Daily conversation: What is the worst possible answer?

[The_Ginger]

2-25-26:
Given all of the issues folks have been having with it over the past-*checks notes*-decade and then some, what should we replace Google Maps with?

ChatGPT

Eh, forget ChatGPT. I bet Grok Maps would be miles better.

Pun intended.

[MikeTheActuary]

ChatGPT Maps

You win this round.

Let's make it worse.

Grok maps -- all of the hallucinations of ChatGPT maps, but with a garnish of antisemitic rants and generated kiddie pr0n.

(Credit should go to TheGinger, whose post hit a few seconds before mine.)

[kphoger]

26 FEB 2026

What highway is too curvy and should be straightened out somewhat?

Optional:  How might it be straightened out?

[formulanone]

26 FEB 2026

What highway is too curvy and should be straightened out somewhat?

Optional:  How might it be straightened out?

I-75's Alligator Alley can be straightened out by placing Gogebic County on top of it, since iron takes away all wrinkles.

[kphoger]

Here in Kansas, K-117 is too curvy, because hills and valleys are just a different type of curve.

This should be straightened out somewhat by building trestles from hilltop to hilltop.

26 FEB 2026

What highway is too curvy and should be straightened out somewhat?

Optional:  How might it be straightened out?

[1995hoo]

26 FEB 2026

What highway is too curvy and should be straightened out somewhat?

Optional:  How might it be straightened out?

The Pennsylvania Turnpike between the Carlisle interchange and the Blue Mountain Service Plaza has two curves too many. The answer is to do what the Turnpike Commission has done in other locations: Build a new alignment to the north to straighten it out. The new straighter alignment would shorten the current 11.3-mile distance to the curve in the middle of the existing segment. It would require one new tunnel to avoid the unacceptable result of cutting through Eagles Crossing Golf Club.

[Big John]

Northern Door County Wisconsin:


Move the road to the bayshore to the west.

[GaryV]

26 FEB 2026

What highway is too curvy and should be straightened out somewhat?

Optional:  How might it be straightened out?

US 441 in Great Smoky Mountain NP.

Make it go straight up the mountains.

[kkt]

Heavy lift cargo helicopters.

[kphoger]

26 FEB 2026

What highway is too curvy and should be straightened out somewhat?

Optional:  How might it be straightened out?

Heavy lift cargo helicopters.

Sorry, but totally non-sequitur answers are automatically disqualified.

[LilianaUwU]

26 FEB 2026

What highway is too curvy and should be straightened out somewhat?

Optional:  How might it be straightened out?

Straighten out US 16A from Lakota Lake to US 16 by demolishing Mount Rushmore.

[ModernDayWarrior]

26 FEB 2026

What highway is too curvy and should be straightened out somewhat?

Gay Street in Manhattan.

Optional:  How might it be straightened out?

Conversion therapy.


(I feel like I have to add a disclaimer to this one. This is in the "worst answers" thread for a reason. Conversion therapy is a terrible idea.)

[TheCatalyst31]

26 FEB 2026

What highway is too curvy and should be straightened out somewhat?

Optional:  How might it be straightened out?

M-22 has a horribly inefficient route and should be replaced by a straight-line highway between Manistee and Traverse City, so travelers can get where they need to go faster.

[MikeTheActuary]

26 FEB 2026

What highway is too curvy and should be straightened out somewhat?

Optional:  How might it be straightened out?

NJ 495 in Weehawken, New Jersey.

Restricting access to amphibious vehicles would permit straightening.

[xonhulu]

26 FEB 2026

What highway is too curvy and should be straightened out somewhat?

Optional:  How might it be straightened out?

US 78 in Arkansas.

Solution: line up ARDOT's leaders in front of a firing squad.

[kphoger]

Solution: line up ARDOT's leaders in front of a firing squad.

I suspect that wouldn't actually straighten out the highway.

[hotdogPi]

February 27, 2026: Choose a fictional species/alien type/robot type/video game enemy/etc. to replace human road construction workers with.

[I-55]

February 27, 2026: Choose a fictional species/alien type/robot type/video game enemy/etc. to replace human road construction workers with.

Bob-ombs

[kphoger]

Vogons, of course.

February 27, 2026: Choose a fictional species/alien type/robot type/video game enemy/etc. to replace human road construction workers with.

[Big John]

February 27, 2026: Choose a fictional species/alien type/robot type/video game enemy/etc. to replace human road construction workers with.

Star Wars repulsorcraft

[Max Rockatansky]

February 27, 2026: Choose a fictional species/alien type/robot type/video game enemy/etc. to replace human road construction workers with.

Remake series Battlestar Galactica Cylons.  We'll start with Toasters and work our way up to Skin Jobs. 

[1995hoo]

February 27, 2026: Choose a fictional species/alien type/robot type/video game enemy/etc. to replace human road construction workers with.

The Smurfs, simply to ensure that nearby residents can experience the music that played on the 1980s cartoon whenever the Smurfs were doing some sort of work.

Of course, the workers would have to be sufficiently armed to avoid having workers kidnapped to boil six Smurfs for gold.

[GaryV]

February 27, 2026: Choose a fictional species/alien type/robot type/video game enemy/etc. to replace human road construction workers with.

Fraggles, with the added benefit that it puts the Boring Company out of business.

[vdeane]

February 27, 2026: Choose a fictional species/alien type/robot type/video game enemy/etc. to replace human road construction workers with.

The daimons from Sailor Moon S.  Just infuse the egg with whatever equipment is applicable for their job and then deliver to the site.  Passing motorists would have to try to avoid having their pure heart crystals stolen, but that would help incentivize traffic avoiding the area and reduce work zone intrusions.  And if we're lucky, maybe they'll even find the three talismans to manifest the Holy Grail!

[vdeane]

US 78 in Arkansas.

I thought this was worst possible...

Solution: line up ARDOT's leaders in front of a firing squad.

Oh.