Matthew Driver

@jackprandelli @TrentTelenko Your data is from 2025. With Ukraine’s recent kinetic sanctions against Russia, you will need to update their refinery capacity stats.

🛢️ The Real Oil Power Is Not the Barrel, It’s the Refinery. 💥China and US can process 18.5 million barrels per day China and the US sit alone at the top of global refining, neck and neck at 18.5 mb/d each. Everyone else is far behind. • 🇨🇳 China: 18.5 mb/d. World’s largest refining system • 🇺🇸 United States: 18.4 mb/d. Still the most complex and flexible • 🇷🇺 Russia: 6.8 mb/d • 🇮🇳 India: 5.2 mb/d • 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia: 3.3 mb/d After China and the US, there is a cliff. Refining is where value, control, and leverage sit. Crude without refining capacity is just a molecule looking for a buyer. This is why: • China can import sanctioned crude and still dominate product exports • The US controls pricing power for heavy, sour barrels (Venezuela, Canada, Middle East) • Europe is structurally exposed, with fragmented and shrinking capacity • Energy security today is about conversion capacity, not reserves China burns coal, but refines oil at unmatched scale. The US produces oil, but wins by processing everyone else’s barrels. In a supply constrained world, do refiners now matter more than producers? Right now US gasoline cracks still ratcheting higher. Way above norm. Cracks at these levels don't stay they invite political response. China just printed −1,866 in independent refiner margins. The US is loading the same script. The full analysis is in the comments👇

@VSavela @IntEngineering A shorted Alkaline battery does not cause a fire due to high internal resistance. Try it. Amp hours does not equal current.

@IntEngineering 1. 1,5V 3Ah, 2. Shortcut&fire

3 batteries. 2 circuits. What’s the voltage & current for each? #Engineering #Electronics

@IntEngineering For scenarios 1 and 2: Voltage = 1.5V The current is unknown as the load resistance is not defined.

@snsnokyoufu As an engineer I think it’s pretty cool. But as an Australian I think, wow, do you have an unlimited water supply in Japan? We certainly don’t.

こういう発想めちゃくちゃ好き

@momo__eigo The milk is for the coffee. The drinking water comes from the tap. Good quality. Unlimited supply. No plastic waste.

1位　冷蔵庫には水じゃなくて牛乳 はじめ水が飲みたくて冷蔵庫を開けた時、水がなくて代わりに小さい牛乳のパックが入っていた。「変な忘れ物やな。これ飲むか？」「飲まんわ！」とか言ってふざけていたのに、次のホテルでもまた同じ牛乳パックが入っていた。そこでようやく、常備されてるということを知った。３つ目のホテルにもやはり冷蔵庫には水ではなく牛乳があった。

4月10日。留学開始3ヶ月。初めてのオーストラリア国内旅行中、ホテルでびっくりしたこと5選↓↓ ５位　ホテルの部屋にコーヒーマシン ４位　他の宿泊客が話しかけてくれる ３位　アメニティは基本無い ２位　パジャマもない １位　冷蔵庫には水じゃなくて○○ １位は最初、前の人の忘れ物かと思った

@sambilland @luxemiaa 5 billion people fly annually. One person can not experience all the crazy shit that can occur. But I have also seen the same post a few times…

@luxemiaa In my many years as an adult, I have travelled by air certainly hundreds, possibly thousands, of times, and I've never once seen anything like this happen. And yet, pretty much every other day, I see a post from a traveller claiming that this happened to them. Seems odd.

I was on a flight sitting in my assigned seat when a couple walked up and immediately told me I was in their seat. I checked my boarding pass again even though I already knew I was right. Same row, same seat number. Everything matched. I politely told them this was my assigned seat. The husband looked unsure, but the wife became fully committed to the argument within seconds. She kept insisting I needed to move because apparently she wanted my window seat. I showed her my boarding pass. She barely looked at it and kept arguing anyway. Then she started getting louder and making comments about how difficult I was being. At one point she straight up called me a bitch because I refused to move from the seat I literally paid for. So now the flight attendant gets involved. She checks my ticket, checks theirs, and immediately tells the wife she was........

@FrankBr05713205 Would you buy an EV? No dip stick, but no engine oil to check…

Many automotive manufacturers now are removing our traditional engine oil dipsticks in favor of electronic monitoring systems. As a veteran automotive technician, I know firsthand how important oil level is in engines and how important it is to be able to accurately check that. I also know how unreliable electronic sensors can be. I personally would not buy a car that does not have an oil dipstick so I can check my engine oil easily, conveniently and reliably. If an oil level sensor fails on one of these cars, then you have no way to manually check the engine oil. This is not acceptable to me.

