The original usage was to carry out (a command). In that original sense it was the sentence, rather than the prisoner, who was executed; but the meaning got transferred over time.

Unionized mitochondria.

Secretary of Health.

Not a movie yet (AFAIK), but Octavia Butler’s novel Parable of the Sower is downright uncanny.

Wikipedia’s current events portal covers current events and conflicts with links to plenty of background info.

I had a really good pizza topped with stinging nettle once. (It doesn’t sting after cooking.)

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What I’ve got in my pocket.

To paraphrase Keynes—in the long run no one survives.

But the difference in life expectancy based on income will continue to widen.

Tang-era Sogdian dance music.

Time zones were originally mandated for the sake of railroads: before trains each town used its own local time, and each locality refused to change their clocks to match anyone else’s. So time zones were set by the federal government because there was little chance that every town in the country would reach a consensus otherwise.

When DST was introduced much later, time zones were already an accepted thing—so the federal government gave states the discretion to adopt DST or not. But they have to take it or leave it: they can’t make it year-round because that would effectively move them to a different time zone, which is still the prerogative of the federal government.

It would be unbelievable if they hadn’t caught it on film!

If stop-motion counts, then the train chase from Wallace and Grommit: The Wrong Trousers.

A cockle is a type of shellfish. I don’t know how the association with the heart was formed, but it must be old—the Latin name for the order is “Cardiida”.

Syncthing uses a centralized discovery server to connect device IDs to IP addresses (although you can change this to point to your own discovery server, too).

I don’t know if Funkwhale has a similar option.

The “baby boom” (whence Boomers) was called that because it was a huge demographic spike that has given that birth cohort disproportionate political and cultural power ever since—and the generation most negatively impacted by that was the immediately-following Gen X. (Even now, after decades of an increasing mortality rate, Boomers still outnumber Gen X by about 8 million.)

CSI (and other shows that distort the public’s understanding of the criminal justice system—see the CSI effect).

From Stand By Me:

Ace: “What are you gonna do? Shoot us all?”
Gordy: “No, Ace. Just you.”

You could specialize in types of crime the cops don’t usually get involved in, like corporate wage theft.

The way Linux treats many things as part of the file system (devices, sockets, etc.) that Windows doesn’t.