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[–] [email protected] 65 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

I'm giving a $15 bounty to whoever can code a website to ring a tiny bell every time this happens

[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I made a super basic site to track the price difference since the page has loaded. A tiny bell rings if the price has gone down more than $2.43, but you might need to leave the page open for a day or 2 to actually see the price drop enough to ring the bell. I am using a free api to track the price, which has a limit to 30 requests per second. So if the page doesn't fully load for you, wait a few minutes and try reloading the page.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

If request rates start getting problematic you could probably drastically reduce the refresh rate, seems like once per second right now which is way overkill IMO.

Also if you want to share the source I can host a mirror of it to further increase resilience to API ratelimits

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm just hosting it on GitHub pages. Here is the repo.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Thanks! I grabbed my own key from FinnHub and am now hosting a mirror at https://tinybell.vfsh.dev/

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 weeks ago

I’ll add 10¢ to the pot

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Looks like polygon api can get live data 5/req a minute? https://polygon.io/pricing

I'm not super familiar with finance lingo; how is a "stock price" usually determined? ~~SMA?~~

edit: seems like "last quote" or "last trade" are probably the best for this kind of thing? https://polygon.io/docs/rest/stocks/trades-quotes/last-quote Those apis cost money, though. 😭

[–] [email protected] 50 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Someone start the "Meh" movement:

"Make Elon Homeless".

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Stop. You're giving me an erection

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

You're doing better than Prince Acorn.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The fact that this post has been downvoted twice clearly shows Elon has a main and a burner account like all the non billionaires

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

Out of interest, how do you know if a post has been downvoted? I only see up votes? Is it a instance specific feature?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

I can see it's on the top of the page, with the up down arrow? I'm on mobile

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I’m on mobile and the app I use shows them, Arctic is a pretty nice little known gem!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Jerboa shows downvotes too.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

On the default Lemmy Web UI, you can hover your mouse on the score count.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

There's an account setting to show them. Although on the web UI I have to move my cursor on the score to show the up/downvote numbers for posts.

(And while it could be disabled by the instance, .world has downvotes enabled)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

It depends on your client/settings on mobile, but no clue on PC.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago

He'll always have his cheese hat though.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

Except not, cuz it's money he doesn't have to begin with. His net worth isn't a pile of money, it's a constantly fluctuating number based on what the rest of the world think the his various companies' stock is worth. Same as if you own a house and you get a new tax assessment that says it's worth $10,000 less than last year. Your bank account doesn't skrink by $10,000. The max amount you are able to get a loan for might decrease a little, but other than that it's pretty much a non-event.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

But he's using his stock as collateral to get bank loans so this hurts him anyway.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

In principle that could happen, but realistically I doubt Musk is anywhere near enough in hock for market fluctuations to bother him. That would be more like a Trump thing.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

Two months ago I didn't think the USA would want to annex Canada/Greenland. Anything is possible at this point.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

? This isn't a "fluctuation," this is his company blatantly crashing, which does affect him, especially while the stock market also crashes. He's losing multiple billions of dollars. He had to restructure Twitter and sell it to himself. He's also a giant idiot who hung out with Epstein.

But I do think he always planned to crash Tesla because he is crashing USD to swing into BRICS currency when it's unveiled

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Tesla stock ballooned recently but it's higher right now than it was 6 months ago, so whatever.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

It made a slight recovery, but it's significantly lower than it was a year ago. It's gone significantly down since the Tesla protests started. It's not a real company, so at some point it's going to crash anyway.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

That graph is YTD, not 12M. It's lower than it was in Jan 2025. But not Nov 2024.

TBH both of these graphs are short term, if this is a very hyped stock it's hard to say what is overvaluation or undervaluation or overcorrection, or how big or prolonged any "overshooting" might be. See where it is this time next year maybe.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

My graph shows 6 months, and like I said it's slightly higher now than it was in November. It's not "crashing". Also note, this is a factual observation about a stock price, not a defense of Elon Musk or "taking his side" on any subject or in any sense whatsoever.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Nah, it’s not crashing. The core business is still there and will be there in the future - it answers a need. However it is a strong signal to the board of directors, which will translate if it continues to having to kick him out of any influence on the company. Basically he’s becoming a liability. Which is great. Carry on.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah, I haven't been wrong yet and I've predicted most of this months ago, but sure, suckle that copium

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

That said, he'll never go broke.

His ego may get battered, but he'll never be broke.

Unfortunately.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

Good. Let's keep it tumbling down

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

He always knew this was going to happen anyway, that's why he artificially inflated Tesla to begin with

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

I really like that, thanks.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Nice. Musk = POS Nazi.