Bernd Klingenberg

Father and Husband | Entrepreneur and Meat Eater (recently on full carnivore diet) | Leverage enthusiast on a journey towards wisdom and truth | #'James3:13'.

[Bernd Klingenberg @bwkling]

If you are in South Africa. Check your emails for an email from Starlink sent today with an easy to click on link, which allows you to send a prepopulated email to the government to motivate and help get approval for Starlink in South Africa.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Starlink Internet enables education and prosperity to the least served

[Bernd Klingenberg @bwkling]

@ProfTimNoakes has always been committed to the truth

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

A world-famous scientist sent a single tweet about feeding a baby, and his own profession spent four years and millions of rand trying to take his medical licence for it. His real crime was changing his mind about carbohydrate, in public.

Tim Noakes had been the high priest of carb-loading. He wrote the book that taught a generation of runners to fuel on starch, then he went back to the science, decided he had been wrong, and started advocating the low-carbohydrate, high-fat way of eating he credits with reversing his own type 2 diabetes.

In February 2014 a mother on Twitter asked him whether low-carb eating was safe while breastfeeding. He replied that the baby thrives on the breast milk itself, and that the thing to get right was weaning onto real food rather than processed cereal. That was the whole offence.

The president of the national dietetics association reported him. The Health Professions Council of South Africa charged him with unprofessional conduct and put him on trial. It ground on for years. In April 2017 the panel cleared him on every count, finding the tweet scientifically sound and incapable of harming anyone. The council appealed. In 2018 the appeal was dismissed as well. He won twice, comprehensively, over a single tweet about weaning a baby.

Noakes said the case had been built to silence anyone trying to change public opinion about food and the food industry. You do not have to take his word for the motive to see the shape of it. A man was put through a four-year ordeal, not for being wrong, but for contradicting the dietary consensus where ordinary people could read it. The message to everyone watching was meant to be simple. Keep your mouth shut. He kept his open, and he was proved right.

[Bernd Klingenberg @bwkling]

Gear list!

[Philosophy Sage @philosophysage]

14 HARVARD TECHNIQUES to be better than 99% of the world

1. The 5 - second rule

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

The most influential immigrant group in American history is the one nobody argues about, because almost nobody remembers it was them.

Start at the beginning. The Continental Army was a half-trained mess until Baron von Steuben, a Prussian officer, showed up at Valley Forge and drilled it into a real fighting force. The freedom of the press you take for granted traces back to John Peter Zenger, a German immigrant printer whose 1735 trial established that you can't be jailed for printing the truth. German-Americans were shaping this country before there was a country.

Then look around your own life. Your Christmas tree is German. The hot dog (Frankfurt), the hamburger (Hamburg), the pretzel, the delicatessen, all German. Kindergarten is German, the word and the idea, brought over and opened by Margarethe Schurz. Blue jeans came from Levi Strauss of Bavaria. Heinz ketchup, Steinway pianos, Oscar Mayer, and the big four beers, Budweiser, Pabst, Miller and Schlitz, were every one founded by German immigrants.

The Brooklyn Bridge was engineered by John Roebling, born in Prussia. The Santa Claus you picture every December, plus the Republican elephant, were drawn by Thomas Nast, a German immigrant. Pfizer was founded by Charles Pfizer, who arrived from Germany in 1848. Boeing was built by the son of a German immigrant. John Jacob Astor showed up from Germany with next to nothing and became America's first multimillionaire. Charles Steinmetz, a disabled immigrant nearly turned away at the border, went on to make modern electrical power possible.

And it kept going. Wernher von Braun designed the rocket that put America on the moon. Einstein was German. Carl Schurz, a refugee, became a Union general and the first German-born US Senator. Eisenhower commanded D-Day and won the White House under a name once spelled Eisenhauer. Babe Ruth was a German-American kid from Baltimore.

Here is the kicker. German is the single largest ancestry group in the entire United States, around 44 million people, bigger than Irish, English or Italian. The biggest thread in the whole American fabric, and somehow the quietest.

