Jenny Nicholson is a really popular video essayist. She only releases like one of these essay videos a year because she spends so long working on them. (She’s got a patreon where she releases a smaller, lower effort video every month.)

The big videos routinely pull in millions of views, so I’m not surprised the algorithm spams it in people’s feeds. She’s got a lot of followers that watch it right away because they’ve been waiting for a year to see it, so it shoots to the top of the recommendations for other people in that niche. Then there’s a snowball effect where YouTube starts recommending it, more people watch it, so it gets recommended more, etc. You see the same thing on Hbomberguy’s yearly video.

As one of her subscribers, I can tell you that this video has been in the works for years, so we’ve been hearing about it for a long time and were hyped. I just finished it today - broke it up into three different viewings. She breaks all her essays down into chapters so it’s easy to watch just a portion of it at a time.

Love making risotto in mine. Easy weeknight meal (depending on the recipe).

• Easy Vegan Pressure-Cooker Miso Risotto - my favorite recipe. I’m not vegan, it’s just really good.
• Pressure cooker corn risotto - also pretty easy, and you can absolutely sub canned or frozen corn if you don’t have/want to deal with corn cobs. Just bring frozen corn up to temp on saute mode before you start pressure cooking.
• Pressure cooker mushroom risotto - very tasty but more of a weekend project for me. That many mushrooms can get $$.

Loved this list and just added those measuring spoons to my house’s wish list. To the home automation front, for Home Assistant users I really like IKEA’s line of zigbee controllers. With HA and a cheap dongle you can control any smart device with them, not just IKEA stuff.

• I have one of their speaker controllers hooked up to my partner’s Google smart speakers, so I can turn down the volume and play/pause without shouting at the voice assistant.
• We have a five-button light controller on each of our nightstands so we can control our lamps and overhead lights (on/off, brightness, color) without getting out of bed. Great when my partner leaves their lamp on - I don’t have to reach over them to turn it off. (Now if only I could turn off their TikTok stream when they fall asleep watching it…)
• Their $10-$12 light switches to control the lamps and overhead lights in all of our rooms. Tap once to turn everything on or off, double tap to turn on just the lamps for some gentler lighting.

And this isn’t IKEA, but I need a colder bedroom to fall asleep, and my partner wakes up pretty early and wants it to be warm. I have a space heater connected to a smart outlet and a Bluetooth thermometer. At 4am it will start heating the room until we reach a comfortable temperature, idle until the temp drops, and turn itself completely off after I’m out of bed at 9am. If you need to buy the space heater or equipment to set up Home Assistant, this definitely breaks the $50 budget, but if you’ve already got those the thermometer and 15A rated smart plug will be maybe $30 total (cheaper if you can wait for longer shipping).

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This company is headquartered in Bangalore.

My guess is something in the Favi* family (Favio, Favian, Favienne, etc). But if your parents were hippies it could be Forever.

I’m actually surprised that the CVS provider still offered to treat him, for this exact reason. I’m a trans guy who went through a bout of recurring UTIs during the height of the pandemic. For all medical purposes I could have been treated the same as any cis woman, but actually accessing the virtual-only care that’s readily available to cis women was a trial for me because the systems are set up to filter out men.