#cookietable

[umifani]

Epoxy Resin River Table - Wood Cookie Table

[l48yr1nth]

@cookietism i think someone enjoyed our opinions

[pudgy-planets]

It is time! For Ryoko! To get a cookie! From me, I have a cookie for her.

Cookie? Treats? Sweets? Goodies?

Excitedly trotting up to Taylor with an enthused energy, Ryoko parts her lips and sticks her tongue out with a small droplet of saliva pooling at the top of her tongue-

“Ah. Ah. Ah. Ah.”

She’d vocalize, pointing a pale finger towards her awaiting mouth. Cookietize her, please!

[mysticlongan]

that's because they're the star! who d'ya think is playing cookiet in Romeo and Cookiet 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

lychee dragon would be the biggest fan of shadow milk’s plays, they would show up at every single one fr..

[thecookieaddiction]

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Ah events. I mean, there's nothing quite like them. The ambience, the rush and the hype. Right from the build up to the day. To the moment you are stood there behind your stall looking at all you have accomplished within a short period of time. It all makes for an experience like no other. The feeling of love and gratitude expressed by the customers makes all the stress and tiredness vanish as if though it was not felt. You gotta love that feeling where all your hard work pays off in the end. Here's a snippet from our stall at the Monthly Muslim Market hosted by @m_instashop . . . . . . . . #thecookieaddiction #muslimmarkets #stalls #events #cookies #cookiesarelife #cookieboard #cookiecups #weddinginspo #weddingsofinstagram #cookietable #hype #new #original #unique #table #pushyourself #newthings #bigthings #2020 #moretocome (at Birmingham, United Kingdom) https://www.instagram.com/p/B864ryFlG2o/?igshid=e936km9f7667

[umifani]

Epoxy Resin River Table - Wood Cookie Table

[bhendricks1983]

Red Oak black epoxy filled cookie bar table. #redoak #treecookie #cookietable #bartop #woodworking #wood #sawdust #sawyer #logging #woodcraft #sawmill #woodmaking #woodworkingcommunity #custommade #build #handcrafted #twistedgrain (at TwistedGrain) https://www.instagram.com/p/CFPnCtMFfLu/?igshid=w8fitsphwfim

[boardroots]

Sweetgum 🍪 coffee table coming along for a client in #zionsville. Some cool epoxy work on deck to fill the large check void. . . . Tree came down in storm - Sourced the south side of Indy. #progresspic #locallysourced #salvaged #reclaimedwood #sweetgum #woodcookie #cookietable #woodslab #woodmaker #woodfurniture #finefurniture #modernrustic #farmhouseliving #interiordesign #keepindyindie #indy #indiana #indyhandmade #indyartist #shoplocalindy #newlifeforoldtrees #firewoodtofurniture #notquiteart #morethanfurniture #fromstarttostump #boardroots https://www.instagram.com/p/B8WGSKkgJ8f/?igshid=unvx6efx09r7

[cookieclickertutorials]

In a lot of ways, this user's arguments can be analysed through the lens of cookie clicker - using it's feature of the Grandmapocalypse.

The negative valency - the appearance of wrath cookies instead of golden cookies, the way the wrinklers lower your cps, the spooky imagery that scared me when I was a kid - and the positive valency - certain wrath cookie affects such as the x666 boost, or the wrinklers' ability to give more cookies.

This allows us to examine the game of cookie clicker through the lens of utilitarianism. More importantly - it allows us to examine the community. Despite the multitude of complications - the excess negative valency - almost every cookie clicker player will encourage you to start the Grandmapocalypse for the minor boosts. Positive valency takes precedence, the good outweighs the bad. Always. This is true in many facets of Cookie Clicker - in fact it is pretty much the core of the game. Every sacrifice that can be made for that slight increase in positive valency - in cps, in cookies in the bank - is worth it. Building off of badhorse413's suggestions, we seem them use the phrase "although your behavior would be pretty in line with that of a lot of capitalist enterprises" in relation to this "good outweighs the bad", "end justifies the means" mentality. Yes - this is it. This is, also, the core of cookie clicker. The capitalist system in micro and macro. The extreme split down and baked into one cookie. Anything for a buck. The game itself is designed to coach players into this mentality, this over-correcting utilitarianism, to give in for the simple joy of the increasing numbers and bonuses. It coaches the player to become the capitalist. To become the system. Something something, Karl Marx? Das capital. Dasd cookietal. Cookie Communist. Communist Clicker. Socialism? Grandmapocylpse. Utialantitairms. Capitals clicker. Philosphy and ethics? Philosphy and ethics clicker. Your sugar lump is meaty.

Problems of Incommensurability in Ethics

When I was a kid, like 5th grade years old, I independently invented utilitarianism in my head. It just seemed obvious to me that the best course of action was making as many people happy as possible, and that this could be quantified scientifically. When I was a middle schooler and I learned about dopamine, I was like, this is it. This is the objective scientific basis of morality. The very day I learned the term utilitarian I declared myself to be one.

