Frustrating! I never recommend Amazon - they dodge tax, underpay workers, throw away tons of goods, and their fulfillment centres mix up real and counterfeit goods. No one wins except their execs.
But since it's already done, have you tried raising it to Amazon?
UGreen are usually fairly reliable. They're not super high quality but they're not just a no-name generic product with a fake name; they should be similar to Anker in general.
It would be worth checking if your hub is still under their warranty.
In terms of continental plates, as I understand it, Zealandia straddles the Pacific and Indo-Australian plates, so if this map were split by major continental plates, New Zealand's north and south islands would be split.
But I'm not a geologist.
If it were divided by continental tectonic plates, it would be welcome news for Southern Asia and most of the Middle East, but terrible news for New Zealand, Iceland, and the Caribbean.
This is fanciful. Regardless of the capacity of a butt of wine or beer, the word "buttload" has only been used since the latter half of the last century.
The original book, Last Chance to See, by Douglas Adams (of Hitchhiker's Guide fame) is absolutely excellent. Mark Cawardine, the guy in your video, was a co-traveler for the book too. I can't recommend it enough.
The kākāpō is a bird out of time. If you look one in its large, round, greeny-brown face, it has a look of serenely innocent incomprehension that makes you want to hug it and tell it that everything will be all right.
It seems that not only has the kākāpō forgotten how to fly, but it has forgotten that it has forgotten how to fly. Apparently a seriously worried kākāpō will sometimes run up a tree and jump out of it, whereupon it flies like a brick and lands in a graceless heap on the ground.
RIP Douglas Adams.
Hesiod was an Ancient Greek poet generally thought to have been active between 750 and 650 BC, around the same time as Homer.
"πυγοστόλος" literally means "decorating the buttocks," and it might be inferred that Hesiod's temptress wears an alluringly tight chiton, or is in the habit of tying her girdle to accent her hips. A more likely reading of πυγοστόλος, however, is simply "seductive" in the general sense. Greek women of the Archaic period, to the best of our knowledge, were not in the habit of actually decorating their derrières.
This actually was a thing that happened sometimes (trigger warning - dead bodies) but assuming that there's a corpse in every Victorian portrait is not reasonable.
I told those people millions of times to vote for Lib Dems or greens
Fundamentally, half of the electorate needs to collaborate on a single third party and be convinced that enough other people will also vote that way so their vote isn't thrown away. A coalition involving the Greens (for example) as a minority party won't give them enough power to change anything.
The only way out of this – unless Reform get into power and abolish First Past the Post in their own interests while not undermining democracy in other ways, which would be a silver lining on a very dark cloud – is if the public put a ton of pressure on the government for voting reform.
The calls are getting louder, and groups like the ERS have started to publish promising polling recently, but it needs a monumental effort.
Isn't the arrow redundant? A sign is always telling the road user what's upcoming. (I know you didn't make the sign.)
Think "money" rather than "number" to get the right word. It's not actually from "money", mind you, it's from Latin "munerari" (to give), but it's a useful mnemonic.
This is an IBX map, not a FODMAP.