My sons parents evening was by video call and automatically cut you off at 10 minutes. What other modern practices feel a bit dystopian?

The Police service. If you call 999 and ask for the Police, the number you call \*in an emergency\* (if it's not an emergency there is 101) before you are put through you're put through a 1.5 minutes (at least that's how long I gave it before giving up because the potential rapist had sped off in his car) but 1.5 minutes of the Police commissioner telling you all about the 'fantastic police service' and how they hope to help you in your efforts to get help. And that's before you're put on hold and informed "your call is important to us". Situation? It's not the first time I had to sit through that pathetic message when calling up the Police but on the latest incident as an example; I watched two girls attempt to get into an Uber to get home late at night. I was waiting for a bus the other side of the street. One girl sat in the front seat as instructed by the driver because he claimed to need help to find the best route, the second girl was about to get in the back but before she could the first girl leapt out shouting that he had his hands all over her legs! (I mean; I think she said legs, could have easily been breasts due to her accent and how loud she was shouting.) He then got out of his side of the car and shhh'd her and told her "it was fine, it's fine...!" The first girl by then shouting back "call the Police call the Police!" and the second girl now shouting him down and trying to slap him! I called the Police and was put through to that stupid message, before I got through he'd driven off. I did get through and told the call handler what happened and let her know how stupid the idea was to have that message on an emergency line. She then had a go at me for being irate! Seriously ran out of words after that situation. I now don't think about calling the Police in an emergency, not unless I have a spare 10 minutes to wait around for!