Mine is that International Workers Day is May 1st to commemorate the Haymarket Affair, which happened in America where labor day is conspicuously much later in the year.

  • @Alcubierre_Drive
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    105 years ago

    TRIZ

    TRIZ (/ˈtriːz/; Russian: теория решения изобретательских задач, teoriya resheniya izobretatelskikh zadatch, literally: “theory of the resolution of invention-related tasks”) is “a problem-solving, analysis and forecasting tool derived from the study of patterns of invention in the global patent literature”.[1] It was developed by the Soviet inventor and science-fiction author Genrich Altshuller (1926-1998) and his colleagues, beginning in 1946. In English the name is typically rendered as “the theory of inventive problem solving”,[2][3] and occasionally goes by the English acronym TIPS.

    Following Altshuller’s insight, the theory developed on a foundation of extensive research covering hundreds of thousands of inventions across many different fields to produce a theory which defines generalisable patterns in the nature of inventive solutions and the distinguishing characteristics of the problems that these inventions have overcome[4].

    A direct kick in the mouth to the mouth-breathers that say “le gommulism cannot innobate”

    • Muad'DibberMA
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      35 years ago

      That’s fkn cool, I gotta learn more about that.

      • @Alcubierre_Drive
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        5 years ago

        It fukken is!

        IMHO it definitely bears “the birthmarks” of a meta-technical discipline descended from and developed under Marxism-Leninism.

        In principle, it would be possible to extend its application beyond engineering, or at least attempt to.

        I’ll let you wonder for yourself the potential of such a possibility and it’s compatibility with Marxism.