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Acorn rule

From The Onion Book of Known Knowledge.

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This is why you should support your local squirrel population.

Little buddies have been waging a war against this for a long time for us. We need to give back.

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Since it only has a receiver and not a transmitter, it's probably completely useless

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- No, it just goes to its extraction point! ...somehow.
  
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  When eaten by squirrels the mind control protocol is activated.
  
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- When it grows into a majestic oak the roots connect to the underground surveillance network
  
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- There's no way, without violating the laws of physics, can you fit any kind of 2.4Ghz modem into something as small as an acorn.
  
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  You can with a sub-wavelength antenna like a nintendo joycon has, it's less than 10mm in X and Y axes. It will just have terrible reception, like a nintendo joycon has.
  
  Also it could be a higher frequency which would allow a smaller antenna.
  
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Wait till you hear what ARM originally stood for

Tap for spoiler

Acorn RISC Machine

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- Ironically, microcontrollers with wireless small enough to fit in an acorn are likely to be ESP32-based, which doesn't use an ARM CPU.
  
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This must be what that one cop was afraid of

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I expected Saddam Hussein to hide inside.

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Where is Saddam?

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But they won't even disclose that ACORN stands for Asynchronous Connector for Optical Relay Network!? Sounds like they were bought out by Big Oak...

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I fucking knew it.

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first birds, now acorns? fvck, man...

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https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/digistump/oak-by-digistump-wi-fi-for-all-things-arduino-comp

This is the real oak and acorn by digistump, the shittiest microcontroller.

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