@ats-david, I greatly respect your opinion on curation based on what I have seen of your history on this platform.
Would you be willing to expand on what makes this "tripe"? Is the complaint you responded to not merely a fallacy of relative privation, which could easily be slapped on any number of other posts, including things like charity posts aimed at animal rather than human rescue?
Do you feel this post is tripe because it is advice you have no use for? Or perhaps this is advice that only people that are "unappealingly weak, in a way that manifests as resource-paranoia, and can outwardly be perceived as entitlement or lack of worldliness/stoicism" would need? That is a vaguer description than I would like, and I'm not attempting to imply anything, but words are failing me at the moment in their specificity.
In other words, the target audience for this advice may be a bit neurotic/entitled, and this is perhaps a turn-off?
I certainly can understand completely skipping or even being turned off by this post. However, you taking your time to stop in and brand it as tripe is admittedly of more interest to me. For the record, it's also not for me, but I am not the target audience.
Having said that, I generally consider things that encourage people to take more responsibility for their and their families food security to be a good thing. Hardening households against any short-to-long-term disruptions in JIT grocery supply lines can only be a good thing. If more people did this, half the grocery stores and gas stations in Florida wouldn't have been cleaned out for Irma.
If this process has the side-effect of calming some people's neuroses, that can only be a good thing. 1 in 6 people in the US are on psychiatric meds. We may not be lacking in resources but we are lacking in both happiness and mental stability.
Bonus nonsense - if memory serves, eating tripe in Nethack returns "Yak - dog food!".
My 2(non)sense: Tripe is cow's stomach. Yum, yum menudo.
Also, as a bonus fact to your Psych-meds statistic: 1 in 8 Americans is dealing with alchoholism.
Yeah, it's a horror show out there.