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I need to make something for a theatre production that will allow about 50 people to write a text string into a box on a website and press submit. Then I collect all the text strings and in the simplest form, have them display on a screen.

Setting aside the obvious problem of removing all the strings that just say "Tits boobs penis penis fuck shit", does anyone have any advice on the quickest tech stack I could use to set this up? I'm OK with computers + programming + know how to read documentation, but I don't do any web stuff so not sure what's aux currant. Ideally the server part would be extremely low set up and portable, and the display the text part would have a bit of scope for like, changing the text colour, or moving it around the screen.

Public AirTable form that sits on top of an AirTable table.

Or Typeform into Google sheets

We use mentimeter.com a lot at work. It can do word clouds (among other things). Has a built-in profanity filter and answers can be moderated on the fly

I have an unfinished painting by somewhat well-known artist Henry Bird. However I don't like it. Where and how should I attempt to sell it?

Why are my Vittoria 35c x 700 tyres marked down as 37-622?
I thought these two standards were the same?

Try a gallery https://www.hatfieldhines.com/artists/henry-bird/ or https://www.hargravefineart.co.uk/henry-bird/ they might have clients.

Failing that, if you really want to sell it then try one of these auction houses https://www.invaluable.com/artist/bird-henry-richard-oycesu03sl/sold-at-auction-prices/

Not sure you'll be able to retire on the proceeds, so might not be worth the effort. Complete paintings don't seem to go for over £200

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How can Ikea get away with this terrible concept of a prison like store where you have to walk 1km to get out? Is it just because people like their products so much that they can get away with it or do people actually like the experience?
If so; why are there not more stores set up like this?

There are enough shortcuts, usually, that you only need to wander around the showroom bits if you want to

Almost as bad as places like museums that make you walk through the shop on the way out....

If my partner is anything to go by, people genuinely like the experience. I don't understand it at all.

I don't understand it at all

It makes some kind of sense if you're setting up home for the first time and don't have much of a clue what you want

Hotdogs aren't as good as they were, nor the meatballs. Less horse, reindeer Les flavour.

Or airports that force you to take a long meandering stroll through Duty Free.

https://www.hotukdeals.com/4271957

Fucking Stansted. Or is it Gatwick?

Anyway, London airports that are not in London. It’s bad enough having to catch a fucking flight in the first place.

Heathrow Terminal 5: might as well walk from Slough.

might as well walk from Slough

It's about 1.1km, for anybody contemplating the trip

I used to think this until I was forced to use IKEA in Milton Keynes. Fuck, I thought. But not only does the carpark walk you straight into the start point of the store, the shortcuts are marked on the map which take you to pretty much any point in the store or bypass everything and straight to the tills.

Croydon you definitely have to do the full 2km. You have no hope of shortcutting that one.

Easyjet Copenhagen takes the biscuit.

I think there was some thing where the airlines prevented them from being in the airport, so they built the terminal outside the airport to get around it or something.

It's genuinely miles.

Croydon you definitely have to do the full 2km. You have no hope of shortcutting that one.

There are shortcuts if you look hard enough

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I was watching a reel on Instagram about someone using a 68t chainring in a TT. One of the comments said "the gain comes from a lower chain tension for a given ratio."

If someone is doing 500w on a 68-17t for 105" gear, that'd mean there'd be the same tension on the chain if they were using a 56-14 for the same effective gear right? Like it's doing 500w worth of pulling to the rear cog on the cassette to turn it. Chain length wouldn't come into it because they'd be cut to the correct length in guessing.

Is the comment wrong? Googling isn't getting me the right thing and I'm not sure how to word it, and I know there's people smarter than me here. Am I thinking of tension in the wrong way?

Am I thinking of tension in the wrong way?

Probably. Power in a chain drive (and anywhere else) is force×velocity (torque×angular velocity if it's rotating). A big/big drive at a given input angular velocity and torque has higher chain velocity but lower tension than a small/small drive.

On the other hand, I think the comment is still wrong, and most of any gains from big/big drives on dérailleur bikes comes from spending more time in gears with less lateral offset.

Fucking Stansted. Or is it Gatwick?

All of them except City, in my experience.