They never asked for parades. They just trained the army, freed the press, engineered the bridges, founded the companies, built the rockets and lit up the Christmas mornings, then blended in so completely you forgot they were ever the "other." That might be the most American story there is.

[Bernd Klingenberg @bwkling]

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@AlfieJCarter MCP

[Bernd Klingenberg @bwkling]

No lies detected

[Farai Mazhindu @FaraiMazhindu]

A boy from Pretoria, South Africa, has become the world's first trillionaire, but with an American citizenship and an American portfolio.

His success is a mirror that reflects South Africa's absolute failure.

Elon Musk's historic milestone proves that wealth, progress, and monumental breakthroughs are created through merit, relentless innovation, and visionary execution.

They are not created through bureaucratic gatekeeping, red tape, and ideological obsession. South African politicians hate him because his mere existence exposes their profound failure to build anything of lasting value.

Elon Musk's story is the absolute opposite of the South African story.

Had the environment allowed it, he could have built SpaceX in South Africa. Decades ago, the country possessed a first world military space and missile infrastructure.

Instead of being nurtured into a global commercial aerospace hub, it was dismantled and collapsed under decades of ANC mismanagement, state capture, and political patronage.

We cannot even talk about Elon Musk freely investing his billions back into South Africa. Despite being born in Pretoria, race based economic policies and restrictive BEE ownership mandates have historically locked out global builders who refuse to bend to political dictation.

The South African story has become a tragic tale of what could have been, tainted by toxic governance, race politics, and destructive economics.

[Bernd Klingenberg @bwkling]

@AlfieJCarter SKILLS

[Bernd Klingenberg @bwkling]

@sudiprokaya @laminalabs It cuts off at the end @grok find the full and complete video version of this.

[Bernd Klingenberg @bwkling]

@ScienceFocusonX @grok what is the latest on this?

[🍊🍊Capt'n Cornjuice🥃🥃 @BoCamaro]

So I build machines for a living. (Video attached) Simple to complex machines and robotics for clients who need a bespoke solution that doesn't exist. Custom automation to fit their needs.

It was my career that turned me away from being Atheist. I wanted to be Atheist at one point. I tried. But my career wouldn't allow my brain to accept it.

Why? Because I realized our own body is an organic machine. Light years more complex than the machines I build, but the same systems.

We have a processor and sensors that can hear like microphones, see like cameras, feel like pressure transducers, taste like PH probes, and smell like chemical analyzers.

We have a hydraulic system that pumps blood at a constant pressure. We have air transport devices. We have 2 seperate waste management systems and an extremely complex cascading PID system to balance all sorts of chemical processes.

We have a preventive maintenance system that regenerates and rejuvenates the other systems.

And all of this is packaged on a perfect structural frame to allow us to move with ease.... AND thr most vital of the systems we have, come in twos for a redundant backup.

We are a machine. And just like my machines have an engineer, so do we.

You'll never convince me otherwise.

Now, when it comes to faith, we can be on all sorts of sides. I have faith that Christ was who he said he is. That he was who the deciples said he was. That is what I believe...

But what I KNOW, is that we have a creator and we are of superior mechanical design by a master creator. Period.

[Bernd Klingenberg @bwkling]

The world needs more of this!

[SKI @skiistiredasf]

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Married in 1942, they hold the Guinness World Record as the world’s oldest living married couple.👏🏿❤️

[Bernd Klingenberg @bwkling]

@grok Android Auto when?

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@icreatelife

[John Carter @martianwyrdlord]

"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." - C. S. Lewis

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

What if I told you that a stacked beef burger, with bacon and cheese, cooked in its own fat, no bun, no salad, no garnish, no apology, would be one of the most nutritionally complete and safest meals you could possibly eat?

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

Hello Julia, sans aucune ironie, c'est top que tu prennes le temps de te renseigner. Mais le problème quand on lit Marx aujourd'hui, c'est qu'on prend pour acquis sa prémisse de départ, alors qu'elle a été démontée scientifiquement il y a plus de 150 ans.

