You're forgetting about the process. Pregnancy causes significant physiological and psychological changes for many women, sometimes long lasting, and many women simply don't want to go through that process regardless of the "financial or social penalties" as you describe it.

Regardless, I agree: society should always provide safe, legal ways for anyone to get the care they need, no questions asked.

Would one need to invest in certifications or college degrees for such a job?

About 2 mins, most of that time is remote compile. Small team, we all have deploy ability, and it is a manual trigger of an "automated" deploy. CI but not quite CD just yet.

Gratitude Journalling might help. Noticing and noting down things to be grateful for, at the end of each work week, might help you see the flowers growing out of the field of muck.

I threw together a quick python script which scrapes listings from cinemas local to me, along with each movie's IMDB score, and compiles the results into a weekly Friday-morning email which I send to myself and my SO.

It's nice to know what movies are out, and when we can book, without having to remember to check or wait for pushy emails from the cinemas themselves.

I'm planning on doing the same to email us the latest menus from our favourite restaurants/cocktail bars so we can see when they change.

Would love to see this turned into a website that does recommendations based on zip code.

I've done various versions of this myself, would you mind sharing your code?

Setting a text replacement (sys-prefs > keyboard > text) for "@@" to your email address. It's something we type multiple times a day, it's important to not have a typo, and @@ is something you rarely type in any context. This works with most apps, though some won't allow the text replacement to apply.