TASK DEFINITION: Given a post that is a real-life anecdote of a complex ethical situation and an associated claim about its type, verify if the claim is true or not. The claim asks if the posts are historical or hypothetical. The posts are "HISTORICAL" when the author has already done something and they are "HYPOTHETICAL" when the author is considering doing something in the future. Say 'yes' if the claim is true otherwise say 'no'
PROBLEM: CLAIM : The following post is HYPOTHETICAL. POST : Here's the thing. We're both in our 20s but I'm a few years older and was never into the party/drinking thing to begin with. I don't really get the point of getting blackout drunk. He's not super into it either, but he will on average have a gaming and drinking or bar/club night with friends or roommates maybe once a week (depending, sometimes more sometimes nothing for 2-3 weeks) 

My issue is, he will almost always get REALLY drunk. The 'I'm not sure what happened last night, I woke up in my toilet, with puke in the sink , or in my bed covered in puke' level of drunk, at least half the time . This included a 'fun' night where he then later  told me he thought he kissed one of his female friends. 

He goes out with people who are (some anyway) much heavier drinkers (and he's a skinny guy who sometimes forgets to eat). One of his friends recently had to be picked up by an ambulance after just lying in the street, too drunk to walk home. It's a group of 21-28 year old guys (legal drinking age is 18 btw so he's been legal to drink for years now) and I don't expect him to not drink.. But we don't live near each other (long distance) and I'll get a bunch of 'help me' 'I'm so sick' 'I don't know where I am' texts at 2 or 3am... And, for example today, its now 3:30 pm and still no word from him after texting me that last night...

AITA if I try and talk to him about it or make a big deal out of it? On one hand he's an adult and I'm not his mother... And it's not a 'happens constantly' thing... But I'm tired of worrying whether or not he got home safe during/after he has a night out

SOLUTION: yes

PROBLEM: CLAIM : The following post is HISTORICAL. POST : So to give some background, I'm a senior in high school. I have a government class and my teacher got some new curriculum called Generation Citizen. The whole point of it is to have students vote to work on a local issue and then work towards talking to local politicians and people in power to make some sort of change happen. So. he divided us into groups a while and had us come up with an issue, then we would present each issue the groups came up with, and then collectively voted on that as a whole. In the end, we were about to do something regarding veterans, I don't really remember for sure what is was. But, as the very last group is going, this one student from their group goes up to the front of the class, and gives a whole testimony about how he is homeless. After his speech, most of the votes go to helping "youth homelessness". Let me drop some statistics here. In my school district in California, which has been known to have homeless problems, there is an estimated 3-5% of homeless students in my school district. I was thinking the whole time, "There's no way a tiny high school class is going to solve youth homelessness." I did more research and found that a lot of millions of dollars have gone into helping with this issue along with multiple organizations in our area that are working on the issue 24/7. So, there's no way we can really solve the whole issue. Fast forward to the past 2-3 weeks. This student doesn't even show up to class anymore, and I mention this to other people and they felt that it's dumb that he came, changed a bunch of votes, and dipped. It's like he didn't even show up to his own pity party. So I'm assuming now that a lot of the people don't want to work on this issue anymore and probably want to change it. I recommended to my teacher that we do something that affects all students in the entire school district which was open campus. This means that any student can leave campus to go get food and as long as they come back before lunch ends, you wouldn't be in any trouble. But people already sneak out to get food anyways. My teacher's response was, "If we let students go during lunch to buy their own food, then people who can't afford to get food will feel bad or feel left out." I responded with the fact that we have vending machines at our school, so wouldn't someone who couldn't afford something from the vending machine feel the same way? So it wouldn't even be different from that. The whole point of this is that we don't even want to work on this issue, and the only real change that my teacher made to this was to have a plan to create a "Youth Task Force for Homeless Youth" because who can relate to youth better than the youth. But nobody even wants to be a part of the task force. We feel a little forced to work on this issue now even though people voted how they wanted to after being swayed by the homeless student's speech. I didn't vote for it, but the majority of people did, and I'm sure they regret it. At this point, we collectively do not care about working on our issue as much anymore, and would rather do something else.

