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		8f2ab37a-ed6c on Dec 18, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Stanford's “Elimination of Harmful Language” Initi... Which ironically has nothing to do with human anatomy, but nobody bothered doing the research: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/balls_to_the_wall

throw0101c on Dec 19, 2022 [–]

And "balls-out" refers to locomotive centrifugal governor:

* https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/balls-out

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centrifugal_governor

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