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Musk changed the water pistol emoji to render a realistic handgun on his site last year, because of course he did (lemmy.world)
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[–] Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 36 points 3 months ago

Tbh it is actually the "gun" emoji and was changed to a water pistol years ago (after some mass shooting iirc). But knowing why he's doing it now makes me very uneasy.