In Holland there's a huge problem with makeshift bombs actually. Anyone who is unhinged and has some beef with anyone else (usually low level criminals with some drug dispute) blows up the others' house. Sometimes half the block along with it. They usually pay teenagers to do it.

This has nothing to do with AI teaching them but with the proximity to Belgium who are happy to legally sell heavy fireworks to anyone who pays. As such it's much easier to come by than a gun.

And there's also a big fashion component. It's just what people do these days, people seeing it in the news and other people copying it. A bit like the school shootings in the US. It's become an epidemic.

But again these things can suddenly come into 'fashion' among the wrong crowd and you don't really need AI to use it.

I must live in a different Holland, cause I've literally never heard of this, unless you mean around New Years with fireworks I guess

> blows up the others' house. Sometimes half the block along with it

Can you provide a source for this? I had a look but all I could find were a couple of scaremongering style media reports from ~2022 saying it's getting worse but no information about if any of the bombs actually went off or if anyone was injured.

Certainly nothing like "half a block" getting blown up "sometimes".

Is Holland that good at containing this "there's a huge problem with makeshift bombs" news pieces coming out in the open?

Those makeshift bombs are just fireworks bought in belgium