This slugging thing was a legitimate thing in Northern California when I lived there decades ago. Folks would stand near highway on-ramps in places like Orinda and get picked up to count as car pools over the Bay Bridge. Those were the days.

Edit: it was called “casual carpooling” and nay still be a thing. https://www.ridenow.org/carpool/

Thirty years ago I met a girl at summer camp and I fell hard for her. She lived in another state maybe three hours away and I asked her to my junior prom a year later but she was busy with a drama production. She was my senior prom date and it was amazing and exactly what I could have hoped.

The Wikipedia article on nuclear drip lines was helpful in understanding why those isotopes were exotic and it sounds like the measurements extend the state of the art from neon to silicon. Interesting!