I very much like True Launch Bar if it is still around. Can organize files/folders/apps very cleanly with minimal clicks to get there.

Stardock's 'Start 11' - I got in with Stardock over the start bar in early win8/win10 days, and really all the way back in XP. There's a nominal fee... I don't remember... maybe five bucks...

But it will give you a truer win10 start feel than you can get out of Win11, even with all the jiggery and ExperiencePatcher applied.

The problem I run into is that I either have to commit to Win11/Stardock or stay in Win10, because all my start bar hacks in win10 don't translate. If I set up a new machine for myself in win10, I can literally set up the desktop and start panels in a couple clicks, importing my exact style and all the positioning out of a backed up config. In Stardock, or by hand, it's hours.

It's a thing, because I use the crap out of the Start panels... I have derived my ultimate efficiency in that, and I am always adverse to change. I do not want to adapt to Win11.

No they are not, nor do they reveal what they're seeing.

It is quite telling that virtually every poster on this forum understands this basic truth through real world experience.  Yet we are to abandon all critical thought and cede our decision making to some liberal idiot bureaucrats whose champion shows up here out of nowhere, completely ignorant when it comes to this same basic truth.

As Reagan kindly and gracefully put it, it's not that they don't know anything.  It is that so much of what they do know is wrong.

I'll also wager @banddag has worked on wiring and/or plumbing without calling a licenses tradesman "to save a buck". And that actually is far more dangerous, particularly to other people, than doing an ultrasound on a cow to see if it is pregnant or not.

Analysis: Joe Biden’s ‘Blue Wall’ Crumbles Under Weight of Donald Trump’s Comeback

Wendell Husebø 4 May 2024

President Joe Biden’s seemingly unassailable “blue wall” appears to be crumbling in the wake of former President Donald Trump’s greatest political comeback in history.

The “blue wall” represents three battleground states: Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. Biden must win these states to prevent Trump from winning reelection.

The states are imperative for Biden due to Trump’s surge in the sunbelt states of Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, and North Carolina. In those four states, Trump leads Biden between three and six points in Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, and North Carolina, FiveThirtyEight’s polling averages show.

“There’s a clear divide between the Blue Wall states, where the polling is close, and the Sun Belt states, where it isn’t,” wrote Steven Shepard, Politico‘s senior campaign and elections editor and chief polling analyst.

For the first time in 2024, Trump held a narrow lead in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Michigan, Tuesday’s Emerson poll showed. Previous swing state polling showed Trump leading in Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, with only Michigan leaning toward Biden.

Seven states — Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, and North Carolina — will decide the president, longtime Democrat adviser Doug Sosnik wrote in the New York Times. If Trump wins one or more of Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin, Biden’s chances of obtaining 270 electoral votes become slim.

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https://www.breitbart.com/2024-election/2024/05/04/joe-bidens-blue-wall-crumbles-under-weight-donald-trumps-comeback/

My rancher son-in-law has had to stick his entire arm in a cow’s hoohaw to pull out a calf in distress. There ain’t no time to wait for a vet. He’d lose both cow and calf. Every single cattle owner has had to do this at one time or another.
Ranchers love their cattle.  They are devoted to their cattle. Most vets in rural America understand this and will do whatever they can to assist the rancher in becoming somewhat self-sufficient.

Yep.