Toute la pensée de Marx repose sur la théorie de la valeur-travail. L'idée que la valeur d'un bien vient de la quantité de travail nécessaire pour le produire. Si tu acceptes cette prémisse, alors oui, tout son raisonnement tient. Le capitaliste "vole" la plus-value du travailleur, l'exploitation est mathématique, la révolution est inévitable.

Sauf qu'en 1871, trois économistes (Menger en Autriche, Jevons en Angleterre, Walras en Suisse) découvrent indépendamment la même chose : la valeur n'est pas objective, elle est subjective et marginale.

Un verre d'eau dans le désert vaut une fortune. Le même verre à côté d'une rivière ne vaut rien. Le travail incorporé est identique. Donc le travail ne détermine pas la valeur. C'est le consommateur qui valorise un bien selon son utilité marginale dans un contexte donné.

Exemple concret : tu peux passer 1000 heures à tricoter un pull moche que personne ne veut. Selon Marx, ce pull a énormément de valeur (beaucoup de travail incorporé). Selon la réalité, il ne vaut rien. Parce que personne n'en veut.

À l'inverse, Bernard Arnault crée des milliards de valeur non pas parce qu'il "exploite" mais parce qu'il a su anticiper et organiser des désirs humains à grande échelle. La valeur est créée par la coordination, pas extraite par le vol.

Cette découverte (la révolution marginaliste) a invalidé tout l'édifice marxiste. Pas pour des raisons idéologiques, pour des raisons scientifiques. C'est pour ça que plus aucun département d'économie sérieux au monde n'enseigne Marx comme un cadre d'analyse valide. On l'enseigne en histoire de la pensée.

Maintenant, le truc important. Si ton intention en lisant Marx c'est d'aider les pauvres (c'est une intention noble), alors tu vas être surprise par ce qui suit.

Regarde les chiffres de la Banque mondiale. En 1820, 90% de l'humanité vivait dans l'extrême pauvreté. Aujourd'hui, moins de 9%. Cette chute historique ne s'est PAS produite dans les pays qui ont appliqué Marx. Elle s'est produite dans les pays qui ont libéralisé leur économie.

Chine post-1978, Vietnam post-1986, Inde post-1991, Pologne post-1989. À chaque fois qu'un pays libéralise, des centaines de millions de gens sortent de la pauvreté en une génération. À chaque fois qu'un pays applique Marx (URSS, Cambodge, Corée du Nord, Venezuela), c'est la famine et les goulags.

Ce n'est pas une opinion, c'est l'expérience la plus massive jamais menée en sciences sociales. Plusieurs milliards de cobayes humains, sur un siècle.

Donc paradoxalement, si tu aimes vraiment les pauvres, la position la plus cohérente n'est pas d'être marxiste. C'est d'être pour la liberté économique. Parce que c'est empiriquement la seule chose qui a jamais sorti massivement les gens de la misère.

Pour creuser, je te recommande trois lectures qui vont changer ta vision :

"La Loi" de Frédéric Bastiat (court, lumineux, gratuit en ligne)
"La Route de la Servitude" de Hayek
"Économie en une leçon" de Henry Hazlitt
Bonne lecture, et vraiment chapeau de chercher à comprendre plutôt que de rester dans tes certitudes. C'est rare.

[Bernd Klingenberg @bwkling]

It's time!

[Vivek Ramaswamy @VivekGRamaswamy]

The #1 factor that determines whether you succeed in life is you. It isn’t “the patriarchy.” It isn’t the Jews. It isn’t the Muslims. It isn’t the billionaires. It isn’t the foreigners. It isn’t white people. It isn’t black people. It's time for us to move on from victimhood culture in America.

[Michael Dell 🇺🇸 @MichaelDell]

Without this global town square for free speech, a lot of important things never would’ve seen daylight.

Real-time information governments tried to bury. Scientific debate that was actively censored. Voices that would’ve stayed silenced forever.

Respect to @elonmusk for being the man in the arena when it actually counted. 🫡🙏

[Gad Saad @GadSaad]

And it is implemented via an appeal to empathy via parasitic taxation. Read Suicidal Empathy, out in three weeks.

[Bernd Klingenberg @bwkling]

@razorfang @elonmusk @grok This has still not been fixed