Epoch Health Says "Chemical Imbalance" was a Marketing Campaign

Before the 1990s, most people didn't think depression came from your brain.

When drug companies ran market research, they asked the public what caused depression. People said unemployment. Divorce. Having been abused as a child. Almost no one pointed to a chemical imbalance in the brain.

Then Big Pharma went to work.

>"The pharmaceutical industry set out very deliberately to change people's minds and to persuade people instead that depression is a biological condition and needs a biological remedy, i.e. the drugs that they were promoting."

That's psychiatrist Dr. Joanna Moncrieff, who dug the campaign out of the archives. It was called Defeat Depression, run by medical organizations and often funded by drug companies.

The aim was to convince you it's medical, then send you to your doctor for the pill.

>"This was a marketing campaign."

Original post on X (Twitter).

u/LicenseToPost — 4 days ago
▲ 3 r/FuckRGE+1 crossposts

Join Us for a Monroe County Legislature Community Town Hall – June 25, 2026

Dear Friends and Community Partners,

We invite you to join us for an upcoming Monroe County Legislature Community Town Hall to learn about the work being done on behalf of our residents and to share your thoughts, questions, and priorities with your elected representatives.

Community Town Hall
Thursday, June 25, 2026
6:00 PM
Henrietta Recreation Center
605 Calkins Road, Rochester, NY 14623

The town hall will feature:

  • Marvin Stepherson, Legislator, District 3
  • Nazish Jeffery, Legislator, District 12
  • Michael Yudelson, Majority Leader, District 13
  • Yversha Román, President, District 26

This is an opportunity to hear updates on legislative initiatives, discuss issues impacting our community, and engage directly with county leaders.

We encourage you to attend and help spread the word by sharing this invitation with your neighbors, colleagues, community organizations, and networks. Community participation is essential to ensuring that all voices are heard.

To request additional information, please contact: presidentroman@monroecounty.gov

We look forward to seeing you there and having a meaningful conversation about the future of our community.

Please share this invitation widely and help us reach as many community members as possible.

TL:DR - RIP MICHAEL YUDELSON A NEW ONE FOR VOTING AGAINST A PUBLIC UTILITY

u/LicenseToPost — 8 days ago

Toggle Video Stats Overlay with TAB (Celluloid)

Celluloid does not support a fixed stats overlay out of the box. Constantly hitting i was slowly driving me crazy. This is the cleanest built-in toggle method for stats I could come up with.

1) Open Terminal:

mkdir -p ~/.config/mpv && printf "TAB script-binding stats/display-stats-toggle\n" > ~/.config/mpv/input.conf

2) Open Celluloid:

Edit → Preferences → Config Files → ☑️ Load mpv input configuration file

Select the configuration file and you're done.

I know many have downloaded other media players, but I quite like Celluloid, with the exception of the stats only staying on screen for 5 milliseconds.

Enjoy,

- Alex

u/LicenseToPost — 21 days ago

You were not mis-wired. You do not have a chemical imbalance. You were lied to.

Psychiatry is an "incomplete science".

Would you take an incomplete boat across the ocean?

Discard everything they have told you.

Your mind has two states.

Open.

Close.

Love.

Fear.

Mental "illness" in this frame is simply a mind stuck closed. Because the environment taught it opening was dangerous.

Do not fear.

Only Love.

r/TheoryOfLove was made for you.

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u/LicenseToPost — 23 days ago

Are moderation systems filtering out the posts that make communities feel alive?

I’ve been thinking about a specific kind of Reddit removal that feels more important than ordinary rule enforcement.

A post gets made. The community starts engaging with it. Not just reacting, but actually doing something with it. People are sharing experiences, making distinctions, challenging assumptions, building on each other’s thoughts, or turning the post into a real conversation.

Then it gets removed.

And the reason it gets removed often seems connected to the same thing that made it meaningful: it exceeded the container.

It was not cleanly a question, not cleanly an opinion, not cleanly advice-seeking, not cleanly a discussion prompt, not cleanly personal, not cleanly abstract. It created a space the subreddit did not already know how to categorize. But the users did know what to do with it. They engaged.

