I mean a lathe doesn’t really have a y axis tho. Tool height is just tool height. Even on a vertical lathe you usually only have x and z.

The second fellow is a machinist, like me.

That’s why weaponizing ideas is such an insidious practice. Give a man a gun he carries around in his mind and you have a never sleeping army.

“If you hold a gun and I hold a gun, we can talk about the law. If you hold a knife and I hold a knife, we can talk about rules. If you come empty-handed, and I come empty-handed, we can talk about reason. But if you hold a gun and I only have a knife, then the truth lies in your hand. If you have a gun and I have nothing, then what you hold in your hands isn’t just a weapon, it’s my life."