Daily conversation: What is the worst possible answer?

[hotdogPi]

9 MAR 2026

What's the ideal material for a road sign post?

Ethereum.

[MikeTheActuary]

9 MAR 2026

What's the ideal material for a road sign post?

[1995hoo]

9 MAR 2026

What's the ideal material for a road sign post?

It depends on what sort of material interests you: erroneous road signs, damaged road signs, US/state mixups, the worst of road signs, etc.

[PColumbus73]

9 MAR 2026

What's the ideal material for a road sign post?

Something ragebait-y to drive engagement

[Big John]

9 MAR 2026

What's the ideal material for a road sign post?

cardboard as it is also a rain detector

[NE2]

9 MAR 2026

What's the ideal material for a road sign post?

Malone.

[kphoger]

2026-03-07: Why doesn't every city use backlit street name signs?

They do.  They just keep them turned off to conserve energy.

3-8-26:
How are truckers supposed to use the runaway truck ramp in Illinois?

Slow down, signal, check mirror, proceed to turn when safe.

9 MAR 2026

What's the ideal material for a road sign post?

The same behavioral pattern over and over again:  spewing the same old shit without a meaningful connection to the topic.

[xonhulu]

9 MAR 2026

What's the ideal material for a road sign post?

Topless Russian women.

[Scott5114]

9 MAR 2026

What's the ideal material for a road sign post?

control cities

[The_Ginger]

9 MAR 2026

What's the ideal material for a road sign post?

The same behavioral pattern over and over again:  spewing the same old shit without a meaningful connection to the topic.

I probably should have clarified that I meant the physical material (wood, metal, uranium, etc.), but online posts work too.


By the way, congratulations on your 35,000th post and your new position as Grand Alan! I feel honored to have been quoted in it.

[kphoger]

I meant the physical material (wood, metal, uranium, etc.), but online posts work too.

All road sign posts are online.  As such, they're made out of a bunch of computers and cables.  So, mostly plastic, plus various types of metal and silica glass.

[GaryV]

9 MAR 2026

What's the ideal material for a road sign post?

I didn't even know road signs had X or Instagram accounts so they could post.

Maybe they have accounts on that platform that would get me banned if I name it out loud. In which case, their ideal material would be that which makes the platform founder look good.

[kphoger]

I didn't even know road signs had X or Instagram accounts so they could post.

Maybe they have accounts on that platform that would get me banned if I name it out loud. In which case, their ideal material would be that which makes the platform founder look good.

Or whatever generates the most engagement.  So probably something divisive, like veganism or PEMDAS.

[hotdogPi]

Maybe they have accounts on that platform that would get me banned if I name it out loud. In which case, their ideal material would be that which makes the platform founder look good.

I legitimately have no idea which platform you're talking about here. We have no competitors, and you can talk about both Truth Social and OnlyFans here without getting banned.

[kphoger]

Maybe they have accounts on that platform that would get me banned if I name it out loud. In which case, their ideal material would be that which makes the platform founder look good.

I legitimately have no idea which platform you're talking about here. We have no competitors, and you can talk about both Truth Social and OnlyFans here without getting banned.

Voldemort came out with his own self-named social media platform.

[TheCatalyst31]

9 MAR 2026

What's the ideal material for a road sign post?

Road sign-flavored Post Toasties.

[Big John]

March 10, 2026

Florida US route signs used to be color coded until ordered to go to black on white. What color combination would be best on route markers?

[wanderer2575]

March 10, 2026

Florida US route signs used to be color coded until ordered to go to black on white. What color combination would be best on route markers?

One color for both, in the Regis "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" Philbin monochromatic style.

[xonhulu]

March 10, 2026

Florida US route signs used to be color coded until ordered to go to black on white. What color combination would be best on route markers?

Infrared on ultraviolet.

[kphoger]

C:\>color ba

↑  try it  ↑

March 10, 2026

Florida US route signs used to be color coded until ordered to go to black on white. What color combination would be best on route markers?

[Max Rockatansky]

March 10, 2026

Florida US route signs used to be color coded until ordered to go to black on white. What color combination would be best on route markers?

Infrared on ultraviolet.

Clearly the best form of electromagnetic radiation are gamma rays.  I don't see a need to play poverty with highway shields. 

[kphoger]

Infrared on ultraviolet.

And you could invert those colors for business routes.

[PColumbus73]

March 10, 2026

Florida US route signs used to be color coded until ordered to go to black on white. What color combination would be best on route markers?

Each number should have its own color and/or background:

0 = Black

1 = Pink

2 = Lime Green

3 = Purple

4 = Orange

5 = Brown

6 = Beige

7 = Robin Egg Blue

8 = Gray

9 = White

[kurumi]

March 10, 2026

Florida US route signs used to be color coded until ordered to go to black on white. What color combination would be best on route markers?

Color #1: Olo (https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adu1052)

We introduce a principle, Oz, for displaying color imagery: directly controlling the human eye's photoreceptor activity via cell-by-cell light delivery. Theoretically, novel colors are possible through bypassing the constraints set by the cone spectral sensitivities and activating M cone cells exclusively. In practice, we confirm a partial expansion of colorspace toward that theoretical ideal. Attempting to activate M cones exclusively is shown to elicit a color beyond the natural human gamut, formally measured with color matching by human subjects. They describe the color as blue-green of unprecedented saturation. Further experiments show that subjects perceive Oz colors in image and video form. The prototype targets laser microdoses to thousands of spectrally classified cones under fixational eye motion. These results are proof-of-principle for programmable control over individual photoreceptors at population scale.

"At population scale" obviously supports high AADT volumes.

Color #2: the Colour out of Space

Cold and wet. But it burns. Sucking the life out of everything. It came down in the rock. It lives in the well. It grew down there. Poisoning everything. Changing everything. Into something like the world it came from.

[kphoger]

C:\>color ba

Each number should have its own color and/or background:

Actually, if you keep in line with my thinking...

Convert route numbers to hexadecimal, and then...

0 = Black
1 = Blue
2 = Green
3 = Aqua
4 = Red
5 = Purple
6 = Yellow
7 = White
8 = Gray
9 = Light Blue
A = Light Green
B = Light Aqua
C = Light Red
D = Light Purple
E = Light Yellow
F = Bright White

First digit is background color.
Second digit is foreground color.
Assume a leading zero for single-digit numbers.
Numbers reset after FF (route 255), meaning route 256 is the same color scheme as route 0.

So, for example...

I-35 would have an aqua-on-green shield.
US-1 would have a blue-on-black shield.
I-235 and US-491 shields would both be light aqua on light yellow.
The Georgia-Florida Parkway would have a red-on-red shield.
The Camino Colombia Toll Road would be bright white on bright white.
I-375 would also be white on white, but not as bright of a white.