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  • Things don't change very often tbh. Most of the Mental Health Listings were updated in 2017 I wanna say, but if someone doesn't meet those criteria I don't believe the other rules have been updated in quite some time.

    Mental health is considered in terms of its functional impact on whether you're capable of holding a job. There's basically four areas under consideration: your ability to undo and remember tasks and instructions, things like that; your ability to maintain concentration; your ability to interact with other people; and your ability to adapt to changes and manage yourself.

    There's a lot of jobs available in the Dictionary of Occupational Titles that you can theoretically perform even with some significant mental health impairments though. And keep in mind, this is pretty simplified, but that's the general principle.

  • I think there's a ton of benefit to getting a teacher, personally. They can guide your learning and provide advice on form and technique a lot easier than trying to figure it out with like, YouTube videos. If you're unsure whether it's for you and wanna get started before investing in a kit though, you can go a long way with a good practice pad, a pair of sticks, and a copy of Buddy Rich's Modern Interpretation of Snare Drum Rudiments

  • Not quite his style, he prefers getting pounded in the butt

  • My drum room is her nap room. I have to let her know I'm gonna play whenever I do, so she'll leave and I can shut the door, minimize the noise to the rest of the house. She's naked or Donald Ducking it at all times, so every time I want to play I get an eyefull of her chocolate Cheerio before I can start

  • So in the US, the rules are quite frankly stupid. This is not an official post btw, just my own observations. I want to say before all this, I'm so sorry you're dealing with that.

    We're required to make all our determinations according to what's called the POMS, available here: https://secure.ssa.gov/apps10/poms.nsf/chapterlist!openview&restricttocategory=04

    In short, and unfortunately it's vastly more complicated than this, but it can take a long time before I even see your claim, and if you're under 50 it's really hard to be allowed on benefits. You basically need to be mentally unwell enough you can't sustain a normal work week in an unskilled job, or you literally can't stand up for 2 hours in a day and imaging and physical exams demonstrate that. We need to have a Medically Determined Impairment before we can assign any limitations to you, meaning if your MRI shows nothing and your doctors can't figure out what's wrong, essentially I can't allow you unless other specific criteria are met. All decisions that aren't allowances require a SSA doctor to sign off, so I can't make an entirely independent judgement that someone is not disabled. There's also Federal Quality Assurance, who will return claims if they disagree with the outcome, and they have a quota to meet.

    It's all completely fucked to be honest. My best advice is be honest with your adjudicator about everything, especially your address, and appeal up to the level of an administrative law judge if denied, because they have a lot more leeway than we do in allowing people.

  • I go to a local arcade bar all the time (hubs loves Stepmaniax), I see tons of parents taking their kids there. There's usually people in the bar area if you don't go at like, 11 am. It honestly seems like a great business plan, new and classic arcade games, catered to both children and their parents simultaneously?

  • She's very smooth, she's only a bit fuzzy on her tail. Everywhere else it feels more like a hairless shoulder than anything.

    Don't let that fool you though, she's a big hair fan and still winds up with hairballs from eating the dogs and my hair. It's so nasty lol

  • She judges each on what's wrong with them versus what they say is wrong with them and then meows incessantly until her desired outcome is enacted.

  • I'm a big fan of Tidal from my usage thus far, they pay their artists something like 1.3 cents a stream versus 0.3 cents (numbers pulled from my memory and may be slightly off). Plus, the higher audio quality available and the 6 person family plan are nice to have.

  • How have I never seen these before? When my ps4 controller dies I know what I'm getting next now

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  • Animal agriculture is fucked, mass atrocities like this are just part of doing business.

  • What an absolute crock of shit.

  • It seemed like a good idea at the time

  • House of Leaves. I don't know if I want to read it again, but that book was a cool experience.

  • The ability to see where the thing in the fridge I'm looking for is immediately

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