I have seen this error, which has prevented cron runs for over a month.

You'd have to resolve the underlying error by running the cron from drush and fixing whatever problem it reports:

./vendor/bin/drush core:cron

Note that not have the base_url set is NOT a problem, you don't need to set it in Drupal 8 9 or 10, and you can run it via drush like so:

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