@laidbacksommeli @reshetz @20gimsack Flamingo FP‑5 cruise missile

@reshetz @20gimsack Does Ukraine have missiles from u.s. or u.k. that reach the Red square? The decree here says only from Ukrainian weapons...

The red square coordinates I’m crying

@Comfywa It’s the same for people that own an EV. I just happen to been an Australian EV owner…

How do you know if someone is Australian? Don’t worry they’ll tell you

@kumako_mochi_ Good starters for questions: who, what, when, where, why, which, how. Auxiliaries like do, does, did, is, are, can, will, should work too. Instead of: You own a car, right? Say: Do you own a car? That first word “Do” does all the work in crafting a question.

英語で疑問文組み立てるのが苦手すぎて、肯定文を喋ったあとright?って付け足してさも疑問文ですが？みたいにする癖やめたい 日本語と同じように語尾でなんとかしようとしている😂

@TheRealDon85 Toasted

If Donald Trump was having a heart attack and you had 5 minutes to save him, what kind of sandwich would you make?

@LifeMathMoney @BusDownBonnor I’m pretty sure that slaver owners said something very similar.

@BusDownBonnor Yeah this bullshit should be illegal. Companies should not be allowed to make software that refuses to do tasks that it is capable of doing Software should not be allowed to "refuse" It's a software, not a person

Claude literally just ended the conversation on me???? This might be AGI

@katysis82 I think in a culturally homogeneous country, like Japan, people must choose to learn another language. When non-English speaking immigrants come to Australia it’s almost a necessity to learn English. Perhaps the ones that choose are intellectuals?

よく日本ではバイリンガルとか多言語話す人は知的とか頭がいいって思われがちだけど私が見る限り オーストラリアは超多民族の国でどんなに頭がお悪かろうが3カ国語4か国語喋る人がいる。 だから多言語イコール知的ではない。。ただの文化の違い。

@TomGrothJr @paulbreenturner Christian values? If the US actually showed the world christian values your words might have some meaning.

@paulbreenturner If Charles actually lived a life with christian values - it would have been impactful. Since he didn’t even bother to meet with his son, daughter in law, and grandchildren while in the USA, he is just another royal that has no right lecturing even the politicians in congress.

Now be honest, has the King Charles speech in Congress made you value more the role played by the royal family? I personally think Charles' was able to achieve more than any politician ever could, absolutely priceless, what say you all?

@sourpatchlyds @harukaawake LOL, you are all full of shit

@harukaawake And the only anti-Japan comments from the west will be from leftists, I guarantee it.

🇯🇵 Something I'm noticing more and more on X. When we were young, we were told that the Western world looked down on us. But almost all of the anti-Japanese posts come here from developing countries. I have to say that being on X has made me much more pro-Western.

@IkenoYuki I guess you weren’t dealing with an engineer. Next time try: Cut to 1.000 inch ±0.010 inch But, I’m a metric guy myself….

アメリカ人に『これを1インチ(=2.5cm)ずつに切って』とお願いすると、1.5cmから4cmくらいのバラバラの大きさの短冊が仕上がる。ふと気づいた。アメリカ人にとってインチとは単位ではなく概念に近く、1インチとは「ハーフインチでもなく2インチでもない長さ」と理解することで納得できた。センチ使え

@uPiAmGEZmd31718 I find it intriguing and fun to follow a Japanese typing person in Australia through perfect translation to English. Where were you camping? I feel bad because I’d probably be the spouse that ignored my partners common sense suggestion…. I hope this translates back to Japanese.

パンとか食料が足りないから行く前にスーパーに寄ろうよって言ったのに、夫は聞かずにノンストップで運転し続けて、キャンプ場に着いてから「色々足りないね」と…。 ここから最寄りのIGAかColesまで車で片道1時間なんですけど…最初に寄れば5分だったのにね。

@eliasatalah @USBornNRaised @ChuckCook @SpiritAirlines And just to be clear, fuel costing going up is all Trump. I’m from Australia and we are not impressed.

@USBornNRaised @ChuckCook @SpiritAirlines I’m assuming this is a joke? because it’s because of fuel pricing

My thoughts, prayers and support go out to all the Pilots, Flight Crew and employees of @SpiritAirlines tonight. Nothing is official yet, but transcontinental flights scheduled to land after midnight are starting to cancel. It seems the shutdown is happening. I know as a @Jetblue Captain any crewmember needing a ride home will get my full support if I can help you. We are all in this together, but you are bearing the brunt of this downturn first. Stay strong. 🫶🫶🫶

@13arm13arm I blocked him years ago. Thanks for bringing back those shitty memories.

Seriously, why do people even follow this absolute dickhead?

@WaltzingMtilda Why not?

Why do males take their pants off as soon as they get home