I use Liberapay and have been pretty happy with it. Have found quite a few of the people and projects to which I would like to donate, but not all.

I use Runbox, and have for many years. Overall I’ve been happy with them. I think they have the features you are looking for.

I suspect that the Belgium-Netherlands border defies any mathematical description.

This seems quite reasonable to me, and if you are doing the more risky activities, then presumably you’d get some insurance to take the edge off the rescue charges.

Blood Meridian is a pretty unforgettable read. I didn’t really know anything about it when starting it beside it being a western and known as a book worth reading. Let’s just say that it was quite different from the stereotypical western that I expected. It’ll be very interesting to see how the movie turns out.

Also read The Road a long time ago and for whatever reason I never realized that he authored them both, although I should have expected based on the bleakness of them both.