Since then I've grown quite a bit, but I think my ethics have always remained more utilitarian than anything else. There are several things about utilitarianism that I find extremely persuasive.

Hedonism: The idea that absent other considerations, it's good to feel good and bad to feel bad, is completely undeniable to me. I really dislike the prevalence of intuition and assumptions in ethical philosophy, but I'm very confident that suffering is bad. You should minimize assumptions as much as possible in philosophy generally, but I don't think there's anything that could conceivably convince me that pain isn't painful.

Consequentialism: Follows naturally from hedonism. Non-consequentialist moralities have practical purposes, but everything reduces to consequentialism in the final analysis.

Virtues, duties, and maxims are all abstract concepts, and as a materialist, I don't really care much about abstract concepts. Consequences are real. Experiences are real. I've had experiences, and those experiences had valencies, in that some were good and some were bad. Good and bad are meaningless in my view unless they're applied to experiences.

All this said, there's something about utilitarianism that I don't like, and it's the reason I don't consider myself to be a utilitarian, even though I agree with the parts of it that utilitarians argue for. Utilitarian theory often makes the assumption that goodness/badness (let's call them positive and negative valency to borrow the language used by some modern utilitarians) are commensurable, and that when presented with some set of decisions, there is some decision which is always objectively better than every other decision. I don't think this follows from the premises of utilitarianism, just the opposite.

For starters, let's consider G.E. Moore's objection to the commensurability of ethical decisions, which is that goodness comes in multiple kinds, and you can't compare love, beauty, pleasure, and other things on one axis. This might be true. It might also not be true. Qualia are poorly understood. The "good" quality of these things might reduce to the same phenomenon, or multiple phenomena. I have no way of knowing. In any case, I think ambiguity still arises in utilitarianism even if all good things reduce to a single linear quantity.

This is because positive and negative valency are fundamentally incommensurable. Some pleasures are more pleasurable than others, some pains are more painful than others, and all pleasures are more pleasurable than all pains, so it seems that at least in certain circumstances (and possibly always) the positive valencies of two outcomes can be compared, and the negative valencies of two outcomes can be compared, but there is no quantity held in common between positive and negative valency that allows you to say that some quantity of positive valency balances out with some quantity of negative valency (a commonly raised objection), and vice versa (an objection I've never seen raised in my entire life).

Let's define a moral state-of-affairs as the set of the total positive and negative valencies of all conscious experiences within a particular region of spacetime. The units don't matter, because they can't be compared anyway. The state-of-affairs can be represented by a complex number, the real part of which represents the quantity of positive valency, and the imaginary part of which represents the quantity of negative valency. Now let's say the region of spacetime in the following example is a dinner party that lasts six hours.

Let's say that if a certain partygoer acts normally at the party, the moral state-of-affairs will be 100+5i, with 100 being the fun and laughter and good-times and 5i being the unpleasant noise and the discomfort one girl experiences from unrelated menstrual cramps. If said certain partygoer decides to go apeshit and shank the party's host in the abdomen right after arriving, the moral state-of-affairs is instead 4+350i. There's a lot less fun, and a lot more suffering. In this situation, one state of affairs is objectively superior to the other. Going apeshit and shanking the host is objectively an immoral thing for the partygoer to do. This happens to coincide with intuition, which is unsurprising but also irrelevant.

Now let's imagine that our certain partygoer goes apeshit in a different way. He brings a shit ton of tequila (let's say the party otherwise would have had little drinking) and encourages everyone to get smashed as hell. Most partygoers get very drunk and the night becomes more intense. Everybody's yelling, telling stupid jokes, a couple hooks up, I don't know, I don't go to parties, but as a result of all the drinking, one guy who would have otherwise been chill decides to start a fight with a guy he hates. They get heated, say ill-advised things to each other under the influence, and one of them hits the other. He's not severely injured, but it's still a bad time not just for him, but for a lot of spectators as well. After that, the party goes back to its more cheery state. The total moral state-of-affairs in this timeline clocks in at 180+31i. There was more positive valency than in the normal timeline, so it was objectively more good. But there was also more negative valency, so it was also objectively more bad. Keep in mind that these are unitless, and I could multiply all of the numbers for either the real or imaginary parts by any coefficient, and it wouldn't change anything as long as I did it for all states of affairs. So don't go thinking "well 80 is greater than 26 so that's where you should draw the line". It's arbitrary.

