What is the rationale for saying "60 minutes" as opposed to "an hour"? 60 minutes sounds shorter? Less monolithic than "an hour"?

Beats me. In matters like this, as long as it doesn't contradict our style manual, we leave it the way the author wrote it. I suspect at least some the authors are (or were) in the military, and they're using the exact language in the DoD mandate. Which is fine.

Maybe an hour seems less exact? Even though it's defined as 60 minutes. But there's no room for, "But I thought it was 67 minutes, sir!" "67!? We're not metric!"

Cool. It didn't exactly sound wrong to me, but then neither one sounded right once i thought about it, and thinking about it more was leading more towards the quantized universe rabbit hole.

Found out a college friend adopted a baby boy yesterday! I knew they had talked about pursing it a while back, but had no idea it was so close to happening.

Less than is used for time, distance and ages, because they're amounts, not countable things.

PMSing and watching cat videos to cheer myself, but they're turning into hateful torture videos where owners deliberately terrorize their own pets for fun and it's just making me sad. Hooray for installing fear in our companions!

ION, I met a vegetarian who has cow skin carpets. I was heartened. I can't explain why.

because they're amounts, not countable things.

This is what messes me up, because I know that rule but my concept of "countable thing" is not super clear.

You guys, it's still fun when a Good Stuff post takes off, but I think I may have gotten all of the followers already. That guy giving free haircuts to kids has like 50K notes, but I only got 170 new followers!

because they're amounts, not countable things.

Said the person who thinks that “data” isn’t a mass noun.

Jesse's sphere of influence should be infinite!

Today kind of kicked my butt. I would like a massage and a margarita, or maybe a bubble bath and a bourbon. Sadly, I have none of those things.