given that ben ryan spends all of his time trawling this place for stuff to be mad about, i want it to be known that i think he has the smoothest brain in journalism

I keep Private Relay turned on but fall back to Chrome when I hit this issue.

If you use Safari on a Mac, you likely are using iCloud Private Relay, which is overall good for privacy and security. The nearest servers are in northern Virginia, however, so you appear to be visiting from Virginia—an age-gating jurisdiction—rather than DC.

As I asked my partner a few minutes ago, maybe I need to go trans for completeness?