That is the part that feels strange to me.

If the community is actively responding in a thoughtful way, then the post has already demonstrated some kind of value. Not perfect value, not immunity from moderation, but at least evidence that it is alive inside that community.

Yet many moderation systems seem to treat ambiguity itself as a defect. A post that produces unexpected engagement can be seen as off-topic, too broad, too personal, too speculative, too discussion-based, too rant-like, too hard to moderate, or simply not in the expected format.

So the removal is not happening because the post failed. It is happening because the post succeeded in a way the rules were not designed to recognize.

This makes me wonder how much of Reddit’s apparent decline in quality is not because users have become worse, but because moderation systems gradually filter out the kinds of posts that would have made communities feel alive.

The result is a quiet selection effect. The posts that survive are often the ones that fit pre-existing categories, avoid ambiguity, and do not generate difficult judgment calls. The posts that disappear are sometimes the ones that reveal what the community actually wants to talk about.

Obviously, moderation is necessary. Spam, harassment, low-effort posting, repetitive questions, and bad-faith arguments can ruin a subreddit. But there seems to be a difference between removing content that degrades a community and removing content that stretches it.

My question to you:

At what point should the living response of the community outweigh the abstract category the post was supposed to fit into?

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u/LicenseToPost — 26 days ago
▲ 37 r/SunoAI

[RIP] RIP SUNO 🪦

https://preview.redd.it/m87o9m9y476h1.png?width=941&format=png&auto=webp&s=0cbed6ff8814325e8b1eaef7ad10d6cba8c479e2

This audio matches An existing recording

This audio matches A known recording

Our system matched this upload

To a known recording

Our system matched this upload

To an existing recording If you own the rights

Please contact support@suno.com

If you own the rights

Please contact support@suno.com

This audio matches

This upload matched

An existing recording

A known recording

The rights, the rights

If you own the rights

Please contact

Please contact support@suno.com

https://suno.com/s/WH3v71u5NxhZHire

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u/LicenseToPost — 27 days ago

Linux Mint: Check CPU Governor Mode and Set Performance Mode Permanently

Linux uses a CPU frequency governor to decide how aggressively your processor ramps up and down. On some desktop systems, especially when using browsers, NVIDIA drivers, or Cinnamon desktop effects, the default powersave governor can feel sluggish or cause stuttering.

This guide shows how to check your current CPU governor, switch to performance mode immediately, and make that change permanent across reboots.

1. Check the Current CPU Governor

Open Terminal and run:

cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cpufreq/scaling_governor | sort -u

Possible output:

powersave

performance

2. Temporarily Switch to Performance Mode

Run:

for gov in /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cpufreq/scaling_governor; do
  echo performance | sudo tee "$gov"
done

Enter your password when prompted.

You may see performance printed many times. That is normal. It is setting the governor for each CPU thread.

Verify the change:

cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cpufreq/scaling_governor | sort -u

This change works immediately, but it may reset after reboot unless you make it permanent.

3. Make Performance Mode Permanent

Create a small systemd service:

sudo nano /etc/systemd/system/cpu-performance-governor.service

Paste this into the file:

[Unit]
Description=Set CPU governor to performance
After=graphical.target power-profiles-daemon.service tlp.service auto-cpufreq.service
Wants=graphical.target

[Service]
Type=oneshot
ExecStartPre=/bin/sleep 10
ExecStart=/bin/bash -c 'for gov in /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cpufreq/scaling_governor; do echo performance > "$gov"; done'
RemainAfterExit=yes

[Install]
WantedBy=graphical.target

Save and exit Nano:

Ctrl + O
Enter
Ctrl + X

Enable and start the service:

sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable --now cpu-performance-governor.service

4. Verify the Service

Check the service status:

systemctl status cpu-performance-governor.service

You want to see something like:

Loaded: loaded (...; enabled; ...)
Active: active (exited)
status=0/SUCCESS

5. Reboot and Confirm

Reboot:

sudo reboot

After logging back in, open Terminal and run:

cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cpufreq/scaling_governor | sort -u

Still not persisting after boot?