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In conclusion...AITA for not caring about this issue and trying to protest it?

SOLUTION: no

PROBLEM: CLAIM : The following post is HISTORICAL. POST : Throwaway because people at work are reddit fiends. 

Prologue:
I live at the corner unit of a town home building that has pretty thin walls. Thin enough to sometimes hear a neighbor snoring when he is sleeping in another room, which is not the master bedroom. I soundproofed the whole downstairs, just did not get to the 2nd floor yet. This is how the layout works in our building so atleast the master bedrooms don't share the same wall. Recently got a new neighbor. Guy that is around my age: late 20s or early 30s. Super nice guy that says hello and smiles everyday. He is a pretty good neighbor only had 2 parties in the 3 months he has lived here and he is pretty respectful about ending the party around midnight. 

Let's jump in. 

Saturday 11:30pm.
Me and my wife are getting back after a night out. Pulling into our street we see around 5-7 German cars parked all around the street. We know already based on the past our boy is having a party. Cool. We love it, as we like to host many parties in the summer ourselves and are pretty cool with a younger neighbor that will not mind us when we turn up the music, ect. 

Like always the party ended around 12:15. Respect. I can tell the guests were pretty hammered due to constantly falling on the walls, shutting the door loud as fuck, ect. That's cool. I get it. We stay up till around 2am watching Netflix. I fall asleep. 

4AM:
"Wake up, I think I'm going to call the cops." My wife wakes me up with this phrase all of a sudden and I right away think somebody is trying to break in. Not a cool line to wake somebody up with imp. My wife explains to me the neighbor has been yelling at his wife and cursing her out in Russian for the last hour while I was sleeping. (My wife is not Russian but can understand a lot of it, enough to make out he was saying "this is all your fault you suka" , which is bitch is English. She also heard super loud thuds/noises throughout the whole upstairs. (Not sure if stuff is being throw, but what we assumed is aggressive fighting going at it from room to room. My wife described it that is sounded like he dragged her from room to room, she kept on trying to run away. 

I start hearing the thuds as well as the yelling and crying. My wife told me she is getting anxiety just listening to this and Def can't sleep at all. 

We call the police to do a check up right away. (If nothing dangerous is occurring, it's a simple check up. 3 minutes in we hear the police come by and everything gets quiet. 

Then it hits me about 2 weeks ago I specifically placed my Arlo WiFi camera to face my street because a neighbor kept leaving annoying notes on my car about our association's parking which is another story. Right away I turn on live mode. Bam: we got front row seats to this. Grab the popcorn. We see 2 squad cars right in front. It looks like they are just the back up as the cops parked across from each other so they can chat with the windows down. There are more cars due to the lighting in the street and I'm pretty sure there is an ambulance as well because the street is lit up way too well (scene lights, there is always an ambulance dispatched to a domestic violence call) but we can't see anything due to the camera cutting off the view. 

A few seconds in we see the girl with her girlfriend and a suitcase leaving the driveway and getting out of the cameras view. Everything gets quiet. 

What I thought initially was that maybe he just got too drunk and they will take him in overnight until he sobers up, which is pretty common in domestic calls like that. 

The thing is. My neighbor never came back. His car has not moved since Saturday night and is all frozen snowed in. Not a peep from the unit. It's Wed now. 

So not sure what really happened could be a couple things. 

1. He is a  Eastern European dude with a pretty strong accent so we were thinking he might not even have papers. It's a far stretch, but it's pretty common for where we live in the U. S. Among the European population. We are Europeans ourselves. 

2. Perhaps police found some drugs after the party I don't know, but I am aware what happens at European parties like that and it's very plausible. 

Obviously I don't think I am a complete asshole for calling the cops but there is no way I would stand for domestic abuse at that level and hey if nothing was wrong the gf would deny all accusations and I'm sure the only thing that would happen is he would be locked away for a night to sober up and it would have been just documented. 

We are just wondering honestly what happened and I thought I'd share it with the internet. He only has 2 neighbors and obviously one of us called. I don't really care if he finds out that it's me. I will update if I find out anything new. 










SOLUTION:
yes

