I suppose you're right; for super-popular, nation-scale things like Superbowl or World Cup, for which there is a strong value in seeing it live, there's no going around peak flushing :).
Well the World Cup is really international except US ;)
Re:Against the synchronous society
by JoshTriplett on Saturday January 06, 2018 @05:54PM
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It wouldn't be that hard to skew different regions plus or minus one minute; that'd still be close enough to "live" that it wouldn't matter.
Given we have things like Twitter it would matter a lot. I also vividly texting with friends and family on different continents during the last world cup's Germany-Brazil game. A friend actually did have a slight delay and he received my text saying that it's 5-0 before he saw the goal. That was without intentional delay and already was a spoiler although it didn't matter much on that case.
For super popular stuff like GoT our big sporting events like Superbowl or even bigger like World Cup finale you'll always have it. So maybe we will always need that max toilet fishing capacity of we don't want to not be able to flush once every year or so?