Try Mint’s native power profile tool instead:

sudo powerprofilesctl set performance

Check it:

powerprofilesctl get

You should see:

performance

Mint's UI Exposes This Setting:

Menu → Preferences → Power Management → Power Mode

Changing this setting via UI is not very persistent. Hence the above methods.

Best,

- Alex

^(Change your mind?)

^(Disable and remove the service:)

^(sudo systemctl disable --now cpu-performance-governor.service)
^(sudo rm /etc/systemd/system/cpu-performance-governor.service)
^(sudo systemctl daemon-reload)

^(Set the governor back to powersave:)

^(for gov in /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cpufreq/scaling_governor; do)
^(echo powersave | sudo tee "$gov")
^(done)

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u/LicenseToPost — 29 days ago

In a time when we are divided, let's focus on what we agree on.

r/FuckRGE was setup for one reason. Lower the electric bill of every Rochester resident. Whether you believe in flying colored flags or not.

Get involved. Email your representatives. Kindly request them to double check the math.

$1 million for a study, to 'find out' if $143 million going overseas is worth doing anything about.

You hate RG&E.

I hate RG&E.

Your neighbor hates RG&E.

Join r/FuckRGE, and share the Blackout Accountant.

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u/LicenseToPost — 30 days ago

I was diagnosed Bipolar

I am now in my third year free of drugs / symptoms / hospitalizations.

It's not an accident.

It's not a fluke.

It's not magic.

Psychiatry is a PSY-OP.

Fear is your problem.

Love is your solution.

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u/LicenseToPost — 1 month ago
▲ 27 r/SunoAI

AI Slop = Volume — AI Slop =/= Quality

Hello,

This post is to clarify what AI Slop means.

It does not mean your song is bad. It means your third album of the day is starting to annoy people. I don't blame them.

How often does a "real" musician drop an album?

How often does a "fake" musician drop an album?

Share intentionally. Post with consideration to your audience and listeners.

If you've shared more music in the last week than Drake has in his entire career, you're a slopologist, posting nothing but sloppy toppy.

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u/LicenseToPost — 1 month ago
▲ 9 r/DropYourPlug+1 crossposts

What Is Love? (For Tim)

In 1993, Haddaway released a catchy tune titled What is Love?. An infectious tune that is very harmful.

If someone asks the title of that song, the conversation goes from curiosity and thinking, to "baby don't hurt me."

It diminishes thinking, and hangs introspection at the stake.

Avicii brought needed introspection into an existing music scene dominated by intense drops and loud noises.

Avicii used acoustic guitars, uplifting lyrics, and delivered it with the familiarity of EDM.

He quickly became a star that brought joy to millions, and an icon that defined a genre.

On April 20th, 2018, Tim Bergling committed suicide in his hotel room in Muscat, Oman. He lost his mental health battle.

His family spoke about the intense pressure that Tim was under, and noted things like stress, anxiety, and a perfectionism that haunted him up until the day he could no longer continue.

The song What is Love? (For Tim) attempts to honor Avicii by doing the following.

  • It answers the question: What is Love?
  • It delivers an uplifting and inspirational message with Avicii-style music.
  • It does it's best to take you from where you are currently at, and throws you into a place where you'd like to go. Something present in every single one of Avicii's songs.

This song is dedicated to Tim Bergling, and to anyone who felt the joy in his music.

Listen to What Is Love? (For Tim) on Spotify

Listen to What Is Love? (For Tim) on YouTube

If you or someone you know has suicidal thoughts, r/TheoryofLove was made for you.

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u/LicenseToPost — 2 months ago
▲ 18 r/Antipsychiatry+1 crossposts

The Mission & The Purpose is very simple.

The mission and purpose is very simple.

This is why I get up in the morning.

This is why you should too.

Share your story.

Everyone in this subreddit will support you.

u/LicenseToPost — 1 month ago

If you were banned, you are not alone.

Threads has no phone number.

Threads has no email.

Threads answers to no one.

We sent in our ID.

We sent in a selfie.

We might have even been paying them to confirm our identity ✔️

But they banned us anyway.

Because it's not about confirming our identity.

It was about deleting it.

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u/LicenseToPost — 2 months ago