuscript

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    25 days ago

    Was it a Greek beta (β)?

    In investment terms, beta is a measurement of price volatility of a stock.

    “Nothing ever happens” is an in-joke I’ve seen in the context of prediction markets (Kalshi, Polymarket etc), basically saying that most predicted contract events don’t hit. In other words, if the bet is between status quo, or something new, then status quo is the more likely outcome (specific to prediction markets). Now that is not to say that “Nothing ever happens” is guaranteed profit, because of how prediction markets work you can still lose money if a contract pays out.

    The lettuce is too deep for me. Could be an investment/prediction market in-joke that a head of lettuce will profit more than a degenerate gambler.

    Anyway, they might be a finance bro.