Fygg toothpaste 113g and 20g

 No 100 ml 😉

https://fygg.com/

 

AI

In this specific case—where a company offers a large tube (113g) and a travel-sized tube (15g) but skips a 100ml (or similar) size that would fit airline carry-on liquid restrictions—you could call it:

"Regulatory Arbitrage" or "Compliance Gap Pricing"

• The company avoids creating a 100ml (3.4 oz) size (the standard airline liquid limit) to push customers toward the larger, more profitable size while still offering a tiny travel option for those who absolutely need it.

Other Possible Terms:

1. "Forced Upsell"

   • By not offering a convenient 100ml size, they nudge travelers to buy the full-size (113g) tube (which exceeds carry-on limits) and then check their bag—or buy the tiny 15g tube and run out quickly.

2. "Airport Tax" (Informal)

   • A playful term for when companies avoid the "sweet spot" size (100ml) to make travelers pay more for convenience.

3. "The Unbundled Traveler’s Dilemma"

   • Forces travelers to either:
     • Buy the big tube + check a bag (more profit for the company).
     • Buy the tiny tube + repurchase often (higher per-gram cost).

4. "The 100ml Loophole"

   • Exploiting the fact that 100ml is the legal limit, so they avoid it to sell more of the larger size.

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Why Do They Do This?

• Higher Profit Margins: The 113g tube is likely far more profitable per gram than a hypothetical 100ml version.
• Avoiding Cannibalization: If they sold a 100ml tube, fewer people would buy the 113g (since 100ml is "enough" for most travelers).
• Encouraging Bulk Purchases: Travelers who don’t want to repurchase often may just check their bag with the big tube.

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Real-World Example:

Many shampoo, lotion, and toothpaste brands do this—offering 200ml+ (too big for carry-on) and 50ml (too small for a long trip) but no 100ml. It’s a deliberate strategy to maximize sales of the larger size.

Dynamic Pricing at Play (Well Done Temu)

 

Same T-Shirt: Men's Quick-Dry Breathable Athletic T-Shirt - Moisture-Wicking Summer Workout Tee with Round Neck, Short Sleeve for Gym, Running, Casual Wear - Solid Color Lifestyle Top (Regular Fit) 

I bought it for €6,65, the wrong size was delivered, but I liked the material and how it looked like and I ordered it again without paying attention to the price. Later, I noticed it was €9.83!

Temu must have thought: this guy likes the T-shirt so much, he would not mind paying almost 50% :) more!!!

Apple Music

Claude:

You're right, and it's a fair complaint. The infrastructure clearly knows the real reason — it's checking storefront-vs-location and rejecting the request — but instead of surfacing that, it returns a numbered code like 2071 with a generic "check your network" message that sends people troubleshooting Wi-Fi instead of the actual problem.

A few reasons this is probably how it stays:

• Apple's error codes are a known weak point. Across iTunes/Apple Music/App Store, numeric codes (2071, 9006, etc.) have been criticized for years for being vague catch-alls rather than specific, user-actionable messages. It's a long-standing UX gap, not something specific to region issues.
• It may be deliberate vagueness around licensing. Telling someone explicitly "this content isn't licensed in Germany" is a more legally loaded statement than Google Play's regional messaging, since Apple's catalog deals are negotiated per-territory with labels/studios, and being too specific about what's blocked where can complicate things contractually. A generic network-sounding error sidesteps that.
• Play Store's clarity is partly because app distribution is simpler. Google can say "not available in your country" for an app pretty cleanly. Music/video licensing is a tangle of different rights holders per track per territory, so a blanket "not allowed here" message might not even be technically accurate for the specific reason in every case — it could be storefront mismatch, device-region mismatch, a temporary catalog sync issue, etc., all surfacing under the same error family.

None of that makes it good design — it's just legacy debt and possibly some intentional ambiguity. If it's any consolation, you've now correctly diagnosed in two messages what Apple's own error message fails to tell people in five paragraphs of support docs.

McDonald's Receipt

 One small coffee, does the receipt have to be so big? 

Such a waste, McDonald's should know better 😊.

Claude vs ChatGPT

Me:

How come ChatGPT can access the link? 

Claude:

Fair question — the honest answer is it's a difference in what each assistant is allowed to do, not capability.

LinkedIn's robots.txt file explicitly tells automated tools not to fetch most of its pages, including post URLs like the one you shared. Anthropic configured my web-fetching tool to respect those rules, so when I hit a robots.txt block, I stop. ChatGPT's browsing tool is configured to ignore robots.txt in some cases, so it goes ahead and pulls the page anyway. Same web, different rules of engagement.

There's a reasonable debate about which approach is right — robots.txt isn't legally binding, it's a convention — but that's the policy I'm operating under.

Lufthansa Profile

My Lufthansa profile clearly specifies my preferred meal, but they never honor it, they have even told me as much.

So, Lufthansa, why do you offer this option in the profile if I still have to waste time ordering it separately in advance?

To make matters worse, you have to order a “special” meal at least 25 hours before check-in, so by the time you check in, it is already too late.

Santa Cruz Lemonade, too much Sugar

I used to like this lemonade, but I haven't bought it for some time. When I finally did, it seemed too sweet and Health Canada fully agrees 😊.

I wrote a review on https://santacruzorganic.com suggesting they use less sugar as  I'm sure it would taste even better. Let's see if they actually do it 😊. 

Anyway, I'm impressed by their transparency. Their lemonade shows 2.5 out of 5 stars (in fact 2.4 now because of my bad review), so they clearly don't filter out the negative reviews and only for this reason I should keep an eye on a half sugar lemonade from Santa Cruz.

It is very interesting as Santa Cruz kept responding to the negative comments that they had not not changed the formula, so why did I find it too sweet all of the sudden?

And I just read the explanation here What I learned when I gave up sugar for six weeks

One reason my cravings went down is simply due to reduced exposure to sugary food, which in turn altered my palate and reset my metabolism

And at some point I started to be more mindful of the sugar content of the foods and I have a story about this as well, but for later.