Nope, there's a version of Mint based directly on Debian.

There's a shortage of available IPv4 address and that scarcity creates "value".
There's no shortage of IPv6 addresses, so no (or less) "value".

Mint comes with slightly different, as well as Mint-developed, apps pre-installed and no snaps. They have different installers and Mint is a bit easier to manage, especially for newer users, though that wasn't a major factor for me as I have 30+ years as a Unix(ish) admin.

As for Ubuntu, I used it up to version 18.4 but soured when Canonical started pushing snaps, and delivering some apps only as snaps (like Firefox, Emacs) -- w/o having to resort to PPAs to get the packaged versions. While I'm not a huge fan of Snap (or others, like Flatpak) I really don't like being *forced* to use them and I probably would have stayed with Ubuntu if they had left it as a choice.

Also, extending your logic, one might ask how running Ubuntu is not actually Debian as the former derives from the latter, but there are obvious differences, as there are with Mint and Ubuntu.

Rick: Space Nuclear Weapon? Jesus Morty. You can't just add [*belch*] a sci-fi word to ...

(Thank you Quantum Carburetor Scene)

And by that I mean 4.3BSD on a VAX 11/785 -- I'm old. :-)

I think the main complain is that it does, or tries to do, too much -- certainly more than it *needs* to do (eg: DNS) -- and some not in the way it ideally should (eg: PID 1). Basically it suffers from mission creep and bloat.

Personally, I started with BSD and have used or been an admin on many flavors of Unix -- I think I've used them all except those from Apple -- as well a several flavors of Linux (I prefer the Debian-based ones, I currently use Mint) and they have run the gamut of system startup/control methodologies from free-form scripts that often have to be hand edited to the more structured ones, like Solaris SMF, and (sigh) systemd, etc... I prefer the latter group as it's easier to automate modifying and control them. That doesn't change my "basically" feelings about systemd above though.

Mint 21 (Cinnamon) for me -- Snap disabled by default and pledged to stay that way.

But I thought an Onion was suppose to be peeled apart in pieces and layers. Oh, wait... it's "Orion"? Never mind.

Well... at least one very recent former President. :-)

Companies simply locate their refineries on/near Arctic Sinkholes where, as per that NOVA episode, thawing permafrost releases a LOT of methane. Also Arctic methane emissions.

I see your points, though don't agree that it would necessarily be a low likelihood method. I'm sure there's probably a way to initiate something starting with breathing difficulties that would more than likely lead to death by some path. It sounds like he suffered through a bunch of stuff, that doctors couldn't treat, before dying of MRSA complications. Maybe that's normal, maybe that's not. Less fishy than the random Polonium poisoning or "falling out a window" a certain Russian dictator likes, though the obviousness of those may be the point.

I have conflicting feelings about this. :-)

Do you mean actual lab-grown meat or meat substitutes, like (Impossible|Beyond) Burger, etc...? 'Cause I believe you're correct on the latter that they're, at least, not as healthy(ier) than they claim all around.

Technically, the Florida Congress passed it, he just signed it. Change the political make up of either and Florida changes -- probably for the better.

Mythbusters: Plausible.