100%! I meant my statement as building on yours, not contradicting. :)

Any time you talk about hormones you have to couch everything in a thick layer of "usually", "often", and "tend". Biology varies a lot, and hormones vary more than most of the stuff.

Testosterone is literally a steroid. It's sort of a reductive statement but you don't really think about it often.
It basically acts as a multiplier for the "grow muscle" signals your body can produce.
Men and women can easily have the same outcomes for muscle mass and calorie requirements, but men might not have to work as hard to get there owing to the higher testosterone multiplier on average.

I've also heard that it makes your skin act weird. Several trans people I've talked to have all mentioned that getting their hormones managed made their skin care routine either way easier or harder in a sort of "holy shit" way.

Why wouldn't you join a wait-list? It's not like it costs anything, they're just sending you an email.

Given the giant splotch of charcoal soot on the ground next to the table, my guess would be someone thought their charcoal starter went out, brought it back to the table to investigate and learned that charcoal doesn't look like it's burning when it's at its hotest.

To each their own, I'm not in the habit of telling people what to enjoy or not. :)
Personally, I haven't encountered a beer at that strength that tasted palatable. I'd be academically curious if the liver load was more or less with an equivalent amount of alcohol spread over 12 hours or 4 hours. I know above a certain level it can't process it fast enough and you get your hangover effects, but also that the time spent processing has it's own load.

I will, however, tease states that have a reputation for beer that's only about twice the alcohol as you naturally find in fruit juice.

The Midwest and Great lakes region isn't the south. Our beer is worth drinking on several different metrics.

4.5%-7% for common popular beers, and excluding the fancy craft ones that you're probably having only one or two of that are 10%-15%.

The south has fine liquor, but some states/areas have weird laws around beer that makes it basically tap water with a dream. Their tea will have more effect.

It's because I live and work with Muslims. Turns out there are as many of them who hold values I agree with as there are Christians or Jews.

The biggest difference I see is which groups get hate. I don't see the need to defend Christianity because there's no pervasive disparagement or hostility.
I occasionally defend Judaism because I occasionally encounter disparaging language or people who conflate the nation of Israel with either the ethnic group or the religion.

A lot of people make comments about how they're not islamaphobic, but it just so happens to be that reality perfectly reflects their prejudiced beliefs.
Kinda like the people who aren't mysoginists or anything, but have found that, coincidentally, the ideal and natural gender roles and power dynamics between the sexes perfectly mirrors the media representation of the 1950s.

As much as I think we should look to Europe for running a society, race and religious tolerance are not one of those subjects in which I defer to them.

Do you actually think it's unexpected that people who are never fully allowed to integrate into society for some reason don't fully integrate into society? That laws that make it specifically difficult for them to coexist might result in them ... Not coexisting as well?

If it's the content of their texts that's causing you a concern, have I got news for you about every fucking religion.

Hopefully they never even knew. Just assumed the catch would come until it suddenly didn't and they never noticed.

Extramarital affairs are bad, but they're not the same as punishing someone for a joke you don't appreciate. And not responding to a text with a joke you didn't find funny is only dubiously that.
Infidelity can be abusive if used as a tool of power, control, or harm. Not all hurtful or disrespectful acts are intrinsically abusive.

I take it you weren't paying much attention during the whole thing?

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2009/11/why-tiger-s-not-talking-about-his-accident.html

Tldr: initial reports indicated that she hit his car and attacked him with a golf club before the crash. Police stated alcohol didn't play a role in the crash. He denied any claims of domestic violence and says she smashed both of his back windows to help him out of the car.

Yeah, pretty much. No one is making me go and I like to see my coworkers occasionally to either plan or just get lunch and maintain some human connection.
But... It's a 1.5 hour drive and the traffic is never, ever, ever nice. I was once passed by a car towing a boat full of loose hay. Must have been going 90mph.

So I do it, but I also cry after making that decision.

Nope, seems a bit wrong to me. I just don't see that behavior in this interchange.

No one has alleged he's that type of asshole, so I see no reason to assume he is. Not every period of silence is the "silent treatment", and responding after someone apologized isn't the same as not responding until they apologized.

Of the things to get upset about with tiger woods, this communication thing is an odd one.
Someone makes a joke. You chuckle and go back to what you were doing, or you don't chuckle and still go back to what you were doing. They send another message that makes you realize they expected a response and took your lack of response the wrong way, so you reply telling them you knew they were joking.

Not every message needs a reply, to say nothing of an immediate one. How would you have had him reply?

Do you reply to every message immediately?