The point is that even though certain states-of-affairs can be objectively better than others, sometimes you cannot objectively compare two states-of-affairs. There are possible solutions to this dilemma you could come up with. You could take the walking-away-from-Omelas position and say that negative valency automatically takes precedence, and that no amount of positive valency ever justifies even the slightest increase in negative valency, but then you'd have to start advocating for the end of the world and the death of all sentient beings. You could say the opposite, and claim that positive valency automatically takes precedence, and that no amount of negative valency ever makes the slightest amount of pleasure not worth it, but that would result in some pretty cruel behavior (although your behavior would be pretty in line with that of a lot of capitalist enterprises). Finally, you could declare an arbitrary relation that accords with your intuition, and say "this is the amount of pain which is worth enduring for this given amount of pleasure", and that would result in less disastrous scenarios, but in the end that relation has to be arbitrary.

The idea I'm pursuing here is that moral ambiguity is real, and that accepting that morality is based on really-existing things and that some things are objectively wrong does not necessarily mean that moral dilemmas do not exist, or even that they're not common. This shouldn't be too surprising if you really think about it. We encounter moral ambiguity constantly in our daily lives, it doesn't really seem that absurd or counterintuitive that sometimes there is an objectively right answer, and sometimes there isn't, but I'm not sure I've ever seen an ethical philosopher admit it.

[mariaangelaphotography-blog]

#weddingtip to #save money for your #wedding : use the #cookies as #wedding #favors . Have #togo containers and allow #guests to bring home #yummy #treats. #mariaangela6611 #weddingtips #weddingplanning #budgetwedding #budgetweddingplanning #tips #pittsburghcookietable #pittsburghwedding #cookietable https://www.instagram.com/p/Bt7cswSAf8q/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1f310xwq692j

[case-electris]

hey this a smut fic lol

(the cookies have human anatomy btw, this was painful save my soul) [just adding on here the "master" is referring to the reader]

Pure vanilla cookie is a master of hiding behind a pure and innocent façade. But really he's a horny, kinky, slut. Pure vanilla is a masochist. Some of his darker thoughts consist of stuff like being just a toy for his master, being in his words "a stupid cum dumpster" and just being [is it de-humanized or de-cookietized?] an object to be used for others pleasure in general.

Pure vanilla is the best healer on all of earthbread. You would think he doesn't like pain especially during sex, but no. Thats the perks of his powers, even if what you do to him makes him bleed abit or leaves unintentional bruises he can heal them right back up like nothing happened. On the point of "unintentional bruise" pure vanilla absolutely refuses to heal any hickys or bite marks you made. He wants there to be some way of being found out. Although the hickys and bite marks don't last as long as he wants.

Pure vanilla cookie likes being degraded while deep in pleasure. Just making himself sink deep, deep into a sort of sub space. Bindings and being tied up is also big in his kinks. The feeling of being tied up helpless and unable to help himself gods it gets him excited.

[otthonzulles]

én ma egy akkora doomscroll fesztivált tartottam még délelőtt elszaladtam ebédért (ételhordó). tudod mit ettem ma eddig? egy milka-oreo cookiet tejjel :D

lehetne már hétfő hát semmi kedvem ehhez a naphoz ember

[brownhairedbookworm]

Very, but it's payment to sleep in the same bed and cuddle.

Capitalism! Cookietalism? Monika accepts her new teddy bear.

[pambruchwalski]

Impressions of early #December...holiday, wedding, and #family season, happy to have two of my babies home ❤️❤️❤️❤️ #cookietable #christmastree #spamalot @abruchwalski @troybruchwalski @gsweeney29 @k_sweeen @sween22 (at Bethel Park, Pennsylvania) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bq-1NSlAbcw/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1br3a63pnbwax

[thecookieaddiction]

Well well well. What do we have here? Oh, it's ONLY my latest masterpiece, if I do say so myself. Here I have brought forth to you a modest 'Pic N Mix Cookie Board' ready to wow your guests at any occasion. This board has it all going on with it's variety of chocolates and sweets and not to mention the stars of the show which are, of course the Milk Choc Chip Cookies and the Triple Choc Chip Cookies. Now that's what I'm talking about. This, amongst many other ideas, can be featured on display if you book with us for a Cookie Table. . . . . . . . . . . . . #thecookieaddiction #picnmix #picnmixcookies #marshmallow #crunchie #oreo #crispyrolls #cookies #inawe #coolcookies #picnmixcookie #loveeeeit #cookieobsessed #cookiesarelife #new #original #bespoke #cookietable #desserttable #original #hype #bringincookietables #bringonthecookies #cookielife #cookiecravings (at Birmingham, United Kingdom) https://www.instagram.com/p/B9AHsZQFnoR/?igshid=1tqhv6b1uk63l

[leftofstr8]

If you have never had the pleasure of benefiting from an Ohio wedding “cookie table,” I’m so sorry about your luck!! Here is round 1, many more back-up trays are in waiting. #ohioweddings #cookietable #brookeandpatrick #cousins #wedding (at Edinburg, Pennsylvania) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bnwesfrnl3h/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1tw9kp68rd0b4